Architecture's 53rd Annual P/A Award Winners Exhibition

Architectures 53rd Annual PA Award Winners Exhibition
Form did not prevail over substance at the 53rd Annual P/A Awards.

This year's selections elevated ideas over designs and favored investigations of public terrain over private domains.

The jury, which included Frank Barkow, Stephen Cassell, Phyllis Lambert, William E. Massie, and Richard Weinstein, selected eight projects from a research study that investigated expanded programming for infrastructure at a former logging site transformed into an interpretive park.

The winning projects are: Arboretum of the Cascades, Preston, Washington, by Anderson Anderson Architecture; Clifton Arc Gatehouse, University of Cincinnati, by VJAA; Cranbrook Festival Project, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by Peter Lynch, Architect, with Harry Giles, Structural Designer; Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, California, by Michael Maltzan Architecture; Hostler Student Center, American University of Beirut, by VJAA; (Infra)structural_Op portunism: Structural Productivity in Urban Space, San Francisco Bay Area, by Jeannette Kuo; The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State, by Suisman Urban Design; Wurster Workshop, University of California at Berkeley, by Anderson Anderson Architecture.

The exhibition can be viewed until March 9, 2006.