REBECCA CONRAD
ANF Architects
SAY IT LOUD - Tennessee Exhibitor
Tennessee Based Designer
Who or what inspires you professionally?
My clients & their specific goals. Designing a space that creatively, aesthetically, and economically solves their needs is always invigorating.
REBECCA CONRAD
Bio:
Rebecca Conrad is the President of ANF Architects. Her passion has been designing educational projects and has been doing so for over 33 years. She is passionate about designing learning environments that positively impact a student’s desire to discover and learn.
How did you first learn about architecture and when did you decide that built environment profession was an area of interest for you?
I remember a family trip to Washington DC as a kid and the monuments & historical homes left a huge impression on me. Their age, scale, symbolism, and details spoke to me & I wanted to create something others might appreciate and admire just as much.
What do you do?
I’m a firm principal at ANF and have been practicing architecture for 33 years now. I lead projects, challenging my team to think outside the box, investigate opportunities to improve a design, test options and make a statement.
What excites you in the work you do? Who or what inspires you professionally?
Architecture has a voice and makes an impression. Having the ability to design that message and having it heard and seen gives what I do meaning. I design for others striving to make their lives, their work, and our built environment inspiring.
Who or what inspires you professionally? What is your proudest professional accomplishment or achievement?
My clients & their specific goals. Designing a space that creatively, aesthetically, and economically solves their needs is always invigorating.
What is your proudest professional accomplishment or achievement?
It would be winning a National AIA Education Facility design award and serving as AIA Treasurer, VP and finally as the first female President of the Memphis Chapter in 2004.
Featured Project Name:
University of Memphis Community Health Building
Featured Project Location:
Memphis, TN
Featured Project Completion Date:
2015
Role in Featured Project:
Principal in Charge
Featured Project Description:
This 200,000 SF state of the art clinical facility is prominently located at the University of Memphis’ South campus. Sitting at the crossroad of two major thoroughfares this building provides a new identity for this historic part of campus. Limestone and brick elements reference the existing campus buildings and in conjunction with the siting, detailing, and lighting give it the prominence and significance desired.
Photography Credit:
Ken West
Featured Project Name:
Memphis College of Art Metz/Fogelman Hall
Featured Project Location:
Memphis, TN
Featured Project Completion Date:
2004
Role in Featured Project:
Principal in Charge
Featured Project Description:
These 2 iconic residence halls, housing 96 students, belonged to the Memphis College of Art. Bold in their design, the sloped glass-walled, naturally lit art studios referred to MCA’s iconic Rust Hall & relate to the surrounding Midtown neighborhood. Striking multi-paned -glass-walled lantern atop combines glass of varying translucencies & transparencies, differing per side in response to the path of the sun & allowing natural daylight to permeate while limiting direct sunlight & views.
Photography Credit:
Jeffrey Jacobs
Featured Project Name:
University of Memphis Student Rec & Wellness Center
Featured Project Location:
Memphis, TN
Featured Project Completion Date:
2022
Role in Featured Project:
Principal in Charge
Featured Project Description:
The R. Brad Martin Student Wellness Center bookends one side of an existing student plaza, reinforcing the north‐south axis of the University of Memphis campus. The bold, 2‐story, transparent curved façade echoes the oval shape of the plaza, beckons the passerby, and showcases the energy and activity inside the building. The Center was designed to provide students, faculty, and alumni with a dynamic, modern, and inviting facility for indoor sports recreation and outdoor aquatics
