2011 Cleveland Design Competition Prizes
Presented by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

The Cleveland Design Competition is pleased to announce the winners of this year's competition: A New School Vision! This year, the jury awarded a First Place, Second Place, and two submissions to share the Third Place distinction. In addition to the top three prizes awarded, five additional submissions were given the Honorable Mention distinction. To view the 2011 Winning Designs click here!

Select submissions will be on display at the 2011 Ingenuity Festival in Cleveland, and from September 24th-October 29th at the Colonial Marketplace Arcade in Downtown Cleveland. Additional exhibits will be announced here on the competition website, the competition Facebook page, and by email.

First Place - $5,000.00 USD

Michael Dickson
Brisbane, Australia

Second Place - $2,000.00 US

Michael Robitz, Sean Franklin, Alexandra VanOrsdale
New York, NY

Third Place (TIED)- $1,000.00 USD

Drozdov & Partners Ltd.
Oleg Drozdov, Anna Kosharnaya, Pavel Zabotin, Andrian Sokolovksy
Kharkov, Ukraine

Feld Architecture
Vincent Feld
Paris, France

Honorable Mentions (5)

Studio Nu / natural urbanism
Athanas Fontaine, Chad Brintall, Michael Johnson
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Wendel Architecture
Michael Conroe, Leanne Stepien, Giona Paolercio, Stephanie Vito
Amherst, New York

KGD Architecture
Stephen Zuber, Carlos Coello, Courtney Boardman, Chad Smith, Ningning Shang, Leah Kleinman, Suttiruck Wongsawan, Randall Wong, Amanda Wigen- Rosslyn, Virginia

Long Division
Jedidiah Lau, Jenny Kim
Hong Kong

Lateral Office
Mason White, Lola Sheppard, Nikole Bouchard, Zoe Renaud-Drouin, Paul Christian, Fionn Byrne
Toronto, Canada

2011 Cleveland Design Competition Jury

Kevin Daly, AIA
Design Principal-in-Charge, Daly Genik

Kevin Daly, AIA received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of California and his Master of Architecture degree from Rice University. He has been a principal of his own firm for over seventeen years. Prior to establishing a partnership with Chris Genik in 1990, Kevin worked with Hodgetts + Fung and Frank Gehry.

Kevin is the Design Principal-in-Charge for all the office projects including the award-winning Valley Center House, the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, the Slot Box House, and the new Art Center College of Design South Campus Building. Current projects include new offices for BMW/Designworks USA, The UCLA Music Facilities Study, and the Harvard University Art Museums Art Center. In 1999 Kevin Daly and Chris Genik were selected as one of eight Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York and featured on the cover of Metropolis. In 2005 the office was one of only five American design firms feature in 10 x 10_2 by Phaidon.

Kevin has taught at UCLA, SCI-Arc, ASU, and UCSD and is a member of the advisory board of the University of Southern California's Center for Sustainable Cities.

Steven Turckes, AIA, REFP, LEED AP
K-12 Education Global Market Leader, Perkins + Will

Steven leads the K-12 Educational Facilities Group of Perkins+Will, an international award-winning architectural firm specializing in the research-based planning and design of innovative and sustainable educational facilities. In Mr. Turckes' 23-year career his work has focused on the programming, master planning and implementation of numerous K-12 projects across the nation and abroad.

An avid reader and strategic thinking about the evolving nature of our global society and economy, Mr. Turckes often assists schools navigate change to create flexible environments that support critical learning and skill acquisition objectives; helping to prepare students for success now and in the future. His experience and understanding of the key issues surrounding K-12 facilities have led to numerous presentation at regional and national educational conferences on a broad range of topics from planning 21st century schools to safety and security to green architecture and its use in school facilities.

David Mark Riz, AIA, LEED AP
Principal, KieranTimberlake

David is a Principal at Kieran Timberlake, an internationally recognized architecture firm noted for its commitment to research, innovation and invention. He has been with KieranTimberlake for over twelve years. He current oversees Yale-NUS College, a n ew liberal arts college in Singapore, an expansion to the Michener Art Museum in Bucks County, PA, the Film and Media Studies school at Lafayette College, in Easton, PA, and the Northwest Campus Student Housing project at the University of California, Los Angeles.

David has been responsible for a range of award-winning projects including the Durham Academy Lower School in Durham, NC, the West Campus Residential Initiative at Cornell University in Ithica, NY, and Cellophane House for The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Projects he has been responsible for have been featured in Architect, Architectural Record, I.D. Magazine, Metropolis, TIME, The New York Times, and Wired.

David received a Bachelor of Architecture from Temple University and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He has over twenty years experience in the United States and abroad. Early in his career David practiced in Japan with Atelier Ryu Team Zoo and taught architectural design in Taiwan.

Amy Green Deines, Associate AIA
Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Detroit Mercy

Amy Green Deines received her Master of Architecture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in May of 2000. Amy has a diverse design background that builds on her academic training in industrial design and architecture. Her teaching and research interest stem from an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to encompass both visual communications and the built environment with specific focus on design, cultural mapping and new technologies.

