Architecture is an art for Jennifer Luce, FAIA, one she embraces with a sculptor’s sensuality and an engineer’s precision. Every important decision she and her team at LUCE et studio make on a project goes through a meticulous and probing process of research and development, often resulting in ordinary objects transcending their bounds.…

After 37 years in practice, Heidi Richardson has a large body of award-winning work to look back on and learn from. She has developed a reputation for running a design-focused practice that’s extraordinarily good at site strategy—a skill she learned from her mentor, William Turnbull, Jr. Heidi and her business partner, Andrew Pribuss,…

The Board of Directors and the Strategic Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) are honoring Angela Brooks, FAIA, and Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, with the 2022 Gold Medal. The Gold Medal honors an individual or pair whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture.…

The Board of Directors and the Strategic Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) today honored MASS Design Group with the 2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award. The annual AIA Architecture Firm Award is the highest honor the AIA bestows on an architecture practice. The award recognizes a firm that has consistently produced distinguished…

The Board of Directors and the Strategic Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) along with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) today announced Deborah Berke, FAIA, as the 2022 recipient of the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. The AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion honors an individual who has been…

The Board of Directors and the Strategic Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) today honored the organization, RIDING THE VORTEX, with the 2022 Whitney M. Young Jr. Award. Established in 1972, the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award annually honors an architect or organization that champions a range of social issues...

The Committee on the Environment presents the COTE Top Ten Awards, the industry’s best-known award program for sustainable design excellence. Each year, ten innovative projects are recognized for their integration of design excellence with environmental performance. Until 2017, the COTE Top Ten award recognized ten projects based largely on predicted performance, while award recipients…

The RD Architecture Awards recognize excellence in custom residential architectural design. This is a different kind of awards competition that covers the breadth and scope of work by talented residential architects and designers. We recognize that contemporary and contextual projects…

The rugged Colorado countryside nestles this home in a craggy embrace. Designed with care and sensitivity by Studio B, the house returns the regard. A modest black box on a concrete plinth, it focuses fully on the natural bounty that surrounds it, while slipping down into the sloped site to escape glimpses of…

“When you do a rural house, you create something manmade that interrupts the natural environment forever. It’s a big burden,” says Sebastian Schmaling, AIA. The firm is often asked to take on this burden, but always goes about the task with a reverence for what is already there. In this case, they…

Designing a house between a rock and a hard place (in this case a cliff) is no easy matter. Previous construction had bowed to the glacial erratic, forming a U around the immovable object. When Desai Chia’s clients approached the firm to build anew, the architects decided to embrace the boulder as part…

Although a seemingly inevitable design for this scenic site in New Zealand, Wanaka Wedge House began as an internet plan in America. Well, that’s not completely accurate; it goes back even further than that. The idea of it germinated as a house for architect Jeff Day’s mother. The intended site was the coast…

Coastal areas are often filled with oversized houses designed more for investment than to reflect a site’s history. By contrast, the Backriver residence in Abrams Hill, formerly a summer cottage community on Duxbury Bay, honors the area’s rich building traditions and conservation ethic. One of the driving forces behind its design, says…

This timeless piece of coastal land had been in the clients’ family for several generations, and when it came time to build on it, they requested something that would fit into Cape Cod’s cultural and historic landscape. Peter Zimmerman Architects gave them a house that’s classically proportioned and simply detailed, a modern…

With its sharply gabled rooflines, Hull House plays nicely with the neighbors even as it asserts its individuality. Situated behind a stone wall on a busy street corner, the house presents as three gables no higher or lower than the neighboring roofs. “We used time-honored materials found in Alexandria, such as stone for the walls…

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