AIAVT 2020 Annual Design Awards Publication

Design Awards 2020

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John Dale, AIA. John Dale leading a charrette at 2019 ACX. John Dale with his team at the 2019 AIAVT Guy Teschmacher Memorial Golf Tournament. John was a golf tournament co-chair for three years, helping to fund AIAVT scholarships.

In loving memory of John Dale, AIA.

Publication design by 2020 AIA Vermont Board of Directors.

Special thanks to our event underwriter for printing and distributing.

Letter from the AIA Vermont Board of Directors December 10, 2020 Dear AIA Vermont Members, Reflecting on 2020 is uncomfortable, to say the least. It was a year of loss, both on professional and personal levels. To recognize only design excellence, in a time with so much unanticipated change and suffering, would be irresponsible. As architects in our great little state of Vermont we lost work, we lost jobs, we lost time with loved ones and each other. AIAVT started the year with the loss of our President John Dale.

We began this tumultuous 2020 venture with a bit of shock, but guided by a mission.

Member Engagement. Public Outreach. Climate Change. Yet just as the seeds for our biggest event were sown, we were flooded with the arrival and uncertainty of Covid-19, which brought everything to a temporary halt.

As we look back, we got through, we’ve made it so far. We found support from one another in early morning coffee call chats, we were joined by other professionals, accountants, and attorneys, and the national AIA National President Jane Frederick to learn about the CARES act. Over the summer and into the fall, we shared concerns, ideas, and struggles on equity, diversity, and inclusion, and we hosted the AIA New England Design Awards in a way that no one had imagined would happen in the early year. While not over, there are important lessons from 2020 that can not go without recognition. It turns out many of us can work from home, a lesson for work/life balancing. Many of us are more technologically engaged and can do things we never thought we would have to do, such as work from a remote server. Our practices are more resilient as a result of these lessons and more. Yet just as we may be growing weary, we are reminded of another important lesson- we are human and meant to gather, and with a little more patience I am confident we will once again.

This publication will not be able to fully take the place of our annual event to celebrate Vermont architecture, but it is a reminder of the powerful and beautiful things you all create. In addition to this work, it was my mission this year to celebrate the people behind it all. John Dale was one person, who committed his lunch breaks to delivering Meals on Wheels and dedicated time outside his busy professional and personal life to organizations like the United Way. In this spirit, and with the help of his family, this is the inaugural year of the John Dale Thinker & Collaborator Award. A way for our members to peer nominate and celebrate the people of architecture. I am excited and honored for this year’s recipient to be David Mentzer of Dore + Whittier. In closing, my hope is that the work and the people celebrated in this 2020 AIAVT Design Award publication aspire us all to remain engaged, show up, and become just a little more involved in our local communities.

Sincerely,

Taryn Barrett, AIAVT 2020 President and the AIAVT Board of Directors

AIA Vermont | 47 Maple Street suite 211b | Burlington, VT www.aiavt.org

Meet the Design Awards Jury for 2020 Members of AIA Society of Canada

Pauline Thimm, AIA, MRAIC, LEED® AP With over 17 years of experience in the practice and teaching of architecture, Pauline is a registered architect (MA) whose background includes an M.Arch. and B.E.D.S (Dalhousie), B.A. in Economics and Urban Geography (UBC) and studio arts training at Emily Carr University, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Architectural practice has involved institutional (higher education), housing, arts and cultural projects, including the co-founding of a (now closed) award-winning design studio in Vancouver.

Sam Oboh, FAIA With an expansive career spanning over a quarter of a century within the built environment sector, Sam is a Principal and Vice President at Ensight+ Architecture, where he leverages his unique expertise to enhance people’s quality of life through creative design intelligence and inspired insight-driven solutions for clients. He is a former Vice President of AECOM Canada Architects Ltd. (Fortune 500 Company), and the 2015 President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).

