2021 Design Awards

The AIA Santa Barbara Design Awards program recognizes design excellence in architecture, residential architecture, restoration/renovation, and urban design. Criteria to be used by the jury include quality of design, resolution of the program idea, sustainable responsibility, innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique.

On December 2, the following projects were awarded for exceptional design excellence.

Honor

The Thacher School, Dining Pavilion

Category: Commercial Buildings
Architect: Blackbird Architects
Photographer: Alex Nye

Cabrillo Commercial Complex

Category: Santa Barbara Architectural Heritage
Architect: DMHA Architecture + Interior Design
Photographer: Erin Feinblatt

Category: Mixed Use and Multi-Family Residential
Architect: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
Photographer: Bruce Damonte

Merit

Crestline

Category: Single Family Residential
Architect: Anacapa Architecture
Photographer: Erin Feinblatt 

Mar Vista Residence

Category: Single Family Residential
Architect: Tim Gorter
Photographer: Andy Yutsai Yang

Hill House

Category: Proposed/Unbuilt Projects
Architect: Shubin+Donaldson
Photographer: Robin Donaldson A.I.A.

Category: Commercial Buildings
Architect: Kieran Timberlake
Photographer: Bruce Damonte

Honorable Mention

Category: Commercial Buildings
Architect: Anacapa Architecture
Photographer: Aleks Danielle

Vista de la Cumbre

Category: Small Projects: Single Family Residential Additions, Remodels or Accessary Dwelling Units (ADU’s)
Architect: Anacapa Architecture
Photographer: Erin Feinblatt 

News

Independent – Hot Market, Cool Properties NEW

Edhat – Announcing AIASB 2021 Design Award Recipients

Voice Magazine page 21

The Current – Best in Build

Newspress – Annual AIA gala showcases local designs

Jurors

Mariana Ibañez, Chair and Associate Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, is an Argentinian architect involved in practice, academia, and research. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Mariana taught at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University for over a decade and most recently at MIT. She has been Adjunct Associate Professor at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture in Toronto, and at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Mariana is the co-founder and principal of the award-winning office Ibañez Kim, a genre-defiant practice that works with sensate materials, atmospheres, and new media to generate architecture, objects, and cities. Her research is in the disciplinary core of architecture and its growing periphery, with a focus on the relationship between technology, culture, and the environment.

Aaron Jon Hyland, FAIA, a San Francisco based architect and PlaceMaker consulting on Architecture, Preservation, and Cultural Heritage. Aaron has committed over three decades to making historic and culturally significant buildings and sites relevant, celebrating what makes these places special while at the same time accommodating change and future possibilities. He is an expert in the restoration, rehabilitation, and adaptive re-use of historic buildings, as well as design of new structures in sensitive contexts. Aaron is especially adept at translating the intangible cultural significance and qualities of place into tangible work of architecture and urban design. Aaron spent over two decades with Architectural Resources Group and 10 years as their Managing Principal. He has primarily focused on Civic, Government, Cultural and University work for clients who manage campuses with multiple building assets.

Alvin Huang, AIA, Director of Graduate & Post-Professional Degrees at USC School of Architecture. Alvin Huang is a Chinese-American architect, educator, and designer based in Los Angeles, California. He is the founder of Synthesis Design + Architecture and an associate professor at the USC School of Architecture.

Design Award Gala