Barbara Hillier is an accomplished architect and designer. She is a Principal and co-founder of Studio Hillier, a research-based, client-centric architecture and urbanism practice in downtown Princeton, New Jersey. Her work has garnered critical praise and attention for its striking presence and technological prowess as well as its subtle, poetic fusion with nature. She is the recipient of many honors and awards, most recently for the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas and for the BD Campus Center, receiving the distinguished Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award. Her career in architecture was cultivated in the firm of Hillier Architecture where she was both life partner and career partner with founder, J. Robert Hillier, FAIA. Ms. Hillier opened and led the firm’s Philadelphia office for eleven years which helped build the firm’s national reputation. The success of the Philadelphia office was followed by offices in New York City and Washington DC. Later the firm would expand to other cities and eventually to the Middle East and China. Ms. Hillier’s academic experience includes design juries and lectures at the University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Tennessee, Cornell University, and Temple University to name a few. Her work has been published in A+D magazine, Metropolis, Architectural Record, Wood le Bois, Interiors, New York Spaces, Lighting Magazine, Princeton Magazine and The New York Times. Ms. Hillier holds a Master of Architecture Degree from Princeton University, a BFA from Arcadia University in design, and a BS in Psychology from Temple University.
AISC Ideas Awards, National Award Winner, Award
Project: Irving Convention Center, Dallas, TX,
ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards, Silver Medal Winner, Award
Project: Irving Convention Center, Dallas, TX
Engineering News Record Best Projects, Award
Project: Irving Convention Center, Dallas, TX, Category: Government
National Council of Structural Engineers, Excellence in Structural Engineering, Award
Project: Irving Convention Center, Dallas, TX
AIA New Jersey, Award
Project: Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, Dallas, TX
Grand Award New Jersey Concrete 45th Annual Awards, Award
Project: Becton Dickinson Campus Center
American Architecture Awards, The Chicago Athenaeum, Award
Project: Becton Dickinson Campus Center
AIA New Jersey, Honor Award, Award
Project: Becton Dickinson
AIA Pennsylvania Silver Medal of Distinction, Award
Project: Solebury School Abbe Science Center
Wood Design & Building Honor Award, Award
Project: Solebury School Abbe Science Center
AIA Philadelphia Honor Award, Award
Project: Solebury School Gymnasium
AIA Philadelphia Honor Award, Award
Project: Solebury School Abbe Science Center
AIA Philadelphia Honor Award, Award
Project: General Instrument Headquarters
AIA Philadelphia Honor Award, Award
Project: Intech Construction Headquarters
AIA Philadelphia Honor Award, Award
Vanguard Group Inc Headquarters
AIA Philadelphia Honor Award, Award
Project: Georgia Cancer Specialists
International Design Gold Key Award, Award
