YOUNG ARCHITECT AWARD

This award recognizes proficiency and exceptional accomplishments in and contributions to the profession by an architect who has been a member of AIAMI for a minimum of three years and is 40 years old or younger. The first
 award was given in 1991.

YOUNG ARCHITECT HONORED

April 20, 2007 - Detroit - Architect Thomas J. Sherry, AIA is the Young Architect of the Year for The Michigan Chapter of the American Institute of Architects . The Young Architect Award is given to individuals, who are under 40 years of age, in recognition of proficiency and exceptional accomplishment and who have made significant contributions to the profession in an early stage of their career.

The award will be made by AIA President Dennis M. King, FAIA at the Annual Celebration of Excellence in Architecture in Plymouth at the Inn at St. John on April 20. This year marks the 150th Anniversary of The American Institute of Architects. The Inn will play host to over 200 architects for this gala.

Sherry is Vice President of Design for Hamilton Anderson Associates in Detroit. In 15 short years of practicing architecture, his work has made a major impact on the built environment, while his passion for the community and the advancement of the profession has helped raise awareness about the importance of urban design among clients, city leaders, colleagues and young students who will shape our cities in years to come.

Tom has played a leading role in large, high impact urban projects such as the Campus Martius District, the East Riverfront Master Plan, Ford Field and the MGM Grand Detroit Hotel & Casino. He also led education-focused projects such as the Detroit School of Arts, Youthville, and several projects for Wayne State University including the Welcome Center Complex. All three design award winners.

He obtained his Masters of Architecture from the University of Michigan in 1993. He lives in Detroit with his architect wife, Jennifer Durham, AIA..

MINEAR IS YOUNG ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR

Detroit - May 19, 2006 - The American Institute of Architects Michigan has made John Paul Minear, AIA its Young Architect of the Year. This award is set aside for those architects who are under 40 years of age who have made a significant contribution to the profession in an early stage of their career. A plaque was presented to Minear at a Celebration of Architecture, AIA Michigan’s annual ceremony in Ann Arbor on May 12. The event was held in the Horace Rackham Building on the University of Michigan Campus.

John Paul Minear, AIA is passionate creative designer who delights in sharing his ideals with his students at Lawrence Technological Institute where he is an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Design. He is senior architect with Integrated Design Solutions in Troy, where he is one of their lead designers in the college and university market. John is a highly motivated professional who loves to critique design and has helped to generate a spirit of design collaboration in his office.

John Paul began his architecture education at Lawrence, took a Master’s Degree from the University of Michigan and has done post graduate studies in London, England. He is a well grounded person, active in his church, sings in the choir and has a Red Belt in karate.

YOUNG ARCHITECT AWARD GOES TO MICHAEL GUTHRIE

Detroit - May 13, 2004 - Michael Guthrie, AIA has already achieved a lot in his career and now he will be named Young Architect of the Year by the American Institute of Architects Michigan in a ceremony at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills on May 14. The award goes to architects who are under 40 years of age who have made a significant contribution to architecture.

Guthrie is principal of Van Tine|Guthrie Studio of Architecture in Farmington Hills and has been in professional practice since 1993. He attended Lawrence Technological University, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture in 1995 and in 1998 his Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan.

His accomplishments are professional, academic and community based. His commitment to the city of Detroit is illustrated by a broad range of projects including the Thorn Apple Valley Redevelopment Complex, the Detroit Public Schools Children's Museum that will be recognized with an Honor Award for Design during the annual Celebration of Excellence at Cranbrook, and the Bagley Street Pedestrian Bridge. He is an adjunct professor of architecture at the University of Michigan and has served on a number of juries for design studios at the University of Michigan, Lawrence Technological University, and the University of Detroit Mercy. He is also an advisor for the AIA Detroit Urban Priorities Committee.

Guthrie has achieved significant professional awards and distinctions that include 4 AIA Detroit Design Awards, 2 AIA Michigan Design Awards, and design awards from the Masonry Institute of Michigan, School Construction and Design Share Awards, and the FX International Design Awards. His firm was one of only 8 offices to present at the Grand Egyptian Museum Competition Symposium in Cairo, Egypt in June of 2003.

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.

YOUNG ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR NAMED

Detroit - April 30, 2003 - Mark Nickita, AIA is the Young Architect of the Year for the American Institute of Architects Michigan. An engraved plaque will be presented to him on May 2, 2003 at the Kingswood School on the Cranbrook Campus in Bloomfield Hills.

This award honors architects who have made a significant contribution to the profession and are under forty years old. Mark Nickita, co-founded the multi-disciplinary design firm, Archive Design Studio in Detroit in1991.

Archive Design Studio is a firm with distinct expertise in the development, enhancement and regeneration of existing, pedestrian-oriented urban environments. The firm has particular experience with urban areas challenged by decay and abandonment, and how these areas can be redeveloped to be a viable part of the greater built environment. This has resulted in many innovative and award-winning design solutions. As evidence, he will also be picking up a design award for the Canfield Lofts Adaptive Reuse Project.

Even upscale communities have benefitted from his urbanist philosophy. As former Chair of the Birmingham Planning Board, he worked to implement a recently adopted New Urbanist design plan for downtown

Through extensive travel and study of over 170 cities throughout North America, Europe and Asia, Mark has developed a genuine understanding of what works and does not work in diverse urban conditions. He encourages his design teams to travel as well. Real knowledge is gained by walking the streets, interviewing people, taking extensive photographs, sketching and taking notes.

