rupp worked for various firms in the san francisco bay area before establishing her own practice, slr architects, in 1976. she specialized in technical and industrial facilities and provided designs for many early tech companies in silicon valley, including amdahl corporation, apple computer, claris, ibm, raychem, sun microsystems and tandem computers. her design of a testing facility for apple won an american institute of architects (aia) honor award. she designed stanford university's storey house and press building, and also completed projects for at&t, pac bell, pan am, san jose state university and united airlines. slr architects, which was based in east palo alto, california, closed in 1998 when rupp retired.