Borden Partnership believes in dedication and movement towards an ultra-modern architecture that redefines the most common of realms, or the everyday, through celebration of the inevitable. The firm acknowledges contemporary constraints of practice and finance. The firm’s design approach emphasizes the traditions of architectural innovation and the fusion of material and technology, while remaining sensitive to contemporary culture and environment.

Prior to joining the Faculty at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, Professor Borden taught at North Carolina State University, Catholic University, Boston Architectural Center and Harvard University. He has worked in a host of firms including Gensler & Associates, Frank Harmon Architect and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Paris, where he was a designer on the Potsdamer Platz project and the renovation of the Centre Georges Pompidou. As principal of the award-winning Los Angeles-based architecture firm Borden Partnership since 1998, his design work has won recognition in multiple national and international competitions. Gail Borden received his Bachelor of Arts in art, art history and architecture and his Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University and his post-professional Master of Architecture with distinction from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Recognition

Gail Borden has received much recognition for his design work. In 2008 he was a finalist in the 99K House Competition, selected to be Associate Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and awarded the prestigious 2009-2010 Borchard Fellowship. His work has received numerous awards including the Architecture League of New York Young Architects Prize, Artist-in-Residence at the Chinati Foundation, a Graham Foundation Grant, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture's Faculty Design Awards and the New Faculty Teaching Award, the Chillman Prize, the William Ward Watkins Traveling Fellowship and the John Swift Medal.

Gail's work has been included in international exhibitions including the Architekturforum Oberösterrreich in Linz, Austria; the University of Tennessee School of Architecture, the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, the Duke University Museum of Art in Durham, North Carolina; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and numerous exhibits at LUMP Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Galleri Urbane in Marfa, Texas, among others. His Chengdu Project was included in the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale.

Gail's work is included in 21st Century House (Jonathan Bell), The Things They've Done (William T. Cannady and Rice University School of Architecture), and Expanding Architecture (Bryan Bell). His work has been published in numerous international publications including Bentonart, The Independent, Architectural Record, Wallpaper*, and Architecture.

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