Elizabeth Ranieri

Elizabeth Ranieri and her partner, Byron Kuth, established KUTH | RANIERI in 1990. Along with her practice, she has taught at California College of the Arts since 1989, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and as a Friedman Professors for Masters Studios at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley.

She has served as a member of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Accessions Committee for Architecture, Design, and Digital Projects for 10 years, and on the board of directors for Center for Critical Architecture. Ranieri was a jury member for I.D. magazine’s yearly awards issue, the San Francisco AIA’s annual awards, Houston’s AIA annual awards, and in 2010 was elevated to fellowship by the American Institute of Architects.

KUTH | RANIERI has won numerous AIA awards at the regional, state, and national levels, The Architectural League’s Young Architects and Emerging Voices awards as well as I.D. magazine’s 39th, 45th, and 47th annual awards. The firm's work was part of the multimedia show entitled Fabrications exhibited at SFMOMA, New York MoMA, and the Wexner Center. Princeton Architectural Press with the Graham Foundation published the monograph, KUTH | RANIERI Architects, released in 2010. Ranieri's most recent article, “Without A Trace,” appears in the December issue of ArcCA on Faith and Loss.

BArch, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986

Registration: California, 1993, and Massachusetts, 2007
NCARB, 2007
LEED AP, 2006