Darryl Condon, Architect AIBC, AAA, SAA, OAA, NLAA, AIA Darryl is a registered Architect and a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He is a Past-President of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, a frequent speaker internationally and has been an adjunct professor at the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

He is interested in design that acts as a catalyst for positive social change. As Managing Principal at Vancouver based HCMA Architecture + Design, his leadership has led to highly innovative public spaces such as community centres, pools, recreation facilities, fire halls and libraries across Canada. This work has been recognized by numerous awards, both national and international.

Dr. Adam Pantelimon, FRIBA, Intl. Assoc. AIA, OAR, MRAIC, MCIP, RPP, APPI, OUQ, ARB (UK), CNOA (France) Currently, Adam is the Director, Capital Assets Portfolio with the Government of Alberta, Ministry of Seniors and Housing, where he ensures quality and value of an estimated portfolio at more than $7 billion. A founding member, Adam is currently the President of the AIA Canada Society. He plays a leading role with the “AIA Knowledge Communities” as a member of the Public Architects Committee (2019-2024), Building Performance group (2017-2019), the Corporate Architects and Facility Management team (2018-2019), and the Regional and Urban Design Committee (2018-2019).

Andrew Frontini, OAA, NSAA, FRAIC, LEED® AP BD+C Andrew is a Principal and the Design Director of Perkins + Will Toronto. He has taught at the University of Waterloo and serves as a visiting critic at the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, and Ryerson University. He shares his passion for design through exhibitions, published articles, and speaking engagements. Andrew’s approach to design is driven by a strong social agenda. He uses bold material expressions and considered responses to context to create spaces around which communities form. By maintaining a design philosophy that is open and collaborative, Andrew never stops learning, producing, and evolving. His award-winning designs for universities, municipalities, library systems, and commercial clients have been published internationally.

AWARD WINNERS

Honor Award

High Performance Affordable Housing This project involves questions of affordable housing, sustainability, the value of a liberal arts education, and the role of the architect in society. The pair of houses presented here—one completed and occupied, one under construction—are the first results of an ongoing collaboration between our architecture firm, a local liberal arts college, and the county chapter of Habitat for Humanity. The houses share a small lot in the heart of a New England college town, and their design offers a progressive and optimistic message to the community about affordable housing. Designed and built—with students and volunteers—to the state’s highest performance standards for energy efficiency, the houses demonstrate that affordable housing can be both architectural and sustainable.

Problem: Through a sequence of three design studios, work with liberal arts students to design a pair of high performance, affordable houses.

Goals: Design houses for two hard-working families that give them a sense of identity and optimism, and serve as an example for the broader community. In the process, help the students successfully navigate all the challenges and hurdles of a real project.

Conceptual Solution: The two long, narrow houses are staggered to give each a view of the sidewalk to the east and the undeveloped land to the west. The gable profile holds the street edge, and is extruded to create a passage between the public realm and the private woods. A vaulted common area in each house is secluded at the private end. Standing seam metal on the roof and long walls, with local white cedar infill at the gable ends, reinforces the extruded form, correlates with the structural diagram, and provides maintenance-free exterior cladding.

Firm Name: Location: Photo Credit: Client Name: Project Size: Completed:

McLeod Kredell Architects, with Middlebury College Architectural Studies Middlebury, VT Lindsay Selin Photography Habitat for Humanity of Addison County 1,173 sf finished (House A); 986 sf finished (House B) December 21, 2019 (House A); December 2020 (est., House B)

Merit Award

Green Mountain Retreat Firm Name: Location: Photo Credit: Client Name: Project Size: Completed:

Maclay Architects Warren, VT Jeremy Gantz & Lindsey Selin Photography Lori and Jon Slater 2,200 sf house, 500 sf garage apartment January 2020

The compact yet open plan for the main living space, connects this modern ski house to its site and to views of the ski area in the distance. Carved into the hillside, the bedrooms are located on the lower level, offering privacy and allowing for the cathedral spaces to occur in the main living area. The net zero envelope means that the home is heated with an air source heat pump powered by the rooftop PV array. The overall design emphasizes simplicity. Simple forms and minimalist detailing make the most of the limited palette of materials.

