Each year, the Residential Architect Design Awards celebrates the best in housing design. But this year’s jury, which included Stella Betts, Dirk Denison, and Rosalyne Shieh, evaluated the nearly 600 entries with an eye not to where we have been, but rather where we should be going. The 20 winners that you will see in the following pages reflect the jury’s emphasis on doing more with less (be it space or resources), focus on sustainability (by reusing existing building stock or pursuing new technologies), and resolve that everyone deserves thoughtful, elegant, and well-designed housing (whatever their economic status). Whether it’s a micro-unit that can grow vegetables for its residents, a rethinking of the Los Angeles ranch house, or the transformation of a local eyesore into a luminous destination, these winners show that architects can innovate to make better housing for a new era of living.
Jury
Stella Betts, Assoc. AIA, partner, LevenBetts
Dirk Denison, FAIA, founder, Dirk Denison Architects
Rosalyne Shieh, AIA, principal, Schaum/Shieh
The Winners
Custom Home Less Than 3,000 Square Feet | AwardEast Lawrence Sustainable House, Lawrence, Kan.
Studio 804
Custom Home Less Than 3,000 Square Feet | Award
Ecological Living Module, New York
Gray Organschi Architecture and Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture
Custom Home Less Than 3,000 Square Feet | Award
Shelter Island House, Shelter Island, N.Y.
Christoff:Finio Architecture
Custom Home More Than 3,000 Square Feet | Award
Michigan Lake House, Leelanau County, Mich.
Desai Chia Architecture
Custom Home More Than 3,000 Square Feet | Award
Optima DCHGlobal Whale Bay, Mataka Station, Whale Bay, New Zealand
Optima DCHGlobal
Renovation/Adaptive Reuse | Award
Rear Window House, Culver City, Calif.
Edward Ogosta Architecture
Renovation/Adaptive Reuse | Award
900 Penn, Denver
Davis Urban
Affordable Housing | Award
Peabody, Burridge Gardens, St. John’s Hill, London
Hawkins\Brown
Affordable Housing | Award
Hunters View Housing Phase 2, San Francisco
Paulett Taggart Architects and David Baker Architects
Affordable Housing | Award
Five88, San Francisco
David Baker Architects
Restoration/Preservation | Award
The Bohn House, Austin, Texas
Dick Clark + Associates
Restoration/Preservation | Honorable Mention
Harvey House, Palm Springs, Calif.
Marmol Radziner
Restoration/Preservation | Honorable Mention
Midcentury Modern Revived, Quogue, N.Y.
Austin Patterson Disston Architects
Student Housing | Award
UCSB San Joaquin Student Housing, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
Student Housing | Award
Olympia Place, Amherst, Mass.
Holst Architecture
Student Housing | Award
The Street, Mathura, India
Sanjay Puri Architects
Outbuilding | Award
Sombreada Hasta, Real County, Texas
Rhotenberry Wellen Architects
Outbuilding | Honorable Mention
Courtyards at Rossmore and Weldon, Los Angeles
Brooks + Scarpa
Multifamily Housing | Award
Palm 4, Manhattan Beach, Calif.
RAS-A
Multifamily Housing | Award
Mariposa1038, Los Angeles
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
