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.
Proud to have our recent AIA San Francisco – AIASF award winning The O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm in the company of these lovely projects. Congratulations to all!
It’s been a great week for the The O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm! After last Saturday’s tour as part of the AIA Committee On Design, last night the project received a citation award from AIA San Francisco – AIASF…CAW’s first from this chapter. We could not be more proud of this wonderful project and our project team!
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.
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 night at the AIA Silicon Valley Design Awards, the chapter paid homage to its 2018 Birge Clark Award Recipient, Christopher Wasney, AIA, by commissioning local filmmaker Bernie Grijalva to create this thoughtfully produced piece.
https://www.facebook.com/cawarchitects/videos/892522047607996/
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.”
Big Night for CAW at the AIA Santa Clara Valley Design Awards Gala!
We’re delighted to announce that last Thursday night, the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the American Institute of Architects presented Cody Anderson Wasney Architects with their 2014 Firm Award at their biennial awards program. This award recognizes a firm that has consistently produced distinguished architectural design for a period of at least 20 years and that has contributed to the advancement of the profession in at least three of the following areas: architectural design, research, planning, technology, practice, preservation, and innovation. In addition, the award honors a firm that promotes collaboration among individuals; produces work that transcends a specific area of expertise; has a record of community service; and has developed a culture that educates and mentors the next generation of architects.
Now celebrating the firm’s 20th year in business, Chris Wasney and Brent McClure lead our firm of 29 staff members that has evolved into a multifaceted, diverse, grassroots organization with a very energetic team and a vibrant office culture. The growing diversity of projects and socially-sustainable portfolio mirrors the evolution of the firm culture from a classic sole practitioner to a collaborative, highly fluid design studio.
In addition to the Firm Award, the Chapter granted 14 design awards, and three CAW projects were honored: the EcoCenter in Palo Alto’s Baylands, an adaptive reuse of a Birge Clark designed boathouse for the Sea Scouts; the d.School at Stanford University–a wholesale renovation of one of the most historic building on campus into a cutting edge design institute; and Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory–a new building housing all of Stanford’s automotive research programs.
SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS:
http://aiascv.org/design-awards/2014-special-award-winners/
DESIGN AWARD WINNERS:
http://aiascv.org/design-awards/2014-design-award-winners/
Last night, CAW was presented with two Honor Awards by the AIA San Mateo County at a ceremony held at the Poplar Creek Grill at Coyote Point. Sequoia High School’s new LEED-Platinum Gymnasium won in the “Public Architecture” category, and our new modular high school campus on Myrtle Street in East Palo Alto won in the “Effective Architecture” category. Jurors were Larry Strain of Siegel & Strain Architects, Janet Tam of Noll & Tam Architects, and Ron Ronconi of CAS Architects, Inc. Thank you to our wonderful client for both projects Sequoia Union High School District!
