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FAIA
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) is a postnominal title or membership, designating an individual who has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Fellowship is bestowed by the institute on AIA-member architects who have made outstanding contributions to the profession through design excellence, contributions in the field of architectural education, or to the advancement of the profession. In 2014, fewer than 3,200 of the more than 80,000 AIA members were fellows. Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects, Honorary Fellowship (Hon. FAIA) is awarded to foreign (non-United States nationality law, U.S. citizen) architects, and to non-architects who have made substantial contributions to the field of architecture or to the institute. Categories Fellowship is awarded in one of six categories: *Design *Practice management or technical advancement *Leadership *Public service *Volunteer work or service to society *Education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honorary Fellowship Of The American Institute Of Architects
Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects (Hon. FAIA) may be awarded to foreign (non-U.S. citizen) architects and for non-architects who have made great contributions to the field of architecture or to the American Institute of Architects. The program was developed as the international counterpart to the Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, AIA Fellowship program for US citizens or architects working primarily out of the US. Honorary Fellows by country :''The list is incomplete. Please help to improve it.'' Africa Asia *Ngô Viết Thụ, Hon. FAIA 1962, Vietnam *Leandro V. Locsin, Hon. FAIA 1980, Philippines *Kim Swoo Geun, Hon. FAIA 1982. South Korea *Muzharul Islam, Hon. FAIA 1999, Bangladesh *Seung H-Sang, Hon. FAIA 2002, South Korea *Min Hyun Sik, Hon. FAIA 2006, South Korea *Itsuko Hasegawa, Hon. FAIA 2006, Japan *Ryu_Choon-soo, Ryu Choon-Soo, Hon. FAIA 2008, South Korea *Kris Yao, Hon. FAIA 2014, Taiwan Europe European Honorary Fellows: Austria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Chu
Annie Chu is a Chinese-American architect, interior designer, and academic. She was a founding principal of the Chu-Gooding architecture firm in Los Angeles. Early life and education Annie Chu was born in Hong Kong around 1960. At the age of 16, she relocated to the United States. Chu received her Bachelor's degree in Architecture from SCI-Arc and a Master of Science in Building Science from Columbia University. Career Her early career includes working with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. She is the founding principal of the Los Angeles-based design firm Chu-Gooding. Her work encompasses exhibition designs and architectural projects for institutions such as Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Hammer Museum, Getty Center, the Huntington Library, Autry Museum of the American West, Studio Museum in Harlem and Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. She has taught at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, and has been a educator for over 30 years. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Institute Of Architects
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach programs, and collaborates with other stakeholders in the design and construction industries. History The American Institute of Architects (AIA) was founded in 1857 in New York City by a group of thirteen architects. The founding members include Charles Babcock (architect), Charles Babcock, Henry W. Cleaveland, Henry C. Dudley, Henry Dudley, Leopold Eidlitz, Edward Gardiner, Richard Morris Hunt, Detlef Lienau, Fred A. Petersen, Jacob Wrey Mould, John Welch (architect), John Welch, Richard M. Upjohn, and Joseph C. Wells, with Richard Upjohn serving as the first president. They held their inaugural meeting on February 23, 1857, and invited 16 additional architects to join, including Alexander Jackson Davis, Thomas Ustick Walter, Thomas U. Walte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes (April 22, 1915 – September 22, 2004) was an American architect. His work was characterized by the "fusing fModernism with vernacular architecture and understated design." Barnes was best known for his adherence to strict geometry, simple monolithic shapes and attention to material detail. Among his best-known projects are the Haystack School, Christian Theological Seminary, Dallas Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, 599 Lexington Avenue, the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, and the IBM Building at 590 Madison Avenue. Early life and education Barnes was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a family he described as "incense-swinging High Episcopalians", consisting of Cecil Barnes, a lawyer, and Margaret Helen Ayer, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for the novel '' Year of Grace''. Barnes graduated from Harvard in 1938 after studying English and Art History before switching to architecture, then taught at his alma mater Milton Academy, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Scott Brown
Denise Scott Brown (née Lakofski; born October 3, 1931) is an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. Early life and education Born to Jewish parents Simon and Phyllis (Hepker) Lakofski, Denise Lakofski wanted to be an architect from the time she was five years old. Pursuing this goal, she spent her summers working with architects, and from 1948 to 1952, after attending Kingsmead College, studied in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand. She briefly entered liberal politics, but was frustrated by the lack of acceptance of women in the field. Lakofski traveled to London in 1952, working for the Modernist architecture, modernist architect Frederick Gibberd. She continued her education there, winning admission to the Architectural Association School of Architecture to learn "useful skills in the building of a just South Africa", within an intellectually rich environment which embrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry ( ; ; born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions. Gehry rose to prominence in the 1970s with his distinctive style that blended everyday materials with complex, dynamic structures. Gehry's approach to architecture has been described as deconstructivist, though he himself resists categorization. His works are considered among the most important of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, leading '' Vanity Fair'' to call him "the most important architect of our age". Gehry is known for his postmodern designs and use of bold, unconventional forms and materials. His most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, and the National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington D.C. These buildin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Faulkner
