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Shirley Blumberg
Shirley Blumberg is a founding partner of KPMB Architects, established in 1987 as Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects.
Background & practice
Shirley Blumberg is a founding partner of KPMB Architects, established in 1987 as Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects. The official joint 2025 RAIC Gold Medal profile connects the practice's architectural quality with a studio model notable for ethnic and gender diversity. It highlights community engagement, sustainable practice and the coordination of varied influences. Blumberg's role is recorded through this partnership and its shared body of work rather than unsupported project-by-project personal authorship.
How to read the work
Use diversity as a working resource for architectural collaboration, combining careful design with community engagement and environmental responsibilities in the shared development of a practice's buildings and public contribution.
Founding partner explicitly identified with McKenna; the 2025 medal was jointly awarded.
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