MTFA Architecture to Receive Firm Award

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MTFA Architecture will be presented with the T. David Fitz-Gibbon Virginia Architecture Firm Award at the Visions for Architecture gala on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Sometimes called the “firm award,” it is the highest honor bestowed by AIA Virginia to a Virginia-based architecture firm. It recognizes a firm that has consistently produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years.

For 25 years, MTFA has had a profound impact on the architectural profession by thoughtfully shaping people’s lives through design excellence throughout Virginia and beyond. Members of the firm are exemplary citizen architects and have led the American Institute of Architects with two presidents of AIA Northern Virginia, a president of AIA Virginia, a board member of the Branch Museum, and numerous AIA committee founders and chairs.

Consistency of philosophy and mission has profoundly shaped the architectural story of each of their employees and clients. They have impacted culture, commerce and community, and in doing so have made Virginia and the world a more meaningful place. They have been mentors to students inside and outside the office with amazing dedication and new programs like the Annual Inter-School Design Competition for architecture students.

Their history, design awards and publications testify to the enormous potential for using the AIA, their clients and the community as a vehicle to promote connections that reinforce tomorrow’s leadership and inspire the creation of a better built environment.

Jones and Webb Honored with Emerging Professional Award

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Kevin Jones, AIA, Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech, and Erin Webb, AIA, Senior Project Manager at 3north will be recognized with the Virginia Emerging Professional Award at the Visions for Architecture gala on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Virginia Emerging Professional Award is intended to recognize the accomplishments of emerging leaders in Virginia for their contributions to the profession in one or more of the following categories: design, research, education, or discourse; service to the profession; mentorship; or service to the community.

Throughout his nearly 15-year career, Kevin has pursued rigorous design work, robust community engagement, and mentorship of young designers. With the built environment and our profession  in the midst of unprecedented change – technological, demographic, economic, environmental – the time is right to interrogate the means, methods, and values of contemporary spatial practice in search of new territories. With a view of both practice and pedagogy, Kevin is excited to roll up his sleeves in the coming “already emerged, middle part” of his career.

As a member of the leadership team for AIA Blue Ridge, and as a current and former member of design-focused groups like Beer+Design and Modern Richmond, Kevin has made spreading the word on the value of architecture an integral part of his extracurricular pursuits.

Kevin works to introduce real-world scenarios and community-focused experiential learning opportunities into his courses at Virginia Tech. In the studio, this has manifest with design-build collaborations with the music department as well as the introduction of client voices to studio critiques. Over the last year, Kevin has also been faculty co-leader of the Malawi Studio – a vertically-integrated studio of undergraduate and graduate students working collaboratively with faculty to realize a singular work: a new campus library for the University of Mzuzu in Malawi, Africa. In collaboration with architects in Malawi, the project is
slated for construction in 2019.

A director at 3north, Erin established the firm’s Residential Studio, where she leads a five-member team. Erin’s design sensibility was shaped by her childhood in Asia followed by undergraduate study in both Europe and the UK. After graduating cum laude from Virginia Tech, Erin chose to put down roots in Virginia. Her passion for residential design emerged in Fredericksburg, where she worked for a sole-proprietor, and flourished in Richmond when she joined 3north in 2007.

At 3north, she has embraced notable historic restorations of Bottomley, Duncan Lee, and Baskervill residences, along with the current renovation and landscape transformation of the Rice house, a mid-century modern landmark, by Richard Neutra. With over one hundred residential projects to her credit, Erin’s award-winning work ranges in scale from estate master plans to casework details. With her energetic and thoughtful approach, Erin helps clients articulate their true needs, dreams, and desires to create spaces that celebrate the way they live. Erin’s work extends to non-residential projects including restorations to St. John’s Church, a Historical survey of Dinwiddie County, and Master Plan studies of Nauvoo, Illinois.

