2010 AIA Architecture Firm Award Goes to Pugh + Scarpa
The firm has won 13 national AIA awards and more than 40 state and local ones over the past 10 years.
Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 12/22/2009 12:00:00 AM
Pugh + Scarpa's California-based firm
The American Institute of Architects awards keep on coming for Pugh + Scarpa. Less than three months after receiving the 2010 Firm Award from the AIA California Council, the Santa Monica, California-based, Interior Design Hall of Fame firm is winning the same award again—this time from the national AIA's board of directors.
The annual AIA Architecture Firm Award is the highest honor the organization bestows, in recognition of practices that consistently produce "distinguished architecture for at least 10 years." When Pugh + Scarpa are presented with the award on June 12 at the 2010 AIA National Convention in Miami they will join an elite group of past winners including Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, Moore Ruble Yudell, Murphy/Jahn, and KieranTimberlake.
The firm's recent Cherokee Lofts; photo by Tara Wujcik.
"Pugh + Scarpa’s practice is known for both design and its commitment to running a socially and environmentally responsive practice,” wrote Morphosis' Thom Mayne, in support of their nomination. “Comfortable with aesthetic, practical, political, and functional issues, they have mapped an architectural path that is as didactic as it is successful.”
The firm has won 13 national AIA awards and more than 40 state and local ones over the past 10 years for projects ranging from their groundbreaking Solar Umbrella house in Venice, California to their offices for Jigsaw in Los Angeles. With their latest victory, the firm's name will be chiseled into the granite Wall of Honor in the lobby of the AIA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
One of the firm's designs for the New Orleans-based Make It Right Foundation
"We're thrilled," says Lawrence Scarpa. "It was a surprise just to be nominated. It's just stunning to win."
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