competitions
John Staub Awards – Recipients
John Staub Awards – Information
John Staub Awards – Juror Biographies
Dream Dallas Design Competition
John Staub Award Recipients – 2011
The Staub Awards Jury met on September 9, 2011 and arrived at the following list of Honor Award and Honorable Mention recipients. The Texas Chapter extends its deep gratitude to our thoughtful jury: Gary Brewer, Bill Mitchell, and James Strickland (see bios below). We also appreciate the participation of all who submitted projects, as the jury was impressed with the high quality of work and the broad range of expression.
Please see the events page on our website for information on the Awards Celebration on October 15 at the Bayou Club, followed by a tour of Bayou Bend.
Many thanks to our sponsors for making the Staub Awards and Celebration possible
John Daugherty Realtors
Lyn Muse Interiors – Gibson’s Landscape Contractors – Hyde Park Mouldings
R.B. Ratcliff & Associates
Elegant Additions – Windham Builders – White Construction
A&E The Graphics Complex – Avid1
Lucifer Lighting Company – Schenck & Company – DES: Digital Entertainment Systems
Milam & Company Painting – The Roof Tile & Slate Company – W.S. Bellows Construction
Honor Awards
Residence Over 5,000 square feet – Classical
Knollwood Residence and Gardens – Curtis & Windham Architects
Hester + Hardaway Photgraphers
Residence Over 5,000 square feet – Romantic
A Vermont Farm Residence – Ralph L. Duesing Architect
Ralph L. Duesing Architect
Residence Over 5,000 square feet – Texas Vernacular
Harvey Ranch House – Don B. McDonald Architect
Jon McDonald
Residence Over 5,000 square feet – Picturesque
Willowick Residence – Curtis & Windham Architects
Hester + Hardaway Photgraphers
Residence Under 5,000 square feet
Bell House – Jay Baker Architects
Joe Aker
Residence Under 5,000 square feet
Courtyard Residence – Colby Design
Peter Vitale
Residence Under 5,000 square feet
Criner House – Jay Baker Architects
Jay Baker
Restoration and/or Renovation
Byrd Residence Renovation – Hull Homes with Christine G. H. Franck, Inc.
Brent Hull and Misty Keasler
Restoration and/or Renovation
Byrne-Reed House (Humanities Texas) – Clayton&Little Architects
Casey Dunn
Architecture
Hacienda at Escondido – Michael G. Imber, Architect
Paul Bardagjy
Landscape Architecture
Giardino Verde – Lambert Landscape Company: Paul Fields, RLA, ASLA
Ira Montgomery
Knollwood Residence and Gardens – Curtis & Windham Architects
Hester + Hardaway Photgraphers
Interior Architecture and/or Interior Design
Beachtown Coastal Living – Michael G. Imber, Architect with Susan B. Bozeman Designs, Inc.
Jean Allsop
Urban Design
Olmos Park, Texas – Michael G. Imber, Architect
Garden Building
Inwood Pool Pavilion – Curtis & Windham Architects
Hester + Hardaway Photgraphers
Orangerie – Smith Ekblad and Associates
John Smith
Craftsmanship
Stations of the Cross Frames – Hull Historical
Leonard Porter
Lyon Home – Hull Historical
Brent Hull
Honorable Mentions
Residence Over 5,000 square feet
Inverness Residence – Curtis & Windham Architects
Hester + Hardaway Photgraphers
Medina River Ranch – Michael G. Imber, Architect
Hester + Hardaway Photgraphers
Architecture
Saint Martin’s Episcopal Church – Jackson & Ryan Architects
Mark Scheyer
John Staub Awards – Information
Photograph by Richard Cheek.
From The Country Houses of John F. Staub, Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Image provided courtesy of the publisher.
In 2011, the Texas Chapter of the ICAA launched the inaugural John Staub Awards program for designers and craftspeople based in Texas. These awards honor projects that demonstrate excellence and sensitivity to classical and vernacular traditions and have, in turn, contributed to the legacy of John Staub in Texas.
All Texas Chapter members with practices/companies located in Texas were encouraged to submit projects for consideration. Projects constructed within the last ten years were eligible and did not need to be located in Texas.
Submittals were reviewed by an invited jury in on September 9. The jury members are:
Gary L. Brewer, AIA, partner in the firm of Robert A.M. Stern Architects
William R. Mitchell, cultural historian and president of the Southern Architecture Foundation, Inc.
James L. Strickland, president and founder of Historical Concepts
Please see below for juror bios.