Amy is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy where she teaches Architectural Design Studios, Graphic Design, and Graduate Seminar. Amy is a professional designer with experience in both the public and private sector, specializing in architecture, graphic design and urban design.

Edward Schmittgen
Executive Director of Capital Planning and University Architect, Cleveland State University

Edward Schmittgen received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Kent State University. Edward has been the Executive Director of Capital Planning and University Architect for Cleveland State University for over 14 years. Over the course of his time at Cleveland State University he has helped create, and recently execute, an extremely aggressive Master Plan for the downtown Cleveland campus of Cleveland State University. Recently, he began executing the "Building Blocks for the Future" campaign at Cleveland State University, which is a $500 million-plus campus master plan phase that is changing the face of both campus and downtown Cleveland while creating a vibrant living and learning community in the heart of the city. Part of this master plan includes the recently constructed Student Center designed by the late Charles Gwathmey and a $36 million dollar new College of Education and Human Services Building. Edward has also been an integral part of the team establishing and executing the next phase of the campus master plan known as North Campus; which includes the site for the Campus International K-12 School.

Dr. Linda J. Williams Ph.D.
Superintendent, Various School Systems
Senior Director of Educational Services, WVIZ/Ideastream

Dr. Linda Williams joined WVIZ/ideastream in November 2009 as the new Senior Director of Educational Services, responsible for all educational programs for the public television and radio station from preschool to college graduation. She brings with her a wealth of leadership and communication skills, training and expertise in the areas of special education, strategic planning, and continuous improvement planning Most recently, she was County Superintendent of the Lake County Educational Service Center. She had previously been superintendent of schools in Richmond Heights City School district and an Assistant Superintendent in Mentor School District. In addition, she has been a teacher and served as chair of the Department of Education at Hiram College.

Dr. Williams is a graduate of the American Association of School Administrators Strategic Planning training program and participated in Leadership Training Seminars and the National Security Seminar at the United States Army War College. She has facilitated over 70 strategic plans for school districts and agencies.

Dr. Williams is a graduate of Kent State University and holds a B.S. in Elementary and Special Education, an M.Ed. in Teaching Exceptional Children and a Ph.D. in Administration and Special Education. She is a graduate of the Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management Professional Fellows Leadership Program.

Dr. Williams was appointed to the Lakeland Community College Board of Trustees by the governor of Ohio in 2007.

Competition Past Jury Members

Each of the juries for the past three years of the Cleveland Design Competitions, with a short description* of each jury member, can be found below.

2009 Cleveland Design Competition: Lakefront Station Jury

Stanton Eckstut
Founding Principal, Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects (EEK)

Stan Eckstut, EE&K's senior principal, has a national reputation as an innovator and leader in large-scale architecture extending back over thirty years to his pioneering work designing the master plan for Battery Park City. His singular understanding of architecture as a practice that creates and sustains the public realm is evident in all his designs, from large-scale waterfront developments and intermodal transportation hubs to campuses, schools, and even prototypes for bus shelters. Stanton is currently assisting the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority is developing a master plan for over 100-acres of lakefront property located north of the Competition Site.

Vincent Chang
Principal, Grimshaw Architects

Vincent has been with Grimshaw since 1996, and was responsible for establishing the practice's New York office. In this position he led the firm's first American commissions - including the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center at PRI, and the Fulton Street Transit Center in Manhattan. In addition to leading projects for Grimshaw, Vincent servces on the advisory council for the New York Center for Architecture and regularly contributes to coures in systems integration at Yale and Cornell universities. He is also a Director of EVA, Environmentally Viable Architecture, a not-for-profit organization devoted to developing software tools to better integrate sustainable design into the creative process. Vincent graduated from Cambridge University in 1991 and is a qualified architect in the US and UK.

Mehrdad Yazdani
Principal, Cannon Design - Design Director, Yazdani Studio

For most of his design career, Mehrdad Yazdani has practiced at the intersection of the large office and the small studio. Named by Progressive Architecture magazine as one of the world's top emerging architects just three years after earning his Master of Architecture from Harvards Graduate School of Design, Mehrdad has succeeded in bringing a design sensibility characteristic of boutique firms to a broad portfolio of significant civic buildings. Recently, Mehrdad was awarded the commission for a new Greater Cleveland Rapid Transit Station in University Circle.

Ann Pendleton-Jullian
Director, Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University

Ann Pendleton-Jullian is an architect, writer, and educator of international standing. Believing in the vital exchange between ideas and architecture, thought and action, she has founded her practice - Ann Pendleton-Jullian Architects in Boston - on both commissioned work and theoretical projects. Independently, and in previous partnership with Guillaume Jullian de la Fuente, she has produced a portfolio of work that exhibits a thoroughness of approach. Her work has been exhibited and published extensively and has developed a reputation for the manner in which it poeticizes the intersection between pragmatic concerns and the ambitions of the immaginiation. As a graduate of Cornell University with a degree in architecture, Pendleton-Jullian had first pursued astrophysics at Wellesley College and Cornell before changing her major. She earned a master of architecture degree from Princeton University in 1983.

