April 20, 2007 - Detroit - The Michigan
Chapter of the American Institute of Architects has chosen Michael A.
Marshburn, AIA to be its Gold Medalist. The Gold Medal is the highest
achievement that an architect can attain in the state. AIA Michigan will
hold its Annual Celebration of Excellence in Architecture in Plymouth at the
Inn at St. John. The Inn will play host to over 200 architects for their
annual celebration. This year will mark the 150th Anniversary of The
American Institute of Architects.
Marshburn’s professional experience includes
over 25 years as President of Marshburn/Bunkley Associates. In 2001 his firm
merged with TMP from Bloomfield Hills and he became a Vice President of the
firm. Throughout his career he has been active in numerous local and
professional organizations serving as president of both AIA Michigan and the
Michigan Architectural Foundation. In 1999 he was also honored with the
Robert F. Hastings Award given annually by the AIA in recognition of his
significant effort and contribution to the society and to the architectural
profession.
His greatest contribution has been to
education in Southwest Michigan. He has worked with 8 different school
districts, building and remodeling their facilities, helping them to craft
their bond proposals and steering them toward quality architecture. His
buildings dot the campus of Hillsdale College and Western Michigan
University.
Marshburn was the founder of the Education
Facilities Conference in 1992. This annual forum, under the auspices of the
Michigan Architectural Foundation, brings all the players responsible for
school construction to the same table. School boards, superintendents,
regulators and architects meet together to improve communications and to
solve problems. Speakers from across the country present the latest and best
techniques for designing quality K-12 learning environments.
He earned his architecture degree from Miami
University in Ohio.
Detroit - May 19, 2006 - Carl D. Roehling, a
member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, is
the recipient of the Gold Medal, the highest honor available to members of
the Michigan Society. The medal was presented at the Annual Celebration of
Architecture in the Rackham Building on the campus of the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Carl Roehling, FAIA is President and Chief
Executive Officer of SmithGroup. He was elected to his current position in
December 2001 and is responsible for the strategic direction and marketing
of SmithGroup's six companies, operating from nine U.S. offices.
Roehling has held numerous leadership
positions within the AIA, at both the national and chapter levels. He has
served as present of both AIA Michigan and AIA Detroit, and was the
recipient of the Detroit Chapter's Gold Medal in 1999. For the national
organization, he served on AIA's Board of Directors, Documents Committee,
Committee on the Environment, and as national chair of the PIA.
Equally as active with his community as he
is with the profession, he has served on the Board of Directors for the
Downtown Detroit Partnership, including its executive committee for the past
seven years. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Music Hall, as
been an active contributor to the Building Committee of the Greater Detroit
Chamber of Commerce, and the Royal Oak Historic District Committee. He was a
founding Board member of The University of Michigan College of Architecture
Alumni Board of Governors, and served as its president in 1992.
During his nearly 20 years at SmithGroup,
Roehling has served as principal-in-charge on numerous notable projects.
This includes the Chrysler World Headquarters, CBS Fox Headquarters,
Consumers Energy Headquarters, Detroit Athletic Club renovations, Michigan
Tech's Dow Building, the Western Michigan University Recreation Center,
Jackson National Life Headquarters, the Detroit Institute of Arts expansion,
Comerica Park, Visteon Village and the new downtown Detroit YMCA.
He is frequently called upon by the media
for his expertise, and has been recognized in Architectural Record, ENR,
World Architecture, and the Wall Street Journal. He is an outspoken advocate
for Detroit and its architecture and is frequently heard on radio stations
WJR and WWJ, and has been featured on Detroit's major TV stations.
The Gold Medal in architecture traces its
roots back to England in 1848 when the Royal Institute of British Architects
awarded their first prize. A few American architects were honored by the
British in the early years, the prize is open to architects throughout the
world, but, it wasn’t until1907, during the celebration of the Institute’s
50th anniversary, that American architects decided to award “some signal
honor” to “a person who has done the most for the profession.” As it turned
out, the medal went to Sir Ashton Webb, an Englishman. It wasn’t until 1953
when a Gold Medal was created by sculptor Marshall Fredericks that Michigan
had its first Gold Medalist, Leo M. Bauer, FAIA.
AIA
MICHIGAN HONORS THOMAS R. MATHISON, FAIA WITH PRESTIGIOUS GOLD MEDAL AND
ELECTION TO THE COLLEGE OF FELLOWS
DETROIT, April 25, 2005 – The American Institute of Architects Michigan (AIA
Michigan) will recognize architect Thomas R. Mathison, AIA, with two
prestigious honors - the AIA Michigan Gold Medal and election to the
American Institute of Architects College of Fellows at the 2005 AIA Michigan
Honor Awards and Recognition Program, being held Friday, April 29 at the
Royal Park Place Hotel in Rochester Hills, MI.
