AIA Seattle 2003 HONOR AWARDS FOR WASHINGTON ARCHITECTURE

idea REALIZED
In the 52nd annual AIA Seattle Honor Awards, program, a panel of critical observers reviewed some 150 entries from Washington design professionals, offering remarks and announcing awards Monday evening November 10, 2003. The conversation at McCaw Hall drew an audience of several hundred members of the area's design and building community.

A jury comprising Shigeru Ban, Shigeru BAN Architect, Tokyo; architect Brigitte Shim, Shim-Sutcliffe, Toronto; and novelist Matthew Stadler, of Nest Magazine (review jury bios and other program background) reviewed, visited, and discussed local work, and presented awards to seven projects in the idea and REALIZED categories: six Citations, and one Honor Award. "The jury finds one project of exceptional merit, and a broad variety of projects that raise important issues for architects working today," Matthew Stadler summarizes.

HONOR AWARD:
FAUNTLEROY RESIDENCE (Seattle), by Suyama Peterson Deguchi (R 700)

Fauntleroy Residence by Suyama Peterson Deguchi

CITATIONS:
* idea: MAJIWA VILLAGE CENTER (Majiwa, Kenya), by Geoff Piper, Jamie Fleming, Matthew Sullivan, the People of Majiwa
(I 330)
* idea (anticipated completion Fall 2004): ED ERICKSON THEATRE OFF BROADWAY (Seattle), by LMN Architects (I 350)
* REALIZED: BRADNER GARDENS COMMUNITY BUILDING (Seattle), by SHED (R 150)
* REALIZED: SKYSPACE (Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington), by Donnally Architects in collaboration with James Turrell (R 830)
* REALIZED: LESCHI RESIDENCE (Seattle), by E. Cobb Architects (R 732)
* REALIZED: WILSONVILLE (OR) WATER TREATMENT PLANT, by The Miller|Hull Partnership (R 365)

The Honor Awards evening serves as an annual highlight event for the design and building community, a unique professional conversation with public meaning. "Idea Tiles" representing all entries, displayed in the McCaw lobby at the event, remain available for public viewing at AIA Seattle Gallery through the month of November, and on the AIA Seattle web site indefinitely.

According to Honor Awards Committee Chair Anne Schopf AIA, the program sought to assemble both recent work and the thought that guides the current and future shape of our communities: "The theme 'idea Realized' selected by the committee addresses the importance of idea in both built and unbuilt work. Because IDEA informs all our work, the online submittal format and the jury's review will stress the thought at the core of all projects submitted, whether realized in construction, commissioned or intended for possible construction, or presented in ideal form without reference to ultimate built achievement. The program invited submittals not only from Washington architects, but from others wishing to express and address the ideas that shape our world now or in an unknowable future." Indeed, the program attracted entries from design students and artists from throughout the Northwest and beyond as well as from architects of recently-completed projects.

AIA Seattle President Kristen M. Scott AIA offers "our thanks and congratulations to all our colleagues in the design and building community who make this special program possible: submitting firms, sponsors and partners, the jurors, the Honor Awards Committee, and the AIA Seattle staff."