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The Jury
Tod Williams is an internationally renowned architect and partner of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The studio is well known for its wide range of projects, its exceptionally high standards, and work which emphasizes the importance of place and explores the nature of materials. Tod Williams has also had a long career as an educator. He taught at the Cooper Union from 1974–1989. In 1995 he received The Ruth Carter Stevenson Chair at The University of Texas in Austin. He held the Eliel Saarinen Chair at the University of Michigan in 2002, the Louis I. Kahn Chair at Yale in 2003 AND 2005, and the Thomas Jefferson Chair in 2004 at the University of Virginia.
His research was recognized with an Advanced Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. His work has been honored by The American Institute of Architects with numerous Distinguished Architecture Awards. In 1988 he received a National AIA Award for Feinberg Hall, a dormitory at Princeton University and in 1989, the firm again won a National AIA Award, this time for the Spiegel Pool House addition. In 1992 Williams and Tsien won two more National AIA Awards, this time for the Quandt Loft and for the Go Silk Showroom both in New York City. In 1997 the firm won a National Honor Award for the Neurosciences Institute. In 2001 they received 2 National AIA honor Awards for the Williams Natatorium at Cranbrook School and The Rifkind House in Long Island. He and partner, Billie Tsien, have been recipients of several grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Williams has served on the Architectural Advisory Committee for Princeton University, the New York City and National AIA Awards Committees, and as Director of The Architectural League. In 1992 he was made a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects.
Jorge Otero-Pailos is a thought leader in historic preservation and architecture, whose theories draw on his experience as a practicing architect and historian. He is the Founder and Director of Future Anterior, America’s foremost scholarly journal devoted to the history, theory and criticism of historic preservation. As a professor at Columbia University’s GSAPP since 2002, Otero-Pailos teaches on historic preservation, architectural transformation, interpretation, and the history of Modernism in North and South America. Prior to joining Columbia, Otero-Pailos was a founding member of the New School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, where he created the school's Theory of Architecture curriculum. He serves as vice-president of DoCoMoMo US.
Otero-Pailos is the recipient of post-doctoral fellowships from the Canadian Center for Architecture and the American-Scandinavian Foundation, as well as grants and awards from the New York State Council for the Arts, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Angel Ramos Foundation (Puerto Rico), the Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Cornell Council for the Arts, the Lawrence B. Anderson Award in architectural documentation, the Schlossman Dissertation Fellowship, and the Hyzen Award. His critical essays on the history and theory of architecture, preservation, urbanism, and cinema have been published internationally in The Journal of Architectural Education (USA), Architectural Record (USA), Postmodern Culture (USA), Il Progetto (Italy), Il Giornale Dell’Architettura (Italy), BAU (Spain), Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana (Dominican Republic), and City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policiy, Action (UK).
Marja-Ritta Norri, is one of Finland’s leading contemporary architects. Her practice bridges from building design to product design, and from curatorship to scholarship. Her work as former Director of the Finnish Architecture Museum helped to shape the architectural policies of the European Union. A number of the many exhibitions she has curated have traveled around the world, such as “Timber Construction in Finland,” “Heroism and the Everyday — Building Finland in the 1950s,” and “Five Masters of the North: Peter Celsing, Sverre Fehn, Knud Holscher, Aarno Ruusuvuori, Högna Sigurdardóttir.” As an expert on Scandinavian architecture and contemporary practice, Norri was also Editor-in-Chief of Arkkitehti, the Finnish Architectural Review. Her writings on Modern architecture have been published internationally by the Museum of Modern Art (USA), and The Architectural Review (UK), Monument (Australia), Arquitectura Viva (Spain), and others.
Norri’s achievements earned her investiture as a Member of the French Academy of Architecture. She has received numerous design awards, such as the Gloria Award for design (2002), and the Bronze Medal of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, which recognized her career achievements. Among her recent award-winning designs are the Hinna Park, (Stavanger, Norway, 2002), the Kamppi centre Apartment blocks (Helsinki, 2006), and the Main Library of Huittinen (Finland, 2001). Her winning competition entry ”Puuhelmipeli” Urban Villas was recently built at the Espoo Housing Fair, 2005— 2006.
Martin Finio, after ten years as an associate in the office of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Mr. Finio is a founding partner at Christoff: Finio Architecture, a design firm in New York. The firm was featured as one of 2004’s Design Vanguard by Architectural Record and as one of the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices of 2005. Their current work includes both residential and institutional-scale projects. He was the editor of the 1999 2G monograph Williams Tsien: Works and a recipient of a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for “Conciliator,” a temporary structure based on the work of John Hejduk. His firm’s work has won several AIA awards and has been widely published and exhibited, including at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Yale faculty he taught at Columbia University.