Awards Celebration
Save October 15, 2011 on your calendars for a statewide event in Houston:
Staub Awards Celebration at the Bayou Club and Tour of Bayou Bend
Please contact Catherine Love with any questions. (713) 942-7251
John Staub Awards – Juror Biographies
Gary Brewer is a partner in the firm of Robert A.M. Stern Architects. He joined the firm in 1989. Elevated to associate partner in 2003, he was named a partner in 2008. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota in 1984.
His residential work includes the 1994 Life magazine Dream House, which was built near Atlanta as a model house for Habitat for Humanity. He was also Project Architect for This Old House magazine’s 1998 Dream House. Custom-designed houses include residences in Seaside, Florida; Westport, Connecticut; Houston, Texas; East Hampton, New York; and the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York.
His university work includes the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; the Spangler Campus Center at the Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Fitness and Aquatics Center at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Mr. Brewer’s work has been published in Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Life Magazine, This Old House, and The Classicist. He has lectured extensively on traditional house design, the history of pattern book houses, and New York City clubs. He is a Fellow and Board Member of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and has led the Institute’s traditional house design seminars for the American Institute of Building Designers in six states. Mr. Brewer served on the jury for the 2009 Residential Architects Design Awards program.
William R. Mitchell
Bill Mitchell is an Atlanta native and resident, and a ninth generation Georgian; he is a graduate of the Westminster Schools, Emory University, and the University of Delaware. An architectural and cultural historian, historic preservationist, lecturer, and award-winning author of 18 books, he was a founding trustee of The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation in 1973 and author of its first major book, J. Neel Reid, Architect, published in 1997.
In 1998 he was the founding president of Southern Architecture Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit educational corporation that has published his The Architecture of James Means (2001) and a reprint of the rare 1931 Southern Architecture Illustrated (2002), for which he wrote a new preface. He has written several monographs on Southern architects, the most recent of which is Summerour, Architecture of Permanence, Scale and Proportion (2006). In addition, Mr. Mitchell is the author of many cultural and architectural histories of the South, the most recent of which is Madison, A Classic Southern Town (2010).
The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art awarded him the Arthur Ross Award in 2006 for History and Writing, “For passionately documenting and inspiring interest in the classical architecture of the American South.” An ongoing project is establishing the Mitchell Southern Architecture Collection at the Atlanta History Center, based on his professional library and papers.
James L. Strickland
Jim Strickland is the president and founder of Historical Concepts, an architecture, planning, and place-making firm based in Atlanta and Peachtree City, Georgia. An Atlanta native, he obtained an undergraduate degree in fine arts from the University of Georgia and then served in the Army Special Forces. He received his master of architecture degree from Yale University in 1972.
Mr. Strickland began his professional career in real estate development in Florida. Several years later he moved to Peachtree City, Georgia, where he started a design-build firm that constructed over 200 traditionally inspired homes in the metro-Atlanta region. This led to the founding of Historical Concepts as the formal design entity in 1982.
Mr. Strickland was recognized by Southern Accents in their inaugural “Masters of the House” column, featuring architects, designers and builders who honor the South’s architectural legacy. Under his leadership, Historical Concepts’ work has also been featured in numerous books and national magazines, including Town & Country, Architectural Digest, and House Beautiful. In 2010, Historical Concepts was awarded the Arthur Ross award by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art “for an impressive body of work across the southeast that reveals the central role of contemporary classicism in architecture and town planning for the 21st century.”
Additionally, Mr. Strickland teaches at the Georgia Institute of Technology and has served as a guest critic at the University of Miami and the University of Notre Dame.
ICA&CA Texas Chapter and Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity
Dream Dallas Home Design Competition
Grand Prize Winning Entry
Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert joined design competition organizers and sponsors at a cocktail reception hosted by Lyn and John Muse to honor the entrants and announce the award winners on Thursday, September 9. The design competition offered an opportunity for a team of architectural professionals or students to create a new design and look for a single family Habitat for Humanity home for deserving, low-income Dallas Habitat homeowners.
Please see the events listing page to purchase a pattern book compiled of all submitted designs.
The grand prize was awarded to Misela Gonzales, Bryan Morales, Gregory Cruess, Sari Imber, Krista Tremblay and JJ Zanetta (Zanetta Illustrations) of Michael G. Imber Architects in San Antonio, Texas. The team received a prize of $3000 and a home based on their design will be built by Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity in West Dallas in 2011 for a local family.
Second Place Entry
Second Place and $1000 prize was awarded to Kevin Buccellato and Aimee Buccellato of Buccellato Design in South Bend, Indiana. Five Honorable Mentions were awarded to the following: Kate Christian, Nathan Poon and Kyle Vreeland – University of Miami, Samuel J. Lima – Judson University, Roland Munoz, Andrea Raynal, Chris Derrington and Erin Schneider – Michael G. Imber Architects, Mary Myers, Kaitlyn Smous and Lou Stousland – University of Notre Dame, and Mike Poupore, Sandro Rastelli and Tsvetan Sirakov – University of Miami. Each of these entrants received a $250 prize.
