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Each year, the Chairs of our Design Award committee travel to a quadrant of the country, visiting a different city in search of new architect professionals to review and judge our Chapter’s Design Award submissions. This year, Dallas was the chosen city.
The jury was held at the offices of AIA Dallas on Friday, June 14, where 104 submissions were chosen for acknowledgement by the included architects. Each jury, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, were charged with reviewing the projects in their chosen categories and supporting their preferred choices. The individuals who served on the two juries are:
Diego Barrera, AIA | WRA Architects
An optimist who believes in the power of design to positively influence people’s lives, Diego serves as principal and director of design at WRA Architects. With nearly two decades of experience in education design, he leads the development of innovative design solutions for a broad range of K-12 and Higher Education projects. As an Accredited Learning Environment Planner (ALEP), Diego partners with educators and communities to envision the future of their educational environments, helping clients translate their vision into a design. Diego also serves as Chair of AIA’s national Committee of Architecture for Education, which fosters innovation in the design of educational facilities through collaboration and heightens public awareness on the importance of environments for education.
Joel Efrussy, AIA | Corgan
Serving as Studio Design Director at Corgan for the Dallas Aviation Studio with over 25 years of architectural experience, Joel possesses an extensive portfolio of design leadership for high-profile and programmatically complex projects including aviation, corporate office, mixed-use, master planning, and urban design projects, producing some of Corgan’s most notable recent works, such as LaGuardia Terminal C, Nashville BNA Vision, and Toyota North American Headquarters. Joel holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin and is a registered architect in the State of Texas.
Michael Malone, FAIA | Malone Maxwell Dennehy Architects
Michael Malone is the Founding Principal of Malone Maxwell Dennehy Architects, known for its award-winning and widely published projects and its focus in the areas of residential, retail, corporate interiors and recreational design. The firm has been the recipient of both the AIA Dallas Firm Award (2013) and the Firm Award of the Texas Society of Architects (2023). Michael served as the 2015 President of the Texas Society of Architects and is the author of the McGraw Hill-published book, The Architects Guide to Residential Design. Michael is also a contributing editor to Texas Architect Magazine where he has written on a variety of topics. A graduate of both Auburn University (BA) and The University of Texas at Arlington (MA), Michael has taught graduate studios at UT as an adjunct professor since 2019.
Nancy McCoy, FAIA | McCoy Collaborative – A TREANORHL Company
A seasoned preservation architect and principal with national experience and recognition gained over 35 years of practice, Nancy’s experience in adapting historic buildings for continued and long-term use includes many National Historic Landmarks such as the U.S. Custom House in New York, the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, D.C., Kansas City Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, and Fair Park and the Dallas County Administration Building (School Book Depository) in Dallas, Texas. With work that has been recognized with National Trust Honor Awards and many state and local awards, she also serves in the U.S. General Services Administration’s Design Excellence program as a peer reviewer for historic preservation and has co-authored Architecture That Speaks — a book focused on buildings at Texas A&M University.
Yen Ong, FAIA | 5G Studio Collaborative
Yen directs 5G Studio’s architectural research and strategic conceptual design approaches, entwining matters of context, typology, and craft — to reframe places, purpose, meaning, and architectonic expression — into emotive works that are lucid, uplifting, and tactile to convey optimism for new possibilities and to approach the realm of the fantastic. His distinguished works have been broadly recognized for their design excellence at the national level. Leading a practice culture that promotes curiosity, celebrates inclusivity, and empowers personal autonomy, he has twice led 5G Studio to be ranked 31st in the Design category for consecutive years in the ARCHITECT 50 program run by ARCHITECT magazine, has been honored with two American Architecture Awards, and has won 12 AIA design recognitions in the past 9 years.
Hilda Rodriguez, AIA | Hilda Rodriguez Architecture
An award-winning Interior and Architectural Designer with thirty-one years of wide-ranging experience across complex multidisciplinary design projects in Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States, Hilda is a leader, effective team manager, and trainer who is recognized in various media for her contributions to interior architectural design. She obtained her Master’s degree in Architecture at Harvard University and has recently served on the Board of Dallas Habitat, the Advisory Board for the Renovation of the Kalita Humphreys Theatre, and The Oaklawn Committee. A teacher of interior design at Wade College, Hilda is a frequent guest critic at the University of Texas at Arlington. The sole owner of HILDA RODRIGUEZ Architecture/Planning/Interiors LLC, an Interiors and Architectural Design firm offering design services for aviation, commercial, educational, hospitality, medical and residential projects.
Ron Wommack, FAIA | Ron Wommack Architect
A Founding Principal of Ron Wommack Architect, Ron had previously worked for two of the Southwest’s most recognized and design-oriented firms, The Oglesby Group and Frank Welch Associates. His firm’s projects range from the refurbishing of older housing units into viable urban dwellings, the development of new denser housing typologies, and single-family residences to corporate office facilities and public / community projects. For this body of work, the firm has received more than twelve American Institute of Architects (AIA) component design awards, plus six Texas Society of Architects and various AIA Dallas Honor Awards. The firm has also received awards from D-Magazine Home of the Year and from Preservation Dallas. A graduate of Texas Tech University (BA), Ron has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and as a visiting studio critic at TTU. A past president of the Dallas Architecture Forum, his firm was honored as the 2006 AIA Dallas Firm of the Year.
Since participating in the jury in mid-June, we have learned that Ron passed away suddenly on June 30. “According to his wife, Joylyn, his last words were about architecture.” –Read more in the tribute from AIA Dallas. Our thoughts go out to his wife and family.
Learn more about the DA committee.
Published: 07/24/2024
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