Arkansas issued the following announcement on April 17.
The U of A Community Design Center is being recognized with two top awards in the American Institute of Architects' 2022 Honors and Awards Program. The center is a recipient of the Collaborative Achievement Award, while the center's Re-Live Downtown Pine Bluff project has won an Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design.
The AIA Honor Awards program is the top design awards program nationally for architecture, urban design and interior architecture. This year's award-winning projects and other honorees will be celebrated at the annual AIA Conference on Architecture and Expo held June 22-25 in Chicago.
At this summer celebration, Marlon Blackwell also will formally receive the 2020 AIA Gold Medal, which was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Blackwell, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, is a Distinguished Professor and the E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the U of A, where he has taught since 1992.
Blackwell, founder of Marlon Blackwell Architects, is the second architect practicing and teaching in Arkansas to be awarded the Gold Medal since the program began in 1907. Fay Jones, FAIA, a longtime professor and founding dean of the Fay Jones School, received the AIA Gold Medal in 1990.
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Source: Arkansas
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