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July
2003
The University of Kansas Wins $25,000 NCARB Grand Prize
Washington, DC—The National Council
of Architectural Registration Boards is pleased to announce that
the University of Kansas has won the $25,000 grand prize
in the 2003 NCARB Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and
Education in the Academy competition. During NCARB's recent conference
in San Antonio, Texas, KU's entry describing Studio 804, Inc.,
was honored for its emphasis on community partnerships and design
excellence.
The NCARB Prize recognizes efforts to creatively link education
and practice. Architecture schools with NAAB-accredited degree programs
were invited to submit established projects, completed or in progress
by the end of the fall 2002 semester, demonstrating unique initiatives
that bring together the academy and the profession within the studio
curriculum. Former NCARB president Peter Steffian, FAIA, laid the
groundwork for the competition and continues to play an integral
role in its search for outstanding programs.
Studio 804, Inc., a nonprofit
organization affiliated with the University
of Kansas, offers a two-semester, graduate-level course synthesizing
practice with the construction industry. The NCARB Prize Jury recognized
the studio's long-term contributions to the Lawrence, Kansas community,
its innovative restoration efforts, and its emphasis on sustainability
and accessibility issues. Jurors described Studio 804 as raising
the bar of student design quality and buildability. Since 1996,
students have completed a full-scale project each year, including
five homes, a roof restoration, and the design and construction
of a canopy behind Ku's architecture school.
A jury comprising the members of the Council's Practice Education
Task Force and five deans of NAAB-accredited architectural programs,
chosen by NCARB's regional leadership, selected six overall winners
from 49 entries. The other NCARB Prize winning submissions each
received a $7,500 cash award. They are:
[To learn more about the 2003 NCARB Prize winners, see the 2003
NCARB Prize Fact Sheet.]
Projects from Yale University ("Yale Building
Project") and the University of Puerto Rico ("Re-building
the City through community design") received honorable mention.
The 2003 NCARB Prize jury were: Janet R. White,
FAIA, jury chair; David Mohney, AIA; Peter T.S. Rasmussen, FAIA;
Barbara A. Sestak, AIA; Peter Steffian, FAIA; John Carter Wyle,
AIA; Howard E. Goldstein, AIA, Wentworth Institute; James L. West,
FAIA, Mississippi State University; Mark C. Engelbrecht, FAIA, Iowa
State University; R. Wayne Drummond, FAIA, University of Nebraska;
and Gregory A. Kessler, AIA, Washington State University. (The University
of Virginia's Karen Van Lengen, AIA, was unable to take part in
the proceedings.) Michiel M. Bourdrez, AIA, director, education
and international services, served as the staff liaison to the NCARB
Prize jury.
The call for entries for the 2004 NCARB Prize will be distributed
in late summer 2003. NCARB will also issue the 2003 NCARB Prize
book in August.
For more information about the NCARB Prize competition, contact
Michiel Bourdrez.
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The mission of the National Council
of Architectural Registration Boards is to work together as a council
of 55 member boards to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare
of the public and to assist member boards in carrying out their
duties. In order to achieve these goals, the Council develops and
recommends standards to be required of an applicant for architectural
registration; develops and recommends standards regulating the practice
of architecture; provides to member boards a process for certifying
the qualifications of an architect for registration; and represents
the interests of member boards before public and private agencies.
With the Committee of Canadian Architectural Councils (CCAC), NCARB
has also established guidelines for the reciprocal registration
of U.S. and Canadian architects.
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