Architect Ilona Scott – 2019 Revival ARA Congress

ARA 43 Congress CHAIR

Architect Ilona Scott

Ilona Scott was born in Kazakhstani Kukuzek concentration camp, not on any world maps. She lived in Romania starting with 1950 and moved to Southern California in 1973. She is a licensed architect currently practicing in California. She has a Master Degree in Architecture from the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning “Ion Mincu,” Bucharest, Romania.

Ilona is fluent in English, Romanian and Russian Apart from her architecture profession Ilona Scott’s passion is writing. She wrote two books about her mother, concert pianist and professor at the Conservatory in Iasi, Sofia Cosma. She is in the process of writing a third book about the difficulties she and her husband Toby Scott encountered when trying to adopt their daughter Jessica from a Romanian orphanage, who was finally released to them after Ceausescu fell. That release was featured on ABC 20/20 show in April 1990.
Ilona has over thirty years of professional experience in all phases of design, approvals, and construction for churches, schools, commercial, industrial and residential projects. Her particular skill is in assisting clients in refining their project expectations. She produced numerous visually exciting and aesthetically pleasing designs around the area where she lives, in Ventura and in Santa Barbara Counties, California. Ilona has extensive experience dealing with and coordinating between, the owners, the public and the governing bodies.