Merit Award

Lathhouse Firm Name: Location: Photo Credit: Project Size: Completed:

Birdseye Sagaponack, NY Michael Moran 5,050 sf Fall 2019

The architecture of Lathhouse is conceptually inspired by the eponymous lath house; a traditional gabled farm structure made primarily of wood laths or slats spaced to reduce sunlight while permitting ventilation. At Lathhouse, the slats are both contextual and purposeful, reimagined as siding that functions to provide privacy screening, to limit interior light emittance, and used as solar shading. The singular exterior material of weathered wood cladding, made from decades-old corral board fencing, reflects a timeless patina reminiscent of the barns and outbuildings in rural landscapes.

Merit Award

Draper Riverhouse Firm Name: Location: Client: Photo Credit: Project Size: Completed:

Watershed Studio architecture LLC Gill, MA Northfield Mount Hermon School Bill Sumner 6,500 sf Summer 2020

The Draper Riverhouse terminates the path from campus to the Connecticut River. Crew team boat and repair bays are housed on the lower level. Coaching and flexible space for 32 rowing ergometers are on the upper level. The project features direct use of “off the shelf� long life cycle, low finish, low maintenance materials. Design priorities were ample daylight, natural ventilation and integration with the landscape.

Merit Award

Field House Firm Name: Location: Photo Credit: Project Size: Completed:

Birdseye South Kingstown, RI Michael Moran 3,275 sf Summer 2020

Field House is composed of two separate gable volumes: a two-story main house and a one-story garage, knitted together with a perpendicular exterior walkway and an intermittent full-height site wall.

The residence is designed to create an engaged relationship with the landscape. The architectural massing extends the composition into a large meadow to the west while integrating views that promote engagement with the outdoors. Contrasting tones of black stain and clear western red cedar layer onto the architectural elements to reinforce the visual relationships of the forms.

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Habitat for Humanity Storage Shed Firm Name: Location: Photo Credit: Client Name: Project Size: Completed:

McLeod Kredell Architects Island Design Assembly Vergennes, VT Island Design Assembly Habitat for Humanity of Addison County 100 sf August 2020

Since 2012, our firm has operated a community design-build program with college and university students. Until 2020, the program was based on offgrid islands in Penobscot Bay, Maine. This year, the pandemic forced our partner island to lock down and bar visitors. Faced with the eleventh-hour choice of abandoning the program or finding a new home base, we relocated to the Green Mountains of Vermont.

Following the same format as the previous ten sessions in Maine, we undertook to design, prefab, deliver, and install a project for a community partner in just eight days. Bringing together nine students from six schools, two architects, and a builder, we lived and worked together in seclusion in a remote location up in the mountains, wearing masks and practicing COVID safety precautions. On the final day, we delivered (by truck instead of boat) and installed a completed storage shed for a house to be built by Habitat for Humanity volunteers.

Problem: Design and build a storage shed for a Habitat for Humanity house.

(The international organization requires that each house have 100 sf of storage for trash/recycling, yard tools, gear, and the like.)

Goals: Complete the task in eight days with a team of students, living in the mountains...and elevate the shed to “architecture”.

Conceptual Solution: “Three-in-one”—a small room (4’ x 6’) and a bigger room (8’ x 6’) flank a breezeway with slats and screening, front and back, to allow for airflow and ventilation. Polycarbonate clerestories bring daylight into the two rooms. At night, the shed glows softly.

ALL PROJECT ENTRIES

Owners of the Elemental House envisioned a home enveloped by nature where they could relax with family and friends-- a place uncomplicated, elegant, and beautiful, but rugged enough to withstand kids’ play and exploration.

An ambition to implement an architecture that thoughtfully incorporated energy efficiency and low-maintenance construction led to a reimagining of the vanishing Vermont farmhouse as a vernacular building for the modern world.

