Faculty and Student Honors

Student Mark Schrieber, president of the School’s Emerging Green Builders, received the award for the Most Outstanding Student by the Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) at their annual awards banquet.

On May 9, President George W. Bush announced his intention to nominate four individuals to the Commission of Fine Arts for a period of four years. Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk was one of the appointees to the Commission. In other action, the Dean was presented with a Spectrum Award by the American Red Cross as one of 12 most outstanding women in Dade County. She received the award at the Spectrum luncheon in April.

Professor Teofilo Victoria, his partner Maria de la Guardia and their firm De la Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists were among the ten 2008 winners of the seventh annual Palladio Awards competition sponsored by Traditional Building and Period Homes. The award is given to honor outstanding achievement in traditional design. The project that won is Almeria Row, a ten-unit townhouse in Coral Gables. The firm also won a Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) award for Almeria Row. Professor Victoria and his firm also won a 2008 Preservation Award from Dade Heritage Trust for the restoration of the Jack Weiner House at 3004 Brickell Avenue (originally designed by Alfred Browning Parker in 1956).

Professor 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 at 774 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. In addition, he was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and 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.

Professor Jorge Hernandez won an award from Dade Heritage Trust for Outstanding Renovation of a Historic Site — Phineas Paist’s Art Center and Architecture Headquarters/Old Spanish Village Sales Gallery.

In March, Professors Adib Cure and Carie Penabad and their firm Cure & Penabad received the Dade Heritage Trust Historic Preservation Award for 2008. The project was 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.

Professor Rocco Ceo was appointed Deputy District Officer for Florida by the President of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Chief of The Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).