AIA Names 10 Housing Award Winners for 2016
The American Institute of Architects announced the winners of its 2016 AIA Housing Awards. Now in its 16th year, the program recognizes the best in housing design in four categories: One and Two Family Custom Housing, One and Two Family Production Housing (no winners in this category this year), Multifamily Housing, and Specialized Housing. Over the span of two months, the jury narrowed down the pool of submissions to 10 winners, focusing on criteria such as energy consciousness and how well the project reflected the area where it was built. The winners are:
One and Two Family Custom Housing
Project: Hog Pen Creek Retreat
Location: Austin
Firm: Lake|Flato Architects
Project: Independence Pass Residence
Location: Aspen, Colorado
Firm: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Project: Island Residence
Location: Honolulu
Firm: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Project: Newberg Residence
Location: Newberg, Oregon
Firm: Cutler Anderson Architects
Project: Oak Ridge House
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Firm: Duvall Decker Architects, P.A.
Multifamily Housing
Project: 1180 Fourth St.
Location: San Francisco
Firm: Mithun (initiated as WRT/Solomon E.T.C.)
Project: Cloverdale749
Location: Los Angeles
Firm: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
Specialized Housing
Project: Commonwealth Honors College
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Firm: William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.
Project: Homeless Veterans Transitional Housing, VA Campus
Location: Los Angeles
Firm: LEO A DALY
Project: Whitetail Woods Regional Park Camper Cabins
Location: Farmington, Minnesota
Firm: HGA
“As an architect who’s consumed by my own projects, I enjoyed seeing what other firms are doing,” says juror Kevin Harris, FAIA, Kevin Harris Architect, LLC. “[Being a judge was a] rewarding, educational, enlightening, and very positive experience.”
Other jurors included Jamie Blosser, AIA (Chair), Atkin Olshin Schade Architects; Ariella Cohen, editor in chief, Next City; David Lee, FAIA, Stull and Lee, Inc.; and Suman Sorg, FAIA, Sorg & Associates, P.C.
For a list of past recipients, go here.
