Competition Prizes / Jury

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. The prizes for the 2009 Cleveland Design Competition, which concluded on January 29th, 2010 with a public reception at the Colonial Marketplace in downtown Cleveland, were awarded at the following levels:

2009 Cleveland Design Competition Prizes

Presented by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

First Place - $5,000.00 USD

Second Place - $2,000.00 USD

Third Place - $1,000.00 USD

For the list of winners from the 2009 Cleveland Design Competition: Lakefront Station, please click here: http://www.clevelandcompetition.com/gallery-09.html

For the list of winners from the 2008 Cleveland Design Competition: interPLAY, please click here:
http://www.clevelandcompetition.com/gallery-08.html

For the list of winners from the 2007 Cleveland Design Competition: Irishtown Bend, please click here:
http://www.clevelandcompetition.com/gallery-07.html

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.

    

 

The full list of 2009 Competition Sponsors can be found on our Sponsors page.

Additional Thanks to our 2008 Competition Sponsors: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, Cleveland Public Art, Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization, ParkWorks, AIA Cleveland, FORUM Architectural Services, Westlake Reed Leskosky, Behnke Associates