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Education Professional Practice Affiliations Design Awards 2005 Award of Merit, AlA Tennessee: Restoration of Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rochester, NY Award of Merit, AlA Tennessee: Addition to St. John's Episcopal Church, 2003 Award of Excellence, AlA, Memphis: Cathedral of The Immaculate Conception, 2001 Religious Art and Architecture Award, Faith & Form Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art & Architecture (IFRAA), & the AlA: St. Thomas More Church, 2000 American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design: Ballet Memphis, 1999 American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design: St. Thomas More Church, 1999 Honor Award, AlA Gulf States Region: Ballet Memphis, 1999 Honor Award, AlA Gulf States Region St. Thomas More Church, 1997 Honor Award, AlA Memphis Chapter: St. Thomas More Church, 1997 Award of Excellence, AlA Tennessee: Ballet Memphis, 1999 Award of Excellence, AlA Memphis Chapter: Ballet Memphis, 1998 Award of Excellence, AIlA Tennessee: "Forty Carrots" Store, 1981 (with John W. Averitt). Award of Merit, AlA Memphis Chapter: Addition to St. John's Episcopal Church, 2001 Award of Merit, AlA Gulf States Region: Cathedral of The Immaculate Conception, 1992 Award of Merit, AlA Tennessee: St. Thomas More Church, 1999 Award of Merit, AlA Tennessee: "Summer Solstice" Residence, 1995 Certificate of Merit, AlA Memphis Chapter: "Communicating Architecture" architectural drawing contest and exhibition, 1983 Memphis Preservation Award, Memphis Landmarks Commission and Memphis Heritage, Inc.: Cathedral of The Immaculate Conception Restoration, 2002 Memphis Preservation Award,
Memphis Landmarks Commission and Memphis Heritage,
Inc.: Law Offices of Burch, Porter
& Johnson, 2002 Eugene Potente Liturgical Design
Award,
Honorable Mention: St. Thomas More Church, 1997 Award of Excellence,
Masonry Institute of Tennessee: Law Offices of Burch, Porter
& Johnson, 2001 Paul Gruenberg Memorial Award, Memphis Heritage Inc.: Adaptive Reuse of William
Len Hotel, 1985 Paul Gruenberg Memorial Award, Memphis Heritage Inc.: Orpheum Theater Restoration,
1984 Anona Stoner Memorial Award, Memphis Heritage Inc.: Charles Diehl Memorial,
Rhodes College, 1985 Sylvan Award of Special Merit, Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, 1984: Kate Johnston
Residence Historic Preservation Award, Memphis Landmarks Commission: Orpheum Theater
Restoration, 1984 Historic Preservation Award, Memphis Landmarks Commission: Burch, Porter and Johnson
Law Offices, 1983 Historic Preservation Award, Memphis Landmarks Commission: Central Gardens Handbook,
1982 Historic Preservation Award, Memphis Landmarks Commission: Front Row Apartments,
1983. Historic Preservation Award, Memphis Landmarks Commission: George Collins Love
House Restoration, 1981 Arthur Spayd Brooke Silver Medal
for Merit in Architectural Design,
Graduate School
of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1973. The Brooke Silver Medal is
the second highest award given for design upon graduation from the Master
of Architecture program. Dales European Traveling Fellowship for architectural design, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1972
Teaching and Design Juries
University of Memphis Architecture Program,
Adjunct Professor, 2005
National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB)
Visiting Team, 2006-2009
AlA Alaska Honor Awards Jury, 2005
University of Tennessee School of
Architecture, Bronze Medal juror, 2004
University of Memphis Architecture Program, Thesis Critic, 2004- 2005
AlA/ IFRAA Religious Art and Architecture
Design Awards,
Jury Member, 2001
Rhodes College,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, 1974-1983; 1988-2000
Memphis Center for Architecture, Visiting Design Critic, 1999
Yale University School of Art and
Architecture, Studio Design Critic,
1987
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, Studio Design Critic,
1986-1988
Drexel University, Studio Design Critic, 1986-1988
University of Tennessee School of Architecture, Professor (part time),
1983-1984
Mississippi State University School of
Architecture, Visiting Design
Critic, 1983
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of
Fine Arts, Graduate Teaching Fellowship,
1973-1974
Publications And Lectures 2005 AlA Twenty-five Year Award, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT., designed by Louis I. Kahn: coauthor of successful nomination; Continuing Education Seminar, 2005 AlA National Convention. Sacred Places, narration of film on historic Memphis churches, WKNO Television, Memphis, TN., March 2004. Architecture as Mediator of The Sacred, Lecture Series at Church of the Holy Communion, Memphis, TN, Feb. 8- 15, 2004. Introduction to "My Architect," a film on Louis I. Kahn, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Feb. 4- 5, 2004. Preserving and Revitalizing Your Historic Church, Lecture at Tennessee Preservation Trust annual conference, Memphis, TN, March 27,2003 Reinterpreting the Sacred in Contemporary Religious Architecture, Continuing Education Seminar, 2002 AlA National Convention Williamson Pounders Architects, Contemporary Stone & Tile Design, Winter 2003, pp. 48-58 Uno Squardo dal Cielo, Chiesa Oggi, July 2001 (No.47) A Spiritual Path Leads to a Sacred Place, Faith & Form, Winter 2000 Architecture for the Gods, Books 1 and 2, by Michael Crosbie, 1999- 2002. Ballet Memphis Dances, designarchitecture.com (web-based magazine), Feb. 2000 La scuola de ballo: Ballet Memphis, /'Arca magazine, April 2000, pp. 64-67 Faith & Form, Spring 2000 Water Spaces of the World,
Vol. 2, 1999
Space as a Mediator of the Sacred, Lecture at Shady Grove
Presbyterian Church, 2000
All our landmarks don't have to be old, The Commercial Appeal, March
9, 2000
A Spiritual Path Leads to a Sacred Place, Environment & Art
Letter,
November 1999
Sacred Places,
Presentation to AlA Tennessee, Nashville, TN, 1997
Firmness, Commodity and Delight, Lecture at Rhodes College, 1996
Williamson’s Joint Careers Built Together, Rhodes Weekly, Feb. 5-11, 1996
Central Gardens Handbook, by James Williamson and Carl Awsumb, 1981; 1998
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Arts and Crafts, Lecture at Memphis Brooks
Museum of Art, 1993
Architect-artists build on the past to create humane cities, The Commercial Appeal,
June 2,1991
Coming Home,
by Donald Labadie, The Commercial Appeal, Aug. 28, 1988
Former Movie Palace Becomes a Sumptuous Theater, Architecture
Magazine, Nov. 1984
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