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The AIA Education Honor Awards are given by the American
Institute of Architects to an individual (or team of educators) for
excellence in teaching and for exceptional, innovative courses that
not only contribute to the advancement of architecture education
but have the potential to benefit or change practice. A program of
the Educator/Practitioner Network, this award from the profession
to the academy.
The jury agreed that the award is as relevant today as it was when
it was established in 1987. The award not only provides recognition
among peers at the national level but also within the institutions
in which these faculty members teach. It provides an opportunity to
share models of excellence among colleagues and, in the words of
juror Kate Bojsza, Assoc. AIA, "the Education Honor Awards Program
is an ideal way for architecture educators and practitioners to
demonstrate their mutual respect for one another's work."
Award-winning courses have covered a broad range of topics from
architectural design and professional practice to history, theory,
criticism, and urban form. The 2004 award-winning courses described
below illustrate the breadth of courses recognized. Though the
courses are seemingly very different from each other, their common
thread is that the creative mix of students and faculty in these
courses has the potential to change both architecture education and
practice.
2004 Honor Award Recipients
Preservation
Praxis (PDF 875 KB)
This collaborative program, taught at The New School of
Architecture, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, and the
Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of
Pennsylvania, is offered jointly to undergraduates in architecture
and graduate students in historic preservation. Jury Chair Ron
McCoy says "that it presents a sophisticated model of the highly
specialized knowledge of historic preservation, with depth in
exploration of the subject and integration of materials science,
design, history and archeology." In selecting a high-profile
historic structure as its focus, the faculty and students also
engaged other institutions, decision-makers, and the community at
large in understanding the structure's value and preservation
possibilities.
Faculty:
Beatriz del Cueto, FAIA, The New School of Architecture
Agamemnon Gus Pantel, PhD, Assoc. AIA, The New School of
Architecture
Frank G. Matero, Professor of Architecture, Chair, Graduate Program
in Historic Preservation
John Hinchman, Research Associate, Graduate Program in Historic
Preservation
Envisioning the Future in the South
End Neighborhood (PDF 358 KB)
A class taught by architecture, landscape architecture, and urban
and regional planning faculty at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. This course represents excellence in community
and socially engaged urban design and focuses on an area of
education that has become more dominant and sophisticated in the
last 10 years. The submission was recognized as a model of
community design.
Faculty:
Lynne M. Dearborn, Architect, Assistant Professor of
Architecture
Dr. Stacy Anne Harwood, PhD, Assistant Professor of Urban and
Regional Planning
Dr. Laura J. Lawson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Landscape
Architecture
2004 Honorable Mention Awards
Lessons from Practice:
Analytical Approaches and Synthetic
Strategies (PDF 1MB)
A foundation course introducing design and practice issues to an
international mix of students.
Kevin Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Director of
Foundations
American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Color Theory/Electronic
Color (PDF 1 KB)
A comprehensive course for architecture students as well as
students majoring in information technology, design, or
multimedia.
Glenn Goldman, AIA, Professor and Director of Imaging
Laboratory
School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Reflections of the Jury
The awards jury convened on February 11 at the AIA
national headquarters. Jurors included Ron McCoy, AIA, Director,
School of Architecture, Arizona State University; Thomas R.
Mathison, AIA, Michigan Regional Director; James W. Ritter, FAIA,
Washington Alexandria Architecture Center; and Katherine Bojsza,
Assoc. AIA, Vice President, American Institute of Architecture
Students.
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