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Immigrant Architects Honored with 2018 Vilcek Prizes

Immigrant Architects Honored with 2018 Vilcek Prizes

Posted by | Feb 5, 2018 | 0 |

The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Vilcek Prizes in the Arts and Humanities, this year recognizing the field of architecture. Awarded annually, the prizes call attention to the breadth of immigrant contributions to the American arts and sciences. “The social, political, and cultural landscape of America has been shaped by generations of immigrant contributions,” says Marica Vilcek, cofounder and vice chairman of the Vilcek Foundation. “With the Vilcek Prizes in Architecture, we are pleased to recognize the many ways in which they have shaped its physical landscape as well—through bold, original designs, and through research that challenges the status quo, both in the building arts and in society.”

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Calling All Architects: 10th Annual Marvin Architects Challenge Officially Opens for Submissions

Calling All Architects: 10th Annual Marvin Architects Challenge Officially Opens for Submissions

Posted by | Feb 5, 2018 | 0 |

The Marvin Family of Brands invites architects in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Israel to submit their work to the annual Marvin Architects Challenge, which honors outstanding residential and commercial design projects that demonstrate creativity and ingenuity. This year for the first time, the competition has been expanded to include projects that use Integrity Windows and Doors products in combination with Marvin products or alone. The company is also expanding the number of categories eligible for prizes. The 2018 competition will recognize one outstanding design each in the following categories: Best Historic (new in 2018), Best Contemporary, Best Transitional, Best Traditional New Construction, Best Remodel/Addition and Best Commercial.

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ASLA Officially Opens 2018 Call for Awards Entries

ASLA Officially Opens 2018 Call for Awards Entries

Posted by | Jan 29, 2018 | 0 |

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is now accepting entries for the 2018 Professional and Student Awards, the world’s most prestigious juried landscape architecture competition. Each year, the ASLA Professional Awards honor the best in landscape architecture from around the globe, while the ASLA Student Awards give us a glimpse into the future of the profession.

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Stephen Ayers, FAIA, honored with the 2018 AIA Thomas Jefferson Award

Posted by | Jan 27, 2018 | 0 |

Stephen Ayers, FAIA, Architect of the Capitol, has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture. The Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture recognizes architects in the public and private sectors, public officials, or other individuals who design distinguished public facilities and/or who advocate for design excellence. Ayers will be honored at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2018 in New York City.

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Steven Holl Architects wins international competition for new residential quarters in the Tushino District of Moscow

Steven Holl Architects wins international competition for new residential quarters in the Tushino District of Moscow

Posted by | Jan 26, 2018 | 0 |

Steven Holl Architects, in collaboration with Art-group “Kamen”, has won the international design competition for the residential quarters of the Tushino district in Moscow, besting Fuksas Architecture, Zaha Hadid Architects, Mad Global, and Tsimalo, Lyashenko & Partners. The development will provide a new mixed-use center filled with housing, social spaces, a kindergarten and an elementary school on a former paratrooper airfield. 

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Jorge Silvetti awarded 2018 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion

Jorge Silvetti awarded 2018 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion

Posted by | Dec 31, 2017 | 0 |

The AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion honors an individual who has been intensely involved in architecture education for more than a decade and whose teaching has influenced a broad range of students. Silvetti has taught at Harvard University Graduate School of Design  (GSD) since 1975 as a gifted professor and mentor.  Argentinian by birth, Silvetti’s influence at GSD may have been most strongly felt from 1995-2002, when he served as chair of the architecture program.

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Lenore M. Lucey honored with 2018 Kemper Award

Lenore M. Lucey honored with 2018 Kemper Award

Posted by | Dec 31, 2017 | 0 |

The Board of Directors and the Strategic Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) bestowed Lenore M. Lucey, FAIA, with the 2018 Edward C. Kemper Award. Named in honor of the AIA’s first executive director, the award is given annually to an architect who has contributed significantly to the profession through service to the AIA.

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