1989 FA/AIA Awards for

Excellence in Architecture


 The 1989 Design Awards
Jury met in St. Louis, Mis-
souri, on July 8, in the office
of Mackey Associates. There
were 169 projects reviewed
by the jury and fourteen were
premeated.
 The jury was impressed
with the overall high quality
of the submitted projects. In
keeping with Florida's "rich
palette" of climate and land-
scape, the jury felt that most
of the buildings were in keep-
ing with an indoor-outdoor
lifestyle that gives them re-
gional impact. The premeated
projects, in particular, were
"powerfully regional and true
to their palette."
 Unique to Florida is the
fact that its architects can still
build whole new cities. Many
of Florida's new buildings
seem to have a "very human
scale with a strong relation-
ship between the indoors and
the outdoors." Outdoor spaces
such as courtyards, verandas,
patios, galleries and arcades
were common to many of the
premeated projects. The jury
liked the idea of bringing the
outdoors inside, and vice
versa.
 Stylistically, the jury felt
that most of the submitted
projects drew from a Post-
modem vocabulary.


The Jury


Eugene J. Mackey, AIA
Chairman of the Jury
 Eugene Mackey founded
Mackey Associates in 1968


and he is the current president
of the St. Louis chapter which
hosted this year's national AIA
convention. In the past ten
years, Mackey has won 17
national, state and local awards
and in May he was named the
recipient of the St. Louis Con-
struction News & Review
People's Choice Award for two
projects, the Power House at
St. Louis Union Station and
Union Station 10 Cine.
Mackey, however, feels that
the Missouri Botanical Gardens
in St. Louis is his most impor-
tant project to date.

William A. Bowersox, FAIA
 William A. Bowersox is
president of Ittner & Bower-
sox and is the partner in charge
of design. The firm specializes
in institutional and educational
facilities, primarily in the
Midwest. Bowersox is a gradu-
ate of the University of Kansas
and the recipient of a number
of national, state and local
design awards.

Louis R. Saur, AIA
 Louis Saur is president of
Louis R. Saur & Associates, a
full service architectural firm
in St. Louis. He is a past direc-
tor of the national AIA and has
also served on its Design
Committee. Recently, he was a
recipient of the AIA/AASA
Walter Taylor Award for the
design of Parkway North Sen-
ior High School in St. Louis.
Saur was a Steedman Fellow at
Washington University in St.
Louis where he has also been a
visiting professor.