by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
The National Academy elected Peter Bohlin, FAIA, Principal, Bohlin Cywinski, Jackson; Preston Scott Cohen; Michael Manfredi, FAIA, and Marion Weiss, FAIA, Principle Partners, WEISS/MANFREDI; Eric Owen Moss; Antoine Predock, FAIA, Principal, Antoine Predock Architect; and Charles Renfro, AIA, Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, as National Academicians…Architect’s 2014 R+D Awards honored New York City-based architects FXFOWLE (NYC Loop); Thomas Phifer and Partners, Office for Visual Interaction, and Werner Sobek (New York City Streetlight); and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Timber Tower Research Project)…The recipients of the AIA Annual Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship include David Flecha, Assoc. AIA, and Daniel Horn, Assoc. AIA, both from the New York Institute of Technology…The Olana Partnership’s 2014 Frederic E. Church Award Gala honored Peter Pennoyer, FAIA,[new Fellow this year] Founder of Peter Pennoyer Architects…Tod Williams, FAIA, and Billie Tsien, AIA, of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects were presented with the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2013 National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama on 07.28.14…
FXFOWLE has promoted Nicholas Garrison to Partner, and Ilana Judah, Intl. Assoc. AIA, OAQ, LEED AP BD+C; Brian Fanning, AIA, LEED AP; Irina Rice, Esq., LEED AP; Jack Robbins, AIA, LEED AP; Kevin Cannon, AIA, LEED AP; Gustavo Rodriguez, CODIA, LEED AP; and Michael Syracuse, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, to Principals … Mancini•Duffy has hired Rudy Espiritu to serve as a Technical Director/Senior Associate… David J. Stuart, AIA, has joined Montroy Andersen DeMarco as Studio Director…Melanie J. Fox has joined Whitehall Interiors NYC as a Project Manager…