Named within the “Top Designer Under 40 in South Florida” category of the prestigious Arango Foundation 2001 Award, Margi Nothard’s work has been recognized by the well-known Curator for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Paola Antonelli: “Margi Glavovic-Nothard has impressed me with the maturity and completeness of her assertive designs. Her structures pose as functions, symbols and incarnate the renewed role of architecture as a point of reference for the community.”

A master’s graduate from Southern California Institute of Architecture, Nothard is the president, founding partner and design principal of Glavovic Studios Inc., in Fort Lauderdale. She is the recipient of the A1A State Award of Excellence in 2004 and 2006, and a Fort Lauderdale Community Appearance Award, for the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Bridge-Stair in 2006, and spent 16 years designing and teaching architecture and urban design in the United States, working in Frank Gehry’s office in Los Angeles. She also worked and taught in New York, and produced the book, Time Defines Place, The Thin Moments and Fat Moments in Los Angeles.

Her most recent projects include Young at Art and Broward County Children’s Museum and Reading Room, the architectural and site design for the ArtsPark at Young Circle, a $26 million cultural project for the City of Hollywood, for which she is being honored with this year’s Moretti award; and a Historic Restoration Project and Cultural Skate Plaza Project for the City of Miami Beach. Her work has been published in local and international magazines including, Abitare, Milan, Italy, OFARCH, Italy, Form Pioneering Design, Los Angeles, Urban Land Magazine and HOME magazine, Fort Lauderdale.

Glavovic Studio website:  www.glavovicstudio.com