Architecture Awards Program - usitt

‘11
Architecture
Awards Program
The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning Photos by © Tom Arban/Tom Arban Photography

ANNOUNCING THE
‘11
Architecture
Awards Program
In its eighteenth year, sponsored by
the USITT Architecture Commission,
the Architecture Awards Program
honors excellence in the design of
theatre projects.
S C H E D U L E
Entry Deadline
November 8, 2010
Jury Meeting
November 2010
March 9-12, 2011
Presentation of awards at the
USITT Annual Conference & Stage Expo
Charlotte, North Carolina
Eligibility
Architects practicing
anywhere within the seven
continents may enter one or
more submissions. Proposals
may be for a project of any
size or location, but
construction must have been
completed after January 1,
2001.
Judging
The jurors will evaluate each
entry on the following criteria:
• Creative image
• Contextual resonance
• Community contribution
• Explorations in new
technologies
• Functional operations of backstage
spaces as well as the audience
spaces
JURORS
Norman Pfeiffer, FAIA
Norman Pfeiffer, FAIA, has been
recognized during his long career
for memorable performing arts and
cultural spaces. His diverse portfolio
includes contemporary new construction
as well as historic renovations
and additions. His inclusive
approach grounds each design solution
in an understanding of site opportunities,
community objectives,
architectural influences, and functional
parameters and has resulted
in both iconic and contextual resolutions.
His buildings have been
amply recognized by the profession
with numerous planning, design,
and restoration awards for their contribution
to architecture, urbanism,
and the communities they serve, including
several USITT Architecture
Awards.
Mr. Pfeiffer received a USITT Distinguished
Achievement Award in
Architecture in 2007. Among his
noted performing arts facilities are
Hult Center for the Performing Arts
in Eugene, Oregon; Alaska Center for
the Performing Arts in Anchorage;
and Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver,
Colorado.
Current and recent projects include
the Performing Arts Center
Eastside in Bellvue, Washington; the
Debartolo Performing Arts Center at
the University of Notre Dame; the
Colburn School of Performing Arts
Expansion in downtown Los Angeles;
and the Donald W. Reynolds Performing
Arts Center at the
University of Oklahoma.
He founded Pfeiffer Partners in
2004, after 37 years as founding
partner of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer
Associates (HHPA).
Active in a range of professional
and civic organizations, Mr. Pfeiffer
has the distinction of being the
youngest member of the American
Institute of Architects College of Fellows
at the time of his election. He
has served on the U.S. General Services
Administration National Register
of Peer Professionals and, since
1989, on the Architectural Commission
of his alma mater, the University
of Washington. Mr. Pfeiffer
received his Masters in Architecture
from Columbia University.
In addition to serving as a Fellow
of the AIA, Mr. Pfeiffer is a member
of the Los Angeles Conservancy, Los
Angeles Historic Theater Foundation,
and the National Trust for Historic
Preservation.
Pfeiffer has taught, written and
lectured extensively about architecture
throughout his career.
Joshua Dachs
Joshua Dachs, widely recognized
as a leading theatre consultant, is an
architect and theatrical lighting designer.
He directs Fisher Dachs Associates
where he provides
planning, programming, and design
leadership. In more than 25 years of
practice he has helped plan and design
hundreds of projects. He actively
participates in room shaping,
spatial organization, and other
major design issues in the early
stages of virtually all of FDA’s significant
projects.
As a principal consultant to Lincoln
Center, Mr. Dachs has been involved
in the renovation of the Vivian
Beaumont Theater, the renovation of
Alice Tully Hall, the expansion of the
Juilliard School, and renovation plans
for Avery Fisher Hall.
He has designed the acclaimed
temporary stage installation for the
Mostly Mozart Festival in Avery
Fisher Hall, used annually since
2005. Recent projects include
Toronto’s Four Seasons Center opera
house; Schermerhorn Symphony
Center concert hall in Nashville, Tennessee;
the New Guthrie Theater in
Minneapolis, Minnesota; and the
Arsht Center, Miami’s new major
complex which includes an opera
house and a concert hall.
He continues to work with the
Joyce Theatre on planning for the
International Dance Center at the
World Trade Center site, as well as
the Bexar County Performing Arts
Center in San Antonio, the Cantos
National Music Centre in Calgary,
the new Mariinsky Opera House in
St. Petersburg, and the Montreal
Symphony Center.
