The 2007 Design and Chapter Awards were presented on September 14, 2007 at the Annual Design Conference in New Bern, NC. 5 Merit Awards and 5 Honor Awards were given during the Awards banquet, where Chapter Award winners and Brick Award winners were also recognized. Please see the information below for details on winning projects!
William H. Deitrick Service Medal - The Service Medal will be 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 Brick Awards are conducted and co-sponsored by Brick SouthEast and are juried and presented every other year. The 2007 Brick Awards will recognize design achievements by AIA North Carolina architectural firms. Architects submitting projects for consideration this year can submit a single entry to AIA North Carolina Design Awards and be considered for both competitions. Please click here to visit the Brick SouthEast website!
J. Hyatt Hammond Schoalrships
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. Deadlines for the Chapter awards apply.
2007 Scholarships were awarded to:
Jolie Frazier Thomas, AIA
PBC + L Architecture
333 Fayetteville Street, Suite 1000
Raleigh, NC27601
Robert William Thomas, AIA
Kenneth E. Hobgood, architects
124 Glenwood Avenue
Raleigh, NC27603
R. Chadwick Everhart, AIA
Appalachian StateUniversity
420 Hidden Valley Circle
Boone, NC28607
Cynthia R. Turner, AIA
Architectural Design Studio
90 Church Street
Asheville, NC28801
Jack Ossa, Associate AIA
DMR Architecture
1600 East Woodlawn Road, Studio 360
Charlotte, NC28209
2007 Design Awards Jury
The jury will be chaired by Peter Kuttner, FAIA.
President of Cambridge Seven Associates, Peter Kuttner synthesizes his leadership role with design and management of a wide range of projects. Peter has been instrumental in forging the next generation's collaborative spirit at C7A, bringing the firm's wealth of experience to every client and project. Mr. Kuttner's experience covers planning, architectural and exhibit design, with particular focus on complex educational building types accommodating a variety of activities, and an emphasis on new interactive digital and visual technology. A frequent speaker and widely published author, Peter Kuttner earned his Masters and undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Michigan.
Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA is Principal of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, recipient of the 2007 AIA National Firm Award.She has directed the design of a number of award winning projects, including the MBTAOperationsControlCenter in Boston, the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, and the University of Pennsylvania Gateway Complex.Her work has been published nationally and internationally and been honored with numerous design awards. She received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arizona's School of Architecture and has taught at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, the University of Arizona's School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and was a Visiting Artist at the AmericanAcademy in Rome in 2002.Ms. Weinzapfel has been a juror and speaker at numerous universities and the AIA's international, national, and regional design awards programs.She is an active member in many local and national organizations and served as the Boston Society of Architects' President in 2006.
Jeff Stein AIA is an architect and writer educated in Illinois, Arizona and at the BostonArchitecturalCollege, where he is presently Head of the School of Architecture. He was formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology, in Boston. He has taught in the Career Discovery Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and served as Commissioner of Education for the Boston Society of Architects, where he was a member of the editorial board and is a frequent contributor to the magazine Architecture Boston. Mr. Stein is also the New England Press Association Award-winning architecture critic for the newspaper, Banker + Tradesman.
Elizabeth Padjen, FAIA, is the founding editor of ArchitectureBoston, the bimonthly magazine published by the Boston Society of Architects. She is also consulting curator of architecture and design at the PeabodyEssexMuseum in Salem. Previously a practicing architect in her own form for more than 15 years, she is a nationally recognized writer and speaker on design, planning, and practice issues. A past president of the Boston Society of Architects, Ms. Padjen has also served as the chair of the national American Institute of Architects Regional and Urban Design Committee. A former contributing editor for Architecture magazine, she was a contributor to Reflections on Architectural Practice in the Nineties, published by Princeton Architectural Press (1996) and was the editor and chief writer of Planning Your Community’s Future, published in 1996 by the AIA. She was previously the architecture editor of Art New England magazine, and the editor of the Loeb Fellowship Forum, published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She received an undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton and a masters degree in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.