Arkansas issued the following announcement on Dec. 15.
The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas honored the innovative design work of its alumni during the school's Winter Fest Reception and Alumni Recognition Ceremony, held Dec. 9 in Vol Walker Hall on the university campus. During the evening, Golden Graduates and Awards for Distinction recipients also were recognized.
Designs for educational, medical, historic, community, cultural, residential, religious, athletic, recreational, hospitality, industrial, corporate and municipal spaces, as well as urban planning, parks and landscape design, were among 55 projects vying for recognition in the 2021 Fay Jones School Alumni Design Awards competition.
Entries came from Fay Jones School alumni practicing in cities around the state of Arkansas, as well as those in Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kansas, Texas, California, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, D.C., and Shanghai, China. An eight-member jury chose 12 projects for accolades — resulting in one Honor Award, four Merit Awards and seven Honorable Mentions.
Steve Dumez, FAIA, principal of Eskew Dumez Ripple of New Orleans, served as external evaluator for the design awards competition. Jennifer Webb, associate professor in interior design, and Gabriel Díaz Montemayor, associate professor in landscape architecture, served as jury co-chairs. Fellow jury members included three school faculty members, Greg Herman, associate professor in architecture, Alyssa Kuhns, assistant professor in architecture, and Jinoh Park, assistant professor in interior design. Fay Jones School alumni Ernest Banks, associate at Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, and Carla Chang Mata, associate at Marlon Blackwell Architects, also served on the jury.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Arkansas
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