Bulfinch Awards 2020

2020 Award Winning projects

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, Dan Gordon Landscape Architects for “Pond's Edge Estate”

Photographer Credit: Greg Premru

RESIDENTIAL (RESTORATION, RENOVATION OR ADDITION), Patrick Ahearn Architect for “Nantucket Sound Overlook”

Photographer credit: Michael J. Lee

INTERIOR DESIGN, Lisa Tharp Design for “Back Bay Brownstone”

Photographer Credit: Read McKendree

INSTITUTIONAL, Knight Architecture for “Private Literary Club”

Photographer Credit: Robert Lisak

HISTORIC PRESERVATION, Rosales and Partners for “Longfellow Bridge Restoration”

Photographer Credit: Dave Desroches

RAFTSMANSHIP/ARTISANSHIP, John Canning and Co. for “Mark Twain House & Museum”

Photographer Credit: Robert Benson Photography

SMALL PROJECT/FOLLY, Haver & Skolnick for “Washington Pool House”

Photographer Credit: Robert Benson Photography

RESIDENTIAL (NEW CONSTRUCTION) OVER 5,000 SF, Hendricks Churchill for “Oblong Valley Greek Revival”

Photographer credit: Tim Lenz

RESIDENTIAL (NEW CONSTRUCTION) UNDER 5,000 SF, G. P. Schafer Architect for “A Summer Cottage in Coastal Maine”

Photographer Credit: Eric Piasecki and Mohr & Seredin Landscape Architects, Inc.

PATRON - Richard Krysiak, President, Tradewood Windows & Doors

2020 Bulfinch Award Judges

Alexa Hampton

Since Alexa Hampton took the reins of Mark Hampton, her father’s iconic firm, as owner and president in 1998, she has advanced its legacy of elegant, practical, classically based interiors for modern living – and extended its global reach. From New York City to Hangzhou, China, her project portfolio encompasses luxe, beautifully layered urban apartments, expansive town and country residences, private airplanes, and yachts. Regularly named to Architectural Digest’s AD100 and House Beautiful’s Top Designer list as well as Elle Décor’s A-List, Hampton translates the classical principles of good design and decoration into some of today’s most elegant, enduring, and functional domestic landscapes.

Anne Fairfax

Anne Fairfax AIA, RIBA is a principal with Fairfax & Sammons Architects. Her firm is internationally recognized for its classically inspired design in the contemporary domestic realm. Anne has just completed a Master's degree in Sustainable Urban Development at Oxford University which will inform the urban design focus of the studio in neighborhood regeneration. The firm has been a recipient of numerous awards in residential and urban design, including the Arthur Ross Award for lifetime achievement.

Russell Windham

As a founding principal of Curtis & Windham Architects, Russell Windham has established a practice committed to the classical tradition. From his wide-ranging travels, work, and study of both European and American architecture he combines a sculptor’s sense of scale and proportion with a deep interest and understanding of architectural styles and ornamentation. For Mr. Windham, what takes a building beyond mere structure and elevates it to an architectural experience is applying with a skillful hand, lessons learned from the study and appreciation of traditional and classical architecture. A native Texan, his early architectural career was formed in London and the East Coast before returning to Houston to collaborate with William Curtis in 1992.

Mr. Windham is a member of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and has served as President of the Texas Chapter, as well as the Board of Directors for the national organization. In 1999, he and William Curtis received that organization’s Arthur Ross Award, which honors architects working in the classical tradition. He has lectured and exhibited in Texas, Rome, and at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art in New York. He has published work in Architectural Digest and Southern Accents, also in The Art of Classical Details, a book by Phillip James Dodd. A graduate of Texas Tech University, Mr. Windham has served on juries at various architecture schools throughout the United States. He is a member of the Rice Design Alliance, and a Trustee of the Post Oak Montessori School.

Co-Keynote Speakers

Thomas Luebke

Since 2005, Thomas Luebke has served as the Secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the federal design review agency for the nation’s capital. As the executive director of the agency, he produced the 2013 book, Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, and he initiated and guided the Monumental Core Framework Plan, 2009, a major federal planning effort to extend the commemorative core of the National Mall.

An architect with experience in planning and historic preservation in both public and private sectors, Luebke served previously as the City Architect for Alexandria, Virginia, where he was responsible for design review of all new public and large-scale private development projects in the city. In the private sector, Mr. Luebke’s professional focus was as a designer on institutional, commercial, and high-rise projects for such firms as SOM, Hartman-Cox, and Leo A Daly, where he led the design for the 45-story First National Tower in Omaha, Nebraska, completed in 2002 and winner of an AIA honor award for design in 2004.

In addition to his work on Civic Art and Palace of State, Luebke is a frequent speaker and panelist on topics such as the design of Washington, DC; the history of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; and the design of commemorative works, for such institutions as the National Building Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Institute of Architects, and the American Society of Landscape Architects, Harvard University, Princeton University, and the International Fulbright Committee.

Luebke has a master in architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was a teaching fellow in architectural history. He served as president of the board of the Washington Architectural Foundation, a non-profit organization of architects serving the Washington, DC community, where he led the transformation of the institution’s mission as the District Architecture Center. He was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2011, and was honored with the Institute's Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture in 2015.

Carroll William Westfall

Prof. Carroll William Westfall’s undergraduate training at the University of California was followed by completion of a Master's degree at the University of Manchester (thesis topic: "The Greek Revival Movement in Italian Architecture: 1750”) and a Ph.D. at Columbia University (1967 dissertation: "The Two Ideal Cities in the Early Renaissance: Republic and Ducal Thought in Quattrocento Architectural Treatises"). His initial work led to numerous articles and a book, In This Most Perfect Paradise (Penn State University Press, 1974), a study of Renaissance Rome.

His more recent studies of the relationship between the history, theory, and practice of architecture are found in his contribution to the 1991 book Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism (Yale University Press), written with Robert Jan van Pelt. He became Notre Dame’s Frank Montana Professor and Chairman of the School of Architecture in 1998, and before that taught at Amherst College, the University of Illinois in Chicago, and, since 1982, at the University of Virginia.

A central theme of all of his studies has been the history of the city with particular attention to the reciprocity between the political life and the urban and architectural elements that serve the needs of citizens. His emphasis is on the usefulness of knowledge of history to practicing architects. His current interests are concentrated on the architects’ capacity to nourish the Christian faith and on tradition and classicism in architecture and the American city with special attention to the role of Thomas Jefferson in founding a distinctive American architecture to serve a unique nation.

Familiarly known as Bill, Prof. Westfall was born in Fresno, California on December 23, 1937. Married since 1982 to Relling Rossi Westfall, they have two sons. He maintains his membership at Saint Thomas Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia.