April 1, 2009—The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently announced both the 2009 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards and the 2009 AIA Education Honor Awards.
The AIA/ALA Library Building Awards honor eight separate projects chosen biennially by representatives from the AIA and the American Library Association (ALA) as representing the finest examples of library design by architects licensed in the U.S. Recipients will be presented their awards at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago on July 13, 2009.
The 2009 recipients are:
- Arabian Library, Scottsdale Public Library, Scottsdale, AZ; richard+bauer architecture, LLC;
- C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California Berkeley; Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects;
- Chongqing Library, Chongqing, China; Perkins Eastman;
- Biblioteca Central Estatal Wigberto Jimnez Moreno, Len, Guanajuato, Mexico; Pei Partnership Architects LLP;
- NYPL Francis Martin Library, Bronx, NY; 1100 Architect, P.C.;
- Gentry Public Library, Gentry, AR; Marlon Blackwell Architect;
- Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis, MN; Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects; and
- Palo Verde Library/Maryvale Community Center, Phoenix, AZ; Gould Evans Associates + Wendell Burnette Architects.
The 2009 AIA Education Honor Awards highlight excellence in collegiate course development and architectural teaching. The jury looked for evidence of exceptional and innovative courses that dealt with broad issues, particularly in cross-disciplinary collaboration and/or within the broader community, contributed to the advancement of architecture education, had the potential to benefit and/or change practice, and promoted models of excellence that could be appropriated by other educators. The awards will be presented during the 2009 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) annual meeting in Portland, Oregon on March 27, 2009. The 2009 recipients are:
- Remediation as Urban Catalyst: A Collaborative Reworking of Post-Industrial Landscapes; John Comazzi, Lance Neckar, Vince deBritto; University of Minnesota College of Design;
- Integrated Project Studio (IPS); Thomas Fowler and Barry L.Williams; California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo;
- Studio 804; Dan Rockhill; University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning;
- Architecture Summer Studio 2008: Intersections of Art and Architecture in Florence; Igor Marjanovic; Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts; and
- The Everyday City; Wanda Dye; School of Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington.
