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CAW Architects is very proud to announce we learned today that Founding Principal Christopher Wasney AIA will be elevated to the The American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. Fellowship in the AIA is granted to architects who make “notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architecture.” Chris will receive his Fellowship medal during the in AIA Conference on Architecture 2020 in Los Angeles in May.
CAW Principal Chris Wasney AIA went to Washington to represent the California Preservation Foundation (CPF) and Preservation Action (PA) as part of National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week. The California delegation included John Lesak of Page & Turnbull, Shaw Sprague of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Cindy Heitzman, the Executive Director of CPF, pictured here with Representative Mike Thompson of California’s 5th District that includes the Napa valley and Santa Rosa. The delegation met with staff and members of the House and Senate and advocated for increased funding of the Historic Preservation Fund and the extensions and improvements to federal historic tax credit program for rehabilitation of historic resources.
The AIA Committee On Design (COD) is holding their annual national conference in San Francisco this week. The COD was “founded to promote design excellence among members of the AIA, the broader design community, and the public at large, both nationally and internationally.” As the conference moves south on Saturday to visit the Silicon Valley, CAW Principal Chris Wasney AIA will lead a tour of our project, The O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm at Stanford University. Completed in 2017, the Farm serves as a working agricultural complex that provides over 15,000 pounds of produce each year to the campus dining service, and a living laboratory where students, faculty and community members test ideas about social and environmental aspects of farming and urban agriculture.
We are so proud to be part of this project! Read more at The Almanac.
Last night, the AIA Silicon Valley held their Design Awards Gala in the new David and Joan Traitel Building at Stanford University. CAW Architects was the Executive Architect for the newly-completed building, in collaboration with Design Architect William Rawn Associates of Boston. We are delighted to announce that during last night’s gala, CAW won two of the eleven awards given, taking home Merit Awards for the Traitel Building in the Interiors category, and for the The O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm in the Architecture category. The jury for the design awards comprised William Leddy FAIA, Henry Siegel FAIA, Steve Wiesenthal FAIA, Renee Chow AIA, and Marvin Malecha FAIA.
In addition, we are very proud to announce that CAW Founding Principal Christopher Wasney AIA was presented with the Chapter’s highest honor, the Birge Clark Award. The intent of this Special Award is to recognize “distinguished work over time and outstanding achievement in architectural design as expressed in a body of work…consistently designed, over the career of an individual architect.”
Our very own Monique Wood will be a panelist at tomorrow evening’s “Women in Architecture: Designing Equity for All” panel discussion at the San Jose Woman’s Club. The event is free to attend, but RSVP is requested. Please join us!
Last night, the AIA Silicon Valley held their Design Awards Gala in the new David and Joan Traitel Building at Stanford University. CAW Architects was the Executive Architect for the newly-completed building, in collaboration with Design Architect William Rawn Associates of Boston. We are delighted to announce that during last night’s gala, CAW won two of the eleven awards given, taking home Merit Awards for the Traitel Building in the Interiors category, and for the The O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm in the Architecture Category. The jury for the design awards comprised William Leddy FAIA, Henry Siegel FAIA, Steve Wiesenthal FAIA, Renee Chow AIA, and Marvin Malecha FAIA.
In addition, we are very proud to announce that CAW Founding Principal Christopher Wasney AIA was presented with the Chapter’s highest honor, the Birge Clark Award. The intent of this Special Award is to recognize “distinguished work over time and outstanding achievement in architectural design as expressed in a body of work…consistently designed, over the career of an individual architect.”
Last evening, Team Roble attended Stanford’s event that both celebrated the renovation of Roble Gym as well as the 10th anniversary of the Stanford Arts Initiative. We were treated to 1930’s social dances, as well as performances by a lovely singer named Jessica La Real, and steel drum band Cardinal Calypso. Artist Michael Namkumg was hard at work in the Art Gym, and visitors could participate in Stanford’s “Humans of New York” photo booth project. It was great to see the project in use, and I am so proud of the part we played in bringing new and vibrant life to this beautiful campus icon!
Last Thursday, CAW’s Brent McClure, Keith Wainschel, and Sarah Vaccaro had the honor of attending the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Oakland Unified School District’s The Center (aka: the Central Commissary, Education Center and Urban Farm) project. It was a beautiful, moving, passionate celebration of the cumulative effort of OUSD Staff, non-profit partners, Board of Education members, Superintendents, parents, students, our design team and the contractor team for the past 7 years to bring this project to the beginning of construction. It has not been an easy process, and the perseverance and vision of this collective community to see this project through was inspiring.
While we still have 14 (long) months of construction ahead of us to fully realize this transformative project, it was inspiring to be reminded of why this project and the work we do is so important. Once built, the Center will provide over 6 million fresh, locally grown, healthy meals per year to thousands of Oakland students who need and deserve quality and tasty food so they can pursue and achieve their dreams. The Center will be a place for students, families, and communities in Oakland to be reunited with the agricultural roots of Oakland – to learn how good, healthy food is grown, prepared and provides nourishment to the body. This facility – our design – will house and enable all of these programs and be a source of pride. This project will transform lives and communities in Oakland.
