Julie D. Taylor, Hon. AIA/LA
Principal

julie@taylor-pr.com

Julie D. Taylor, Hon. AIA/LA, is personally involved with all Taylor & Company clients. She focuses specifically on image management, strategic media planning, and media relations.

Taylor brings expertise and experience as a design industry publicist, marketer, writer, editor, and critic to her practice of public relations and marketing. Prior to establishing Taylor & Company in 1994, she was the Director of Public Relations and Communications at Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles.
 
Taylor is a long-time editorial veteran, with a variety of publishing credits, including senior editor positions at design and marketing publications in New York City.

She is currently the editor of the Society of Architectural Historians News/Southern California Chapter. Taylor is the author of the books Outdoor Rooms (1999), a best-seller for the publisher, and Bars, Pubs, & Cafés (2000), and co-author of Spa: The Sensuous Experience (2006).

Taylor is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she received a B.A. in art history. She has been a guest speaker on the marketing of design services for UCLA Graduate School of Architecture, the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles and Las Vegas Chapters, SCI-Arc, Mobius LA, West Week, and NeoCon West. She is a member of the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, AIA Los Angeles Chapter, AIA California Council, and the Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter. Taylor is on the Design Awards Committee for the AIA Los Angeles Chapter (Co-Chair 2008-2009), and on the Steering Committee for Canstruction LA.