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Ten Architects Selected to Receive the 2008 American Institute of Architects' Young Architects Award
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Washington, D.C., January 28,
2008 — The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the ten
recipients of the 2008 AIA Young Architects Award. Young Architects
are defined as professionals who have been licensed 10 years or
fewer regardless of their age. This award honors individuals who
have shown exceptional leadership and made significant
contributions to the profession early in their careers. The Young
Architects Award will be presented to the recipients at the AIA
2008 National Convention and Design Exposition in Boston in May.
The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) nominated five of the 10
recipients.
Victoria Beach, AIA
In 1995, Victoria Beach was an essential component to what is now
the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s first ethics course,
which is now required for all architecture students. In 1998, Beach
began her affiliation with the Center for Ethics and the
Professions at Harvard, where she became a member of the
International Ethics Forum. In 1999, Beach became the first and
only architect ever admitted into Fellowship at the Center for
Ethics and the Professions. Beach published a 30-page exposé
on the treatment of interns as well as having established her own
nonprofit organization, Design Foundations, to restore the dignity
and productivity of the internship experience through community
service. Design Foundations has since donated more than a quarter
million dollars worth of design services to underserved communities
and was chosen as an example of ethical practice in the upcoming
AIA 150th anniversary book: Celebrating the Past, Designing the
Future.
David Gamble, AIA, LEED-AP
David Gamble holds a BArch from Kent State University and a MArch
in urban design. Gamble has done extensive work abroad as well as
having served as a full-time assistant professor at Syracuse
University, where he taught design and drawing from 1997 to 2001.
At Syracuse, Gamble founded the interdisciplinary Community Design
Center (CDC). In 2003, Gamble was awarded the Western European
Architecture Foundation’s Gabriel Prize, a grant for the study
of architecture and urbanism in Paris. Now a senior associate at
Chan Krieger Sieniewicz in Cambridge, Mass, Gamble has led urban
design projects throughout the United States. He served as project
architect for the award winning General Aviation Facility, recently
completed at Boston’s Logan International Airport. In
addition, Gamble is currently a part-time design instructor at
Northeastern University’s School of Architecture in Boston. He
also serves as a member of the board of directors of the newly
established Community Design Resource Center-Boston and is an
active member of the Boston Society of Architects Urban Design
Committee.
Emily A. Grandstaff-Rice, AIA
Emily Grandstaff-Rice, an architect with Cambridge Seven Associates
Inc., has shown exceptional leadership in her commitment to design
and construction through projects such as the Boston
Children’s Museum and Liberty Hotel. Her commitment to
education is demonstrated through her volunteer work with children
and activities with the AIA Young Architects Forum (YAF),
Continuing Education Quality Assurance Panel, and her firm’s
AIA/CES program. She is involved in two unique projects within the
AIA: the YAF 150 at 150 Project featuring podcasts of Fellows
discussing mentoring and their career choices and the CEQAP
Knowledge Communities Subject Matter Planning project to integrate
AIA knowledge within a curriculum format to allow members to choose
better paths for continuing education. She also teaches at the
Boston Architectural College. In 2003-2004, she participated in the
BSA Young Designers Professional Development Institute, which was
awarded, through Grandstaff- Rice’s successful nomination, the
2004 YAF/NAC Emerging Professionals Program of the Year.
Kelly Hayes-McAlonie, AIA, MRAIC, LEED-AP
Kelly Hayes McAlonie an associate vice president with Cannon
Design, has dedicated her career to design for education and
improving learning environments. Upon graduation from the Technical
University of Nova Scotia (now Dalhousie University),
Hayes-McAlonie joined Leathers & Associates where she planned
and designed more than 100 learning gardens for clients throughout
the United States and abroad and co-authored a multidisciplinary
architecture curriculum for grade-school children. Hayes-McAlonie
joined Cannon Design’s Education practice in 1998 as a planner
for pre-K-12 and higher education clients. One of her projects, the
Montante Cultural Center, received an AIA Honor Award for Interior
Architecture. Hayes-McAlonie also was instrumental in the
development of Cannon Design Academy, a professional development
program. Hayes-McAlonie has become a champion of the legacy of
Louise Bethune, FAIA, the nation’s first woman registered
architect, and through Hayes-McAlonie’s efforts, Bethune was
inducted into the Western New York Women’s Hall of Fame. She
was named as one of Business First of Buffalo, Forty Under
40, and is a member of Leadership Buffalo Class of 2007.
Grace H. Kim, AIA
Grace Kim is a co-founding principal of Schemata Workshop, an
architectural collaborative in Seattle where she authored the book
The Survival Guide to Architectural Internship and Career
Development. During her early career, she was an active
participant in AIA Chicago’s Young Architects Committee and
has since been involved nationally on issues related to internship
and mentorship. Her participation in the 1999 Summit on
Architectural Internship resulted in her appointment to the
Collateral Internship Task Force as a representative for Emerging
Professionals. In 2006, Kim was appointed as a member-at-large on
the inaugural national Board Community Committee, through which she
spearheaded an initiative called “Welcome to the
Profession”—a program to welcome graduates into the
architecture profession. Kim also serves on the AIA Mentorship Task
Group, through which she developed unique methods of fostering
mentorships. For the past seven years, Kim also has served as a
session presenter at Expanding Your Horizons, a conference for
junior high and high school girls to foster an interest for
professions in the math and science field.
