The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced the initial winners and finalists of the sixth annual National Design Awards, honoring the most outstanding contributions from the design world in 2005, including the winners of Lifetime Achievement, Corporate Achievement, Design Mind and Design Patron, as well as the three finalists for each of the other six awards for architecture, communications, landscape design, interior design, product and fashion. ArtDaily
Finalists for the category of architecture design (commercial, public or residential) are: Diller, Scofidio + Renfro—DS+R is an interdisciplinary studio that fuses architecture with the visual and performing arts. The work of DS+R includes architectural commissions, temporary and permanent site-specific installations, multimedia theater, electronic media and print. The New York-based firm integrates architecture with new technologies, implements new materials and construction processes in its projects and appropriates materials from unlikely sources such as the military, aerospace and medical fields.
Tom Kundig—Partner of Seattle-based architecture firm Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, Kundig has gained national notoriety for his poetic, elemental and intuitive treatment of projects. Kundig creates buildings that are experienced as a journey, a series of vignettes that coalesce into a coherent narrative. With respect for the environment, Kundig’s projects reveal his reverence for materials, while combining art, craft and the experience of built space. In 2004, he was selected as one of eight North American Emerging Architects by the Architectural League of New York.
Antoine Predock—Drawing from the pulse of the land, Antoine Predock’s work embraces the uniqueness of a site, its history, culture and people. Predock’s signature working method includes sketches to capture initial immersion, collage as a mosaic translation into a visual plane and clay modeling to shape bold, three-dimensional forms. He founded Antoine Predock Architect in Albuquerque, N.M., which soon will celebrate its fourth decade in practice.
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Also on the list, for special comendation, Sergio Palleroni.
Since Palleroni established the program at the University of Washington 12 years ago, architects and students have worked with squatter communities in Mexico, migrant laborers in eastern Washington, American Indian reservations in Montana and communities in Cuba, India and Africa to build housing, schools and clinics.
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