Shutze Awards, Feb 12, I'm going, You too, I hope.

When they show the slides of the winners, the crowd gasps. Really, they gasp. Me too. Buy tickets here.

I'm going even though I'll have to wear a coat and tie. Sound stuffy? Realize that most of the audience prefers work boots, noisy building sites, sawdust, red clay, and the occasional un-ladylike language heard when hammer meets thumb.


The Shutze's will be at Piedmont Driving Club next Saturday night. Cocktails and food followed by an educational awards presentation. It's Architecture Tourist heaven.

The room will be filled with architects, landscape architects, designers, builders, craftsmen, and fans like me who love these beautiful things. Once in a while these folks have the privilege to interpret classical design for modern requirements. Is The Villa only 90 years old?


Buy tickets here. And please join me that morning at the Atlanta History Center for a presentation by Jonathan LaCrosse. Philip Shutze and His Georgian Muse. It starts at 10:30. Good chance to meet fellow travelers.

From the Award Announcement:

"The Southeast Chapter is pleased to announce the fifth annual design competition to recognize excellence in traditional and classical design. The Shutze Awards will be given for small, large, and multi-family residential design, commercial/civic/institutional projects, interior design, craftsmanship, renovation, and landscape/garden design.

The awards are named for Philip Trammell Shutze, the Atlanta architect whose work is revered internationally as one of the twentieth century’s most devoted classicists. The awards will recognize similar individuals who are contributing to the creation of twenty-first century classical and traditional architecture.

The awards will be presented on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at a gala event at the Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta, GA. In addition, the work of the award winners will be showcased in Atlanta Homes & Lifestyle magazine."

The awards will honor Norman Askins, one of Atlanta's living architecture legends.

Judges are David Brussat Providence Journal’s architecture critic, Arthur Ross Award winner, blogger at Architecture Here and There.

Gary L. Brewer is also Master of Ceremonies. He is a partner at Robert A. M. Stern with projects everywhere including a favorite of mine in Seaside and a Life Magazine Dream House north of Atlanta.

Lindsay Bierman is editor at Southern Living and formerly of Coastal Living. Enough said.

Buy tickets here.

Here is my little collection of Shutze's doors that might wet your appetite.

Shutze's sparkling brick at Grady High School

Whole sections of the wall sparkle in the low winter sun.


I've just bought my ticket to the 2010 Philip Trammell Shutze Awards on February 20th in Atlanta. You should too. Mr. Shutze "...placed Atlanta on the map of America's great classical architecture." The awards recognize new architecture and landscaping in the classical tradition here in the southeast.

I went to the Shutze Awards last year. It's quite a treat for architecture tourists. The event gathers the architecture, the architects, and the clients in one place for one evening. And there will be way more bowties than average.

Atlanta is full of Shutze buildings. This was a busy, productive man with great clients.

In the run up to the awards I will do a batch of posts about Shutze in my neighborhood, places that reward deeper looks.

Shiny brick? On Sunday while taking pictures of Shutze's Grady High School (where my kids went to school, where I've been 100's of times), I had my first brick epiphany.

I took a routine photo of the brick in the shade. It's Flemish bond with gray headers, red stretchers. Nice. Why did Mr. Shutze selected these particular bricks?


I presumed that's all there was to know about the brick. Then I moved to the sunny side and with a sidelong glance caught the reflections. The gray headers shine:


What else am I missing?

I will do another post on Grady High School. For fellow Atlantans, it's across 10th street from Piedmont Park. You've been there but you haven't really noticed. It's worth a closer look. How 'bout them urns?


Thanks,
Terry

P.S. If you are going to the Shutze awards, please let me know at terry @ surf303.com.

Pictures from the 2009 Shutze Awards

Julia over at Hooked on Houses is hosting her "Hooked on Friday's" blog party.
I blogged about the Shtutze Awards here and here. Now the pictures are up. You need to see them.

The pictures are from the 2009 Philip T. Shutze Awards are on the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America's Southeast Chapter's website.

There are a bunch and they are good. The audience gasped when they saw these on a movie screen at the show. I'm going next year for sure if I can get a ticket. I've listed the winners below. The slides are in the same order as my list.

Pictures: 1st Batch 2009 Shutze Award Winners - award winning buildings, interiors and landscapes. 59 pictures

Pictures: 2nd Batch 2009 Shutze Award Winners - award winning buildings interiors and landscapes . 52 pictures

Pictures: 3nd Batch 2009 Shutze Award Winners - the award ceremony and picture of the award winning architects and designers. 39 pictures

Winners:

Small Renovation: D. Stanley Dixon for a Dutch colonial renovation with a front facing center gable. Beautiful inside and out. One of my favorites.

Large Renovation: Fairfax & Sammons for a Palm Beach estate. Big and high-style. The architects themselves were in awe.

Small Addition/Restoration: Harrison Design Associates for a 1920's half-timbered, curved-roofed Tudor cottage. Even after the renovation Shakespeare would be at home there. Small? It's on Habersham Road.

Large Addition/Renovation: Spitzmiller & Norris for restoring a Buckhead mansion burned in 2000. Just large? This one makes me proud to be an Atlantan.

Landscape/Garden Design: Land Plus Associates for spectacular landscaping at a Buckhead estate. The project is new but looks like it's been there for 100 years. There are many garden "rooms." The garage / motor court is as beautiful as any park.

