Randall Paul Stout (May 6, 1958 – July 11, 2014) was a

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based

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Early life and education

Born and raised in

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, Stout held a Bachelor of Architecture from the

University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (or The University of Tennessee; UT; UT Knoxville; or colloquially UTK or Tennessee) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee, United St ...

and a

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from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres. Rice University comp ...

Career

Before starting his own firm, Stout worked four years at

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, and seven and a half years for Frank O. Gehry & Associates.

Awards

Stout was elected to the College of Fellows of the

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(AIA) in 2003, and he has received many national, regional and local AIA awards. * The Chicago Athenaeum; 2012 American Architecture Award; Art Gallery of Alberta * University of Nevada Las Vegas; 2012 Charles Vanda Award for Excellence in the Arts * CISC Canadian National Steel Design Award for the Alberta Art Gallery; June 2012 2012 * Canadian Institute of Steel Construction; 2011 Steel Design Award of Excellence: Art Gallery of Alberta * Metal Architecture Design Awards; Grand Award 2011: Art Gallery of Alberta * Metal Mag Architectural Award 2011: Art Gallery of Alberta * MCA President’s Award for Excellence 2010: Art Gallery of Alberta * Institutional Winner, Alberta Construction Magazine 2009 Top Projects: Art Gallery of Alberta * International Architecture Award (Chicago Athenaeum) 2009: Taubman Museum of Art * Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission Award 2008: Dockweiler State Beach Youth Center * Mid-Atlantic Construction Best of 2008 Award: Taubman Museum of Art * American Architecture Award (Chicago Athenaeum) 2007: Taubman Museum of Art * American Institute of Steel Construction Innovative Design in Structural Steel (IDEAS2) 2006: Hunter Museum of American Art * AIA/LA Decade Honor Award 2006: Steinhüde Sea Recreational Facility * AIA Gulf States Merit Award 2006: Hunter Museum of American Art * Archizinc Prix Special Du Jury “Audace” Laureat / Special Jury Prize for Innovation 2006: Hunter Museum of American Art * Tennessee AIA Award of Excellence 2005: Hunter Museum of American Art * Metal Architecture Design Award 2005: Hunter Museum of American Art * American Architecture Award (Chicago Athenaeum) 2004: Hunter Museum of American Art * Wood Design and Building Honor Award 2004: Cognito Films * AIA Top Ten Green Award 2003: Steinhüde Sea Recreational Facility * AIA/LA Design Citation Award 2003: Steinhüde Sea Recreational Facility * California Council AIA Merit Award 2003: Cognito Films * California Council AIA Merit Award 2002: Blair Graphics * AIA/LA Merit Award 2001: Cognito Films * AIA/LA Honor Award 2000: Blair Graphics * AIA/LA Design Citation Award 2000: Rehme Water Station * Expo 2000 Tour: Four projects sanctioned by Expo for "Energy + Environment Boulevard" * AIA/LA Next LA Honor Award 1998: Steinhüde Sea Recreational Facility * AIA/LA Merit Award 1998: North Minden Power Plant * SOLTEC 98 Award "Innovation in Technology": Steinhüde Sea Recreational Facility

Death

Stout died of

renal cell cancer Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a kidney cancer that originates in the lining of the proximal convoluted tubule, a part of the very small tubes in the kidney that transport primary urine. RCC is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults, resp ...

on July 11, 2014, in Los Angeles. He was 56.

Completed Works

Hunter Museum of American Art The Hunter Museum of American Art is an art museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The museum's collections include works representing the Hudson River School, 19th century genre painting, American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, early modernism, r ...

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(2005) * Steinhude Sea Recreational Facility, Germany *

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, Germany * Stadtwerke Bückeburg, Bückeburg, Germany (1998) *

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, United States (2008) *

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, Canada (2010) * Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts,

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(2014)

External links

Randall Stout Architects, Inc.
* Randall Stout Architects Faceboo

References

20th-century American architects Architects from Los Angeles Architects from Tennessee 1958 births 2014 deaths People from Knoxville, Tennessee Rice University alumni University of Tennessee alumni Skidmore, Owings & Merrill people Deaths from cancer in California Deaths from kidney cancer in the United States {{US-architect-20C-stub