Rachel Allen

Rachel Allen (born 1970) is an American architect based in Los Angeles, California. She is the principal and president of Radar, Inc. (previously Rachel Allen Architecture) founded in 2002. Examples of the firm's wide range of clients include Grand Central Market, Califia Farms, California State Parks, and Supreme.

Early life Allen was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended high school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart located in the original Flood Mansion, a fact she has cited as influencing her early interest in architecture.

Career Allen began her architectural career in San Francisco at the age of 16, hired on the basis of handmade drawings from classes taken at the De Young Museum of Art. She went on to graduate summa cum laude from Princeton (A.B. and M. Arch. degrees) and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She was hired out of school by Gehry Partners where she worked for five years and is a winner of the American Academy's prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture. Radar has also designed commercial and institutional projects in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Miami, and Mexico. In 2019 her firm was awarded the Southern California Development Forum (SCDF) award for Urban Innovation for Libros Schmibros, a free lending library in Boyle Heights.

Personal life Allen is married to Chicago-born conceptual artist Guerino (Gary) Cannone and has one daughter.