Jennifer Beattie CV

Experience

2007 to present Jennifer Beattie Architects, Cape Town (Director)

1995 to 2005 Perkins Eastman Architects, New York (Senior Associate)

1994 Executive Office of Communities and Development, Boston

1992 to 1993 Julian Michaels Architects, Johannesburg (Project architect)

1987 to 1988 Sheppard Robson Architects, London (Intern)

Education

Harvard University Graduate School of Design (1993 to 1995)

Masters in Architecture. Graduated with distinction.

University of the Witwatersrand (1985 to 1990)

Bachelors in Architecture. Graduated with distinction.

Professional registration

Member of CIFA Cape Institute for Architecture

Member of SACAP – South African Council for the Architectural Profession

Publications

Assisted Bradford Perkins in the writing of “Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools”, published by Wiley. Design work for studios of Rem Koolhaas, Herzog and De Meuron and Rafael Moneo at Harvard

Prizes and awards

Harvard Graduate School of Design Department of Architecture Faculty Design Award.

Harvard Fellowship: Internship with Executive Office of Communities and Development in Boston.

Institute of South African Architects Prize.

South African Institute of Steel Construction Prize.

Transvaal Provincial Institute of South African Architects Prize.

Council of Architectural Students Prize.

Continuing education and other

 Visiting critic at UCT School of Architecture for Masters in Architecture programme.

 Juror on the 2007 Cape Institute for Architects Awards for Architecture.

 Harvard Executive Education Seminar in Theater Design, 1998.

 Instrumental in establishing a committee for sustainable and environmental design at Perkins Eastman Architects in New York.

 Visiting critic at Columbia, Barnard & Boston Universities Undergraduate programmes.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2001; 2007 to present

JENNIFER BEATTIE ARCHITECTS

  • 23 Glencoe Road, Oranjezicht (current)
  • Hiil House at Outeniqua Game Farm (current)
  • 6 Gladiolus Street, Oranjezicht (current)
  • Blantyre house, Malawi (design only)(completed 2023)
  • 38 Braemar Road, Seapoint (design only)(2022)
  • 9 Napier Street, Arniston (design only) (completed 2020)
  • 1 Twickenham Road, Mowbray (completed 2018)
  • Hunters & Farriers landscaping (2017, 2018)
  • 17 Hove Road, Camps Bay (completed 2017)
  • 21 Sapphireway, Noordhoek (completed 2016)
  • 4 Church Square penthouses & inner-city housing development, Spin Street, Cape Town CBD (completed 2015)
  • Beachyhead House, Plettenberg Bay (new building) (completed 2015)
  • 12 Rugley Rd, Gardens, Cape Town (additions) (completed 2015)
  • 37 Rugley Rd, Gardens, Cape Town (additions) (completed 2014)
  • 14 Buxton Avenue, Gardens (interiors) (completed 2014)
  • 27 Leeukoppie Rd, Llandudno (new building) (completed 2014)
  • 22 Cavendish Square (garden design)(completed 2013)
  • 7 Fairways Ave., Hermanus (addition and renovation) (completed 2013)   
  • Lagoon House, Kleinrivier Lagoon, Stanford (completed 2013) 
  • Silver House, 48 Beach Rd, Chapman’s Peak (design study only)
  • Miski Magu Primary School addition, Maldives (completed 2012)
  • Lagoon House, Kleinrivier Lagoon, Stanford (new building) (completed 2012)
  • 12 Rugley Rd, Gardens, Cape Town (garden design) (completed 2012)
  • 7 Avenue Bisset, Kenilworth (garden design) (completed 2012)
  • Abu Arish Entomology Lab, Saudi Arabia (plans only) (completed 2011)
  • Fernkloof House, Fernklood Estate, Hermanus (new building) (completed 2011)
  • Hart House, Voelklip, Hermanus, Cape (new building) (completed 2011)
  • 21 Llandudno Rd, Llandudno (additions and renovations) (completed 2010)
  • Voelklip House, Hermanus, Cape (new building) (completed 2009)
  • Railway House, Mowbray, Cape Town (renovation) (completed 2009)
  • Vaal River House (new building) (completed 2009)
  • Khanyile House, Westlake (renovation, completed 2008)
  • Maynard House, Cape Town (schematic design for office building, completed 2008)
  • Tunu Puri House, New Delhi, India (feasibility and design review, 2006)
  • Mossel River House, Hermanus (new building) (completed 2002)

October 1995 to March 2005

Perkins Eastman Architects, New York City

Senior Associate

Unless otherwise noted, I served as project architect, manager and designer on the following projects:

 Master plan and pre-design for major additions to the United Nations International School in New York City. (Plan completed 2004)

 Master plan and major renovations to Trevor Day School in New York City. (Completed 2004)

 PS/IS 189 in the Bronx, New York. (Completed 2006)

 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. (Incomplete)

 Farmingdale State University: Master plan. (Completed 2004)

 China New City urban masterplan – design only. (2004)

 Renaissance Technologies Corporate Headquarters, Stonybrook, New York: Phases 1 (designer) and 3 (designer, project architect). (Completed 2005)

 Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, New York: Campus Master Plan and renovation of existing buildings. (Completed 1999)

 Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, New York: New Theatre and Academic Building. (Completed 2002)

 Barnard College, New York City: Master Plan and Space Utilization Study. Creation of electronic database. (Completed 2000)

 NYU Medical Center Cochlear Implant Center, New York City. (Completed 2001)

 Repsol Research Park, near Madrid, Spain. (Unbuilt.) Design and schematics.

 Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. (Completed 1998) Design team.

 Mount Sinai Medical Center Infusion Pharmacy, New York City. (Completed 1997)

 Design and programming study for SUNY Geneseo Integrated Science Facility, Geneseo.

 North White Plains Housing feasibility study, New York. Designer.

 Design study for Horace Mann School, New York.

 Design study for renovation of Synagogue Orach Chaim, New York City.

June 1994 to August 1994

Executive Office of Communities and Development, Boston (Harvard Fellowship)

Wrote a revised housing needs methodology for the State of Massachusetts.

January 1992 to May 1993

Julian Michaels Architects, Johannesburg, South Africa

Project architect in a small firm specializing in residential construction. Responsibilities involved design, construction documents, council documentation and site supervision.

 Hellman House (new construction).

 Basserabie House (new construction).

 Millstein House (renovation).

December 1987 to September 1988 (Inter-study intern ‘year out’)

Sheppard Robson Architects, London

 Harbour Exchange Buildings, Isle of Dogs, London.

 Dun and Bradstreet Research Headquarters, Buckinghamshire.