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Dave: well said. Shouldn't us practicing architects in the HKN/CRAN vote on who the judges should be for the annual AIA awards? Who better than the people out here in the trenches? P.S. I agree that all of us (me included) should take some care to craft our comments in this forum (which is visible to the entire Universe) to be of a constructive nature, seeking to improve what we do and help those who do it, as well as our profession as a whole and our clients' lives through our creations. Are we in tough times? You betcha. So let's focus on how to improve things, presenting our thoughts as if we were in person, in front of a group of 100 people, half of whom are architects, the other half prospective clients, all of them listening to every word and judging us and our profession by what we say and how we behave. Now then, the reality is that there are about 80,000 architects and possibly many more clients out there scrutinizing this forum. This is your opportunity to shine. ------------------------------------------- Rand Soellner AIA Architect/Owner/Principal Rand Soellner Architect Cashiers NC -------------------------------------------
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-02-2012 12:46
From: David Andreozzi
Subject: RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECT design awards
This is what I posted on Linkedin LINK HERE
OK, this has been bothering me for about a week, so here goes, into the deep end. I received the recent March April Residential Architect and looked through the Design Awards. (link is here http://tinyurl.com/c9noxek ) It is made up of absolutely spectacular modern work (I mean this sincerely) and a token traditional renovation. To my eye, the reason for these results is that is that the jury is made up of some of the most prolific modern architectural minds in the country.... why would they be choosing anything else. I get this, understand their thought process, but question it. I suppose you can argue that there were no traditional entries, (for obvious reasons,) but still, would Villa Savoye have had a chance to win with a jury made up of 10 Leon Kriers?
I wonder if the paradigm upon which these judges were chosen seems in direct conflict with the group that "Residential Architect, A Magazine of the American Institute of Architects" represents, which is all AIA Residential Architects and the totality of all good residential archetypes? This is clearly not happening here, by design? These awards, for the most part, celebrate a singular style as being predominantly award worthy by their inclusion, and the rest as not by their exclusion.
As a participant on the AIA's Custom Residential Architects Network, our underlying philosophy is that architecture should be judged without regards to style.
In search of love,
David Andreozzi
PS: I have no skin in the game. I did not submit anything for the awards. If you are interested, AIA CRAN is here http://network.aia.org/CustomResidentialArchitectsNetwork/Home/
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