1985 FA/AIA AWARDS

 FOR EXCELLENCE

 IN ARCHITECTURE


The 1985 Awards for Excel-
 lence in Architecture brought
together a prestigious jury to
view one hundred and forty-five
projects submitted by AIA
members in Florida and the Car-
ibbean. This year, there were
twelve winning projects.
 The consensus of the jury was
that the overall quality of the
submitted designs was not as
high as it should have been. Crit-
icism of the projects ran high
and stemmed from specific com-
ments relating to a lack of care
in the submissions to a general
concern that the architects in
the region are not looking to the
sources of design for their inspi-
ration. One juror felt they should
be looking to the cultural and in-
digenous as inspiration for their
designs.
 Juror Kevin Roche summed
up the jury comments, "Florida
has a specific environment. You
don't get any sense [from the
projects submitted] that there is
any original thinking indigenous
to Florida."



The Jury

Cesar Pelli was born in Tucu-
 man, Argentina, where he
earned a Diploma of Architect
from the Universidad Nacional.
He came to the United States to
attend the University of Illinois,
where he earned a Master of
Science in Architecture. For the
next ten years, he worked in the
offices of Eero Saarinen and
Associates.
 In January, 1977, Pelli as-
sumed the duties of Dean at the


Yale School of Architecture,
and he opened his own architec-
tural office, Cesar Pelli & Asso-
ciates, in New Haven, Connecti-
cut. In 1985, he resigned from
Yale to attend his architectural
practice on a full-time basis, al-
though he remains a member of
the faculty of the School.
 Cesar Pelli is a Fellow of the
American Institute of Archi-
tects, a member of the American
Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters, a Trustee of the
Institute of Architecture and
Urban Studies, New York, and
a Board Member of the National
Building Museum in Washington,
D.C. His work has been written
about and exhibited all over the
world.

Kevin Roche was born in Dub-
lin, Ireland in 1922. He re-
ceived his Bachelor of Architec-
ture degree at the National Uni-
versity of Ireland and came to
the United States in 1948. In
1950, he joined the firm of Eero
Saarinen and Associates. Roche
served as Saarinen's principal
associate in design from 1954 un-
til Saarinen's death in 1961. At
that time he formed a partner-
ship with John Dinkeloo to con-
tinue Saarinen's practice and to
complete the ten major projects
underway at that time.
 Kevin Roche has been the re-
cipient of many honors and
awards including the Academie
d'Architectufe 1977 Grand Gold
Medal and the Pritzker Archi-
tecture Prize in 1982. He is reg-
istered to practice architecture
in 17 states and is a member of
the National Council of Architec-
tural Registration Boards.


FLORIDA ARCHITECT September/October 1985