Honors and Awards

 
2006 I.D. Design Awards, Environmental Design Category, Honorable Mention Award for “Hot White Orange” design/build community service project led by Mark Anderson with graduate students at UC, Berkeley, with design criticism,project assistance and fund-raising by Peter Anderson.
The I.D. Design Awards, covering industrial design and environmental design, are among the most prestigious and competitive international design awards for professional designers.
2006 Invited to exhibit design work in United States Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Selected by Robert Ivy, FAIA, Editor in Chief of Architectural Record Magazine and Commissioner of the US Pavilion for the 2006 Biennale. The event will occur in September 2006.
2006 AIA Los Angeles student design competition award for Lifebean Emergency Shelter Prototype design and fabrication.
This was one of only two awards given for student projects selected and invited for exhibition at the 2006 AIA national convention. This project was awarded to Mark Anderson’s students for their group design/build project for which Peter Anderson was an additional design critic and a principal fund-raiser.
2006 High Density on the High Ground Competition, Honor Award, sponsored by Architectural Record Magazine and Tulane University.
Open competition, selected from 544 entries, one of two top awards given. Jury included: Eric Naslund, FAIA, of Studio E Architects in San Diego, and Woodbury University; Mario Gooden, of Huff and Gooden Architects in Charleston, SC, and Yale University; Steve Dumez, of Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, New Orleans, LA; Mabel Wilson, of KW:a in Oakland, CA, and California College of the Arts; Sean Cummings, of Ekistics, Inc., New Orleans, LA.
[I appreciated the] “porosity of the grain across the site. The narrow, deep spaces and the play in the overhanging, cantilevered parts are like those found in New Orleans types.” -Dumez
“Light filters down from top to bottom.” -Naslund
“Porous.” -Wilson
“Variability and ambiguity.” -Gooden
“Admirable movement of air and light.” -Cummings
2006 American Institute of Architects (AIA) California Council Design Merit Award, for Orchard House, Sebastopol, CA.
This project has won a number of design awards, in recognition of its design rigor and sensitive yet provocative understanding of its intervention within its California landscape. “This structure has a strong logic and rhythm that brings the orchard into the house. Nicely Done.” -Jury comment
2006 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Faculty Design Honor Award, for Chameleon House, MI.
Anderson Anderson received a top honor award as 1 of 4 awards in this highly competitive international juried competition open to faculty members in any international school of architecture affiliated with ACSA. ACSA Awards Chair was Wendy Ornelas, FAIA.
“This year’s award submissions were critiqued as enriching, innovative, multilayered, and culturally sensitive. –Ornelas
2006 Progressive Architecture (PA) Honor Award, for Wurster Workshop at University of California, Berkeley, School of Architecture.
This is one of the oldest and most prestigious international design awards for forward thinking and influential unbuilt architecture. Please note that there are typically several categories of awards given, and the Honor award is the highest. All three PA awards won by Anderson Anderson have been in the Honor category. Anderson Anderson won 2 of 8 awards given in 2006. Jury included: Frank Barkow, of Barkow Leibinger Architects, Berlin; Stephen Cassell, of Architecture Research Office, New York; Phyllis Lambert, of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; William Massie, of Cranbrook Academy of Art; and Richard Weinstein, of UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Los Angeles.
“One of the things I appreciate is its representation—the way it’s conceived in terms of how it’s made, how it would be affected by life, how it responds to its modular host building.” -Barkow
“Isn’t it also about a kind of methodology?” -Weinstein
“Funny skin.” -Lambert
2006 Progressive Architecture (PA) Honor Award, for Arboretum of the Cascades, Seattle, WA.
Anderson Anderson won 2 of 8 awards given. Jury included: Frank Barkow, of Barkow Leibinger Architects, Berlin; Stephen Cassell, of Architecture Research Office, New York; Phyllis Lambert, of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; William Massie, of Cranbrook Academy of Art; and Richard Weinstein, of UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Los Angeles.
