Tag: Design Awards

Matthew Hufft, AIA, WELL AP, LEED GREEN ASSOCIATE

Posted on by lbsbadmin
Matthew Huft, AIA

Matthew Hufft, AIA, WELL AP, LEED GREEN ASSOCIATE

Hufft

Matthew Hufft is the founder Hufft, a full-service architecture, interior design and fabrication studio. An architect by trade and entrepreneur by nature, he identified strongly with his creative talents at an early age; on a cassette tape for a second-grade project, he declared his chosen career would be as an architect.

Matthew holds two degrees in architecture from The University of Kansas and Columbia University. After graduating from Kansas in 2000, he won the prestigious SOM Traveling Fellowship Award. At 22, he received his first commission – a residence for his parents nicknamed the Line House. Other commissions came as a direct result, and thus, the beginning of Hufft.

Hufft is a team of 40 architects, designers, craftspeople and artists, based in Kansas City, Mo., and Bentonville, Ark. The firm has completed over 650 projects, spanning from corporate headquarters, mixed-use developments and hospitality projects, to single-family residences. The firm has won more than 60 AIA awards and been published in 100+ national and international periodicals.

A husband and father of three, Matthew sees the great importance of design’s impact on our built environment. His keen interest for creating joy in the human experience is all the fuel he needs.

For additional information visit: https://hufft.com/

Allison Grace Williams, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP, NOMA

Posted on by lbsbadmin

Allison Grace Williams, FAIA, NCARB, LEEDAP, NOMA

AGWms_studio

Architect Allison Grace Williams amassed an international portfolio of large scale civic, cultural and research works in 40 years of practice as a design leader with SOM,   Perkins+Will and AECOM. Williams is best known for her inventive instincts and leadership that generated award-winning buildings bridging culture, technology and the environment, and conveying the values and traditions of audience and place. Williams’ most successful projects transcend the buildings themselves and as they age, continue to evolve a narrative on relevant issues. Notably, her work includes The August Wilson Center (Pittsburgh PA),  The Health and Sciences Campus for Princess Abdulrahman University for Women (Saudi Arabia), and CREATE (in Singapore). The US Port of Entry at Calexico (Calexico CA) a GSA Design Excellence Commission, and research laboratories for NASA Langley and NASA Ames.

In 2017 Williams founded AGWms_studio. Design consulting for clients, frequent lectures, occasional studio teaching, design competition and awards juries, pro bono activities, and making (art, building and inventing) are its mainstay. Williams is an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University, in 2020 was the Joseph Esherick Distinguished Visiting Professor at Berkeley’s CED and was a 2-term Visiting Committee chair at Harvard GSD. She served as a juror for the 2019 COTE (Committee on the Environment) Top Ten Design Awards, The 2020 Architecture at Zero Design Competition and was a member of the interdisciplinary jury for the Chouteau Greenway Design Competition in St. Louis. Williams delivered the keynote address at NOMA’s 2019 Conference in Brooklyn NY.

Williams holds an M.Arch from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, a BA in the Practice of Art, also from Berkeley, and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard GSD. She was elevated to Fellowship in 1997 and in 2015 was named Berkeley CED’s Distinguished Alumni in Architecture.  In 2018, Williams was awarded The Norma Sklarek Award in Architecture by the AIACC and recently joined the Board of Directors for Designing Justice Designing Spaces (DJDS).

For additional information visit:  www.agwms.com

David Baker, FAIA, LEED AP

Posted on by lbsbadmin

David Baker, FAIA, LEED AP

Principal, David Baker Architects

David founded David Baker Architects in 1982 and is considered an industry leader in urban and affordable housing design.

David has guided and overseen the design of more than 13,000 homes, including a pipeline of more than 1,500 modular units. Led by David in collaboration with co-Principals, DBA has received more than 450 architectural design honors, including two national AIA COTE Top Ten awards. David was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 1996 and designated by AIA California as the 2012 Distinguished Practice. In 2009 he received the Hearthstone Builders Humanitarian Award, honoring the 30 most influential people in the housing industry of the past 30 years.

For additional information visit:  www.dbarchitect.com