TheAIA Michigan Gold Medal is
the highest honor that AIA Michigan can bestow upon a member. The
award is presented in recognition of notable contributions to AIA Michigan
and for outstanding achievements in the profession. Fellowship in the
American Institute of Architects is awarded to members who have made
contributions of national significance to the profession.
Mathison is a
principal with Tower
Pinkster Titus Associates, Inc., an award-winning 80-person architectural
and engineering firm with offices in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. He
has been a member of the American Institute of Architects since 1978, and
has served the organization at the local, state and national levels in
various positions.
At AIA Michigan,
he was among the original organizers of the annual Educational Facilities
Planning Conference, now in its fourteenth year. In 1999,
Mathison founded the AIA Michigan Mentoring Network, linking architecture
students with practicing architects in mentoring relationships at all four
of Michigan’s accredited colleges of architecture. The only mentoring
program of its kind in the nation, the program has been duplicated by a
number of AIA components around the country.
As an architect,
Mathison’s background has focused on educational, health care and
governmental facility design, and has been involved with projects for Kent
County, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids Community College, Kalamazoo
Valley Community College, and Byron Center, Otsego, Grand Rapids and
Kalamazoo schools.
He has served in many
positions on the AIA Michigan Board of Directors and served as AIA Michigan
president in 1996 and AIA Michigan Regional Director from 2002-2004.
In 2003, he was elected as a vice president
of AIA National. In his position with AIA National, he has championed
emerging professionals, diversity of the profession and livable communities,
as well as AIA’s knowledge agenda and advocacy initiatives, and has been at
the center of architecture education policy mentoring initiatives and
long-range planning for the organization.
Mathisonalso is a registered
architect in Florida; he has been the recipient of the President’s Award
from AIA Florida Central and the only two-time recipient of the award from
AIA Grand Valley.
Steve
Vogel, FAIA
GOLD MEDAL GOES TO DETROIT ARCHITECT
Detroit - May 13, 2004 - The Gold Medal is
the highest honor available to members of the American Institute of
Architects Michigan. Steve Vogel, FAIA, Dean of the School of
Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy will receive his medal at
the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills on May 14. AIA Michigan
will hold its honor awards program in the DeSalle Auditorium on the campus.
Stephen Vogel, FAIA is a founding principal
of Schervish Vogel Consulting Architects. He has over thirty years of
experience in architecture and urban design. Mr. Vogel is also a partner in
the Harmonie Development Corporation, which develops small and medium sized
urban, historic and adaptive reuse projects and is the developer of the
Harmonie Park/Madison Avenue Redevelopment Project in downtown Detroit. This
project has received a national American Institute of Architects Honor Award
for Regional and Urban Design and a national Merit Award for Urban Design
from the American Society of Landscape Architects. The firm has additionally
received over fifty design awards from local, state and national
organizations for the excellence of its work.
Vogel has been Dean of the School of
Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy since 1993. He earned his
Master of Architecture degree there in 1975. During that time he has focused
the school's mission on service to the urban community and to educating
future architects committed to building sustainable communities. To that end
he co-founded the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, a university-based
center that provides professional design services to non-profit civic and
community organizations, and the International Center for Urban Ecology that
advocates community participation in the re-ordering of post-industrial
cities. The work of the International Center has been exhibited in France
and Germany.
AIA Michigan is a component of the American Institute of Architects. Its
members sponsor the Honor Awards Program to bring to public attention
examples of good design and to recognize the people who make significant
contributions to the built environment.
Eugene C. Hopkins, FAIA ANN ARBOR ARCHITECT
IS GOLD MEDAL WINNER
Detroit
- April 30, 2003 - Eugene C. Hopkins, FAIA, received
the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects Michigan on May 2,
2003 during the Society's annual awards program at the Kingswood School on
the Cranbrook campus. It is the highest honor that the 2,000 member
organization can bestow.
Hopkins is a senior vice president, member of the SmithGroup Michigan Board
of Directors and studio leader. Before joining SmithGroup, he was founder
and principal of Architects Four, an AIA Honor Award-winning firm
specializing in historic preservation.
He is a strong advocate for the value of design in advancing quality of life
issues. He is a recognized leader in historic preservation architecture,
with extensive experience in the restoration and rehabilitation of
structures listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places.
His work on the Michigan State Capitol received numerous awards, including
the National Trust for Historic Preservation Honor Award , the AIA Michigan
Honor Award, and the AIA Honor Award for Architecture
In May of 2002, the 134rd national convention of the AIA elected Hopkins as
the 2003 vice president/president elect. He will become president of the AIA
in 2004.
In the local and state arena, Hopkins served in leadership positions,
including vice president and president of the AIA Huron Valley component.
Subsequently, he was president of AIA Michigan after having served as vice
president, treasurer, and secretary.
Hopkins has received numerous honors for his contribution to his profession.
In 1992 he received the AIA Michigan Young Architect of the Year Award, in
1997 he was elevated to the College of Fellows for design excellence and in
2002 received the Robert Hastings FAIA Award from AIA Michigan.