Mr. Nickita lectured at The Congress for the New Urbanism in Toronto, Milwaukee and San Francisco. He taught design and lectured at the University of Detroit and Lawrence Technological University. He earned his masters in architecture from Lawrence.

In 1997, Archive D.S. was selected as one of the Next Generation of New Urbanist architects in Architectural Record Magazine. Mark was selected as a member of the Crain's Detroit Business Magazine's 40 under 40 business leaders in Detroit and he won the AIA/Detroit Young Architect Award.

2002

AIA MICHIGAN PICKS ITS YOUNG ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR
BRYAN KOEHN

Detroit — April 19, 2001 — The American Institute of Architects - Michigan has chosen Bryan Koehn, AIA, as its Young Architect of the Year. This distinction is reserved for an architect at the beginning of their career (under 40 years of age) and has shown exceptional accomplishment in the profession and service to the community. The award was made on May 4th at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

After leaving Gensler-Detroit, where he was a senior project designer, Koehn set up his own office, Architects Asylum, in Detroit. The firm is an extension of a discussion group he co-founded that was committed to urban and social issues. Currently, he is working as a design consultant with HarleyEllis, the Southfield firm that is designing the Ave Maria University' s new campus in Ann Arbor for Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza and champion of Cathodic causes throughout the world.

Since he earned his Master's Degree, with distinction, in architecture from the University of Michigan in 1989, he has been on the design team for ten award winning projects. His community service also revolves around design. Detroit- Empowering the City, an exhibit at the Detroit Artist Market, was an effort to use design to shape the physical and social environment of the city. He lives with his family in Redford.

In 1997 he became an Adjunct Design Instructor at Lawrence Institute of Technology. LTU Urban Based Satellite Studios are located in Detroit and Hamtramck. Under his direction, the students are producing provocative designs in a hands-on urban environment.

GRAND RAPIDS ARCHITECT WINS AWARD

Detroit Michigan -- April 5, 2000 -- Michael Corby, AIA, founding principal with Integrated Architects is the 2000 American Institute of Architects- Michigan Young Architect of the Year. The Young Architect Award is set aside for architects who are under 40 years of age but have already evidenced exceptional talent, outstanding commitment to the profession and leadership in the community.

For a young man, Mike Corby has accomplished a lot since his graduation for the University of Michigan Alfred A. Taubman College of Architecture and Planning. He, with partner Paul Dickinson, AIA, formed Integrated Architects that today employs 52 people. Their headquarters in Grand Rapids has won several design honor awards. In addition, it was designed to interact with the community. Since its opening two year ago, 2,500 people have toured the building; attended fund raising event for community projects and gathered for lectures. It was designed specifically to inspire and educate. Common building materials were chosen and used in a creative an uncommon application.

Corby is vice president of AIA Grand Valley. When he was in Ann Arbor, he served as treasurer of the Huron Valley Chapter and developed the "Chalk In The Park" program. A similar program became "Chalk the Walk" in Grand Rapids during the Festival of Arts there.

In his spare time, he is a Den Leader for the Cub Scouts, serves on design juries for the University of Michigan and Calvin College and is a resource to the building committee for Wealthy School. His firm has developed expertise in the Healthplex movement where ambulatory care, fitness and health promotion are brought together in one facility and he speaks at state and national conferences on the subject.

ARCHITECT ACTIVIST NAMED YOUNG ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR

Detroit, Michigan — May 6, 1999— John Davids, AIA, whose experience with the Tiger Stadium Fan Club is, "the single most enlightening and uplifting experience of my professional life" is the Young Architect of the Year for the American Institute of Architects - Michigan. The award, created to honor architects who are under 40 years of age, was presented in Windsor, Ontario at Cleary Auditorium on April 30th. The ceremony was part of a joint convention of Michigan and Ontario architects attended by over six hundred people.

Davids has had a diverse, albeit short, architectural career for the past sixteen years. He is a designer and studio leader for the Recreation and Performing Arts section at TMP Associates, a Bloomfield Hills architectural firm that was named the Architectural Firm of the Year by AIA Michigan.

Working with Jerry Shea, FAIA and the Urban Priorities Committee of the Detroit Chapter/AIA, Davids’ idea for a Community Design Center came about under the direction of Steve Vogel, FAIA at the School of Architecture at the University of Detroit.

He took a year leave from TMP in 1988 to work in London for a firm that specialized in recreational aquatics facilities. As a result, he has done aquatic centers for Battle Creek, Allen Park and the city of Wayne as well as a number of recreation and student activity centers in Michigan and Ohio.

Teaching has been an important part of his life since he was a graduate student teaching assistant at the University of Michigan where he earned his Master of Architecture with High Distinction in 1984. At present he has a part time position at Lawrence Technological University as Adjunct Professor Architecture.

Previous Young Architect Award Winners:

1991	Carl Roehling, AIA
1992	Eugene Hopkins, AIA
1993	No Award Program
1994	Arthur F. Smith, AIA
1995	Cynthia Enzer-Radecki, AIA
1996	William Hartman, AIA
1997	None
1998	Steve Flum,AIA
1999	John Davids, AIA
2000	Michael Corby, AIA
2001	Bryan Koehn