Robert Brown
Director, City of Cleveland Planning Commission

Robert is responsible for helping to shape the Mayor of Cleveland's vision for improving the quality of life in Cleveland's neighborhoods and creating a vibrant 24-hour downtown. He and his staff accomplish this through neighborhood and comprehensive planning, zoning code and map updates, development project facilitation, and research and data annalysis. Currently, he and his staff are leading the Connecting Cleveland 2020 Citywide Plan, a plan for the future of Cleveland's neighborhoods.

2008 Cleveland Design Competition: interPLAY Jury

Casey Jones
Partner, jones|kroloff; Bloomfield Hills, MI

Prior to establishing jones|kroloff, Casey Jones was part of the U.S. General Services Administration’s award-winning Design Excellence Program. He also helped establish and manage the Van Alen Institute, a leading architectural and urban design research center. Casey has taught architecture and urban design at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design in New York City. Read more…

Jawaid Haider
Professor of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA

Professor Haider is an expert on intergenerational and children’s environments and is viewed as one of a handful of authorities on the subject of architectural design as it applies to children’s museums and other learning institutions. His interdisciplinary research underscores how the designed environment can be child-friendly, elder-friendly, and potentially provide improved intergenerational interaction and relationship formation in civic spaces in cities. Read more…

Barry Richards
Senior Associate/Studio Leader, Rockwell Group; New York, NY

Barry Richards is a senior associate and studio leader at Rockwell Group. His education includes undergraduate degrees in Painting and Architecture at the University of Washington and a Masters of Architecture at Princeton. He has worked with clients such as Disney, FAO Schwartz, Barnes & Noble, and Alessi, designing products ranging from kitchen accessories to jewelry. His work has included sets for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hairspray the musical, Omnium Gatherum, a martini glass for Bombay Sapphire, a bar for Esquire/Absolut, a custom lounge chair made of Dupont Corian for Grand Central Terminal, lighting for Baldinger Architectural Lighting, textiles for Design Tex, Rockwell Group’s monograph Pleasure, and sets for Team America: World Police, a film by the creators of South Park.

Patricia Stevens
Chief of Park Planning, Cleveland Metroparks; Cleveland, OH

Patricia is responsible for conversation, open space and recreation initiatives within Cleveland Metroparks and the surround region. Prior to joining the Metroparks in 2003, she served as Principal of Environmental Planning, responsible for environmental design, recreational planning and landscape architectural services at Schmidt Copeland Parker Stevens. Read more…

Cathy Whitehouse
Principal and Chief Educator, The Intergenerational School; Cleveland, OH

Cathy is a founder with her husband Peter of The Intergenerational School – an innovative, successful, urban public school that offers educational and volunteer opportunities to family members of enrolled students and to the older adults in the community. This award winning schools serves learners of all ages from Cleveland and the surrounding suburbs and is committed to excellence in life-long learning and spirited citizenship.

2007 Cleveland Design Competition: Irishtown Bend Jury

Ken Greenberg
Partner, Greenberg Consultants; Toronto, Canada

Architect and Urban Designer Ken Greenberg has played a leading role on a broad range of assignments in highly diverse urban settings in North America, and Europe. Much of his work focuses on the rejuvenation of downtowns, waterfronts, neighborhoods, and campus master planning. His projects include the award-winning Saint Paul on the Mississippi Development Framework, the Brooklyn Bridge Park on the East River in New York, the East River waterfront in Lower Manhattan, the Fan Pier in Boston, the Southwest and Southeast Waterfronts in Washington, D.C., the Vision Plan for the District of Columbia and the preparation... Read more…

Zoe Ryan
Neville Bryan Curator of Architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois

Zoe Ryan is a British curator and writer. She is currently the Neville Bryan Curator of Design at The Art Institute of Chicago, where, in addition to organizing exhibitions, she is building the museum’s first collection of contemporary design. Prior to moving to Chicago she was Senior Curator at the Van Alen Institute in New York, a non-profit public art and architecture organization committed to improving the design of the public realm. Ryan was also editor ofthe Van Alen Report, the Institute’s quarterly journal. She joined the Institute in Fall 2000 to lead research, publication, and exhibition projects. Ryan most recently organized the exhibition “The Good Life: New Public Spaces for Recreation,” Read more…

Mark Robbins
Senior Associate/Studio Leader, Rockwell Group; New York, NY

Mark Robbins is the dean of the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. His work bridges the fields of art and architecture, exploring the complex social and political forces that contribute to the built environment. Before coming to Syracuse in the summer of 2004, Robbins was the Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington DC where he developed an aggressive program to strengthen the presence of innovative design in the public realm....Read more…

Michel Langevin
Landscape Architect, NIP Paysage; Montreal

Paul Alsenas
Director, Cuyahoga County Planning Commission; Cleveland, OH

Don Harvey
Cleveland Artist; Cleveland, OH

*The Jury member descriptions were written at the time of the competition, and have not been kept up to date since the particular competition for which that person was selected as a jury member.