Roger Williams’s architecture community scored the most awards of any single group from the American Institute of Architects

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Roger Williams UniversityDOCS@RWUFeatured News Story The Week at Roger5-1-2017RWU Architecture Community Claims NearlyHalf of New England Design AwardsPublic Affairs, Roger Williams UniversityFollow this and additional works at: https://docs.rwu.edu/weekatroger_featured_newsPart of the Higher Education CommonsThis News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Week at Roger at DOCS@RWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in FeaturedNews Story by an authorized administrator of DOCS@RWU. For more information, please contact mwu@rwu.edu.Recommended CitationPublic Affairs, Roger Williams University, "RWU Architecture Community Claims Nearly Half of New England Design Awards"(2017). Featured News Story. 291.https://docs.rwu.edu/weekatroger_featured_news/29111/12/2018  RWU Architecture Community Claims Nearly Half of New England Design Awards | Roger Williams Universityhttps://www.rwu.edu/news/news-archive/rwu-architecture-community-claims-nearly-half-new-england-design-awards 1/4 News Archive RWU Architecture Community Claims Nearly Halfof New England Design AwardsRoger Williams’s architecture community scored the most awards of any singlegroup from the American Institute of ArchitectsThe RWU Richard L. Bready Mount Hope Bay Sailing and EducationCenter earned ACTWO Architects a top honor in the 2016 AmericanInstitute of Architects New England Design Awards Program. ImageCredit: ACTWO ArchitectsMay 1, 2017 Public A airs Sta BRISTOL, R.I. – From concept to design, the Roger Williams University architecture communitycreated a colossal impression upon the 2016 American Institute of Architects (AIA) New EnglandDesign Awards Program in Portland, Maine. In the most recent professional competition, 18 of the41 award-winning projects were in uenced by RWU. They were either designed by RWU faculty,alumni or a partner that has instructed undergraduate or graduate architecture students via theTeaching Firms in Residence program in the School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation.The annual awards program recognizes design excellence in projects in New England or by NewEngland architects. The competition considered 237 projects for contention in the region’s most-sought industry awards, which were reviewed by a New York-based jury of professional architects.Awards were conveyed in a number of categories in three classi cations: honor (as the highest levelof achievement), merit, and citation. In addition to the juried review, two awards in the People’sChoice category – which were selected via online voting open to the public – were taken home by11/12/2018  RWU Architecture Community Claims Nearly Half of New England Design Awards | Roger Williams Universityhttps://www.rwu.edu/news/news-archive/rwu-architecture-community-claims-nearly-half-new-england-design-awards 2/4an RWU Teaching Firm in Residence and a  rm employing several alumni.Below are the 2016 award-winners connected to Roger Williams:Institutional / Honor AwardsCharles Rose Architects Inc. Jean Vollum Drawing, Painting and Photography Building, Oregon College of Art and Cra ,Portland, OR Spring 2014 RWU Teaching Firm in ResidenceGray Organschi Architecture Common Ground High School, New Haven, CT Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 RWU Teaching Firm in ResidenceMachado Silvetti The Kevin and Karen Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts, Clinton, NY Nathan Fash, Project Architect and RWU Assistant Professor of ArchitectureInstitutional / Merit AwardsdesignLAB architects Seton Hill Dance & Visual Arts Center, Greensburg, PA Fall 2014, Fall 2012, Fall 2011 RWU Teaching Firm in Residence. The  rm also includes RWU alumnaKerri Hoban M’15.Sasaki Middlebury College Virtue Field House, Middlebury, VT Fall 2015, Spring 2009 RWU Teaching Firm in ResidenceSasaki Sacred Heart University Martire Business & Communications Center, Fair eld, CT Fall 2015, Spring 2009 RWU Teaching Firm in ResidenceInstitutional / Citation AwardsACTWO Architects RWU Richard L. Bready Mount Hope Bay Sailing and Education Center, Bristol, RI RWU Professor of Architecture Andrew Cohen; RWU alumni Thom White ’92, Dan Kasmarek ’05,Ryan Decker ’10, M ’1211/12/2018  RWU Architecture Community Claims Nearly Half of New England Design Awards | Roger Williams Universityhttps://www.rwu.edu/news/news-archive/rwu-architecture-community-claims-nearly-half-new-england-design-awards 3/4Charles Rose Architects Inc. Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center, Brandeis University in Waltham, MA Spring 2014 RWU Teaching Firm in ResidenceMerit Award / Single Family Residential Awards3six0 Architecture Cottage in Woods in Foster, RI Jack Ryan, RWU Adjunct FacultyGray Organschi Architecture Woodland House in Hamden, CT Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 RWU Teaching Firm in ResidenceNortheast Collaborative Architects Church of St. Gregory the Great, Portsmouth, RI RWU alumni: Michael DeMatteo ’05. The  rm includes additional alumni principals Sean Donadio’91; Dan Kwasniewski ’93, Andrea Torrizo ’99, ’02.Citation Award / Historic Preservation + AdaptiveReuseAmenta Emma Architects Symmetry Partners, Glastonbury, CT RWU alumni participants: Samantha Amoroso ’13, M’15, Craig Battisto ’99. Amenta Emma includesseven additional RWU architecture alumni: Myles Brown ’94, Principal; Andres Daza ’13, M’15;Pawel Honc ’13, M’14; Robert Larson ’05; Marc Moura ’02; Evan Mozzer ’14, M’16; Casey Ray ’14,M’16.Ann Beha Architects Saieh Hall for Economics, Chicago, IL Fall 2008 RWU Teaching Firm in ResidenceGray Organschi Architecture Quarry House, Guilford, CT Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 RWU Teaching Firm in ResidenceJoeb Moore & Partners Architects Stonington / Lincoln Residence, Stonington, CT Fall 2016 RWU Teaching Firm in Residence. The  rm also includes Devin Picardi, Associate ’12,M’12.11/12/2018  RWU Architecture Community Claims Nearly Half of New England Design Awards | Roger Williams Universityhttps://www.rwu.edu/news/news-archive/rwu-architecture-community-claims-nearly-half-new-england-design-awards 4/4Citation Award / Special ProjectsGray Organschi Architecture Henry David Thoreau Suspension Footbridge, Washington Depot, CT Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 RWU Teaching Firm in ResidencePeople’s Choice / InstitutionalStantec Architecture Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Tree House Student Residence, Boston, MA Fall 2015 RWU Teaching Firm in ResidencePeople’s Choice / Renovations + Adaptive ReuseAmenta Emma Architects Symmetry Partners, Glastonbury, CT RWU alumni participants: Samantha Amoroso ’13, M’15, Craig Battisto ’99. Amenta Emma includesseven additional RWU architecture alumni: Myles Brown ’94, Principal; Andres Daza ’13, M’15;Pawel Honc ’13, M’14; Robert Larson ’05; Marc Moura ’02; Evan Mozzer ’14, M’16; Casey Ray ’14,M’16.ACADEMICS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, ART, & HISTORIC PRESERVATION

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