Elemental House

Elizabeth Herrmann Architecture

2019 | Fayston, VT 5,000 sf

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This small house makes big moves. Balanced daylighting, high ceilings, terminating vistas landing on pastures & native woodlands, and a marvelously quiet interior make this house a sanctuary for aging in place. This house achieved Pre-Certified PHIUS + Source Zero status through traditional passive solar heating and cooling principles and a super insulated, air-tight but breathable envelope system that substitutes diagonal metal cross bracing for traditional plywood sheathing. The result is a bio-based wall and roof and wall envelope designed for longevity, low maintenance, and environmental health.

The Dragonfly House

Lutz Architecture

Kurt Budliger Photography

Meg & John Dawkins May 2020 | Maple Corner, Calais, VT 1,288 sf

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Weston Playhouse at Walker Farm provides a warm, light-filled, state-of-the art, adaptable studio theatre. Landscape and farmstead screen auditorium and outdoor performance spaces.

Forms adjacent to auditorium break down mass and reflect vernacular forms and specialized uses of farmstead. Native materials and fenestration create a dialog between old and new.

Interior and exterior spaces communicate via openings that adjust where uses conflict. Adaptive farmstead reuse, highly insulated envelope, daylighting, low VOC materials, low flow fixtures, LED lighting and occupancy sensors are featured.

Weston Playhouse at Walker Farm Bread Loaf Corporation

Ryan Bent Photography

September 2017 | Weston, VT 10,200 sf | Weston Playhouse Theatre Company

Faced with a crumbling, undersized, yet beloved library, the town of Shelburne asked “What does a library for the next 100 years look like?� The question inspired a new library offset behind the town hall, giving prominence to its 1927 neighbor while marking its own point in history. With high performance mechanical and envelope systems powered by a rooftop solar array, the new construction is fossil fuel free and nearly net-zero.

Features for durability, flexibility, inclusion, and delight create a welcoming, long-lasting community resource.

Shelburne Pierson Library and Historic Town Hall

Vermont Integrated Architecture, P.C.

Ryan Bent Photography

Town of Shelburne, Vermont October 2019 | Shelburne, VT 19,221 sf

This extensive renovation of the Seventh Generation headquarters reflects the company’s social, environmental and strategic aspirations.

It is a fully agile workplace, with nondedicated worktables and improved circulation for interoffice connections. Natural plantings are incorporated into furniture systems, promoting human health while referencing the company’s product line of plant-based products. Through water and energy savings and innovative green design strategies, the project is on track to receive LEED Gold Certification for Commercial Interiors.

Seventh Generation TruexCullins

Unilever January 2020 | Burlington, VT 36,600 sf

Greg Premru

The Rails to Trails Path, the flowing river, an almost hidden, twisting pedestrian/vehicular link to city core through a tunnel under the railroad tracks and a street serving the surrounding industrial buildings. This pavilion is designed to calm, gather and organize all this flowing and disparate energy into a single, connected whole.

As you approach from the town to the west, through the dark tunnel, you glimpse the warm wood and see the crosswalks markings that lead to the gravel path that beckon you inside.

Three Rivers Path Trailhead Duncan Wisniewski Architecture Michael Wisniewski

Town of St. Johnsbury, Vermont September 2020 | St. Johnsbury, VT 20 ft x 32 ft

The Vermont Bear Box House is a new high efficiency, volumetric, single family house. What began as an idea for a shipping container home can still be felt in the arrangement of intersecting, stacked, volumes. Programmatic ideas, matched to plain forms, create intimate outdoor spaces separated from surrounding wilderness through adjacency and elevation. A second floor roof deck provides views of the surrounding mountains. Kitchen windows frame panoramic views of the immediate treed landscape. The resulting building amplifies the landscape through great respect for the site and a careful consideration of constraints, which helped to inspire the design.

Bear Box

Stonorov Workshop John Belding 2019 | Middlesex, VT 1,900 sf

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A new state building for two laboratories which provides a wide range of services to the people of Vermont, protecting human and animal health, safeguarding environmental resources, and fostering commerce and economic development.

