112 W. Center St., Suite 700
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone (479) 575-4945
Fax (479) 575-7429
112 W. Center St., Suite 700
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone (479) 575-4945
Fax (479) 575-7429
Reese Rowland’s work as principal designer for the Arkansas Studies Institute won him the top Honor Award in the 2011 Fay Jones Alumni Design Awards, a competition held by the Fay Jones School of Architecture to recognize outstanding work being done by alumni. (Photograph by Timothy Hursley)
2011 Fay Jones Alumni Design Award Winners
Fifteen designs for homes, historic renovation, retail and corporate space, and structures dedicated to health care, education and religion vied for recognition in this year’s Fay Jones Alumni Design Awards competition. After careful review, the three-member jury chose four projects for accolades.
The awards were announced and presented April 11 during the school’s annual Honors Recognition Banquet at the Arkansas Union on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville.
Reese Rowland took this year’s top award, the Honor Award, as design principal for the Arkansas Studies Institute in Little Rock. Rowland (B.Arch. ’90) is a principal with Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects in Little Rock. Rowland won the first prize in the 2010 alumni design competition, with his design of the Heifer International Education Center in Little Rock, and was a co-winner of the 2008 alumni design competition, with his design of the Heifer International Headquarters in Little Rock.
Two Merit Awards went to Tim Maddox (B.Arch. ’02) of deMx Architecture in Fayetteville for RomWoods and Bakhita Ridge, two homes in Fayetteville.
An Honorable Mention was given to John Dupree (B.Arch. ’69) of Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects in Fayetteville for restoration of the Historic Washington County Courthouse.
Jury members were all faculty members of the architecture school: Santiago R. Perez, assistant professor of architecture; Mark Boyer, head of the landscape architecture department; and G. Marie Gentry, director of the interior design program.
(Click here to read more about these projects and to see jury comments. Look in the column to the right to view PDFs of the projects.)