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AIA Doles Out 2011 Housing Awards

by Ian Volner | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 | 5 Comments

The American Institute of Architects has named 18 firms as recipients of its 11th annual Housing Awards. The 2011 AIA honorees come from all across the country, and their work ranges across four broadly defined categories–One/Two Family Custom Housing, One/Two Family Production Housing, Multifamily Housing, and Special Housing.

Highlights from the Custom group include Alchemy Architects for their rustically contemporary barn house in Blair, Wisconsin; a luminous, lyrical townhouse in Washington, D.C. from Robert M. Gurney; and Racine, Wisconsin’s OS House by Johnsen Schaling Architects, an innovative urban infill project on the banks of Lake Michigan.

These and the other selected projects–like Olson Kundig‘s multifamily 1111 Pike in Seattle, and Ennead‘s subsidized Brooklyn high-rise The Schermerhorn–were selected from an array of worthy candidates by a crack team of judges convened by the AIA. This year’s panel (most of them AIA members) included jury chair Katherine Austin of Katherine Austin Architect, Mike Jackson of the Illinois State Historical Preservation Agency, and Luis Jauregui of Jaurequi, Inc.

See the full list of winners below.

One/Two Family Custom Housing

Addition to an historic cape on a coastal farm, Little Compton, Rhode Island
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Photo: Nic Lehoux

Blair Barn House, Blair, Wisconsin
Alchemy
Photo: Alchemy

Combs Point Residence, Ovid, New York
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Photo: Nic Lehoux

North Beach Residence, Eastsound, Washington
Heliotrope Architects
Photo: Sean Airhart

OS House, Racine, Wisconsin
Johnsen Schmaling Architects
Photo: John J. Macaulay

Town House, Washington, DC
Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect
Photo: Paul Warchol Photography

One/Two Family Custom Housing

R-House, Syracuse, New York
Della Valle Bernheimer and Architecture Research Office
Photo: Richard Barnes

100K Houses, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Interface Studio Architects LLC
Photo: Sam Oberter

Multifamily Living

1111 E. Pike, Seattle, Washington
Olson Kundig Architects
Photo: Francis Zera

50 Saint Peter Street/Historic Salem Jail, Salem, Massachusetts
Finegold Alexander + Associates
Photo: Neil Alexander

930 Poydras Residential Tower, New Orleans, Louisiana
Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
Photo: Hursley

Armstrong Place Senior and Family Housing, San Francisco, California
David Baker + Partners, Architects
Photo: Brian Rose

Art Stable, Seattle, Washington
Olson Kundig Architects
Photo: Benjamin Benschneider

Hancock Mixed Use Housing, West Hollywood, California
Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.
Photo: Eric Staudenmaier

Tassafaronga Village, Oakland, California
David Baker + Partners, Architects
Photo: Brian Rose

Special Housing

Haven for Hope, San Antonio, Texas
Overland Partners Architects
Photo: Paul Heste

Northeastern University Building F, Boston, Massachusetts
William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.
Photo: Alan Karchmer

The Schermerhorn, Brooklyn, New York
Ennead Architects LLP
Photo: David Sundberg/Esto

Images courtesy of AIA.

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5 comments

david soltau

Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 01:00 pm | Permalink

its beautiful to see this is how it really is one of my passion your hhome must be comfortable and this makes that dream come through
Mammo Mangistu

Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 01:01 pm | Permalink

I appreciate Architect Shigeru Ban for his design philosophy and for his involvement in using his knowhow to serve people who are in need and desperate in all parts of the world.

Your housing project photos are highly inspiring.

Thank you.
david soltau

Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 01:01 pm | Permalink

its really beauytiful to see that your home can be so comfortable with this skill so elegant.
abdo wardeh

Posted Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 06:06 pm | Permalink

As much as these housing are designed to be well studied there’s something missing… guess it is me to say it is studied to be designed for comfort while comfort should raise the study to fulfill the design to get as much comfort as it can reach… have to live in to have the experience and decide comfort or not comfort. Perfect. Nothing is. Beautiful how much for whom. Effecting life, sure. abdowardeh@yahoo.com. Thanking the opportunity to say my feeling towards what I admire (looking for new job, to learn life).
abdo wardeh

Posted Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 06:20 pm | Permalink

Mammo Mangistu; Architect Shigeru Ban is one of the Architects/Designers that I most appreciate too (and I knew few). I am highly thankful for Mr. Ban for his modesty and honesty and I will never forget our discussion and what he gave me to think and learn about. But I have a question for you Mr. Ban (I know you do not remember me, no need) what are you searching for? Another is for you M. Mangistu; why Mr. Ban didn’t give a thought/a design for the camps of the Lebanese people which he visited?