Good evening, my name is Abe Chorbajian and Alek and I would like to introduce our Jurors who took time from their busy schedule to participate in reviewing our 2010 design Awards Vaughan is an architect and urban designer with AECOM. Vaughan has produced dynamic urban plans for urban waterfronts, retail/sports and entertainment destinations, transit centers and mixed-use environments with an emphasis on creating pedestrian urban neighborhoods in cities large and small, nationwide and abroad. Vaughan receivd his Barch from the University of Cape town his masters in Urban Design Columbia Univ. in NY
Dennis McFadden is design principle with CO Architects in Los Angeles. His work of the last twenty years has been focused primarily on the master planning and design of institutional projects, including academic, research and health care facilities. His work has received numerous awards, including a national AIA honor award for Bourns Hall-College of Engineering at UC Riverside. A graduate of the University of Southern California with a master s degree from Princeton University. Dennis has taught at USC and has served as a visiting critic at UCLA, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and CalPoly Pomona. His work has been published in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture and I Arca. Dennis was made a fellow of the AIA in 2008.
g, Principal/Director of Urban Design As an architect and urban designer, Vaughan Davies has produced dynamic urban plans for urban waterfronts, retail/sports and entertainment destinations, transit centers and mixe Mr. Palacios a Principal with AECOM, José oversees the design of projects for the firm s architecture studio. Originally from Ecuador, Mr. Palacios interests and studies varied from physics and mathematics to philosophy and architecture. He spent nearly nine years in academia in various institutions in South America, Europe and eventually the United States where he graduated with honors, earning both a Bachelors and Masters of Architecture from Texas A&M University
For most of his career, Mehrdad Yazdani has practiced at the intersection of the large office and a small studio. Named by Progressive Architecture magazine as one the world s top emerging architects just three years after earning his Masters of Architecture from Harvard s Graduate School of Design in 1990, Mehrdad has succeeded in bringing a design sensibility characteristic of boutique firms to a broad portfolio of significant civic buildings. Today, as a principal of Cannon Design s national practice and Design Director of the west coast-based Yazdani Studio, Mehrdad is a respected member of fthe international ti ldesign community. His architecture t continues to exhibit the delicate balance between art and function.
This year we have: 2 Student awards 4 Citation awards 1 Merit Award And 2 Honor awards Our first category is the Student Award
Our first Student award goes to: Our jurors comments were: The design captures a poetic places, compositional in view and material reminiscent of Luis Barragann a very refreshing and poetic exploration.
Our next Student award goes to: Our jurors comments were: A landform building that is carefully integrated into its park setting and is also creatively resolved. an elegant and understated solution for a very sensitive hilltop site
The following projects received a Citation award
Our first citation award goes to: Our jurors comments were: It Speaks Transportation
Our second citation award goes to: Our jurors comments were: Our jurors comments were: A tough problem elegantly resolved This project gives an ungainly, rootless office building a strong, fresh presence at a scale more appropriate to its freeway frontage location. The new glass skin, layered massing and use of color and graphics completely transforms the proportions and character of the building in a way that is direct and without artifice.
Our third citation award goes to: Our jurors comments were: A simple and clean solution with the right touch in the right places A well organized plan inserted into a very modest shell ; the translucent skin and new window walls greatly improve the interior environment whil giving the building a welcoming lightness from the exterior during the da and a glowing presence at night. In this project, also, there is an admira directness to the resolution.
Our forth citation award goes to: Our jurors comments were: Our jurors comments were: A clever use of color applied with rigor and creativity gives a very ordered solution a lively feel of lightness and simplicity. The incision of a relatively modest courtyard into the deep floor plate has an enormous impact on way-finding and the quality of the interior space. The use of color and the various framing and portal elements further breaks down the expanse into neighborhoods. It looks like a good place to work.
The following project received a Merit Award:
Our jurors comments were: Fun, clever with a visible passion for detail a fun, well detailed and refined object of discovery.
The following projects received a Honor Award:
Our first Honor award goes to: Our jurors comments were: Bold and creative moves on the mundane achieve great results
Our second and last Honor award goes to: Our jurors A demonstrative example of respect for the old. Very disciplined yet creative architecture dialed at just the right setting. An exquisite renovation of a beautiful post and beam house; interven of beautifully detailed and crafted casework elements bring a consiste new vocabulary to the house that resonates with the original without imitating it. Every design choice, from color and finish to detail appears flawless.