Houston, Texas, United States
Lauren Rottet, FAIA, FIIDA is one of the most-celebrated interior architects today with an extraordinary record of awards, publications, lectures, juries and honors. Ms. Rottet is the only woman in history to be elevated to the College of Fellows of both the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and International Interior Design Association (IIDA). She also holds the coveted titles of Boutique Design Magazine Designer of the Year, Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame, and Interiors Magazine (now Contract) Designer of the Year. In 2006, Rottet was inducted as an Inaugural Member of the Women in Design Hall of Fame. She is a Lifetime Appointee to the U.S. General Services Administration’s National Register of Peer Professionals for Design Excellence and served as Juror for the 2010 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. Ms. Rottet’s furniture and product designs have earned her four gold medals for Best of NeoCon and a Chicago Athenaeum Award. Specialties: corporate, hospitality and residential architecture and interior design; furniture design; art selection; branding; real estate analysis and site planning
In 2008, Lauren Rottet launched the privately-held, WBE-certified Rottet Studio, with a team of architects and designers she has worked with for as many as 25 years. Rottet Studio is regarded as one of the finest interior design practices in the United States, founded on the idea of providing innovative architectural solutions characterized by precise detail and direct response to the client’s goals.
In 1994 the partners of Keating, Mann, Jernigan, Rottet (KMJR) joined Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall (DMJM). Ms. Rottet was Principal-in-Charge of the interiors practice DMJM Rottet, a subsidiary of AECOM, for fourteen years.
Ms. Rottet and several SOM partners joined forces to create the architecture and interiors firm, Keating Mann Jernigan Rottet. After expanding from a staff of six to sixty in only four years, the partners joined Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall (DMJM) in 1994 to further expand their growing practice with the resources of the architecture-and-engineering giant.
Ms. Rottet joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in Chiacgo in 1980 with a focus on high-rise office design. Her work with SOM took her back to her native Texas where she worked as Senior Designer on several major high-rise buildings, museums and planning projects. When the building boom stopped in the early 1980’s, Rottet turned was asked to focus her creative energies on interiors and launch an interiors practice for SOM in Los Angeles, which she did with great success.