Hopkins received an associate degree in architectural drafting (1972,
highest distinction) from Ferris State University. He completed his
education at the University of Michigan earning a bachelor of science (1974,
high distinction), and master of architecture (1975, high distinction).
He currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan his wife of 30 years in the home
that the couple designed and constructed. They have a daughter who is a
recent graduate of the University of Michigan now residing in Seattle.
Detroit — May 2, 2002 — The American Institute of
Architects Michigan will award its highest honor to Robert Ziegelman,
FAIA, an architect who has practiced in Birmingham for almost 40 years.
He was a founding member of the Civic Design Committee and his work has
contributed greatly to making Birmingham one of the most highly regarded
cities of its size In the United States. The medal will be presented on May
3 at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
After apprenticing with Minoru Yamasakl and
Eero Saarinen, he established an independent practice in 1963 and then
joined with his long time friend Carl Luckenbach to found
LuckenbachIZiegelman and Partners in 1980. In 1988 Bob was advanced to the
College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects for notable
contribution to architectural design.
His pioneering work in
prefabricated modular construction gained him international attention, and
recognition from Fortune Magazine as one of the ten outstanding young
architects in the country.
Upon graduation from Detroit Cass Technical
High School, Bob went on to receive a Bachelor of Architecture degree at the
University of Michigan and a Master of Architecture at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
He and his firm have earned more than 70
design awards and citations from the national, state and local components of
the American Institute of Architects.
Ziegelman is an active member of AIA. As
Chairman of the Fellowship Nomination Committee for the last ten years, he
established a mentoring system that has resulted in more Follows being
elected from Michigan than any previous ten year period In the history of
AIA Michigan.
Arnold Mikon, FAIA
DETROIT ARCHITECT EARNS GOLD MEDAL
Detroit, Michigan — April 5, 2000 — The Gold
Medal is the highest accolade a Michigan architect can earn. Arnold
Mikon, FAIA of the SmithGroup in Detroit will get his
medal during the annual honor awards ceremony on April 7th in
Mt. Pleasant. A banquet will be the finale of the annual
convention of the American Institute of Architects - Michigan
who are at the Soaring Eagle Resort for three days of meetings,
seminars and programs.
Mikon decided to be an architect in the
10th grade and now is chair and CEO of The SmithGroup
Companies, the oldest and one of the largest continuously
operated architectural -engineering practices in the United
States. In 1996 he was inducted into the College of Fellows
of the American Institute of Architects.
Mikon is a civic leader and downtown
Detroit booster. His firm recently completed an interior
restoration of the historic Guardian Building for their
corporate offices. The building was designed in 1922 by his firm
and the move represents a return to its roots. As good fortune
would have it, the firm will be getting a design award for their
work on the building. He chaired the Detroit Central Business
District Association and helped to produce a land use plan that
led to the city*s designation as Federal Empowerment Zone.
He has committed his time and his firms
resources to promoting AIA locally and nationally. He has been
president of AIA Detroit, chaired the political action committee
and is a member of the Large Firm Round Table.
Mikon has a Bachelor of Architecture
and Master of Business Administration from the University of
Michigan and a year at the Detroit College of Law. He lives in
Huntington Woods with his wife, Deena, the twins Beth and
Renee and son Bradley.
Detroit, Michigan — April 27, 1999 — Kenneth
Neumann, FAIA got the Gold Medal from the Michigan Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects - Michigan at its joint convention with the Ontario
Association of Architects in Windsor on April 30th. This is the highest
individual honor that the state can bestow. Neumann is a Southfield
architect, president of Neumann/Smith Associates. His primary role is
principal-in-charge of design. Under his direction, the firm has earned over
100 awards for design excellence and has been recognized in national and
international publications. In 1996, Neumann Smith was the Architectural
Firm of the Year. This year his firm earned an Honor Award for a private
house in Franklin.
Neumann’s passion for
architecture is evident in the vitality and style that has distinguished his
firm for nearly three decades. He has marked the decades with several
important milestones. In 1979 he earned a place in the College of Fellows of
the American Institute of Architects. The Detroit Chapter - AIA awarded him
its Gold Medal in 1989 and now in 1999 he gets a gold medal from AIA
Michigan. The first medal, designed by the late sculptor Marshall
Fredericks, was awarded in 1953.
He is also busy outside the firm. He lectures at Lawrence
Technological University, the University of Detroit and the University of
Michigan. He is a member of the Founders Society Graphic Arts Council at the
Detroit Institute of Arts. He also finds time to be treasurer of the City of
Southfield Building Authority. He regularly travels to Washington for
meeting of the AIA Jury of Fellows.
Ken was born in Chicago and earned his Bachelor of
Architecture degree from the University of Illinois. From there he went on
to the Harvard School of Design for his Master of Architecture and still
works hard for the Alumni Council as its Regional Representative.
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