Rachel Preston Prinz
- Additional Crew
- Director
- Cinematographer
Rachel Preston Prinz is an architecturally-trained American designer, preservationist, author, documentary filmmaker, and artist working in sustainability and architectural engagement. She's the Founding Director of the firm Archinia and the non-profit Architecture for EveryBody.
Rachel has a Masters of Architecture and Certificate in Preservation from Texas A&M. She has committed the nearly 20 years of her professional life to celebrating architecture by promoting the Genius Loci, or "Spirit of Place", especially pertaining to US Southern, Mountain, and Southwest design. Rachel is the lead author of Hacking the Earthship, a book about natural home design she wrote with 12 peers in 2014. Rachel has 4 TEDx and Pecha Kucha talks on vernacular design and critical regionalism, landscape preservation, pattern languages, and photography & epicurianism. Rachel lectures and leads tours that integrate archaeology, architecture, place, culture, and emerging trends in sustainability. She is an expert people connector and "sparkplug" who brings a passionate energy to everything she does. Rachel's work has been featured on HGTV; Canadian Broadcasting; NMPBS's Colores!; and in DaySpa magazine.
And she's going blind.
Current projects:
Rachel has a Masters of Architecture and Certificate in Preservation from Texas A&M. She has committed the nearly 20 years of her professional life to celebrating architecture by promoting the Genius Loci, or "Spirit of Place", especially pertaining to US Southern, Mountain, and Southwest design. Rachel is the lead author of Hacking the Earthship, a book about natural home design she wrote with 12 peers in 2014. Rachel has 4 TEDx and Pecha Kucha talks on vernacular design and critical regionalism, landscape preservation, pattern languages, and photography & epicurianism. Rachel lectures and leads tours that integrate archaeology, architecture, place, culture, and emerging trends in sustainability. She is an expert people connector and "sparkplug" who brings a passionate energy to everything she does. Rachel's work has been featured on HGTV; Canadian Broadcasting; NMPBS's Colores!; and in DaySpa magazine.
And she's going blind.
Current projects:
- Emergence, a documentary about the architecture of Acoma Pueblo
- Built for Life, TV series about sustainable architecture in the American Southwest
- DesignGirls, a web series about women designers geared towards attracting girls to careers in design