Craftsmanship: Savannah College of Art and Design for restoring Ivy Hall, the Peters' Residence in Atlanta. SCAD promised that this wasn't their last project for Atlanta.

Residential Interior Design: D. Stanley Dixon for a Georgian revival interior in Atlanta's Brookhaven . Elegance in the highest style. Mr. Dixon acknowledged Patricia McLean Interiors and Bonner Custom Homes.

Small Institutional: Historical Concepts for the Greek revival president's residence at Florida State University. One of my favorites. Small? One of the requirements was "comfortable for 2 or 200.

Large Institutional - Classical: Hartman-Cox Architects for the Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson is a hard act to follow. Harman-Cox and the audience are in awe of the opportunity, a classicist's dream.

Large Institutional - Traditional: Hartman-Cox Architects for the Gothic Duke University Divinity School Addition.

Residential Multi-family: de la Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists for Almiria Row, a townhouse project in Coral Gables. I'd seen this on the web before. I loved it. When the slide appeared, I gasped. Your results may vary, this one seems very humane and timeless, if over my budget.

Residential Under 4,000 Square Feet: David Jones Architects for a relatively small Greek revival home in Washington. I'm a sucker for Greek revival. My favorite. Praised as an example of classicism on a small budget. The house may be relatively small but not the budget. Wonderful.

Residential 4,000-10,000 Square Feet: David Jones Architects for Locust Hill, an 8,500 square foot home that fits into a modestly scaled neighborhood. One of my favorites in spite of it's hugeness. It is a series of attached masses, as if it had been added to over time. The facade is elegant but modestly sized and approachable. The bulk of the house extends towards the back. The architect who accepted the award (was it David Jones?) said he wanted only grass and trees, no bushes and found a landscape architect who agreed. I like that.

Residential Over 10,000 Square Feet: Harrison Design Associates for a huge five-part Georgian. The house is broken into smaller masses so it's not quite as intimidating as it might be. Beautiful and impressive.


I blogged about the awards:

• I attend the 2009 Shutze Awards and wow...

And an award winners:

• 2009 Shutze Award winner, Dutch colonial renovation by D. Stanley Dixon
  

P.S. You'll want to check out the 2009 Palladio Award Winners presented at the Traditional Building Exhibition & Conference, March 12-14, 2009 in Boston.

2009 Shutze Award winner, Dutch colonial renovation by D. Stanley Dixon

Julia over at Hooked on Houses is hosting her "Hooked on Friday's" blog party. This is my third try.

This is the 2009 Shutze Award winner for small renovations. Atlanta architect, D. Stanley Dixon, designed it but architecture tourists are the big winners. If you can find it, you'll be glad you did. The prize rewards the interior as well but the exterior is good enough in itself. (Other 2009 Shutze Award Winners.)

To me, the scale and the detailing produce the charm. The eye is happy looking everywhere. It takes a lot of effort, time, and money, to make it look effortless.


So many details: We see plenty of gambrel roofs in Dutch colonial homes. Whatever the practical effect, the psychological effect of a gambrel room is a more "grounded," approachable home. The prominent, center gable isn't typical Dutch colonial here. But it is typical of the Cape Dutch Style. That is, in colonial South Africa.

The gable details: the arched window with a prominent keystone, and almost Gothic real shutters. The balustrade is a Georgian feature I think.

Both center and end gables are not only gambrel, they curve. The curve evokes a thatched roof. Also a Cape Dutch feature.




These are no ordinary dormers. There are pilasters, entablature, and a very deep and prominent pediment. This is serious stuff, these dormers and visually worthy of flanking the center gable. And...

have you ever seen an 8 over 12 window? You can't even special order them at Home Depot. You only get this with great owners, great architects, and great budgets.



We're not done with windows yet. The 1st floor windows have prominent entablatures. You can't praise real shutters enough, the angles and the shadows keep the eye moving and pleased.


We layman enjoy the shadows without understanding how important they are to artists and architects. Shadows are in play everywhere in the details.


More shadows in the eaves, overhangs, and thick clapboards.




Where does that leave the entrance? It has "more" than the above average house - 8 columns, entablature, and balustrade. In this composition it's just one element. I mean, your eye finds easily finds the door, but there is plenty more to see. And...

the sheltering gambrel roof, the porch roof and the 2 tiny steps say welcome, come in out of the sun or rain.

Let's go back and look the horizontals and verticals. I don't have the right words; so let's just do a little silent study. I don't understand the visual effect of the chimneys but they seem to doing their job. Are they visually keeping the gables from falling off the ends of the house?


This house is bigger than it looks. This wing is pretty big but it doesn't seem so. It's not just that the landscaping hides the wing. It's as if the wing was added on sometime during the long life of the house. It has a different height, different roof line and different chimney.

I don't now about you, but I can imagine this home adapting and growing to fit several families though several generations. That's what houses are all about.

I salute the owners and architect. They could have taken the square footage, the mass, the materials, and the cash and made an intimidating mansion. Instead, they chose people-scaled charm.

I understand that this was a rancher. 2-storied in the first major renovation. What we are seeing is the second major renovation. Of course this is only the street facing facade.

I hope you see these in the slide show. Make sure to blow it up to full screen. If you are familiar with Flickr, see these in original size (2703 x 1857).


Please pardon my amateur description. I'm studying.