“I’m impressed with the talent with which it was executed…the program requires the study of the forest—underground, floor and canopy. One could make a case for separating the language of what is put there to study from what’s being studied. The technological armature, with straight lines, bolts, and other apparatus, is contrary to natural forms, but draws one in.” -Weinstein
“They’ve made wonderful drawings…the root system [impinged upon by] sharp metal instruments pierced through me.” -Lambert
“It’s poetic.” -Cassell
2006 AIA San Francisco Awards for Excellence in Architecture, Honor Award for Chameleon House, Northport, MI.
Jury included Aaron Betsky, of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; Neil Denari, of Neil M. Denari Architecture, Los Angeles; Michael Vanderbyl, of Vanderbyl Design, San Francisco. The Chameleon project won 1 of 3 Honor awards given in this category. The honor award is the top prize awarded. This is a highly competitive design awards competition in this region with hundreds of entries. The top honor award and two other awards to Anderson Anderson were regarded as a rare sweep and were highly significant and influential in the Bay Area and California design community.
2006 AIA San Francisco Awards for Unbuilt Design, Citation Award for Organic Urban Living Field, Charlottesville, VA.
Jury included Marsha Maytum, FAIA, of Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, San Francisco; Liz Ranieri, of Kuth Ranieri Architects, San Francisco; Pierluigi Serraino, of SFMOMA Architecture and Design Forum. The Organic Urban Living Fields project won 1 of 3 Citation awards given in this category. Anderson Anderson Architecture won 2 of the 6 total awards given in this category.
2006 AIA San Francisco Awards for Unbuilt Design, Merit Award for Arboretum of the Cascades, Preston, WA.
Jury included Marsha Maytum, FAIA, of Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, San Francisco; Liz Ranieri, Kuth Ranieri Architects, San Francisco; Pierluigi Serraino, of SFMOMA Architecture and Design Forum. The Arboretum of the Cascades project won 1 of 3 Citation awards given in this category. Anderson Anderson Architecture won 2 of the 6 total awards given in this category.
2005 Boston Society of Architects Design Award, for Wurster Workshop, Berkeley, CA.
Jury included Frano Violich, of Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Boston; Henry Moss, of Bruner/Cott & Associates, Cambridge; Rebecca Barnes, FAIA, of Brown University, Providence, RI; Nick Winton, of Anmahian Winton Architects, Cambridge; Marilys Nepomechie, FAIA, of Florida International University School of Architecture and Marilys R. Nepomechie Architect, Miami, FL. This competition is regarded as one of the most competitive and prestigious American design awards, open internationally to licensed, practicing architects. The jury selected 6 projects from among the international entries.
“This is an intensely self-referential architectural project that focuses on the art of construction. Its sparse, concentrated material quality is reminiscent of l'arte povere. It is an attempt to create an architecture that can be as fully resolved as a piece of furniture.” -Jury Comment
2005 AIA East Bay Design Merit Award, for Orchard House, Sebastopol, CA.
Jurors included Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA, San Diego; Mark Horton, of Mark Horton Architecture, San Francisco; and Lucia Howard, of Ace Architects, Oakland.
“Extremely rigorous design execution’”—Rob Wellington Quigley (panel discussion comments at awards ceremony).
2005 AIA East Bay Design Merit Award, for Chameleon House, Northport, MI.
Jurors included Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA, San Diego; Mark Horton, of Mark Horton Architecture, San Francisco; and Lucia Howard, of Ace Architects, Oakland.
“Once again, very rigorous design execution. A very impressive project.” Rob Wellington Quigley (panel discussion review comments at awards ceremony).
2005 Urban Habitats Competition, sponsored by Habitat for Humanity, the University of Virginia, and the Charlottesville Community Design Center, Charlottesville, VA, Award winner and one of three competition finalists for “Organic Urban Living Field.”
Open competition, selected from 170 international entries, one of three top awards given. Commission decision is pending. Jury members included: J. Max Bond, FAIA, of Davis Brody Bond architects; Teddy Cruz, of Estudio Teddy Cruz; Julie Eizenberg, of Koning Eizenberg Architecture.
“While all of the designs reference landscape as an organizing principle, this design is organized rationally with a central route that gains access to site, including large open spaces that are clearly defined. Secondary spaces link parking, dwelling areas, and major office spaces. The plan very clearly defines the potential for layering sustainable architecture and landscape systems through use of energy efficient units, louvers, trees, berms and water collection systems.” -Jury Comment
2003 Invited international exhibition, New York (13 firms), Dwell Home Invitational, “AB Parts House.”
Selection jury included Joseph Rosa, Curator of Architecture and Design, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and other prominent academic and practicing architects. Other of the 13 invited participants represented all parts of the world, and included Ralph Rapson, ARUP Partners, Wes Jones.
2002 AIA Seattle Spike Lee Award for Unbuilt Architecture, for Judson College art and architecture building and central campus library, Chicago, IL.
