Joseph Mashburn, AIA, has been the Dean of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas since August, 1998.[1] This came shortly after being inducted into UH's Architecture Hall of Fame in 1996.[2] Mashburn stepped down from his post at Hines in December 2009 and was replaced by Patricia Oliver.[3] He has continued to teach at the college.[4] He was also named to the American Institute of Architects' College of Fellows in 2010.[5]
He received his Bachelor of Architecture from University of Houston in 1978. In 1982, he earned a Master of Architecture degree from Texas A&M University.[5]
He served as an assistant professor and graduate design coordinator at A&M from 1982 to 1988 and in 1989 moved to Virginia Tech.[6]
He has received the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Design Award, the Virginia Society AIA Award for Excellence in Architecture, and the Committee of Heads of Australian Schools of Architecture Design Award.
Euine Fay Jones was an American architect and designer. An apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright during his professional career, Jones is the only one of Wright's disciples to have received the AIA Gold Medal (1990), the highest honor awarded by the American Institute of Architects.
The University of Houston (UH) is a public research university in Houston, Texas and the main institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, UH is the third-largest university in Texas with over 46,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of Houston–University Park from 1983 to 1991. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity."
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image. The AIA also works with other members of the design and construction team to help coordinate the building industry.
Steven Holl is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. Among his most recognized works are the 2019 REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 2019 Hunters Point Library in Queen in New York, the 2007 Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and the 2009 Linked Hybrid mixed-use complex in Beijing, China. Holl is not a recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize which is viewed by some in his profession as an omission.
James Stewart Polshek is an American architect living in New York City. He is the founder of Polshek Partnership, the firm at which he was Principal Design Partner for more than four decades. He is currently Design Counsel to the legacy firm Ennead Architects, as well as being actively engaged as design lead on multiple projects.
Burdette Keeland, Jr. was an American architect and professor from Houston whose work was admired by Philip Johnson. Predominantly a modernist, he designed several projects from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) is a postnominal title or membership, designating an individual who has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
David Heymann is an American architect, writer, and educator. Heymann is most known for his 1988 design of an environmentally friendly house for then Governor of Texas George W. Bush and Laura Bush for their Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas. Heymann is a contributing writer for Places Journal. In 2014 he published a book of short stories, My Beautiful City Austin, which has been included on several lists of best literature about Austin, Texas. He is currently the Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor at University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.
Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS) was an architecture firm founded in Houston, Texas, the United States in 1946. In 1983, J.E. Sirrine, an industrial engineering firm, merged with the company and the company's name was changed to CRSS, popularly known as CRS-Sirrine. It divested itself in 1994.
Weiss/Manfredi is a multidisciplinary New York City-based design practice that combines landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art. The firm's notable projects include the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, the Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech, the Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania, the Museum of the Earth the Embassy of the United States, New Delhi, and Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park.
Pennzoil Place is a set of two 36-story towers in downtown Houston, Texas, United States. Completed in 1976, Pennzoil, by the firm of Philip Johnson/John Burgee Architects — from a concept and design by Eli Attia, an architect with the firm — is Houston's most award-winning skyscraper and is widely known for its innovative design.
Marshall Purnell is a prominent African-American architect and 2008 president of the American Institute of Architects.
Karl Kamrath was an American architect and tennis player. He, along with Frederick James MacKie, Jr., created the Houston-based architectural firm Mackie and Kamrath. The firm's buildings reflected the principles of Organic Architecture and Usonian architecture, an outcome of Kamrath's friendship with Frank Lloyd Wright. His career spanned over five decades during which he designed residential, commercial, institutional and government buildings. Prior to founding MacKie and Kamrath, Karl Kamrath worked for Pereira and Pereira, the Interior Studios of Marshall Field and Company, and the Architectural Decorating Company in Chicago, Illinois.
Robert Ivy (FAIA) is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) since 2011.
Fred Bassetti FAIA, was a Pacific Northwest architect, teacher and a prime contributor to the regional approach to Modern architecture during the 1940s-1990’s. His architectural legacy includes some of the Seattle area's more recognizable buildings and spaces. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) described his role as a regional architect and activist as having made significant contributions to "the shape of Seattle and the Northwest, and on the profession of architecture."
John O'Quinn Field at TDECU Stadium is an American football stadium on the campus of the University of Houston. The stadium serves as the home of the Houston Cougars football team, which represents the University of Houston in collegiate football. TDECU Stadium was built on the former site of Robertson Stadium, which was the intermittent home of the school's football program since 1946. Its official name is derived from Texas Dow Employees Credit Union (TDECU), the largest credit union in Houston, which purchased its naming rights in what was then the largest-ever naming rights deal for a college football stadium.
Charles E. Dagit Jr. is a contemporary American architect, artist, writer and professor. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects residing in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Kenneth Franzheim was an architect in Chicago and Boston in the early 1920s with C. Howard Crane. He started an independent practice in New York in 1925 and specialized in the design of large commercial buildings and airports.
Kiel Kenneth Moe. is a registered practice American architect. Moe has taught architecture and energy at University of Illinois at Chicago, Syracuse University, Northeastern University and Harvard Graduate School of Design. He holds positions as Gerald Sheff Chair of Architecture in McGill University.
The William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library is one of multiple locations serving the University of Houston Libraries system. It is housed within the University of Houston’s Hines College of Architecture located in the northern part of campus, and is along the western wall of the 1st floor in room 106. The library was established in 1986 upon the completion of the College of Architecture. The library's collection initially was a merger of the central library's art and design books combined with the previous College of Architecture building's collection. Architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee were the lead designers of the building. In 1989 the library was officially named after William R. Jenkins in memory of his passing. Additionally, Sally Walsh was the interior designer for the library and the College of Architecture.
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