Among the other projects completed
under his leadership are the
flexible REDCAT Theatre at the Disney
Hall in Los Angeles, California;
the Hobby Center for the Performing
Arts in Houston, Texas; a new
opera house in Daegu, South Korea,
and the Bass Performance Hall in
Fort Worth, Texas.
A graduate of the High School of
Music and Art in New York (he originally
studied the violin) he received
a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell
University. He has led a team of
experts teaching a professional development
course on theatre design
at the Harvard University Graduate
School of Design and has been a
guest critic at SCIARC and UCLA
schools of architecture. He is a member
of the American Society of Theatre
Consultants (ASTC) and ISPA.

Yasuhisa Toyota
Yasuhisa Toyota leads Nagata Acoustics room
acoustical consulting activities and spearheaded
the company’s advancement into the international
arena. He has been project chief and chief
acoustician on major concert hall projects in
Japanese and United States, engineering some of
the most acoustically-admired spaces built in the
last 40 years.
Dr. Toyota began his professional career in
1977, joining Nagata Acoustics directly from
Kyushu Institute of Design, where he received a
Bachelor of Design degree in Acoustical Design
and Engineering. For more than two decades, he
collaborated closely with Dr. Minoru Nagata, the
company’s founder, retired president and current
executive advisor. During his years at Nagata
Acoustics, he has been project leader for more
than 50 concert hall and multipurpose hall projects.
In particular, his expertise focuses on hall
configuration design and the design of acoustical
spaces for orchestral, chamber music and other
non-amplified musical genres. Some of his best
known projects in Japan are the Fukushima Concert
Hall, Fukushima; Kyoto Concert Hall; Nagaoka
Lyric Hall, Nagaoka and Chiba Paruru
Concert Hall, Chiba.
In the United States, his work includes the
Bard College Performing Arts Center, New York
City; and the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles,
California. Other international work includes
the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, St. Petersburg,
Russia; Shenzhen Cultural Center Concert
Hall, Shenzhen, China; and the Danish Radio
Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark.
In addition, ongoing projects include the
Elbphilhalmonie, Hamburg, Germany; Helsinki
Music Center Concert Hall, Helsinki, Finland;
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, in
Kansas City, Missouri (subject of a special session
at USITT’s 2010 Annual Conference); New World
Symphony Campus Expansion, Miami Beach,
Florida an Vitoria-Gasteiz Concert Hall/Auditorium,
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
One of Dr. Toyota’s noteworthy accomplishments
is the acoustical design of Suntory Hall,
completed in Tokyo, in 1986. The Walt Disney
Concert Hall, completed in Los Angeles, was described
as “wonderful gift to music” by Sir Simon
Rattle, the music director of the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra, when he conducted his orchestra
in the hall in November, 2003.
In 2004, he received honorary degrees of
Doctor of Science from Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson,
New York and Art Center College of
Design in Los Angeles, California.
His strong interest in music started in middle
school, and continued through his early years
with Nagata Acoustics when he played oboe in
amateur orchestras
Dr. Toyota has made numerous presentations,
given lectures, and written papers for both technical
and music industry professionals. He is a
member of the Acoustical Society of America and
the Acoustical Society of Japan. Nagata Acoustics
has an office in Los Angeles, California.
William Murray, AIA
USITT Architecture Commission
Vice-Commissioner for Awards
Bill Murray has established a national reputation
for planning and designing theatres and
performances spaces for both professional and
academic uses. He has a personal passions for
theatre and fine arts and uses his expertise to
balance the technical issues of state-of-the-art
practice, rehearsal, teaching and performance
spaces with the design challenges of creating intimate
spaces. His experience includes feasibility
studies, new construction, and renovation of cultural
centers, as well as visual arts, educational,
commercial, and civic projects.
Mr. Murray’s projects, for HHPA and Pfeiffer
Partners, include The Colburn School of Performing
Arts in Los Angeles; The Vilar Center for the
Arts in Beaver Creek, Colorado; the San Diego
Civic Theatre renovation and expansion in San
Diego, California; the Joseph A.W. Clayes III Performing
Arts Center at California State University,
Fullerton; and the Evo A. Deconcini U.S. Courthouse
in Tucson. Current work includes the Performing
Arts Center Eastside (PACE) in Bellevue,
Washington; the renovation and expansion of
the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, California,
and the new Performing Arts Center for Chapman
University in Orange, California.
Mr. Murray is a member of the International
Association of Assembly Managers (IAAM), The
National Association of Schools of Music (NASM),
and serves as USITT’s Vice-Commissioner for
Awards for the Architecture Commission. Mr.
