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KieranTimberlake Associates, LLP Receives 2008 AIA Architecture Firm Award
Firm noted for its work with sustainable design and research
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For Immediate Release |
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Washington, D.C., December 13,
2007 — The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of Directors
voted today for KieranTimberlake Associates, LLP to receive the
2008 AIA Architecture Firm Award based on its proven consistent
ability to accept complex challenges and envision design of elegant
distinction.
The AIA Architecture Firm Award, given annually, is the highest
honor the AIA bestows on an architecture firm and recognizes a
practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture
for at least 10 years.
Partners Stephen Kieran, FAIA, and James Timberlake, FAIA, met in
graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and formed their
working relationship as project architects at Venturi Scott Brown
Associates in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1980, and 1982,
respectively, Kieran and Timberlake were awarded the Rome Prize
Fellowship in Architecture by the American Academy in Rome.
“The fellowship was a pivotal moment for each in different
ways. It solidified the past, yet at the same time opened new paths
forward into the vast under-explored future of modernism that is
the firm’s work,” the architects remarked.
Sustainable design and research are at the core of this 23-year-old
practice. “A long-standing commitment to and keen
understanding of sustainable design in particular are among the
fruits of the firm’s unusually thorough design research, a
firm approach that focuses on new materials, processes, assemblies
and products (the firm assigns four professionals and 3 percent of
its gross revenues to research annually),” wrote nominator
Hubert Murray, AIA, RIBA, president of the Boston Society of
Architects/AIA.
In 2001, Kieran and Timberlake received the first Latrobe
Fellowship from the AIA College of Fellows, a research prize that
provided the impetus to retain full-time research staff in the
practice. From that position they went on to design their offices
to accommodate their core research agenda and they continue to fuse
their academic and practice-based research through collaborations,
writings, lectures, symposia and exhibitions. They worked with
Dupont to develop SmartWrap, and presented at the inaugural McGraw
Hill “Innovations Symposium.”
In addition to their work with sustainable projects, the quality of
design they consistently deliver is prevalent in their
portfolio:
• Pierson and Davenport Colleges, Yale University, New Haven,
Conn.
• Middle School Addition and Renovation, Sidwell Friends
School, Washington, D.C.
• Loblolly House, Taylor’s Island, Md.
• Noyes Community Recreation Center, Cornell University,
Ithaca, N.Y.
• Atwater Commons, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
• Melvin J. and Claire Levine Hall, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
“The firm’s early work was guided by a clearly
articulated vision and a plan. We set out to build first, not just
draw, with a focus on commissions, however modest, not
competitions,” the architects said. “We believed then and
we continue to believe that we advance the cause of architecture
through a continuous cycle of observing, researching, conceiving
and building.”
“I’m truly humbled and honored,” said
KieranTimberlake partner James Timberlake, FAIA, when notified of
their accomplishment as the 2008 Firm Award recipient. “This
is overwhelming, I’m stunned and honored.”
KieranTimberlake will be presented with the Firm Award during the
American Architectural Foundation’s Accent on Architecture
Gala February 22, 2008, at the National Building Museum in
Washington, D.C. Previous recipients include Leers Weinzapfel,
Moore Ruble Yudell, Muphy/Jahn, and Lake/Flato Architects. In
recognition of KieranTimberlake Associates legacy to architecture,
their name will be chiseled into the granite Wall of Honor in the
lobby of the AIA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
About The American Institute of
Architects
For 150 years, members of The American Institute of Architects have
worked with each other and their communities to create more
valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings and
cityscapes. AIA members have access to the right people, knowledge,
and tools to create better design, and through such resources and
access, they help clients and communities make their visions real.
www.aia.org
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