Category: architecture competition
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Making History: Katherine Hogan, Vincent Petrarca Receive Kamphoefner Prize for Modern Architecture
The first husband-wife partnership Katherine Hogan, AIA, and Vincent Petrarca, partners in life and in the award-winning Raleigh firm Tonic Design, were honored to receive the 2017 Kamphoefner Prize at the AIA North Carolina Design Conference held in Wilmington September 13-15. Named for the founding dean of NC State University’s School (now College) of Design, Henry…
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NEWS & OBSERVER HOME & GARDEN: “The 2016 winners in the annual George Matsumoto Prize modernist house contest”
BY ANDREA WEIGL On Thursday, N.C. Modernist Houses announced the winners of its annual statewide modernist residential design contest. The big winner of the 2016 George Matsumoto Prize contest is Will Alphin of Alphin Design Build. Alphin took home the first-place prize in the juried competition for a four-level house in Raleigh’s Cameron Park neighborhood.…
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ARCHITECT MAGAZINE: “The Shortlist for This Year’s Matsumoto Prize Awards”
The annual program hosted by Durham, N.C.-based nonprofit organization, North Carolina Modernist Houses, selected 16 sites for its shortlist honoring modernist residential architect George Matsumoto. By CHELSEA BLAHUT North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) has selected a shortlist of 16 submissions for this year’s Matsumoto Prize Awards. Recognizing modernist residences across the U.S. South, the Matsumoto…
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2016 Matsumoto Prize Online Voting Now Open
Recognizing excellence in North Carolina Modernist residential design Online voting for the 2016 George Matsumoto Prize: Recognizing Excellence in North Carolina Modernist Residential Design, begins today at: https://ncmhcompetitions.squarespace.com The 2016 Matsumoto Prize, supported by the McAdams Foundation, includes public voting to determine three “People’s Choice” winners. Anyone may vote by email (one time per email address) for…
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2016 Matsumoto Prize Now Accepting Submissions
A unique architecture competition celebrating Modernist residential design across North Carolina. Submissions will be accepted in the 2016 George Matsumoto Prize, Recognizing Excellence in North Carolina Modernist Residential Design starting at 8 a.m., May 1, sponsored by the award-winning non-profit organization North Carolina Modernist Houses. The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m., May 23rd. Now in its fifth…
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Chapel Hill Architect Arielle Condoret Schechter Wins “Best of Houzz 2016” Award
From among remodeling and design professionals in North America and around the world Architect Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, of Chapel Hill, NC, has won a “Best Of Houzz 2016” award in the Customer Service category. Houzz is a leading platform for home remodeling and design. Over 35 million unique monthly users that comprise the Houzz community chose Schechter’s firm from among more than…
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Educating The Next Generation of Modernist Architects
Over the past two weeks, North Carolina Modernist Houses’ Project BauHow gave away 200 CAD systems to rural high school students – powerful desktop computer and monitors they get to take home and keep. As a result, students can practice CAD all they want. Later, with class instruction, they will test their knowledge through an NCMH design competition featuring a…
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The Raleigh Architecture Co. Wins AIA NC Honor Award for “Edentwins”
Two modern, urban-infill houses designed in tandem, side-by-side. When architects enter custom-designed housing in awards competitions, they enter either single-family houses or multi-dwelling projects: multiple, separate housing units that are contained within one building or several buildings within one complex. For the 2015 AIA NC Design Awards, The Raleigh Architecture Company (RACo) did neither. Partners…
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North Carolina Modernist Houses Announces the 2016 Matsumoto Prize Jury
Nationally known architects to judge annual Modernist house competition. North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH), the award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and promoting Modernist residential design across the state, has announced the 2016 George Matsumoto Prize Jury. The 2016 jury will include luminaries in their field including Ray Kappe, of Los Angeles, CA; Alison Brooks of London, England; Joshua Prince-Ramus…
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Project BauHow Supports Nine Rural NC High Schools This Year with Computers, CAD Systems
North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) and its educational initiative Project BauHow (Bauhaus + Know-How) will support 200 9th through 11th graders in rural North Carolina high schools this fall by providing free computer systems with Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. This is the third year NCMH’s Project BauHow has donated CAD systems to rural high school drafting classes. “High school drafting…
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