The 2008 Design and Chapter Awards were presented on Saturday, August 23, 2008 at the Annual Design Conference in Charlotte, NC. Six (6) Merit Awards and three (3) Honor Awards were presented during the Awards banquet, where Chapter Award winners were also recognized. Please see the information below for details on winning projects and Chapter Award Honorees!
Please see the links to the right for previous years' winners.
AIA North Carolina presented its three highest honors on the evening of Saturday, August 23, at the 2008 Design Conference at the Charlotte Convention Center.
Firm Award - The firm award was presented to an AIA NC firm that has consistently produced quality architecture with a verifiable level of client satisfaction for at least 10 years in North Carolina. The 2008 Firm Award was presented to Shook Kelley of Charlotte, NC.
William H. Deitrick Service Medal - The Service Medal was awarded to an AIA NC member who exhibits extraordinary service to the community, the profession, or to AIANC. The medal is named for William Henley Deitrick, FAIA, who donated the AIA NC Tower to the Chapter in1963. The Service Medal was presented to Alan D. McGuinn, AIA of Asheville, NC.
F. Carter Williams Gold Medal - The highest honor presented by the Chapter to a member of AIA North Carolina, awarded in recognition of a distinguished career or extraordinary accomplishments as an architect. The Gold Medal was presented to Gail Lindsey, FAIA of Raleigh, NC. Congratulations!
AIA North Carolina Gold Medalist J. Hyatt Hammond, FAIA, has established a fund to provide scholarships for young professionals to attend the AIA North Carolina Design Conference. The J.Hyatt Hammond Scholarship will also be awarded this year.
The recipients of the 2008 J. Hyatt Hammond Schoalrship are:
Name
Firm / Employer
Location
Sterling D. Bollinger, Assoc. AIA
Troxell Gibbons Architecture, Inc.
Winston-Salem
Lauren Whitney Bridges, Assoc. AIA
Central Piedmont Community College
Matthews
Brie K. Calrson, Assoc. AIA
FMK Architects, PA
Charlotte
Richard K. Dorman, Assoc. AIA
BBH Design
Raleigh
Jonathan B. Kincheloe, AIA
LS3P Associates, Ltd.
Charlotte
Ashley J. Wood, Assoc. AIA
Shook Kelley
Charlotte
Congratulations!
2008 Design Awards Jury
Aaron B. Schwarz, FAIA
2008 Jury Chair
As Principal and Director with Perkins Eastman, Aaron Schwarz, FAIA, brings more than 25 years of experience to the firm. His knowledge, expertise, and active participation in the firm’s numerous practice areas have made him a valuable firm-wide resource—especially in the design of educational environments. His award-winning portfolio includes numerous projects for Fortune 500 companies, colleges and universities, primary and secondary schools, cultural and religious institutions, and government entities throughout the United States and abroad. His work has been published extensively. His leadership has been a driving force behind the development and recognition of the firm’s design reputation. A registered architect in Alabama, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North and South Carolina, Connecticut, and New York, Mr. Schwarz is also a member of the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards (NCARB) and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA).
Sherida E. PaulsenFAIA
Juror
Sherida E. Paulsen, FAIA, joined PKSB Architects in 1999 as a Principal. She is currently chair of the Van Alen Institute, and Director of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation. Ms. Paulsen was recently elected AIA President, New York Chapter and will begin her term on January 1, 2009. She served as a Commissioner and Chair of the Landmark Preservation Commission from 1995 to 2004. She holds a BA in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters in Architecture from the University of California at Los Angeles. Ms. Paulsen has designed a range of award-winning educational, residential and mixed-use projects for a broad group of clients, including the ClaremontRidingAcademy renovation, the Cooper Union, Hunter College of CUNY, New York Presbyterian Hospital, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and the City of Bay City, Michigan.
Alexander Gorlin, FAIA
Juror
Alexander Gorlin opened his practice in 1986 and has gone on to become one of the most critically acclaimed architects in the country.
His firm, Alexander Gorlin Architects, is distinguished by its commitment to applying Modernist design principles to projects across the social spectrum . Clients range from community organizations, religious congregations and public schools to wealthy individuals and luxury residential developers. The firm has recieved numerous accolades including four Design Excellence Awards from the American Institute of Architects. Architectural Digest magazine has named the firm in its AD100 list of leading designers for each of the past four years.
In addition to his design work, Mr. Gorlin is also a respected architectural critic and scholar. He is the author of two books on contemporary architecture, The New American Town House and Creating the New American Town House.
In 2005, The AIA recognized Mr. Gorlin's significant contribution to the profession by bestowing him with one of its highest honors, the promotion to Fellowship.
Michael Gabellini, FAIA
Juror
Working with space and light as sculptural materials, Michael Gabellini constructs architectural settings that are at once elemental in form and dramatic in their purity of means. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1980. He also studied at the Architectural Association in London and conducted extensive architectural research in Rome. Gabellini received the 2006 National Design Award in Interior Design from the SmithsonianCooper-HewittNationalDesignMuseum, and has led his firm to receive 17 awards from the AIA since 1993. He was inducted into Interior Design Magazine’s Hall of Fame. Prior to founding his own firm, he worked as a senior designer at Kohn Pederson Fox Architects. His experience included high-rise projects and corporate interiors throughout North America and Europe such as the 400,000sf PrudentialHiltonCenter and the 720,000sf ShearsonLehmanPlazaTower in New York. During this period, he also collaborated with designer Jay Smith on a number of residential and fashion-related projects.
Susan Rodriguez, FAIA
Juror
Susan T. Rodriguez is a Managing Partner and Design Principal in Polshek Partnership Architects. The firm is known for architectural excellence in the design of buildings in the public, cultural and academic realm. The firm’s work has been published internationally and recognized with numerous awards for design excellence. Ms. Rodriguez has designed buildings and environments that convey her passionate belief both in architecture as an interpretive medium and in its ability to communicate values of contemporary society.Her work focuses upon the essential integration of exterior and interior space and the vital unity of site and program.Underscoring the significance of the environment, her designs are models for the application of sustainable design strategies. Award winning designs for the MashantucketPequotMuseum, the Lycée Français de New York, and the HeimboldVisualArtsCenter at SarahLawrenceCollege exemplify this holistic attitude toward design. Ms. Rodriguez serves on the board and executive committee of the Architectural League of New York. She has taught numerous design studios and was the Gensler Visiting Critic in Architecture at CornellUniversity for the fall of 2007. Ms. Rodriguez received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning where she serves as the co-chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council.She received a Masters Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Stephen Moser, AIA
Juror
Stephen Moser, AIA, is a Senior Project Architect with Peter Marino & Associates. Since 1995, Stephen Moser, AIA ,has worked with Peter Marino & Associates to produce such projects as the Chanel Prince’s Building Boutique in Hong Kong, The Nassau County Museum of Art in New York, and the Giorgio Armani Building in New York City. He has taught and juried student work at Cornell University, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, NJIT, and Parsons. He defines the “art of architecture” as the “the fine line where a building vacillates between being recognizable and unfamiliar, even alien. It balances opposites - landscape and artifice, urban and anti-urban, material and immaterial, repetitive and singular. It incorporates the basic elements of architecture - wall, window, door - as well as the non-hierarchical, generative forms - mesh, toroid and fractals. It is an architecture where the building is more than just a pretty form; it is spatial, experiential, keyed to the human body and enriched by habitation. ”
