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Robert M. Gurney
Owner / Principal, Robert Gurney Architect, United States
The office of Robert M. Gurney, FAIA is dedicated to the design of modern, meticulously detailed, and thoughtfully ordered residential and commercial projects that are sensitive to site, program, and budget. Materials are employed with honesty, integrity, and ecological awareness. The design process involves an understanding of site-specific issues, such as location, landscape, history, availability of materials, and construction methods. The office of Robert M. Gurney, FAIA has created a body of work that has won more than three hundred local, regional and national design awards, including two National AIA Honor awards, six National AIA Housing Awards, six American Architecture Awards and three national AIA Small Project Awards. The office’s work has been published in numerous local, national and international magazines, books and periodicals, and is the subject of two monographs, “Modern Order Houses by Robert Gurney” and “Robert M. Gurney Architect: The Master Architect Series. Accomplishments in design are complemented by involvement in service activities to the profession and to students of Architecture. Robert Gurney has served as a member of the AIA Northern Virginia Chapter Board of Directors, Design Committee, Schools Connection Committee, and the Virginia Society State Design Committee and is currently a member of the VSAIA Honors Committee. Robert Gurney was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 2002.
Juan Saez Pedraja
Principal, Saez Pedraja, United States
Juan Saez Pedraja is the owner of Saez Pedraja Architects, An architecture office based in California and Spain. Juan has participated in multiple internationally published and awarded projects from single family residences to institutional and educational buildings. He believes that good architecture enhances the authenticity of human experience.
TOLYA STONOROV & OTTO STONOROV
Principals, STONOROV WORKSHOP, United States
Established in 2006, Stonorov Workshop was founded on the belief that good design makes life better. We use sustainable materials and methods in honest and simple expressions to create warm, kind, and tough modern works. Fundamental to our process is the belief that making and designing are intrinsic to each other. Knowledge of one strengthens and informs the expression of the other. We build many of our own projects and incorporate this experience into all of our designs. We enjoy the hard work and considered details we know good outcomes require.
Eric Logan
Principal, CLB Architects, United States
Eric is a Design Principal at CLB. His primary focus is to raise the level of discourse on design within the studio and to promote excellence in the work generated by the firm. He leads project teams in a collaborative process that generates thoughtful and innovative projects. The West influences Eric’s work: The power of landscape, the quality of light and the directness and simple honesty of vernacular architecture. He is keenly interested in the relevance of modernism as it is adapted to a particular context. His work is sensitive to place and thoughtful in execution which has resulted in numerous regional and national design awards. After graduating with a Master of Architecture degree from Arizona State University in 1991, Eric moved to Denver to apprentice with Urban Design Group. He completed his architectural internship at Blue Sky Studio and participated in Denver’s urban renewal initiative, renovating loft buildings in Lower Downtown. In 1995 Eric returned to his home state to join CLB. Recognized by the American Institute of Architects as a “Citizen Architect” for contributions to his community, Eric was a founding member and served on the Town of Jackson Design Review Committee for 12 years. Eric chairs and participates in regional design awards juries, teaches and advises students at local schools and lectures at regional design conferences.