Throughout her career, Erin has been engaged in student mentorship and community service. In 2012, the AIA Richmond honored Erin with the inaugural Richard L. Ford, Jr. FAIA Award for her personal contributions as co-chair of the Young Architect and Intern Forum (YAiF), which provides networking and mentorship programs for emerging design professionals. In 2013, she led an Explore Design Seminar on modular design as part of a larger program for high school students sponsored by Baskervill Architects. At the 2017, Full STEAM Ahead Conference by CodeVA, she presented two classes designed to educate young women about the fields of architecture and landscape architecture. A longtime facilitator of 3north’s summer high school intern program, Erin has also spearheaded 3north’s fundraiser to support local families during the holidays and led the firm’s Canstruction team to raise funds for the Central Virginia Foodbank.

Dalaya Honored for Distinguished Achievement

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Manoj Dalaya, AIA, will be recognized with the Award for Distinguished Achievement at the Visions for Architecture gala on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Award for Distinguished Achievement signals distinguished achievement by an architect in any one of the following categories: design, practice, education, service as “citizen architect” and service to the profession; and thus may serve as an accolade for the work of an entire career or recognize the current accomplishments of a younger leader.

Whether personal or national, experts have honed their skills in the rapidly-changing field of security design dramatically over the past twenty years. During this period of great change, Manoj Dalaya, AIA has been relentlessly delivering successful solutions to complex building security issues within a cloak of exceptional award-winning architectural design.

At KGD, Manoj has been a consistent advocate for what we now call “healthy building,” but might more appropriately be simply called “good design.” From commercial office buildings to a town hall, Manoj’s design ethic positions “building performance” as not merely technologically defined but also fundamentally human. In other words, a well-designed green building must be life enhancing and healthy, not only resource-efficient. That he has achieved these same goals in challenging programs, for secure facilities heavy with technology requirements for example, is remarkable. Manoj’s portfolio, taken as a body of work, stands as evidence that design leadership can bring even the most restrictive programs and clients to a more sustainable, green, healthy result. The profession benefits from such precedents as the deceptively radical 2000 Tower Oaks Blvd. building, a subject for researchers who have studied how Manoj’s combining ancient Vedic principles with high technology resulted in both an uplifting workplace and the DC area’s first LEED Platinum office building.

In addition to efforts within KGD, Manoj has offered his time and skills to AIA Northern Virginia, and multiple districts in the surrounding Washington, DC business communities. This brand of demonstrative leadership provides noticeable public recognition for the architectural profession, and
can make a significant difference within society. Manoj is a collaborator and friend that shows his dedication in everything he undertakes. His service to his firm, community and profession make him an excellent recipient of the AIA Virginia Award for Distinguished Achievement.

CALL for NOMINATIONS: Honors Awards

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Braden Field, AIA, Nathan Harper, AIA, and Maggie Schubert, AIA, were recognized with the Virginia Emerging Professional Award at the Visions for Architecture gala on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017

The AIA Virginia Honors Committee is asking you to take a look at the Honors categories, review the selection criteria, and then ask yourself a few questions:

1. Do you think you might be a candidate for one of these honors?
2. Do you have a colleague who deserves one?

If the answer to either of these questions is yes, we encourage you to submit your nomination for AIA Virginia’s Honors Awards.

 

AIA Virginia’s honors program recognizes the best efforts of Virginians who, by profession or avocation, have made creating, preserving, and enhancing Virginia’s communities an important life commitment.

Submit your nominations online. The deadline is 5 p.m., July 13, 2018.

Nominations must be submitted electronically. Nominations should be submitted as one PDF document up to 20 pages (not including letters of support) and no larger than 30 MB.

Eligibility criteria and submission requirements vary by award. Click on the awards listed below for additional details and to review past recipients.

Nominations for all AIA Virginia honors may be made by individual members, by chapter honors committees, by Society committees, or by the Board of Directors itself. Current AIA Virginia Board members and Honors Committee members are not eligible for any award. No member of the Honors Committee may be used as a reference or advisor or be solicited by the candidate or the candidate’s advisor.  See the 2018 Honors Committee members.

