Faculty and Student Honors
2011
The School’s 2011 award recipients from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Miami November Awards Gala included: Perkins + Will (with managing local partner and SOA faculty member Jose Gelabert-Navia) for Excellence in Architecture – Merit Award; Professor Allan T. Shulman, FAIA, Architect of the Year (and recently named First Vice President – President Elect of the 2012 Board of Directors); Sebastian Eilert (B.Arch. 2001), principal of Sebastian Eilert Architecture, 2011 AIA Miami Sustainable Design Architect of the Year award. (His company was also recognized by the South Florida Business Journal as one of the Top 25 Green Architecture Firms.); and Katherine O’Sullivan, UM Student of the Year. The AIA Miami Board includes six UM graduates – Alejandro Silva, President; Allan T. Shulman, 1st Vice President; Javier Cordova, Vice President; Miguel Rodriguez, Secretary-Treasurer; Michelle M. Bilbao, Associate Director; and Martin Diaz-Yabor, State Director.
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., received the American Planning Association (APA) Award as Consultant Team Leader for Miami 21, the new City of Miami zoning code.
Several faculty members were honored by the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation at their annual Florida conference in Orlando: Joanna Lombard, Beth Dunlop and Steven Brooke won the award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Preservation Education/Media for their book Great Houses of Florida, and Carie Penabad and Catherine Lynn won the same award for their book Marion Manley: Miami’s First Woman Architect. The Florida Trust also presented awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Restoration/Rehabilitation to Jorge L. Hernandez, Jorge L. Hernandez Architect, for the Coral Gables Museum, and Allan Shulman, Shulman & Associates for Opa Locka Airport Hangar 102.
Jan Hochstim was named one of four Miami “Living Legend” Architects by Dade Heritage Trust at their Miami Mid-Century Modern Conference (MIMO).
Katherine Wheeler received a scholarship to attend the Attingham Summer School in England during the summer of 2011.
Jorge Hernandez was elected Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C.
Students Nikita van Dijk and Megan Recher were awarded two $500 scholarships by the Historic Preservation Association of Coral Gables for their outstanding achievement in the School of Architecture Certificate in Historic Preservation program.
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Joanna Lombard, Dr. Jose Szapocznik (Dept of Epidemiology) and Dr. Scott Brown (Dept. of Epidemiology) were named investigators in the HUD grant for Sustainable Communities Research Grant Program.
Jean-François Lejeune received a commendation for his book Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (Routledge, Abingdon 2010) from CICA, International Committee of Architectural Critics at a conference in Tokyo, Japan.
Joachim Perez was named Executive Director of the Miami non-profit DawnTown, which manages competition entries from all over the world for Miami architectural improvements on an annual basis.
Carmen Guerrero, Rome Program Director, was elected Director of the Culture and Arts Advisory Board of the local Italian society Societa Dante Alighieri.
Chuck Bohl was named Chair of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) in Florida and is leading preparations for the National CNU 20 Conference which will take place in West Palm Beach, May 2012.
Jaime Correa served as a Jury Member for the 2011 Annual Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Awards. He also served as Chair of the CNU Academic Call for Papers.
Lecturer in architectural photography Steven Brooke has been named 2011 Outstanding Photographer by the Florida American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Jean-François Lejeune has been named to the faculty board of the University’s Center for Latin American Studies.
Allan Shulman served on the directorate of the Subtropical Cities International Conference at Florida Atlantic University in Ft. Lauderdale.
Rosario Marquardt was recognized as a Woman of Vision in Broward County as the artist of I Love You work of art at the new Young at Art Museum.
2010
Those SOA faculty and students receiving awards at the AIA Miami November Awards Gala included: Dylan Wassell, UM Student of the Year; student Hassan Bagheri, Photo Contest Award winner for Black and White Photography; Allan Shulman, FAIA, Shulman & Associates, H. Samuel Kruse Silver Medal for Design; Allan Shulman, FAIA, Shulman & Associates, and Jose Gelabert-Navia, Managing Local Partner, Miami Office, Perkins & Will Architects, Awards of Excellence in Architecture; Jacob Brillhart, Award of Excellence for Unbuilt Design for The Grass Box, Florida Everglades Restaurant; Sebastian Eilert, Young Architect of the Year;
The School of Architecture Student Team received the Fourth Place Award from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) of the National Park Service, 2010 Charles E. Peterson Prize. Team members included Jacob Aaron, Hassan Bagheri, Lisa Blacklidge, Lacey Block, John Dietz, Alexandra Goldstein, Peter Greberis, Daniel Hurst, Jesse Kirkland, Kevin Kirkwood, Simone Meeks, Ivonne Perusquia Diaz, Adam Pinter, Michael Poupore, Christopher Rodriguez, Raquel Rodriguez, Tiffany Savage and Samuel Terrizzi.
School of Architecture student teams won Third and Fourth Place in the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America Texas Chapter and the Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity “Dream Dallas Home Design” Competition. The teams included Nathan Poon, Kaitlin Christian, Tsvetan Sirakov, Michael Poupore, Sandro Rastelli and Kyle Vreeland.
Student Kevin Kirkwood received the Department of Art and Art History Annual Juried Student Competition Art Award.
Students Meghan Campbell, Jonathan Caruso, Claudia Noval, Mathew Oravec and Sandro Rastelli became members of Who’s Who in American Colleges.
Jacob Brillhart was a finalist in the AIA Dallas Chapter 36th Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Architectural Delineation Competition.
