 Edward Larrabee Barnes, FAIA, Selected for 2007 AIA Gold Medal
The AIA Board of Directors voted on December 7 to award posthumously the 2007 AIA Gold Medal to Edward Larrabee Barnes, FAIA. Barnes is remembered for fusing Modernism with vernacular architecture and understated design. In nominating Barnes for the award, Henry N. Cobb, FAIA, founding partner with I.M. Pei of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, explained: “Edward Larrabee Barnes was arguably the most accomplished and influential of those American-born architects who were trained by first-generation European Modernists and then went on to give Modernism a specifically American voice.” 
 2007 Architecture Firm Award Goes to Leers Weinzapfel
Leers Weinzapfel Associates, the Boston–based magicians who create beautiful public architecture and space, received the 2007 AIA Architecture Firm Award December 7. The AIA Board of Directors voted to award the firm based on its proven consistent ability to accept complex challenges and envision design of elegant distinction.
 Lance Jay Brown, FAIA Awarded Topaz Medallion
The AIA Board and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
(ACSA) on December 7 named professor and urban planner Jay Lance
Brown, FAIA, the 2007 recipient of the Topaz Medallion for Excellence
in Architectural Education. The AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion honors
an individual who has made outstanding contributions to architecture
education for at least 10 years, whose teaching has influenced
a broad range of students, and who has helped shape the minds of
those who will shape our environment.
Our Legacy: Collective Action for a Better
World
AIA President Kate Schwennsen, FAIA, reflects on her year of service
and how the greatest privilege of being AIA president is meeting
and listening to fellow architects all over the world. Our legacy
and our future, she says, depend on meeting the challenge of acting
collectively.
 GSA Selects Leslie Shepherd, AIA, To Be
Chief Architect
The General Services Administration
(GSA) selected Leslie Shepherd, AIA, to
serve as the agency’s chief architect, effective November 26.
Shepherd, who is responsible for GSA's Design Excellence program
for all new construction and major repair projects, as well as art-in-architecture
commissions, says there will be no major shift in the agency’s
focus and promises “continued design excellence.” He
says he looks forward to working with the AIA on priorities including
perimeter security design, integrated practice, spatial data management
practices, and high-performance building, and sustainability initiatives.
For more information, read an interview with Shepherd in the AIA
Angle, the AIA Government Advocacy Team’s electronic newsletter.
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