13: Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter FIVE PLACES L.A.

Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter is an architect, educator and community leader advocating for architecture to advance environmental and social justice. She currently serves as President of Architecture for Communities Los Angeles (ACLA), a non-profit organization launched by AIA LA to focus on education and community outreach. She also serves as Chair of the Education Committee for the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), and is Professor in the Architecture Department at East Los Angeles College, California’s largest community college.
In partnership with Roland Wahlroos-Ritter, her architectural practice, W-ROAD, navigates transdisciplinary territory in the diverse type and scale of projects, and she has collaborated on multiple award-winning projects as architect and façade consultant. One of their latest projects is the renovation of the Los Angeles Mission, at 156,000 sf, one of the nation’s largest service providers of the unhoused.
Ingalill has forged educational pathways and launched programs that support her vision of education for all. She served as Dean of Woodbury School of Architecture from 2016-2021, and has taught at Yale, Cornell, the Bartlett (UCL), and SCI-Arc. As founder and Director of WUHO, the Woodbury University Hollywood gallery, she produced over 100 exhibitions celebrating social justice-focused design. She was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2018, received the 2018 AIA|LA Presidential Educator of the Year Award, the 2016 AIA California Council Educator Award, and was recognized by DesignIntelligence as one of the nation’s Most Admired Educators in Architecture and Design in 2018 and 2019.