More on the Competition
“Picking the winning entries was no easy task,” said Larry Boerder, Treasurer of the Texas Chapter of the ICA & CA. “The quality, variety and range of designs and styles, and the presentation of the 24 designs architects from around the country submitted were simply incredible. Reviewing the entries was a terrific experience for all of us – the organizers, the architects, and the Habitat team, which included three existing Habitat homeowners. The final scores were very close, and we are very pleased with the results. The winning entry is crisp, classical in style, and beautifully rendered in watercolor. It is also well-designed, fits in the West Dallas community, and is highly sustainable.”
“This competition shows how two local nonprofit organizations can combine resources and ideas to help revitalize neighborhoods in Dallas,” said William Hall, CEO of Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity. “It builds on Habitat’s investment over the years in West Dallas and has offered us an opportunity to dream. Thanks to the efforts of architects from around the country, we have proved that affordable homeownership for low-income families can be done with style. Our express hope is that the designs resulting from this collaboration will impact one new Habitat homeowner, helping to change one Dallas neighborhood, and ultimately seed the transformation of all of the neighborhoods where Habitat builds to change the lives of many more homeowners.”
The award-winning designs were selected by a design competition committee consisting of design professionals, Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity staff and a Habitat homeowner. The winning designs were selected based on overall adherence to competition guidelines and specific criteria that included aesthetic aspects like style and context, objective considerations like sustainability and accessibility, and overall Habitat homeowner appeal and buildability.
“It is an honor to be a part of such a noble profession supporting such a noble cause. To see our design executed for a Dallas family is the highest honor,” said Grand Prize co-winner Bryan Morales. “I want to thank Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity and ICA for putting on such a wonderful design competition. It is humbling to be selected.”
Dream Dallas Sponsors
Royal and Debbie Carson
Sam and Shannon Gilliland
Kent Kunkel
Lyn Muse Interiors, Inc.
Mack and Jean Pogue
Vaughn Vennerberg
Barry and Lana Andrews
Harlan and Kathy Crow
Walter Lee Culp Associates
David and Marcia Dowler
Joe and Nancy Foran
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Huddleston
Harry and Norma Longwell
Master Construction and Engineering
David Nichols / Mathews Nichols Group
Sarah and Ross Perot, Jr. Foundation
Leonard and Peggy Riggs
Sebastian Construction Group, Inc.
The Roof Tile & Slate Co.
Michael and Alison Weinstein
About the Dream Dallas Home Design Competition
The inaugural Dream Dallas Home Design Competition was open to teams comprised of architectural professionals and/or students in the field of architecture, interior designers, planners and landscape architects. Each team was required to have a host who is an ICA & CA member. The goal of the competition was threefold; to inform and inspire affordable, architecturally interesting, neighborly and sustainable homes that can be readily built by Habitat for Humanity volunteers; to publish an architectural pattern book providing plans, elevations and sections which illustrate architecturally elements and building details that reflect the goals of a Habitat home; and to build a Habitat home based on the first prize winning entry.
About Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity
Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity transforms neighborhoods by engaging families and community partners in creating affordable housing. Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity’s vision is that all individuals and families live in thriving neighborhoods where hopes and dreams are realized for generations to come because poverty housing is socially, politically and spiritually unacceptable. Since 1986, Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity has served almost 800 low-income families using homeownership as an anchor for hope, change, and fellowship resulting in an investment of approximately $80 million in 22 neighborhoods of Dallas County that adds $1 million annually to Dallas County tax rolls. Dallas Habitat is one of the largest affiliates of Habitat for Humanity International in the United States. For more information visit www.dallas-habitat.org.
In 2010, Dallas Habitat launched “Dream Dallas,” a vision for the Dallas community founded on homeownership as an anchor for hope and change – for neighborhood transformation – that will guide the organization, staff, and volunteers over the next five years. To accomplish that vision, Dallas Habitat seeks to secure $100 million dollars during that time and envisions building over 900 homes through 2017. Dream Dallas is focused on five specific, strategic neighborhoods that are primed for change: West Dallas, South Dallas/Fair Park, Bonton, Joppa, and the Lancaster Transportation Corridor Neighborhood. The Dream Dallas Home Design Competition was organized with the Texas Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture because of their shared belief in the Dream Dallas vision. For more information, visit dallas-habitat.org.