Murray is a board member for NATEAC. He has
been a featured speaker and panelist at the
USITT Annual Conference and continues to chair
the design awards program annually as well as a
featured speaker at the IAAM. In 1986, he was
named a National AIA Scholar and, in 1987, received
his Bachelor of Architecture degree from
the University of Oregon.
Top left:
Theatre De Quat’sous
Center: Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
and Samueli Theater
Bottom: Vukovich Center for Communication Arts
All photos courtesy of
Archtiecture firms, except as noted.

Submission Requirements
Submit an 8.5”x 11”soft cover binder with clear sleeves containing site plan,
floor plans, sections, color or black and white photographs, and at least eight
digital images showing exterior and interior views, and four images showing
technical and backstage spaces. (.jpg or .tif files preferred – file size no smaller
than 300 dpi).
A narrative description, in English, including how this project responds to the
aforementioned judging criteria, must be submitted on a single typed sheet
(two copies) placed in the first clear sleeve. Description should also include
back of the house support spaces and functional and technical aspects of the
building as a space.
A one-page written statement in support of the project from an anonymous
artistic or technical director working in the theatre should be included in the
second clear sleeve. The statement should include specific commentary
explaining how the building fits their needs.
2010 Architecture Awards Winners
HONOR AWARDS
Project Name:
Owner:
Architect:
Theatre Consultant:
Acoustical Consultant:
MERIT AWARDS
Project Name:
Owner:
Architect:
Theatre Consultant:
Acoustical Consultant:
The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre for
Performance and Learning
Dr. Peter Simon, President, Royal Conservatory of Music,
Toronto, Canada
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Anne Minors Performance Consultants
Sound Space Design with Aerocoustics Engineering, Ltd.
Vukovich Center for Communication Arts
Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
Polshek Partnership Architects
Theatre Projects Consultants
Jaffe Holden
The last clear sleeve must contain the disk or CD containing digital images, an
envelope containing the entry fee, and the entry form. Entry forms are
available by e-mailing info@office.usitt.org or by downloading from the
USITT website at www.usitt.org.
Entry Fees
The entry fee for each project is $200 (US currency). Please make checks
payable to USITT and include check with your submission. You may also pay
by credit card (see entry form). Entry fees are non-refundable.
Entry Submission Address
Submissions must be received at the following address by November 8, 2010.
2011 Architecture Awards Program
United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc.
315 South Crouse Avenue, Suite 200
Syracuse, NY 13210- USA
Publicity
The drawings, photographs, and digital images of each entry will be used for
unrestricted publicity. Each entrant must clear all credits, drawings,
photographs, and digital images included in submission for future re-use and
reproduction. All materials submitted will be retained by USITT.
Award Notification and Presentation
Architects of winning submissions will be notified following the jury meeting
and prior to the USITT Annual Conference. Awards will be presented at the
USITT Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 9-
12, 2011. At least one representative of any successful team will be requested
to participate in the conference to discuss the project. Winners will be
required to submit a presentation board documenting the winning project
for display at the conference.
Project Name:
Owner:
Architect:
Associate Architect:
Theatre Consultant:
Acoustical Consultant
Project Name:
Owner:
Architect:
Associate Architect:
Theatre Consultant:
Acoustical Consultant:
Project Name:
Owner:
Architect:
Theatre Consultant:
Acoustical Consultant:
Project Name:
Owner:
Architect:
Associate Architect:
Theatre Consultant:
Acoustical Consultant:
Project Name:
Owner:
Architect:
Theatre Consultant:
Acoustical Consultant:
Henry Miller’s Theatre
One Bryant Park, LLC,
a joint venture between the Durst Organization and
Bank of America
Developed by the Durst Organization
Cook and Fox Architects
Adamson Associates Architects
Fisher Dachs Associates
Jaffe Holden
Winspear Opera House
AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas, TX.
Foster + Partners
Kendall Heaton Associates
Theatre Projects Consultants
Sound Space Design
Theatre De Quat’sous
Theatre De Quat’sous, Montreal, CA
Les Architectes Fab G
Trizart Alliance
Legault Davidson
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and
Samueli Theater
Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, CA
Pelli Clarke Pelli
Gruen Associates
Artec Consultants
Artec Consultants
Iwaki Performing Arts Center
Iwaki City
Naomi Sato Architects & Shimizu Corporation
Theatre Workshop
Nagata Acoustics
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