Lois Gottlieb
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Lois Davidson Gottlieb (born May 13, 1926) is an American architect best known for residential design. She attended Stanford University from 1944 to 1947, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She was a graduate student at Harvard University's School of Design from 1949 to 1950.
She began her career working for Charles Warren Callister in Tiburon, California.
She was an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright as a part of the Taliesin Fellowship in Spring Green, Arizona in 1948-1949. She is one of the five women in architecture featured in the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation movie "A Woman is a Fellow Here".
She was a lecturer at Alameda State College in Hayward, California from 1962 to 1964, and at the University of California Extension in Riverside from 1966 to 1972.
Her first solo project was the Val Goeschen house, a one-room unit with 576 square feet in Inverness, California.