Award Categories

The William C. Noland Medal, as the highest award bestowed on a member architect, is intended to honor a distinguished body of accomplishments, sustained over time, that spans a broad spectrum of the profession and that transcends the scope of normal professional activities. Only one medal may be bestowed each year.

The Architecture Medal for Virginia Service is AIA Virginia’s most prestigious public award, honoring an individual or organization that has made an unusually significant contribution to Virginia’s built environment or to the public’s understanding and awareness of the built environment. Only one medal may be bestowed each year but may be given simultaneously to more than one person.

The T. David Fitz-Gibbon Virginia Architecture Firm Award, as the highest honor bestowed by AIA Virginia to a Virginia-based architecture firm, recognizes a firm that has consistently produced distinguished architecture for at least ten years.

The Virginia Emerging Professional Award is intended to recognize the accomplishments of emerging leaders in Virginia for their contributions to the profession in one or more of the following categories: design, research, education, or discourse; service to the profession; mentorship; or service to the community.

The Award for Distinguished Achievement signals distinguished achievement by an architect in any one of the following categories: design, practice, education, service as “citizen architect”, and service to the profession; and thus may serve as an accolade for the work of an entire career or recognize the current accomplishments of a younger leader. Up to three awards may be bestowed each year.

Honorary Membership is bestowed upon a person of esteemed character who is not eligible for membership in the AIA Virginia but who has rendered distinguished and exemplary service, over a sustained period of time, to architecture and the built environment within the domain of AIA Virginia.

2016 AIA Virginia Honors

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The honors program recognizes the best efforts of Virginians who, by profession or avocation, have made creating, preserving, and enhancing Virginia’s communities an important life commitment.

Submit your nominations online. The deadline is 5 p.m., July 15, 2016.

Nominations must be submitted electronically. Nominations should be submitted as one PDF document up to 20 pages (not including letters of support) and no larger than 30 MB.

Eligibility criteria and submission requirements vary by award. Click on the awards listed below for additional details and to review past recipients.

Nominations for all AIA Virginia honors may be made by individual members, by chapter honors committees, by Society committees, or by the Board of Directors itself. Current AIA Virginia Board members and Honors Committee members are not eligible for any award. No member of the Honors Committee may be used as a reference or advisor or be solicited by the candidate or the candidate’s advisor.  See the 2016 Honors Committee members.

Award Categories

The William C. Noland Medal, as the highest award bestowed on a member architect, is intended to honor a distinguished body of accomplishments, sustained over time, that spans a broad spectrum of the profession and that transcends the scope of normal professional activities. Only one medal may be bestowed each year.

The Architecture Medal for Virginia Service is AIA Virginia’s most prestigious public award, honoring an individual or organization that has made an unusually significant contribution to Virginia’s built environment or to the public’s understanding and awareness of the built environment. Only one medal may be bestowed each year but may be given simultaneously to more than one person.

The T. David Fitz-Gibbon Virginia Architecture Firm Award, as the highest honor bestowed by AIA Virginia to a Virginia-based architecture firm, recognizes a firm that has consistently produced distinguished architecture for at least ten years.

NEW! The Virginia Emerging Professional Award is intended to recognize the accomplishments of emerging leaders in Virginia for their contributions to the profession in one or more of the following categories: design, research, education, or discourse; service to the profession; mentorship; or service to the community.

The Award for Distinguished Achievement signals distinguished achievement by an architect in any one of the following categories: design, practice, education, service as “citizen architect” , and service to the profession; and thus may serve as an accolade for the work of an entire career or recognize the current accomplishments of a younger leader. Up to three awards may be bestowed each year.

Honorary Membership is bestowed upon a person of esteemed character who is not eligible for membership in the AIA Virginia but who has rendered distinguished and exemplary service, over a sustained period of time, to architecture and the built environment within the domain of AIA Virginia.

