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Gili Meerovitch

Principal
Pfeiffer, a Perkins Eastman Studio
Los Angeles, California, United States

Gili Meerovitch, CID, IIDA, LEED AP

Gili Meerovitch, Principal of Pfeiffer, a Perkins Eastman Studio, leads the firm’s library and innovation center practice. Informed by three decades of national and international experience, her approach to library planning is guided by her keen observation of human behaviors, which she employs in conceptualizing interiors for the firm’s educational and cultural projects. As a library planner and programmer, she is skilled at helping to reinterpret library needs in the context of today’s teaching/learning pedagogies and interdisciplinary engagement activities, translating new programmatic objectives and functional requirements into space plans that create trend-setting new approaches to space utilization and Information discovery. Her planning also takes into consideration the stewardship of the building and evolving use of the library.
Active in library industry organizations including ALA, SCUP and ACRL, Gili brings both recent and comprehensive knowledge of trends and relevant planning issues. Gili co-chairs the Core Library Facilities & Interiors Interest Group of ALA’s Core Buildings and Operations Section, is a member the Planning and Design Committee and, has presented a number of conference programs. She has also served as an instructor for interior design programs at CSU Northridge and UCLA Extension, and as guest critic at CSU Long Beach design program. Her accomplishments in library design include the award-winning Colorado College’s Tutt Library, a 2019 AIA/ALA Library Building Award project, which is currently the nation’s largest 24/7 academic library to achieve Net Zero-energy performance. Gili has worked with the Chancellor’s Office of the California State University system to advance its state-wide Libraries of the Future (LOFT) initiative. She led the design thinking for the team that produced the University of Washington's Health Sciences Library's Virtual Reality in Academic Health Sciences Libraries: A Primer, and has shared her considerable experience in "The Visioning Process," the chapter she authored for Creating the High-Functioning Library Space, a guide to the expansion and reconfiguration of academic library space.

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