David Dimond, AIA, CID, LEED AP BD+C Principle and Director of Design Perkins + Will Dave Dimond, AIA, LEED AP, is Principal and Director of Design for the Minneapolis office of Perkins+Will where he leads design on governmental, corporate, academic and healthcare projects.   Dave is a Past-President of AIA Minnesota and a current Board Member of the Minnesota Architectural Foundation.  He is a graduate of Virginia Tech and the University of Minnesota where he has taught in the College of Design since 1995.  Dave is currently teaching an undergraduate design studio.   In pursuit of design excellence, Dimond has secured first place in five national and international juried design competitions.  This success has allowed him to work on projects around the globe - Canada, Chile, China, Korea and India.  Dave’s design work has also been widely recognized through local and national award programs including 6 AIA Component Awards last year.  Dave and his team were especially proud of their 2009 AIA National Committee on the Environment “COTE Top Ten” Award for the Great River Energy Headquarters Building, a LEED NC Platinum Certified Project.  Dave has been a LEED Accredited professional since 2004.   Matthew Kreilich, AIA, LEED AP Architect Julie Snow Architects, Inc. Over the past 10 years Matthew has focused his design efforts on cultural and institutional work at nationally recognized design firms such as Leonard Parker Associates, HGA, and Julie Snow Architects.  While at HGA and Leonard Parker, he contributed his design talent to several award winning projects: the Benedicta ArtsCenter, The University of Alaska Museum of the North, and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. As the project designer on these buildings, Matthew was instrumental in helping develop the design concepts, as well as leading the day-to-day design efforts, collaborating with all team members, consultants and clients. As lead designer at Julie Snow Architects, Matthew is leading the design efforts for several projects ranging from a new office building for KNOCK, Inc., an award winning advertising and branding firm, to two U.S. General Services Administration Design Excellence projects for new border stations in Northern Minnesota and Northern Maine, both of which are currently in line to receive a LEED silver rating for its sustainable design solutions.   Matt’s commitment to design has been recognized in a number of local and international design awards and competitions. Most recently Matthew was selected as one of the National AIA Young Architects for 2009. And in 2008 was one of the AIA-MN Young Architect Award recipients. In 2007, his work was selected for an Emerging Voices exhibit at the national AIA Committee on Design. In 2004, Matthew was awarded the prestigious Ralph Rapson Traveling Fellowship and spent three months traveling through Mexico, Central and South America studying cultural and historic architecture of the regions. Dale Mulfinger, FAIA Principle SALA Architects, Inc. As a principal in the firm SALA Architects, Inc., formerly Mulfinger, Susanka & Mahady Architects, Inc., Mr. Mulfinger is involved in all phases of the architectural process.  He has been project architect for a significant portion of the work accomplished by the office since its founding in 1983.  He is a professor in practice at the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota, where he teaches architecture and urban design studios and is a frequent lecturer to both laymen and scholars.  He has authored four books, The Architecture of Edwin Lundie, published by MHS Press, 1995, The Cabin by Taunton Press, 2001 and The Getaway Home by Taunton Press, 2004, and Cabinology, Taunton Press, 2008.  Mr. Mulfinger also regularly writes “Cabin Fever” articles for the Mpls/St.Paul magazine and was the Fay Jones guest professor at the University of Arkansas. Most recently, he won a Crystal Bridges fellowship and commenced his fifth book, Growing Your Residential Practice, while at the Writer’s Colony of Dairy Hollow, in Arkansas. Jennifer Yoos, AIA, LEED-AP Principle VJAA Jennifer Yoos is a principal architect of VJAA based in Minneapolis. VJAA is a fourteen-person firm with a focus on designing innovative, highly crafted buildings. VJAA’s unique approach that synthesizes research and design has evolved over the past fourteen years. The firm calls their process “polyvalent,” meaning that their work is diverse, adaptable, and embraces a broad range of issues including ecology, culture, context, and technology. Their consistent success has resulted in receiving 17 national design awards within the past 12 years, including four National American Institute of Architects Honor Awards, six Progressive Architecture Awards, and two American Institute of Architects/Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Building Awards. The AIA Honor Awards recognize the quality of built projects, and of material craft, the P/A Awards honor ideas in architecture that are progressive and innovative, and the COTE Awards honor sustainable design excellence. In 2001, the firm received the Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Over the past twenty years Jennifer has practiced both independently and in firms in Minneapolis and London. She has practiced with VJAA since 1997 and has collaborated on the design of all the office’s projects over the past fourteen years. Jennifer is also a Professor-in-Practice at the University of Minnesota where she currently teaches design. She received her Graduate Diploma in Design from the Architectural Association in London and her professional degree in Architecture from the University of Minnesota. During 2002-2003 Jennifer was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. return to AIA Memphis Website return to 2010 DESIGN AWARDSCelebration%20Gala.html2010%20Design%20Awards.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1
2010 Design Awards Jury
THE JURY | Minneapolis, MN David Dimond, AIA, CID, LEED AP BD+C Principle and Director of Design Perkins + Will Matthew Kreilich, AIA, LEED AP Architect Julie Snow Architects, Inc. Dale Mulfinger, FAIA Principle SALA Architects, Inc. Jennifer Yoos, AIA, LEED-AP Principle VJAA MINNEAPOLIS LIAISON & JURY CHAIR Jim Lutz Professor College of Design University of Minnesota