Gertrude Lempp Kerbis

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	Gertrude Lempp Kerbis
Title	FAIA
Born	1926; Chicago, Illinois, USA
Education	University of Illinois; Harvard Graduate School of Design; Illinois Institute of Technology
Firms	Lempp Kerbis Associates, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Naess & Murphy; Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), Chicago, Illinois, USA; Loebl Schlossman & Bennett; Bertrand Goldberg; Carl Koch
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U.S. Air Force Academy Dining Hall, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Seven Continents Restaurant at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois

[edit] Discussion

"Gertrude Mary Lempp [Kerbis] was born in 1926 in Chicago. She studied architecture at the University of Illinois, where she received an architectural engineering degree in 1948, and also at the Harvard Graduate School of Design with Walter Gropius (1949-50). Before and after studying at Harvard, Kerbis worked briefly for several architects, including Carl Koch (1948-49), Bertrand Goldberg (1949-50), and Loebl Schlossman & Bennett (1950-51). Kerbis also studied with Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where she received her master's degree in 1954. After graduating from IIT, Kerbis joined the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where she worked until 1959. She took a position at Naess & Murphy from 1959 through 1962 and again from 1965 until 1967. In 1967 she established her own architectural firm, Lempp Kerbis. Several of Kerbis's projects have received national recognition and awards, including the Dining Hall at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She has been a pioneer in working for equal status for women in the field of architecture and founded Chicago Women in Architecture and the Chicago Network. Kerbis was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 1970.

—Chicago Architects Oral History Project, The Art Institute of Chicago