The Bio

Jen Turner grew up in SugarLand, Texas. She graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Texas in Austin and then moved to New York City to work for Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.

During her eleven years at the firm, she worked on many projects, including the East Asian Library at UC Berkeley, and was in charge of the interiors of the American Folk Art Museum and the Mattin Cultural Arts Center at Johns Hopkins University, as well as two Manhattan residences, and the Robin Hood Foundation library for P.S. 101 in Harlem, which won a New York AIA award.

She established her New York City based multi-disciplinary studio in 2000. In addition to completing architecture projects in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Austin, Texas, she has developed several public-art proposals and collaborated with NYC-based Pure+Applied on seven museum exhibitions, beginning with Liquid Stone, an exhibit at the National Building Museum, in Washington, D.C., designed by TWBTA.

She has served as a guest critic at Parsons School of Design, the University of Texas, New York Institute of Technology, and Louisiana State University. She is a regular contributor to ReadyMade magazine and has written for BlackBook, SIR magazine, and vanityfair.com. Her work has been featured in Lucky and The New York Times.

Jen is currently the project architect for Christoff:Finio architecture’s 20,000-square-foot renovation of the Kings County Supreme Courthouse. She is also developing a furniture collection, which she plans to unveil soon.