Jury included Rick Joy, of Rick Joy Architect, Tucson; Reed Kroloff, former editor of Architecture Magazine, New York; and Jane Weinzapfel, of Leers Weinzapfel Architects, Boston.
2001 Progressive Architecture (PA) Honor Award. Detroit East Side Community Pavilion. (Project collaboration with Anderson Anderson Architecture and Zago Architecture, Detroit and New York. Mark Anderson and Andrew Zago design principals, with Peter Anderson a key member of project design team).
Jury included Nathalie de Vries, of MVRDV, Rotterdam; Hani Rashid, of Asymptote, New York; Deborah Berke, New York; Brad Cloepfil, of Allied Works Architects, Portland, OR; and Mark Robbins, Design Director of the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
“It’s so damned pretty. I think we’re all drawn to the extremely powerful aesthetics of it. That’s what’s interesting. I’m not just endorsing it as a fancy public canopy. I also think that at least what I see possible in both the clarity of the conception and the rigor, and the singularity and boldness of the execution is that you can make a museum that good, too. That’s what I want people to see in this project. -Cloepfil
“I think this is wonderful. -Berke
“It’s delightful. At the same time, it is very beautiful. It works on so many levels. –de Vries
“Again, a project with a socio-political edge. It seems to be our way of apologizing. It’s avant-garde on its own merits, dealing with the materials, and the budgets, although I have to question the line between architecture and public art. That’s really where this falls into a kind of strange crevice, within the spirit of Gordon Matta-Clark and certain sculptors who’ve worked with this medium. We’re giving it an architecture award, which is a pretty interesting statement. And I think we’re giving it an award because of its sociopolitical trappings, as well as its tectonic and formal ones. –Rashid
“It would be a shame for me if there were a polarity re-inscribed between social engagement and progressive work. I think it’s unfortunate to frame it that way, as if it has to be either this or that. I don’t know if you could say we’re privileging one over the other. Were you first attracted to its beauty, or its appearance, or its power—the gestalt of burnt wood? And then did you later read through and say, aha, this is going in Detroit, in a burnt-out landscape, on a site where there used to be a house? This now becomes a gathering space with a very strong layer of history, this strata literally above your head, which is a very powerful metaphor. –Mark Robbins
2001 Invited international competition, commissioned shortlist finalist. Judson College art and architecture building, central campus library, and central campus master plan, Chicago, IL.
1998 Second place, invited international competition, Curry County, OR, Forest Canopy Park.
1998 AIA Seattle Award for Conceptual Architecture, “Trains in the City.”
The Seattle AIA Honor Awards are statewide awards generally considered to be the most competitive regional AIA awards in the country. Jurors are always internationally famous architects and critics and the number of entries in each category is very high and of very high quality. Jurors for the Seattle awards listed here and below include include Steven Holl, Peter Cook, James Polshek, Reed Kroloff.
1997 AIA Seattle Award for Unbuilt Architecture, Enlow House.
1996 Southwest Washington AIA Honor Award, Prairie Ladder.
1996 Southwest Washington AIA Award of Merit, Ess Residence, Ell Residence, and Shinohara Residence.
1996 Seattle/Washington State AIA Conceptual Architecture Award, Kansai National Science Library.
1996 Northwest and Pacific Region AIA Award of Merit, Kennedy Residence.
1995 Sunset/AIA Western Home Awards, Special Award for Affordable Architecture.
1995 American Wood Council, Wood Design Award, Affordable Prefabricated House Prototype.
This is a very competitive international award competition with entries and winners from around the world.
1995 Seattle/Washington State AIA Conceptual Architecture Award, Anchorage Urban Reconceptualization Project: HotPlateColdPlateMudMapSnowBlindBladderBladder.
1995 Southwest Washington AIA Honor Award, Rue Residence.
1995 Southwest Washington AIA Award of Merit, Sullivan Residence.
1994 Southwest Washington AIA Honor Award, Kennedy Residence.
1994 Southwest Washington AIA Honor Award, Johnson Residence.
1994 Southwest Washington AIA Honor Award, Anderson Residence.
1994 Southwest Washington AIA Award of Merit, Marontate Residence.
1993 National selection to design and build first fully operational "Smart House" technology research house by NAHB Research Council
Technology Demonstration House, exhibiting computerized systems and new construction materials. Sponsored by the National Association of Homebuilders Research Council, the American Plywood Association, and a consortium of utilities and construction products manufacturers and trade organizations.