News

James G. Alexander, FAIA, Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New England chapter of the Victorian Society in America. The honor represents outstanding achievement in historic preservation.

Charles H. Boney, Sr., FAIA, has received the F. Carter Williams Gold Medal for 2003, AIA North Carolina’s highest member honor.

Robert A. Boynton, FAIA, of Richmond, Va., was recently elected president of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) at its annual meeting and conference in San Antonio. He is a founding principal of Boynton Rothschild Rowland ArchitectsPC. In addition, NCARB announced its newly-elected officers and directors for 2003-2004. They are: Frank M. Guillot, AIA, first vice president/president-elect; H. Carleton Godsey, AIA; second vice president; Robert E. Luke, AIA, treasurer, Douglas K. Engebretson, FAIA, secretary; C. Robert Campbell, FAIA, past president; and Directors John F. Miller, FAIA, Region 1; Dennis L. Astorino, AIA, Region 2; Vance Travis, AIA, Region 3; Gordon E. Mills, FAIA, Region 4; Stan Peterson, AIA, Region 5; and Peter T.S. Rasmussen, FAIA, Region 6.

Brian Church, AIA, has been designated by the AIACC as a Certified Development Strategist (CDS). Brian is a founding partner of Urban Labs, a San Diego-based firm specializing in strategic planning and conceptual design.

David A. Cintron, Jr, AIA, has established DAC Studios, Ltd., Chicago

Chuck Davis, FAIA, a founding principal of Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis (EHDD Architecture), and particularly known as an innovator in the design of aquariums and academic buildings, has been awarded the AIA California Council’s 2003 Bernard Maybeck Award.

David Fixler, AIA, managing principal, and Charles J. Kirby, AIA, principal, have been named LEED Accredited Professionals, their firm Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, reports. Both work in the firm’s Boston office. In addition, John S. Pocorobba, AIA, managing principal of the firm’s Albany office, was selected by the Capital District Business Review as one of its “40 Under Forty,” honorees.

Don Gatzke, AIA, is the new permanent dean for the The University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture.

AIA Kansas City feted Eugene Kremer, FAIA, for his 30 years of service to architecture, planning, and design at the regional and national level September 4. After teaching at Washington University and in Portsmouth and London, Kremer joined the Kansas State University faculty of the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design in 1973 as head of the Department of Architecture, in Manhattan, Kans. For the past 25 years, he has been responsible for directing the department’s highly-acclaimed internship program. Kremer and his wife, KSU Distinguished Professor Lillian Kremer, have moved to Arlington, Va., where their sons, Michael and Ian, and their families reside.

To help mark the 20th anniversary of its landmark building designed by Richard Meier, FAIA, the High Museum of Art will present The Undiscovered Richard Meier: The Architect as Designer and Artist, an “exhibition of more than 300 works revealing Meier’s range as an artist and designer.”

Richard Robison, AIA, a firm principal at Lord Aeck Sargent, Atlanta, received the 2002 Ben John Small Memorial Award from the Construction Specifications Institute. Robison co-authored the McGraw-Hill-American Institute of Architects SweetSpec and Heery International’s SpecSystem, the first interactive and knowledge-based specifications writing system for architects and engineers.

Richard T. Anderson, AIA, and Katherine Diamond, FAIA, principals at RNL Design, and Sarah Welch, AIA, of Beardsley Design Associates, Auburn, N.Y. have obtained LEED Professional Accreditation.

The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) awarded Lord, Aeck & Sargent, Atlanta, an Environmental Sensitivity Award. CSI gives the award annually to no more than two entities or individuals for showing exceptional devotion to the use of sustainable and environmentally friendly materials, and for striving to create functional, sensitive, and healthy buildings for clients. CSI highlight the some of the firm’s recent projects: the Twin Creeks Science and Education Center, for the National Park Service in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; the Southface Energy Institute Eco Office, a commercial office demonstration building in Atlanta; the Advanced Materials Characterization Laboratory, a project for the U.S. Department of Energy, located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee; the Automotive Research Facility at the University of Michigan – Dearborn; and the Science and Mathematics Building, Meredith College in Raleigh.

Moves

Hal H. Bishop, AIA, and Christian Rogers, AIA, as project architects, to TurnerBatson, Birmingham

Greg Bordynowski, AIA, as project manager and Bob Widger, AIA, as project architect, to Sorg and Associates, PC, Washington, D.C.