Joachim Perez was the winner of the Annual Brian Canin Scholarship Award for 2010.
Edgar Sarli received the third prize award in an international competition in Switzerland in the “Forensic Building Extension Competition” at the UPK campus in Basel.
Adib Cure and Carie Penabad were selected to serve as Wolfsonian Museum Visionaries, members of a group of community leaders established to promote the museum’s activities and fundraising.
2009
Roberto Behar and Adjunct Professor Rosario Marquardt won awards for public art projects for the cities of Denver and Phoenix – All Together Now received an award in Denver at the Americans for the Arts Annual Convention and Magic Carpet at the Phoenix National Terrazzo Association.
Jean-Francois Lejeune was appointed a member, for a second term, of the Scientific Committee of the Association Centro Studi dell Architettura Razionalista (Study Center of Rational Architecture) in Rome.
Carmen Guerrero received a 2008 City Beautiful Award for Outstanding Interior Space from the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce.
Student Danay Morales and Associate Dean Denis Hector were inducted into Iron Arrow, the highest honor attained at the University.
Jorge Hernandez, coordinator of the School’s Historic Preservation Certificate Program, was appointed to the board of trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Richard John was appointed editor of The Classicist, the journal of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America. His first issue was scheduled for release in the spring of 2010.
Joanna Lombard and Frank Martinez were lauded in an issue of the University’s MED magazine as part of the Medical School and School of Architecture team that has been studying the effect of the street environment on the well-being of Hispanic elders in East Little Havana.
Teofilo Victoria and his firm won a 2009 Philip Trammell Schutze Award from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America for the design of the Almeria Row townhouses in Coral Gables.
The School’s 2009 award recipients from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Miami Chapter Celebrate Architecture + Design Month included: Allan Shulman ( Shulman & Associates) Award of Excellence in Architecture for the Rubell Family Collection and Residence (seen here); two Excellence in Architecture awards for Unbuilt Design for The Look Inn and the Soho Beach House. Sebastian Eilert of the School’s part-time faculty, Award for Sustainable Design Architect. Carolyn Desmond, UM Student of the Year. UM student Tom Johnson, AIA Photo Contest for “London Eye” Best in the Top Twenty (see on “News” page). Friends of the Miami Marine Stadium, with Jorge Hernandez as one of the principals of the organization, the Historic Preservation Award.
Allan Shulman won a Merit Award of Excellence in the AIA/Florida 2009 Design Competition for renovations and additions to the Angler’s Boutique Resort in Miami Beach.
Adib Cure and Carie Penabad received a Bienal Miami + Beach 2009 Silver Medal award for the Oak Plaza project in the Design District.
2008
Dean Plater-Zyberk and partner, adjunct faculty member Andres Duany, were awarded the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for achievements in classical architecture and urbanism. In addition, she was appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. for a term of four years. She was also appointed to the Miami-Dade County Climate Change Advisory Task Force and co-chairman of the county’s Built Environment Adaptation Committee.
Dean Plater-Zyberk and Student Margaret Wilhelm were inducted into Iron Arrow, the highest honor attained at the University.
Teofilo Victoria and his firm De la Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists won one of 10 Palladio Awards sponsored by Traditional Building and Period Homes, and a Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Award for the Almeria Row project in Coral Gables. The firm also won a 2008 Dade Heritage Trust Preservation Award for the restoration of the Jack Weiner House.
Rocco Ceo was appointed the American Society of Landscape Architects’ deputy district officer for the Florida Chapter of the Historic American Landscapes Survey.
Allan Shulman and Shulman & Associates won the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation Outstanding Achievement Award in the field of Restoration and Rehabilitation for the Chrysler Building on Miami Beach. Also, he was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA)
Jorge Hernandez won the Dade Heritage Trust Award for Outstanding Renovation of a Historic Site for Phineas Paist’s Art Center and Architecture Headquarters/Old Spanish Village Sales Gallery.
Adib Cure and Carie Penabad and their firm Cure & Penabad received the Dade Heritage Trust Historic Preservation Award for the restoration and addition to a residence in the Dutch South African Village in Coral Gables. The firm also won the Restoration/Rehabilitation Award from the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation for the same project.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) annual awards were presented in November. Teofilo Victoria and his firm received a Merit Award in Historic Preservation for the Jack Weiner House. Jacob Brillhart won a Merit Award in Architecture (unbuilt) for A Mechanical Dwelling. Allan Shulman and firm won a Merit Award in Architecture (unbuilt) for The Sea Spray Hotel and Restaurant and an Honorable Mention in Architecture (unbuilt) for the Fairwind Hotel. Student Danay Morales was awarded the UM Architecture Student of the Year.
Associate Dean Denis Hector received the American Institute of Architects, Miami Chapter, Presidential Award for his ongoing support of AIA educational programs.
2007
Student Mark Schrieber, president of the School’s Emerging Green Builders, received the 2007 award for the Most Outstanding UM Student by the Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Jaime Correa received the Urban Design Award from the Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Carie Penabad and Adib Cure won a Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Award, an AIA Florida Merit Award of Excellence, and an Urban Environment League of Miami Orchid Award for the project Oak Plaza in the Miami Design District.
Allan Shulman and his firm Shulman + Associates won an AIA Florida/Caribbean Design & Honor Award for the Soho Beach House on Miami Beach, the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation Outstanding Achievement Award for the Chrysler Building on Miami Beach, and the Florida AIA Design Award for the 909 Collins Avenue building on South Beach.