DESIGN, BITCHES
Design, Bitches is aone-stop-shoparchitectureanddesignpracticewith offices in Los Angeles and SanJose.Led by architects Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph, we area collective ofcreative risktakers and optimistic pragmatists working with individuals and organizations to design their visions.Our work spans architecture, interiors, brand identity and graphic design, and explores the ways designinfluences our everyday experience.Since our founding in 2010,our team hascollaborated closely withcreatives and entrepreneursto realize welcoming urbanspacesandhospitalityvenues,customsingle-family residences,innovativeworkplaces,retail models and brand identities.Each project is entirely unique and designed to exceed the expectations of our clients.Beyond our coreteam, wework with awider community of fabricators, artisansandbuildersto bring our designs to life.Design, Bitches’work has been widely published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Dezeen,Forbes,Elle Décor Italia and other publications,selected for the Wallpaper 400 and included in ANInterior’s Top 50 list for the last seven years. The work of the studio has received numerous awardsincludingAIA Los Angeles Residential& RestaurantDesign Awards,AIA Los AngelesEmerging PracticeAward, andArchitect Newspaper’s Best in Practice Award.
Rebecca Rudolph, AIA
Founding Partner / Principal Architect
Architect Rebecca Rudolph, AIA is Co-founder of the award-winning architecture and design practice Design, Bitches, founded with Catherine Johnson in 2010.
With a background in philosophy and architecture, Rebecca leads concept design work with innovative retail startups including Modern Animal and Breeze, and spearheaded the firm’s City of Los Angeles ADU contribution focused on the creation of accessible multi-generational dwellings.
They have led the design of numerous award-winning projects for the firm, including single-family residences, restaurants, performing arts and retail spaces. Deeply passionate about storytelling and narrative, their interests have led the firm to explore multi-disciplinary work including concept design, branding, and landscape architecture.
Rebecca believes in the power of the sub-conscious to influence spatial experience, and that spaces and places are not complete without the people that use them[1] .
They have taught at the University of Oregon and Woodbury University, and participate regularly in AIA Awards program and academic juries. They have lectured nationally at Columbia, Yale, UCLA , and The Berlage Institute Delft among other institutions.
Rebecca received her MArch from Sci-ARC and her Master in Philosophy from the University of Paris 8-Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
CATHERINE JOHNSON, AIA
Founding Partner / Principal Architect
Architect Catherine Johnson, AIA is Co-founder of the award-winning architecture and design practice Design, Bitches, founded with Rebecca Rudolph in 2010.
She co-directs the Los Angeles-based firm and launched the San Jose office location in 2024.
A creative thought leader, Catherine pushes the boundaries of how places look, perform and feel at a human scale in a changing world. She has led award winning commercial projects for notable clients including Notion, Verve Coffee Roasters, & Runway Playa Vista, and is currently working on the Superba Food & Bread headquarters.
Known for blending creative risk-taking with pragmatic design, her residential work focuses on architectural longevity and reimagining the future of “home”. Catherine led the design of the noted B+B house, and is currently working on The House of Three Trees.
Catherine believes in fostering connections and enduring relationships with creative partners and communities encourages interventions at a variety of scales.
She is a founding member of the University of Oregon Interior Architecture Advisory Council, has served on the ACLA community outreach committee, and as a Walsh Distinguished Visiting Professor in Interior Architecture at the University of Oregon. She has been a visiting critic at USC, UCLA & SCI-Arc among others, and lectures regularly in the United States and abroad.
Catherine received her MArch from Sci-ARC and her BIARC from the University of Oregon.
OUR TEAM
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Rebecca Rudolph, AIA
Founding Partner / Principal Architect
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Catherine Johnson, AIA
Founding Partner / Principal Architect
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Margerie Bonnet
Project Manager / Senior Designer
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Robert Sipchen
Senior Designer
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Emilie Jia
Designer
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Amelia girt
Exploring the Arts Intern
D,B Alumni:
Chia-Ching Yang
Claudia Otten
Crystal Tan
Farnoosh Rafaie
Gitta Bartelt
Hanchen Xu
Henry Cheung
Jesse Hammer
Jing Wang
Kate Black
Kealani Jensen
Omar Dairi
We are licensed architects with a cross-disciplinary attitude: weaving interiors, branding, graphics and furniture into social spaces that people want to keep returning to.
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Architect’s Newspaper, Top 50 Interior Architects 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
The PLAN Awards, Finalist: House, B+B House 2023
AIA / LA Residential Design Award, B+B House, 2022
AIA / LA Restaurant Design Award, Verve, 2021
AIA / LA Restaurant Design Award, Alma’s, 2021
AIA / LA Residential Design Award, Midnight Room, 2021
Dezeen, Emerging Interior Designer of the Year, Shortlist, 2019
AIA / LA Residential Citation Award, Garden House, 2018
AIA / LA Emerging Practice Award, 2017
AIA / LA Restaurant Design Award, Little Octopus, 2017
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