STEPHEN BEILI 1993 Rice University, Bachelor of Architecture Stephen Beili was born in Asheville, North Carolina and began designing houses in second grade. Stephen graduated from the Rice University School of Architecture, winning the AIA School Medal. His internship began at Morphosis, an internationally-known architecture firm in Santa Monica, California. After completing the design for his parents’ home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he worked for Paula Baker-Laporte, an architect and author specializing in healthy homes. For 7-1/2 years, he designed houses at Tierra Concepts, Inc., a design/build firm primarily building 4000 square foot homes for people retiring to Santa Fe. While in New Mexico, Stephen and a friend Tamara Iwaseczko founded a movement entitled “FREE” to encourage freedom, creativity, and thought back into the architecture of Santa Fe. This movement spawned the creation of short films, a library, discussions, a mosaic workshop, studio critiques, letters to the editors, and two 3-week symposia focusing on designing appropriately within the context of traditional architecture and within a water crisis. He opened Studio Dionisi full-time in October of 2003. In the summer of 2004, he participated in the Parthey Project in Dole, France, a collaborative workshop focusing on place, music, poetry, eco-design, and good wine. In September of 2004, following this exploration, and after 34 years away, Stephen moved back to Asheville. Since then, Stephen’s work, in particular his own house, has received various awards and publicity for its fresh take on the traditional architecture of the region and for its push towards a sustainable future. Stephen is not a registered architect; he is a designer and a rebel. He loves what he does.
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