Richard Friedson, AIA, as principal, to Cannon Design, Buffalo

Douglas R. Parker, AIA, as principal, to Greenway Consulting, Inc., Atlanta

Jay Peterson, FAIA, to Boney Architects Healthcare Design Studio, Wilmington, N.C.

Ron Reagan, AIA, as senior architecture project manager, to Woolpert LLP, Charlotte

Timothy Scarlett, AIA, as senior architect, to William Wilson Associated Architects, Inc, Boston

Raymond Sluzas, AIA, as senior technical architect, to The S/L/A/M Collaborative, Atlanta

Thomas E. Sprinkle, AIA, as senior designer, to SB Arhitects, San Francisco

Duncan Todd, AIA, as project manager, to LEO A DALY, Los Angeles

Jonathan Weiss, AIA, as associate, to Health Education + Research Associates (HERA), St. Louis

Promotions

Lisa A.J. Andrews, AIA, to associate, GWWO, Inc., Baltimore

Ayman Elba, Assoc. AIA, to senior associate, Zak Ghanim Architect Inc., Toronto

Matt Brown, AIA, Jana Hartenstine, AIA, Richard Kazebee, AIA, and Charles Pierce, AIA, to associates, Perkins & Will, Charlotte

Eric Cohen, AIA, Jay Epstein, AIA, and Stephen Evanusa, AIA, to senior associates (New York); and Jeff DeNinno, AIA, to associate (Pittsburgh), Perkins Eastman

Mark J. Cork, AIA, and Todd Olson, AIA, to senior associates, Mahlum Architects, Seattle

Natalie Dohrn, AIA, and Boris Srdar, AIA, to senior associates; and Philip Riedel, AIA, to associate, NAC, Seattle

Dennis Dunston, AIA, to principal, HMC, Sacramento

Jim Graham, AIA, to partner, Synthesis, Schenectady, N.Y.

Jeffrey Hausman, AIA, to senior vice president, SmithGroup, Detroit

Leigh Ann Jones, AIA, to associate principal, Arbonies King Vlock, PC, New Haven

T. Neal Kanipe, AIA, to associate, Design Partnership, Inc, Greenville, S.C.

Robert C. Klinedinst Jr, AIA, to associate, Harriman Associates, Auburn and Portland, Me.

Joseph Lafo, AIA, to vice president (Boston) and Malcolm V. Lawrie, AIA, MRAIC, to vice president (Buffalo), Cannon Design

Richard Larson, AIA, to senior associate, DMJM, Washington, D.C.

Roger L. Leeson, AIA, to principal, and Stephanie Clontz Garner, AIA, to associate, Boney Architects, Wilmington, N.C.

Radwan Madani, Assoc. AIA, to job captain, Ware Malcolmb, Irvine, Calif.

Adam K. Meeker, AIA, to senior architect and studio leader, Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber, Inc, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Greg Kissel, AIA, to principal; Don Elsen, AIA, to associate principal; and Brad Dunn, AIA, to associate, BHDP Architecture, Cincinnati

Anton Janezich, AIA, and Tom Womeldurf, AIA, to principals, Group Goetz Architects, Washington, D.C.

Werner Mueller, AIA, and Barry Rude, AIA, to associate principals, DMJM, Washington, D.C.

Adam Shalleck, AIA, to principal, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, San Francisco

Greg O. Smith, AIA, to senior associate, Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson & Bee, P.C., Architects and Planners, New York City

Deaths

Bill Finch, FAIA, (AKA James H. "Bill" Finch), died July 28. He helped design the MARTA station and the First Atlanta Bank tower, now a state office building; had a major role in designing the Georgia Power building in Peachtree Center; the BellSouth tower; and the Coca-Cola headquarters in Midtown. He also worked on several structures on the Georgia Tech and Georgia State campuses, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted in an appreciation. “He didn't believe in a lot of elaborate ornamentation,” former colleague, Henry Teague told the Atlanta paper. "Bill thought a structure should make a forthright statement on its own and, as he put it, ‘sit its site well.’” He and his partners in Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild & Paschal (FABRAP) got their start in 1958 designing the Georgia Power building. In collaboration with Heery & Heery, FABRAP specialized in planning sports stadiums and arenas nationwide, including the University of North Carolina's “Dean Dome,” Carolina Stadium at Charleston, S.C., and the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.