AIA Virginia Honors may be bestowed on non-member individuals or organizations that have inspired, influenced, or complemented the architecture profession in Virginia through practice of an allied profession, research, education, planning, legislation, architectural writing, the arts, or crafts. An individual who has previously been elected an Honorary Member of AIA Virginia is ineligible to receive AIA Virginia Honors.

The Test of Time Award recognizes architectural design of enduring significance. The structure should be in Virginia and must be no less than 25 years old. Building use may change over time if the overall design is cherished as a significant contribution to the community and the built environment.

Honor and Design Awards Presented at Visions 2015

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The AIA Virginia Awards for Excellence in Architecture and Honor Awards were presented at the 2015 Visions for Architecture gala at the Science Museum of Virginia (John Russell Pope’s Train Station) on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015.

Photos by Stephanie Yonce.

 

View the video presentation

Society Honors Awarded to Thomas F. McGraw III

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Thomas F. McGraw, III
Thomas F. McGraw, III

Tom McGraw, Executive Vice President of W.A. Lynch Roofing Company in Charlottesville, Va., will be recognized with Society Honors at the Visions for Architecture gala on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, at the Jefferson Hotel. Society Honors are bestowed upon organizations or citizens who have inspired, influenced, or complemented architecture or the architecture profession in Virginia through an allied profession, research, education, planning, legislation, journalism, the arts, or crafts.

In making this award, the Society recognizes not only his decades of service in reroofing some of the finest architecture in Central Virginia, but also the superior quality and craftsmanship evident in each of his projects. Most notably, McGraw recently supervised the successful reroofing of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, a challenging project on every front. Serving as an example of the exceptional workmanship for which he is being honored, the Society acknowledges McGraw for his dedication as a true craftsman.

Kathleen S. Kilpatrick Honored with Architecture Medal


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Kathleen Kilpatrick, Hon. VSAIA
Kathleen Kilpatrick, Hon. VSAIA

Kathleen S. Kilpatrick has been selected to receive the Architecture Medal for Virginia Service. The Society’s most prestigious public award, the Medal honors an individual or organization that has made an unusually significant contribution to Virginia’s built environment or to the public’s understanding and awareness of our built world. The Society presents this award jointly with the Virginia Center for Architecture at the Visions for Architecture gala on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, at the Jefferson Hotel.

With more than 20 years of dedicated service and leadership as an official of the Commonwealth, Kilpatrick’s contributions to Virginia’s built environment have had a tremendous impact. Her service with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources from 1995–2013 and her leadership as current Executive Director of the Capitol Square Preservation Council have included measurable and lasting accomplishments. Through diligent efforts working with the Governor and the Virginia General Assembly, she has influenced the passage of tax rehabilitation incentives, developed effective processes to support owners’ donation of protective easements and urged the successful appropriation of funds for the purchase of threatened battlefields. Her programs have enhanced historic preservation activity to be recognized as engines for economic development, and she has helped to create an environment for architects to provide new life for old buildings through their preservation projects.

In addition, Kilpatrick’s focus on elevating and broadening the understanding of the significance of historic buildings, places and sites has enhanced the public’s view of the cultural values of Virginia’s built environment.

“Ms. Kilpatrick’s influence has been felt in virtually every community of the Commonwealth,” says Elizabeth Kostelny, Executive Director of Preservation Virginia. “A few years ago, Ms. Kilpatrick was quoted as saying, ‘When things are lost, they’re lost forever.’ That statement reflects Ms. Kilpatrick’s underlying motivation. Her tireless work has saved historic buildings, battlefields, important Virginia Indian sites, neighborhoods and more—all to employ those places for our future.”

Honors Nomination Deadline July 31

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The deadline for submitting nominations for the Society’s Honors Awards program is rapidly approaching. [adrotate banner=”61″]Nominations are due by 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 31, 2014.