This project is a consolidation of two state agencies that conduct research and document health quality standards for the state, in a new building designed to LEED Gold requirements. A large portion of the project deals with the aggressive energy reduction goals for the project.

State of Vermont Agency of Administration, Agriculture & Environmental Laboratory CannonDesign, Architect of Record Freeman French Freeman, Associate

Ryan Bent Photography

Vermont Agency of Administration February 2019 | Randolph Center, VT 38,000 sf

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The project is located within the historic Warren Village. The project site is within the heart of the village; however, it was not previously constructed upon and was the last undeveloped lot within the village. The steep access, the abundance of ledge, the undulating landscape, and the small buildable area made the prospect of building at this site daunting. The client wanted a garage with a home...the owner is a car and motorcycle enthusiast who spends free time working on different vehicles. The garage was to be a living room as well as a place to work. The house needed to be a place for 1-2 bedrooms, living, dining, and bathing. But, most important, it had to embody the place where it is.

Mad River House and Garage

Erica Allen Studio; Tomislav Marincic

McLeod Kredell Architects

Tom and Kate Marincic November 2019 | Warren, VT 1,000sf House | 900sf Garage Vermont SportsCar is the premier rally car preparation shop in North America and the home of Subaru Rally Team USA. This new 75,000 sf facility includes production shops, collaborative office space, and exhibit areas for the devoted rally car fans who visit every year.

The entire space highlights the craftsmanship and technical precision of the custom rally cars produced here. The assembly shop runs down the center of the building and is visible from multiple vantage points, including from a pedestrian bridge that gives visitors a close look at the cars in production.

Vermont SportsCar TruexCullins and GVV Architects

Oliver Parini

Vermont SportsCar December 2018 | Milton, VT 75,000 sf

The Bicentennial Stairs were designed and built to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Norwich University, America’s oldest private military college. Engraved on each of the structure’s 78 steps are the names of prominent alumni and campus leaders who have made significant contributions to the University since 1919. The granite, brick and steel staircase serves as a constant reminder of the long history and rich traditions of this storied military college.

Bicentennial Stairs at Norwich University Freeman French Freeman Norwich University 2019 | Northfield, VT 78 Steps

Durwood Collier

Located behind University Row, the new UVM STEM Complex represents the largest investment in new facilities in UVM’s history. The project includes Discovery Hall, a new, state-of-theart research and lab facility, and Innovation Hall, which is comprised of technology-rich classrooms, student lounges, and faculty offices. Elevated walkways link the two buildings to a newly renovated Votey Hall, home to the School of Engineering, to form an integrated complex for the physical sciences at the University.

UVM STEM Complex Freeman French Freeman, Record Ellenzweig, Design Architect

Ryan Bent Photography

University of Vermont 2019 | Burlington, VT 194,000 sf

This housing project is located in a typical edge of city mixed use “business park�. While the location is quite standard with regards to urban planning concepts, it is very amenity rich with regards to employment, shopping, restaurants, food stores, medical and family services. The building is located to take advantage of a hillside site so as to partially bury the under-building parking. All apartments have large exterior decks enabling a strong connection to the wooded property. The downhill portions of the site have walking paths which lead to the surrounding neighborhood amenities.

Centerra gbA Architecture & Planning Railroad Row LLC 2018 | Lebanon, NH 48,000 sf Residential Space 13,000 sf Parking Garage

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The client was raised in this beautiful 1890’s Victorian. When she inherited her childhood home, she and her family eagerly chose to move in and make it their own.

The design team was originally hired to modernize the kitchen while respecting the historic character and charm of the original house. In the end we developed a more comprehensive scheme that provides a generous and fully modern kitchen, a new powder room, and a new walk-in pantry. Site lines and alignments throughout the ground floor were improved. Ultimately, the entry hall was realigned, the powder room relocated, the dining room reduced in size, the kitchen enlarged, and the basement stair entirely relocated. The end result is a clean modern eat-in kitchen with generous work spaces that is well connected to the rest of the ground floor and garden.

