The Bulgarian Yordanka Georgieva was awarded as California's best architect for 2007. news.bg
Ps; my search didn't lead anywhere. Please post if you know more about this architect.
The Governor of California handed the prize to Yordanka Georgieva. Actor Jeremy Irons is among the architect's admirers.
The prestigious prize was handed to her by Arnold Schwarzenegger, state's governor at a massive ceremony in Monterey.
The young Bulgarian has made a furor among experts with her ultra-modern project Saint Joaquim's Garden, realized in Fresno, Standart share.
A jury of top architects from the California administration assessed the project as the most beautiful and functional building for 2006.
Yordanka Georgieva has been working in Los Angeles from 11 years.
She has a Bulgarian diploma in Architecture and a diploma in Urban Development from the California University.
She has designed many buildings in the US among them the estate of basketball grand Shaquille O'Neal and the house of Hollywood actor Jeremy Irons.
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Saint Joaquim's Garden, realized in Fresno:
http://www.sanjoaquingardens.com/
Is this the award-winning project?
"a diploma in Urban Development from the California University." Yes, and I have a degree in rocket science from the Official Awesomest University on the planet! This must be what happens when fact-checking gets cut out of the budget.
i saw shaq's house on mtv cribs. not so much an estate...more like a sprawling stick frame and stucco mcmansion.
this is pretty weird. the only other source online i could find was this article which is on another bulgarian news site.
This is seriously got to be fictional. Probably some ruse to get some foreign client to sign a contract. First of all, who is the "California administration," what is the "California University," and why is the picture in the article a view from the Getty?
Maybe its real, and she was also hired by Arnold to design his master's chambers? The committee and award maybe made up last week? Either way these pics remind me of home suburban home ;)
http://www.sanjoaquingardens.com/photo_tour
sounds like nothing more than weird translation: it's not hard to get from 'california university' to 'university of california' if you're in bulgaria, i'm betting.
i don't think most states have a 'best architect' award, but maybe she simply won some award for public service from the state board or something?
sounds like much more than a weird translation... well, not like this source is reliable, but still... everyone likes a little bashing :)
http://www.wikio.com/comments/?infoid=43035788
Either way, it is refreshing to see how crappy mainstream US architecture really is, and it is also interesting how other architects, including myself actually can somewhat believe the story. Archinect staffers should post more of these banal mainstream stories, just so we can bash the hell out of them! cheers!
Orhan what was the source?
Also, has anyone looked at the link for the photo tour?
Nothing much "super modern' about that..Unless they just mean contemporary?
welcome to the beautiful world of architects...nobody outside the closed architect.s society knows what is good and what is crap. And hope that sites like archinect could attract wider audience than just architects..
so stelina's link hints at a different name for this mystery architect. Yordanka Windlinger:
"If Frank Lloyd Wright brought the architectural style called "Modern" into our vocabulary, then I would very much like to introduce my"Cyber Modern" style to the world"
ahahahahha great job!!! I love it!!! A model, but also works as an architect... AHAHAHHAHAHAHAH what joy
She doesn't show up on the California Architects Board web site under any of the names. Would the gov award Best Architect to someone who doesn't have license?
Ya know, screw it - I can take a pretty sexy architectress picture, I'm gonna start making shit up about myself and posting out there.
Sheesh. We ALL live in second life these days.
It's weird that Yordanka Windlinger is almost an anagram of Frank Lloyd Wright. Is Yordanka a common name in Bulgaria?
favorite quote: I've always looked at things from my own perspective, rather than immolating or imitating others.
i.e., she neither copies NOR does she kill others as sacrificial victims or set them on fire!
Yordanka Georgieva would be a very, very common Bulgarian name. She is probably married Widlinger.
I don't know if this wikipedia-source is right, but if it is, this whole thing happened in the April of 2007. And that was not yesterday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yordanka
"In mean time she worked in the architectural studio of here teacher the world famous architect Tom Main/ Morfosis/."
Maybe she also work for Frank Gary.
That wikipedia site looks like it was written by the same person who wrote the article!
She is clearly not licensed in the State of California, nor has the Governator ever selected a "favorite architect" for the state.
The project in question is a proposed (as of yet unbuilt) "Tuscan" style Senior Housing Complex designed by Irwin Pancake Architects, and they should get the credit for their project... even if it is not "ultra modern" as touted in that bogus article.
To whom it may concern: THIS IS A FAKE ARTICLE. This woman worked for us for a little while and here are some facts: 1. She can't be called an Architect/Architectural Designer without holding a valid Architectural License in California. 2. She is only an Illustrator/Colorist, she is not a Designer. 3. The correct name of the project is San Joaquin Gardens (If she doesn't even remember how to spell...) 4. This is not the first time she uses somebody else's design work to claim it as her own. 5. If ARCHINECT.COM doesn't remove this article ASAP, a serious legal issue will arise with the American Institute of Architects in California. And finally, 6. The pictures above are as her skills... FAKE!
RealAIA, I think Archinect has posted this article specifically to raise the question of whether it is real or not. So I don't see how the AIA (or more realistically, the California Architects Board) can make a legal issue of their posting of it.
Thank for your input to the mystery, though. I suggest you contact the California Architects Board and have them tackle Ms. Whatever-her-name-is.
i think RealAIA's post is also fake.
"5. If ARCHINECT.COM doesn't remove this article ASAP, a serious legal issue will arise with the American Institute of Architects in California."
of all the retarded comments ever posted, including my own, this wins the blue ribbon.
I don't know and I don't care about the legal issues but this thread is very funny.. including Kandarian's comment. Can we get more ridiculous news like this in Archinect please? It complements all those Guardian/NYT's serious articles pretty well!
It seems that the Austrian Mayer in CAlifornia is just playing with Bulgarian girl the movie set called" The best california architect?''
That is so entertaining:))
really?!
Somewhere Thom Mayne is loading his MP5...
http://www.hk-usa.com/le_mp5k_general.html
..but she's hella hot, I'll give her that...!
Great point. Why NOT hot architects!? It´s California, for crying out loud. Brad Pitt got second place, by the way.
"5. If ARCHINECT.COM doesn't remove this article ASAP, a serious legal issue will arise with the American Institute of Architects in California."
Has to be fake as CAB is agency that deals with registration questions.
Article is priceless. Is this a gorilla ad campaign?
I'm Bulgarian and came across this article in search of the truth about Yordanka Georgieva. I read an article about her (the same one) in a free paper yesterday and guess what - didn't believe it. So I searched in Google and ... no info. What really annoyed me is that the same crap was published in the BG version of National Geographic! I've posted a comment but I would really like to inform the publisher what's going on in their Bulgarian branch.
I'm really ashamed of the appalling state of the media in Bulgaria (serving political and economic interests ONLY). Let me apologize on behalf of the treacherous and the ignorant in my country.
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