John Russell Groves, AIA, was killed in the crash of a small aircraft at an airfield in Bardstown, Ky. Known as “Russ,” Groves received AIA Kentucky’s Distinguished Service Award last year. AIA Kentucky Executive Vice President Janet Pike, Hon. AIA, recalls Groves as a “gifted and gracious gentleman who offered his many, many talents as an architect, attorney, educator, and military officer to advancing the professional education and practice of Kentucky architects.” Groves was an associate professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky and the Archives Fellow at the CRS Center at Texas A&M University. The emphasis of his research was on the meaning of leadership in architecture. Groves was a major general in the U.S. Army, and in 2001 completed a six-year term as Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where his duties included command, oversight, and supervisory responsibility for the approximately 8,000 members of the Kentucky Army and Air National Guard as well as the state’s Division of Emergency Management. Last year he spoke with AIArchitect about the importance of teaching codes through work in the design studio.

Robert H. James, AIA, died June 18 after a battle with cancer. James was a founding partner of James, Harwick + Partners, Inc. and president-elect for the Dallas Architectural Foundation. Over his distinguished career, he served in many leadership roles with the Texas Society of Architects and AIA/Dallas, including chapter president in 1999. James was a proud and supportive graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington.

Jennifer Moulton, FAIA, died July 28 at her home in Denver after struggling for nearly a year with amyloidosis, a rare blood disorder. She was 53. “A native of Concord, Mass., Moulton settled in Denver after graduating from Colorado College. Soon thereafter she followed in her grandmother’s footsteps by earning her BArch from the University of Colorado at Denver,” the Denver Post reported. Most recently, in her position as Denver’s longtime planning director, she spearheaded Mayor Wellington Webb’s commitment to downtown redevelopment, including the expansion of the Denver Public Library and acquiring Daniel Libeskind to design the new wing of the Denver Art Museum. Webb called her death a “devastating loss” for the city. Prior to her service to the city, she centered her career on historic renovation, serving from 1989 to 1992 as president of Historic Denver.

Irme Halasz, FAIA, an architect and longtime professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died July 3 at his home in Boston. He was 77. “There are many architects who are great architects, and many teachers who are great teachers, but he combined the two,” Wayne Anderson, a close friend and former MIT colleague told the Boston Globe. Halasz, a native of Budapest, took leave from MIT in 1963 to serve as a Fulbright professor of design in Chile. He later returned Harvard, becoming a full professor in 1978. With his brother, he also nurtured a private practice and designed several buildings in Boston, including the Shawmut Bank building at Government Center.

Murdo D. Morrison, FAIA, died on September 5th in Redwood City, Calif. Morrison’s work – schools, churches, courthouses, private buildings, and homes—are scattered along the West Coast, from Oregon through California. An entire planned community in Nevada is also a testament to his design dexterity. Morrison earned his bachelor's degree in architectural engineering from Lawrence Institute of Technology. After serving in the Navy during World War II, Morrison moved to Bloomfield, Mich., where he worked for Eero Saarinen, Albert Kahn, among other renowned architects. In 1950, Morrison moved to Klamath Falls, Ore., where he and partner John Howard opened their own practice, designing civic, public, and private buildings including courthouses, shopping centers and the local hospital. His designed for the Gilliam County Courthouse in Condon, Ore., won him the prestigious Progressive Architecture Award in the 1950s. In 1965, Morrison moved his family to Northern California where he served on design committees in Oakland and Redwood City and for San Mateo County. Last year, Mr. Morrison was elected president of the American Institute of Architects' San Mateo County chapter and was named a Fellow of the Institute in 2002.

Ed Moulthrop, FAIA, also a longtime Atlantan and respected wood-turner died September 30 after a long illness. He was 87. “Ed Moulthrop was among a small and select group of wood-turners that brought an ancient craft into the sphere of contemporary art,” David McFadden, chief curator and vice president of the Museum of Art and Design in New York told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Moulthrop turned to wood-working after a career in architecture. The New York native earned an architecture degree at Princeton University, traveling south in 1944 to teach at Georgia Tech. He moved into private practice at Robert & Co., eventually becoming lead designer and briefly supervised a young Frank Gehry. His credits include the Carillon at Stone Mountain and the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, and the modern brick building that originally housed the High Museum of Art. He proudly remembered that his hero, Frank Lloyd Wright, complimented him on a design, the Atlanta paper noted

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