Residential Architect Magazine: ra leadership award profiles

2012 Residential Architect Leadership Awards

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:31:14 EST

We believe it is necessary to single out high achievers in residential design, in part to showcase talented practitioners to the public but primarily to exalt and illuminate the profession in its entirety.

Top Firm: Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:50:46 EST

Milwaukee-based Johnsen Schmaling Architects wins our Top Firm award.

Rising Star: Studio Dwell Architects

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:49:46 EST

A Chicago firm finds beauty in restraint.

Hall of Fame: David Dixon, FAIA

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:52:33 EST

David Dixon of Goody Clancy nabs our Hall of Fame title for 2012.

Top Firm: Marlon Blackwell Architect

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:42:43 EST

Marlon Blackwell Architect is taking on new challenges while staying true to its roots as a small, high-design firm.

Rising Star: Gray Organschi Architecture

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:30:55 EST

Gray Organschi's houses define the luxury of scarcity: creating richness with simple moves.

Hall of Fame: Will Bruder, AIA

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:44:46 EST

After more than five decades spent steeped in architecture, Will Bruder is one of the profession's truest of true believers.

residential architect 2010 Leadership Awards

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:31:01 EST

Our picks for the 2010 Leadership Awards share a rare trait: they know how to both design and build.

Hall of Fame: Harry Teague, aia

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:16:58 EST

Harry Teague earns the Hall of Fame award for his career-long exploration of modernism in the mountain West.

Top Firm: Shipley Architects

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:43:03 EST

A Dallas architect applies creativitiy and hands-on construction skills to projects large and small.

Rising Star: Min | Day

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:43:07 EST

Firm partners Jeffrey L. Day and E.B. Min make every site specific.

rising star: john brown, raic

Mon, 6 Jun 2011 03:28:22 EST

John Brown, RAIC, is on a profound mission, one that doesn't involve anything as mundane as scaling K2 or swimming the English Channel. The soft-spoken Canadian wants to simultaneously improve the quality of mass-market housing and make better houses more

top firm: the miller|hull partnership

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:54:50 EST

No region of the United States has a stronger, more deeply rooted, or more characteristically regional modernist architecture than the Pacific Northwest.

hall of fame: andrés duany, faia, and elizabeth plater-zyberk, faia, leed ap

Mon, 6 Jun 2011 03:26:23 EST

When he talks about the concept of time, Andrés Duany, FAIA, takes on the enthusiastic manner of a star physics student. “Time is a fascinating fourth dimension that is so exciting to me,” he says.

top firm: michelle kaufmann, aia, leed ap

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:15:10 EST

It all started with a headache.

rising star: luis ibarra and teresa rosano, ra, leed ap

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:18:35 EST

Luis Ibarra just had one of his original music compositions performed by a local high school orchestra.

hall of fame: f. cecil baker, aia

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:18:27 EST

For a young architect in Philadelphia, 1972 was a bad year to be starting a business.

rising star: joeb moore, aia

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:18:34 EST

In the vestibule of Joeb Moore's office building on Greenwich Avenue, the busy retail corridor that runs down to Long Island Sound, a 10-foot-tall black “iPod” shows a continuous loop of digital photos of the firm's work, and passersby on the street stop

top firm: stephen muse, faia

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:18:40 EST

Taking a visitor on a tour of his work one sunny afternoon at the end of summer, Stephen Muse, FAIA, steered his Audi through an Upper Northwest Washington, D.C., community, where several examples of his architecture stand like good neighbors, contributin

hall of fame: stuart cohen, faia, and julie hacker, aia

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:18:29 EST

No one would call Stuart Cohen, FAIA, or Julie Hacker, AIA, shy. The encyclopedic Cohen, a former professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, never seems more comfortable than when eloquently expounding on all things architectural.