Greg Faulkner (born June 24, 1956) is an American architect. He is founder and principal at Faulkner Architects, a design firm established in 1998 in Truckee, California. Faulkner is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Works * Red Rock, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 2022 * CAMPout, Truckee, California, United States, 2021 * Analog House, Truckee, California, United States, 2019 * Forest House, Truckee, California, United States, 2019 * Lookout House, Truckee, California, United States, 2018 * Big Barn, Glen Ellen, California, United States, 2018 * Miner Road, Orinda, California, United States, 2017 * Tack Barn, Glen Ellen, California Glen Ellen is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, United States. The population was 784 at the 2010 census, down from 992 at the 2000 census. Glen Ellen is the location of Jack London State Historic ..., United States, 2017 * Creek House, Truckee, California, United States, 2015 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henry Atherton
Charles Henry Atherton (June 24, 1932December 3, 2005), FAIA, was an American architect and former secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1960 to 2004. Early life Atherton was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on June 24, 1932, the son of Brigadier General Thomas Henry Atherton (18841978) and Mary Kidd Mish (19001981). His father was an accomplished architect whose notable works included the Pennsylvania Memorial in Varennes-en-Argonne in France. Atherton was educated at Princeton University, receiving both an undergraduate degree in architecture in 1954 and a Master of Fine Arts in architecture in 1957. Career After graduation he served in the U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Corps and worked as an architect for the Central Intelligence Agency for three years. He joined the United States Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) in 1960 as Assistant Secretary and was named Secretary in 1965 after Linton Wilson’s retirement. By 1987 he was referred to in the New York Times a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Burnham
Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the ''Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts'' movement, he may have been "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced." A successful Chicago architect, he was selected as Director of Works for the 1892–93 World's Columbian Exposition, colloquially referred to as "The White City". He had prominent roles in the creation of master plans for the development of a number of cities, including the Plan of Chicago, and plans for Manila, Baguio and downtown Washington, D.C. He also designed several famous buildings, including a number of notable skyscrapers in Chicago, the Flatiron Building of triangular shape in New York City, Washington Union Station in Washington D.C., London's Selfridges, Oxford Street, Selfridges department store, and San Francisco's Merchants Exchange Building (San Francisco), Merchants Exchange. Altho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Baker (architect)
David Baker, FAIA LEED AP (born December 20, 1949), is an American architect based in San Francisco, California. He and his firm, David Baker Architects (with principals Daniel Simons and Amanda Loper), are known primarily for designing affordable housing projects, hotels, and condominium lofts, often in converted old industrial buildings. The 62-employee firm, formerly known as David Baker & Associates, was formed in 1982 and is based in San Francisco's Clocktower Building, a condominium conversion Baker designed in the former factory of the Schmidt Lithography Co., at one time the largest printing company on the West Coast. Early life Baker was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on December 20, 1949. He grew up in Michigan and in Tucson, Arizona, in a house designed by his self-educated father, Bernard Baker. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Thomas Jefferson College, University of Michigan, and University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bohlin
Peter Q. Bohlin (born 1937 in New York City, United States) is an American architect and the winner of the 2010 AIA Gold Medal, Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and a founding principal of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, established originally in 1965 as Bohlin and Powell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has six offices in Wilkes-Barre, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and New York City. In 1994, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson was honored with the Firm Award presented by the American Institute of Architects. Peter Bohlin has been a guest design critic and a visiting professor at architecture schools. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1958 and his Master of Architecture degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He was inducted into RPI's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2011. Selected projects * Copperhill Mountain Lodge: Åre, Sweden * Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Braverman
Louise Braverman is a New York City-based architect known for a design philosophy that aims to combine aesthetic design and social conscience. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA). Biography Educated at the Yale School of Architecture, Braverman founded her own firm, Louise Braverman Architect, in 1991. Her firm has designed a number of notable buildings around the world, including the Village Health Works Staff Housing in Burundi and Centro de Artes Nadir Afonso in Portugal. Centro de Artes Nadir Afonso, an art museum, has been featured in the pivotal books, ''Destination Architecture: The Essential Guide to 1000 Contemporary Buildings'' and ''Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women'', a visual survey of architecture designed by women from the early twentieth century to the present day. Braverman lectures frequently, discussing her work at such venues as Columbia GSAPP, The Plan Magazine Perspective USA, and at the Architectural League NY as an Emerging Voi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