Nominations must be submitted electronically as one PDF document, no larger than 20 pages and 50 MB. Nominations must be accompanied by the nomination form. The submitter should be prepared to provide unrestricted high-resolution images to be used in connection with publicity of the program and the recognition of the honorees at Architecture Exchange East on Nov. 5–7, and at Visions for Architecture on Nov. 7.

Nominations for all Virginia Society honors may be made by individual members, by chapter honors committees, by Society committees, or by the Board of Directors itself. Sitting Society board members and members of the Honors Committee are not eligible for Honors Awards.

AWARD CATEGORIES

The William C. Noland Medal, as the highest award bestowed on a member architect, is intended to honor a distinguished body of accomplishments, sustained over time, that spans a broad spectrum of the profession and that transcends the scope of normal professional activities. Only one medal may be bestowed each year.

The Architecture Medal for Virginia Service is the Society’s most prestigious public award, honoring an individual or organization that has made an unusually significant contribution to Virginia’s built environment or to the public’s understanding and awareness of the built environment. Only one medal may be bestowed each year but may be given simultaneously to more than one person.

The T. David Fitz-Gibbon Virginia Architecture Firm Award, as the highest honor bestowed by the Virginia Society to a Virginia-based architecture firm, recognizes a firm that has consistently produced distinguished architecture for at least ten years.

The Award for Distinguished Achievement signals distinguished achievement by an architect in any one of the following categories: design, practice, education, service as “citizen architect” , and service to the profession; and thus may serve as an accolade for the work of an entire career or recognize the current accomplishments of a younger leader. Up to three awards may be bestowed each year.

Honorary Membership is bestowed upon a person of esteemed character who is not eligible for membership in the Virginia Society but who has rendered distinguished and exemplary service, over a sustained period of time, to architecture and the built environment within the domain of the Society.

Virginia Society Honors may be bestowed on non-member individuals or organizations that have inspired, influenced, or complemented the architecture profession in Virginia through practice of an allied profession, research, education, planning, legislation, architectural writing, the arts, or crafts. An individual who has previously been elected an Honorary Member of the Society is ineligible to receive Society Honors.

The Test of Time Award recognizes architectural design of enduring significance.

Questions? Contact Rhea George at rgeorge@aiava.org or (804) 237-1768

Board Clarifies Test of Time Award Criteria

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On June 6, 2014, the Board of Directors of the Virginia Society AIA unanimously approved a motion put forward by the Honors Committee clarifying the Test of Time award criteria. There has long been discussion among committee members about the intent of the award. Although it had been understood that award was not intended to recognize historic preservation or acknowledge landmark status, the existing criteria did not address maximum building age. As Honors Committee Chair Mary P. Cox, FAIA, quipped, “Debate about the award could, itself, win the Test of Time.”

[adrotate banner=”59″]A sub-committee chaired by Marvin Cantor, FAIA, studied the issue and developed a set of recommendations to provide additional clarity. The following criteria (largely inspired by the national AIA Test of Time Award eligibility statement), was approved by the VSAIA Board of Directors.

This award recognizes architectural design of enduring significance that meets the following eligibility conditions:

  1. The period of time for which the project must have endured the “Test of Time” shall be not less than 25 years nor more than 50 years from the date of initial construction.
  2. The project may be a single structure or group of buildings forming a single project.
  3. The project should still carry out the original program in a substantial manner (i.e. residential, place of assembly, institutional, education, etc.).  The project must be standing as originally designed in appearance and in good condition.
  4. The project must be located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The primary purpose of the award is to recognize the structure(s) itself and not necessarily the architect, owner or tenant.

Any AIA member, group of members, component, or VSAIA Knowledge Community may make a nomination in this category.  Projects previously nominated and not selected may be re-nominated in following years providing they meet the eligibility criteria. These criteria will be used for the 2014 Honors Awards cycle. If you have questions, or would like additional information, contact Rhea George.