Samuel Lasky, AIA
Samuel Lasky is a Senior Associate at William Rawn Associates,
Architects, Inc., in Boston, MA where his work over the past ten
years has focused on complex institutional projects and their
relationship to the public realm. Recent projects highlighting his
leadership include the new United States Courthouse in Cedar
Rapids, IA (currently in the CD phase), the high-rise W Hotel and
Residences in Boston’s Theater District (under construction)
and the College of Computer and Information Science and Residence
Hall at Northeastern University which was awarded the Boston
Society of Architect’s Harleston Parker Medal for “the
most beautiful building in Boston.” He has had a particular
interest in the role of glass in these buildings and has sought to
advance his firm’s work with curtain wall. Lasky has been
increasingly involved in mentoring interns and recent graduates in
his office, working on creating a staff of well-rounded architects,
and establishing William Rawn Associates’ reputation as a
great place to begin one’s career. Lasky has taught during
several semesters at Harvard University’s Graduate School of
Design. Prior to joining William Rawn Associates, he gained
extensive experience in affordable housing, including time spent
working with Manna, Inc. in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of
Yale University and the Graduate School of Design.
Michael J. Meehan, AIA
Michael Meehan, the 2007 chair of the Young Architects Forum (YAF)
Advisory Committee, has focused on validating and redefining the
mission of the committee. In practice, he is the professional
development manager at BWBR Architects in Saint Paul. In 1997,
Meehan became co-chair of the AIA Minnesota Intern Development
Program Committee. While working with the IDP Committee, Meehan
began teaching ARE review seminars for AIA Minnesota. In 2006
Meehan served as co-chair of the YAF and also began his rotation as
a member of the AIA/AGC Joint Committee. As YAF chair, Meehan
focused on activities that included the YAF 15 Summit (in
recognition of the committee’s 15th anniversary) and creation
of a 10-year strategic plan. Meehan recently worked with the
Hazelden Foundation as project architect and project manager on
their new Women’s Recovery Center in Center City, Minn.
Architecturally, Meehan’s projects reflect his passion for
buildings and clients that contribute to society and the built
environment. Meehan sits on the board of directors of a civic group
formed in 2006 within his historic neighborhood of Northfield and
is also a member of the Northfield Zoning Code Advisory
Group.
David Montalba, AIA
David Montalba’s work, often executed in tandem with
local builders and artisans, has garnered numerous design awards
including several from the AIA Los Angeles. Born in Florence,
Italy, and raised in both Switzerland and California, Montalba
earned his BArch at SciARC and a MArch at UCLA. He then worked for
a number of architects in the LA area, including Frank Gehry and
Pugh + Scarpa, before creating Montalba Architects Inc. in 2004.
Montalba has been actively involved in local, regional, and
international architecture communities as a member of the boards of
AIA Los Angeles, Swiss Institute for Architects, Swiss Society of
Engineers and Architects and AIA Europe and also as a board member
of the Architecture & Design Museum Los Angeles. He currently
serves as treasurer of the LA/AIA and serves as a past as co-chair
and advisor to the LA/AIA Academic Outreach Committee. He has also
been largely responsible for raising nearly $100,000 for student
scholarships on behalf of the AIA. For the last several years,
David has organized the highly visible LA/AIA annual 2x8 exhibit,
bringing together the schools in an annual exhibit of work.
Robert Pasersky, AIA
In February 2006, after closely following news reports of how 10
churches in rural Alabama were destroyed by arson, Robert Pasersky,
a native of Atlanta, felt an ineffable need to volunteer his
services, pro bono, to help the victims get their places of worship
rebuilt. Two took him up on his offer, and, as a framework through
which to offer pro-bono design services to both churches, as well
as other projects, he established Open House Works. To define its
commitment better, his company joined the 1%, a program of Public
Architecture through which design professionals pledge a percentage
of their time to working pro bono for their community. Pasersky
earned his BArch from Tulane University where he received the F.W.
Lawrence Memorial Medal for design excellence upon graduation. He
earned his MArch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Pasersky joined Payette in 1999 and was named an associate of the
firm in 2002. Pasersky also has taught advanced studio and has
served as a thesis advisor at Boston Architectural College since
1998. In 2000, Pasersky earned a certificate of achievement from
the Boston Society of Architects Young Designers Professional
Development Institute.
Tim Schroeder, AIA
Graduating cum laude from Iowa State University in 1994, Tim
Schoeder received the Kocimski Award, the highest award available
to graduating architecture students. Schroeder, in 2000 at age 30,
became a vice president of Neumann Monson Architects and has led
many of the firm's design and sustainability endeavors. An
outstanding designer, his work has been honored by the AIA and
other organizations and environmental groups at the local, state,
and regional level. He created Iowa’s first green roof
project, the first LEED-certified school, the first LEED-certified
public building and was the recipient of AIA Iowa’s first
Sustainability Award. Schroeder also served on the Iowa
Architectural Foundation Board and the editorial board for the
award-winning Iowa Architect magazine, for which he recently became
editor-in-chief. He also serves as a guest lecturer for his alma
mater and leads building tours on behalf of the Cedar Rapids-Iowa
City Architects Council. His recent community-oriented service
activities include the Hickory Hill Park prairie restoration, the
City of Coralville’s Iowa River Landing wetland restoration
and planting, and the Iowa City tornado clean-up.
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