Winchester Residence RobitailleCurtis

Naomi London May 2019 | Westmount, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1,000 sf

The new Pomerleau Family YMCA includes a bright and inviting fitness area, multiple studios for group exercise, a high-bay gymnasium, a light-filled aquatics center with two pools and child splash area, three changing areas, and an early education wing with spaces for 50 children. An indoor running track weaves through the second-floor fitness areas to tie program elements together.

Pomerleau Family YMCA Freeman French Freeman

Greater Burlington YMCA 2019 | Burlington, VT 52,000 sf

Ryan Bent Photography

On a steep Vermont hillside, Hilltop House was carefully designed and positioned to efficiently and thoughtfully take advantage of the challenging terrain and stunning mountain views. The house is characterized by a series of connected wedge-shaped volumes. Roof lines lift toward views and sunlight to provide airy, varied-height spaces within. The design maximizes solar exposure and incorporates a sophisticated building envelope. Solar panels located just above the house generate power.

Hilltop House

Elizabeth Herrmann Architecture Lindsay Selin Photo

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2019 | Middlesex, VT 2,200 sf

The design goal for this project was to create a contemporary house that balances modern design and technology with a sense of place. The simple, iconic shed profile and the use of locally-sourced wood siding are drawn from vernacular Vermont architecture. From the exterior, the massing and natural materials serve to integrate the house to the sloping site. The compact interior spaces feature a dramatic open feeling and sweeping views of Lake Champlain.

R/K House

Brown + Davis Design

Steve Rosen and Eileen Kozin May 2018 | South Burlington, VT CD_Guest House at Graceland_B103_quarter-ART.pdf 2,800 sf

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The ancient forms of the obelisk and the ziggurat both signify place by connecting the earth to the sky. The Sky Chapel explodes and deconstructs the facets of these traditionally monolithic forms, creating an interior space linking one to earth below and sky above. The inclined form reaches out to the land before stepping upward in a spiral, culminating at a leaning spire.

At the center, a single plank is cantilevered off the structure, providing a bench for one person.

Sky Chapel TruexCullins

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August 2020 | Middlebury, VT 16’ long x 8’ wide x 10’ tall

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The Unitarian Meeting House has a growing and active congregation. Throughout their history, the congregation had utilized many meeting and worship spaces that never really represented their identity or spirituality. Unitarianism, by definition, is highly reflective, participatory, and open to all thoughts, beliefs, and people. The ultimate design goal was to craft a worship space that reflected this belief system in a manner that was welcoming and spiritual - a space that is inspiring but not in a manner dependent on traditional religious forms, icons, or dogma. After close to a year of discussion and design option presentations, it was decided that light was to be the guiding design force for the project.

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2019 | Middlebury, VT 10,080 sf

This housing project is located at the intersection between a Burlington historic Commercial/Residential District, and the revitalized and vibrant Lake Champlain Waterfront. The developer group saw the site as a potential location for an urban infill project that would meet the comprehensive City of Burlington’s vision to create housing that is “Connected, Inclusive, Distinctive and Dynamic�. Along with a broad rent range, the developer asked for a design that was of likeness and scale to the surrounding neighborhood on the street side, but yet dynamic and animated on the lake side.

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Redstone Commercial Group 2020 | Burlington, VT 44,900 sf conditioned space

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

SCHOLARSHIPS Robert Brady Award

One award per year is awarded to a VTC student who has demonstrated excellence in their undergraduate work. Chosen by VTC faculty. The Robert S. Brady Award is given to the sophomore student who has shown the greatest all-around academic achievement in the Architectural & Building Engineering Technology (ABET) Program. Robert Brady is a former AIAVT member and professor of architecture at VTC. Nathaniel Wells is this year’s recipient of our Robert S. Brady Award.

