Charles Witsell, FAIA, and Gordon Wittenberg, FAIA, are retired principals of the Little Rock architecture firms WER Architects/Planners (Witsell Evans & Rasco) and WD&D Architects (Wittenberg Delony & Davidson) respectively. They are the dual recipients of AIA’s 2014 Dick Savage Memorial Award.
Over his career, Charles Witsell has pursued his interest in historic preservation with a passion. He is an author, a public speaker, and has taught at the University of Arkansas and at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has also been an accomplished practitioner, working on more than 200 National Register buildings and dozens of others in his career of more than 30 years. In 1984, Charles co-authored How We Lived: Little Rock As An American City which has been an invaluable research document for architects and historians. Witsell was awarded the AIA E. Fay Jones Gold Medal in 2010, joining other WER founding partners, Don Evans, AIA and Terry Rasco, FAIA, making WER Architects/Planners the only firm in Arkansas whose founders have all been so recognized.
Gordon Wittenberg joined Wittenberg & Delony in 1952. During his tenure, the firm designed projects such as the Arkansas State Health Building, the Arkansas State Hospital, the Student Union and Main Library at the University of Arkansas, the First Commercial Bank (now Regions Bank) Building and many Arkansas Prison System buildings. Wittenberg was awarded the AIA E. Fay Jones Gold Medal in 1992, inducted into the Construction Hall of Fame in 2002, served on the GSA Advisory Board, facilitated the development of a general construction bid system and passage of a statute of limitations bill for the state of Arkansas.
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