2023 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 7th, the following projects were awarded for exceptional design excellence.

Honor

Casa Roble

Category: Santa Barbara Architectural Heritage
Architect: DesignARC
Photographer: Jim Bartsch

Merit

Honorable Mention

Category: Commercial Interiors 
Architect: Barton Myers Associates, Inc.
Photographer: Ciro Coelho

Pavilion at Intersect + VKCC Container Coffee

Category: Small Projects: Single Family Residential Additions, Remodels or Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU’S)
Architect: AB Design Studio, Inc.
Photographer: Stephen Whalen

Padaro Beach Home

Category: Single Family Residential 
Architect: NMA Architects
Photographer: Ciro Coelho

Category: Single Family Residential 
Architect: Barton Myers Associates, Inc.
Photographer:Ciro Coelho

Valley Residence

Category: Proposed/Unbuilt Projects
Architect: Anacapa Architecture

Jurors

Jonathan Segal, FAIA has been awarded six national AIA Honor Awards for their housing work. Segal is considered one of San Diego, California’s most successful and pioneering residential architectural/development companies and has a reputation for providing superior housing at a lower cost than comparable properties. Their focus is exclusively on urban projects, ranging from 80 to 160 dwelling units per acre. Segal has been the recipient of numerous accolades including 40 local, state and national AIA awards for residential and Urban Design.

Over the past twenty years, Segal has created and modeled the unique practice of “Architect as Developer”, a prototype in which the architect has the ability to become the owner, therefore eliminating the client and the general contractor from the design and building process. Segal teaches this concept of “Architect as Developer” in an online video course for architects.

Michael Burch, FAIA specializes in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style. A fourth generation Southern Californian, Burch was raised in Pasadena, CA, and educated at the University of California, Berkeley and the Yale School of Architecture. He has taught at the University of Southern California. Burch founded his firm, Michael Burch Architects, in 1986. He was the original co-curator of an exhibition for the Getty Institute’s Pacific Standard Time on the Spanish Colonial/Mediterranean Revival style. Burch’s work has appeared in 20 books on the style, including the cover of “the definitive statement on the subject”. He was invited to and presented the work of his firm at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020. He has been described as “the greatest living practitioner of the Spanish Colonial/Mediterranean Revival style”. In addition to numerous American Institute of Architects awards, his firm has received three Palladio Awards, the sole national award for traditional architecture.

Greg Wynn, AIA is an architect and educator with over 20 years of teaching experience at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Having taught almost all courses within the architecture curriculum, Greg is currently teaching fifth-year thesis and capstone studio and he is the lead instructor of the professional practice courses that cover ethics, contracts, project delivery and financial considerations, for which he was nationally recognized as an NCARB Scholar in Practice.

Greg maintains an active practice that specializes in residential historic rehabilitation and restoration as well as small scale commercial projects. He is the outgoing chair of the Architectural Review Commission for San Luis Obispo and is the President of the AIA-Central Coast Chapter.

Always active in examination development, Greg serves has served as a Subject Matter Expert for the California Architects Board and is a member the Examination Committee for the Architectural Registration Examination (ARE). Greg is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), and the International Code Council (ICC).

News

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Photographer: Garrit Wilson