Ruth Freeman Award

One award per year is awarded to a VTC student who has demonstrated excellence in their undergraduate work. Chosen by VTC faculty, the Ruth Freeman Award is given to the student in the ABET Program whose work in Architectural Design I has exhibited architectural design excellence. The award is given in memory of Vermont’s first female architect and president of AIAVT. The 2020 VTC Ruth Freeman Award Winner is Rebecca “Bobbi” Robertson.

Norwich Honor Awards

Two awards per year are awarded to Norwich University students who have demonstrated excellence in their undergraduate work. Winners are selected by a committee of Norwich University faculty members at the end of the Fall semester. The two winners of this year’s Honor award are Victoria Geraw and David Lafontaine, both seniors in the architecture program at Norwich University.

Scholar Promise Award

Isabella Mertens is the winner of the Scholar Promise Award. Isabella will be graduating from the Saint Johnsbury Academy and will be attending the Architecture Program at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

Best in Show

One award per year is awarded to a graduating thesis student from Norwich University who has shown excellence in their post-graduate thesis work. This award is given at the discretion of the AIA Vermont Board of Directors based on their review of the thesis projects at the close of the Spring semester.

The 2020 Winner of the Best in Show Award was Ethan Nutting.

CAROL MIKLOS COMMUNITY OUTREACH GRANT The Carol Miklos Community Outreach Grant was created to support initiatives and special funding requests which have the potential to foster engagement with architecture and design in Vermont’s communities. The Community Outreach Grant is named in honor of Carol Miklos, who served as AIAVT’s Executive Director from 2008 to 2018.

The 2020 recipient of the Carol Miklos Community Outreach Grant was Mad River Valley Television in association with Yestermorrow Design/ Build School. The funding will help MRVTV to document and distribute videos of the presentations given at the 2021 Tiny House Fest.

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JOHN DALE THINKER & COLLABORATOR AWARD About the John Dale Thinker & Collaborator Award This award was collectively established after the loss of this year’s AIAVT President, John Dale.

John, a lover of books and friend to many, was also a thoughtful leader and socially responsible member of his community, who donated time to United Way as a volunteer and board member, and to Meals on Wheels, delivering meals to community members in need, during his Friday lunch breaks.

This peer recognition award recognizes an AIAVT member architect who dedicates their time both to the profession and to their community, and who, like John, is a thoughtful leader, and an advocate for diversity and social equity. John’s leadership style was best embodied by the red and black pens he kept on his desk. The black pens were what he used to capture his own thoughts and the red pens were used when collaborating with others. This award acknowledges John Dale and others for using their talent and expertise to contribute to the improvement of their community and the lives of others.

AIA Vermont is pleased to announce that David S. Mentzer, AIA is the inaugural winner of the John Dale Award.

Dave is motivated to use his experience and time to help others through things and always make the path smoother for the next person, and to include everyone fully, in the broadest sense of “community”. Dave Mentzer has been an AIA Vermont appointed NCARB licensing advisor for several years and has been a mentor to emerging professionals in that position.

Dave also serves his community as a member of the Ferrisburgh Zoning Board and promotes awareness and inclusion as a member of the Board of Directors of the Champlain Valley Down Syndrome Group (CVDSG). Like John Dale, Dave doesn’t seek recognition for his many years of volunteer service but is using his skills to help people and projects in our community reach their full potential.

There were ten excellent candidates all nominated by peers and the selection of a winner was not easy. As with the formation of the award, the Awards and Scholarship committee consulted John Dale’s family, his wife Amy, son David, and sister Amy, and asked them to help evaluate the top three nominees (the names of the nominees were kept anonymous). Amy Dale shared the following comments on Dave Mentzer’s nomination.

“What struck us about this nominee and gave them a ‘bit’ of an edge, was that they are in the middle of their career, not a partner, working hard at the job whilst sustaining a personal life; yet still, finds time to fit in their charity and community work in the little free time they have. Again, this really rang true to how John spent his years in Vermont.”

Congratulations to Dave Mentzer on receiving this recognition for his selfless dedication to his community and his profession. The monetary donation will support Kayla’s Directory, an organization which provides resources and services for children with special needs in Vermont.

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