The AIA Honor Award recipients for 2012 were announced this week and will be honored at the AIA 2012 National Convention and Design Exposition in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design. Twenty-seven recipients were selected from over seven-hundred submissions.
Continue after the break to view the awarded buildings.
2012 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture
- LumenHAUS / Virginia Tech Solar Team
- Pittman Dowell Residence / Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc. (La Crescenta, California)
- Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion / Marlon Blackwell Architect (Indianapolis)
- The Standard / Ennead Architects (New York City)
2012 Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture
- ARTifacts / Randy Brown Architects (Omaha)
- Children’s Institute, Inc. Otis Booth Campus / Koning Eizenberg Architecture (Los Angeles)
- David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (New York City)
- HyundaiCard Air Lounge / Gensler (Incheon, South Korea)
- Integral House / Shim-Sutcliffe Architects (Toronto, Canada)
- Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World / Anmahian Winton Architects (Providence)
- Memory Temple / Patrick Tighe Architecture (Los Angeles)
- Prairie Management Group / Goettsch Partners (Northbrook, Illinois)
2012 Institute Honor Awards for Regional & Urban Design
- Fayetteville 2030: Transit City Scenario / University of Arkansas Community Design Center (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
- Grangegorman Master Plan / Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners; DMOD Architects (Dublin, Ireland)
- Jordan Dead Sea Development Zone Master Plan / Sasaki Associates, Inc. (Amman, Jordan)
- Master Plan for the Central Delaware / Cooper, Robertson & Partners; Kieran Timberlake (Philadelphia)
- Miami Beach City Center Redevelopment Project / Gehry Partners, LLP; West 8; Hines Interests Limited Partnership (Miami Beach)
- Portland Mall Revitalization / ZGF Architects LLP (Portland, Oregon)
- Reinventing the Crescent: Riverfront Development Plan / Eskew + Dumez + Ripple (New Orleans)
- SandRidge Energy Commons / Rogers Marvel Architects (Oklahoma City)
2012 Twenty-five Year Award Recipient
I am somewhat perplexed as to how FG’s residence is even a candidate for the 25 year award. I will not argue about its importance in the career of FG, nor in the development post-modern architecture. But it rings more as (another) celebration of Gehry’s work, especially since such a small percentage of the public have ever stepped foot inside of it. There are plenty of private homes that have stood the test of time with great spaces. With the AIA choosing this home, it feels like they’re more interested in giving FG another award than choosing something with more public notoriety.
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I am not a huge fan of Gehry, but that house is amazing and very deserving of the 25 year award. I don’t think a project necessarily has to be public to be a 25 year award winner. If you look at the houses like the Schindler house, Aalto’s Summer house, OMA Dutch house and Villa Dall’ava, Eisenman House 6, and especially Corb’s Villa Savoye that embodied so many contemporary architecture ideas. You can see how Frank’s work started with this house.
I agree that a work of architecture can be private and be honored as a valuable contribution to the field. Nonetheless, Gehry’s house is exactly the opposite of what should be honored with this award. The award is supposed to highlight projects that have “stood the test of time” in their ability to represent quality, inovative, inspiring architecture. Certainly this house was important as a testing grounds for architectural experimentation, which led to many very profound architectural manifestations throughout Gehry’s career, but it was clearly a means to an end, and not an end in and of itself. I am perplexed and frustrated to see that the jury could not discern the difference between the painter’s pallet and the painter’s masterpiece.
The Emperor has no clothes.