AIA Judges: David Miller, Kristen Murray, Prentis Hale

2011 AIA Design Award Judges: David E. Miller of The Miller Hull Partnership, Seattle; Kirsten R. Murray of Olson Kundig Architects, Seattle; and Prentis Hale of SHED Architecture & Design, Seattle.

AIA Arkansas thanks the 2011 AIA Award judges, all hailing from Seattle: David E. Miller, FAIA; Kirsten R. Murray, AIA; and Prentis Hale.

David E. Miller, FAIA
Partner, The Miller Hull Partnership

David E. Miller, FAIA, is a founding partner of The Miller Hull Partnership, a 65-person firm in Seattle. Miller Hull is a fundamentally design-oriented firm, emphasizing a rational design approach based on the culture, climate and building traditions of a place. In addition to more than 200 awards for design excellence, the firm received the 2003 AIA Architecture Firm Award, which is given to one architectural design practice in the U.S. each year.

Three monographs have been published on the firm’s work — “Ten Houses” by Rockport Press, 1999; “Miller Hull, Architects of the Pacific Northwest” by Princeton Architectural Press, 2001; and “Public Works” by Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.

Miller, an excellent and inspirational designer, received two unique awards in 2006: the Washington State University Alumni Achievement Award and the BetterBricks Designer Award, recognizing him as a designer who supports, uses and designs sustainable, high-performance commercial buildings. In 2010 he and his founding partner, Robert Hull, were recipients of the AIA Seattle Medal of Honor for their achievement in championing outstanding design in the city and region.

Miller is chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he is also a tenured professor of architecture.

Kirsten R. Murray, AIA
Principal/Owner, Olson Kundig Architects

Kirsten R. Murray, AIA, is a principal and owner at Seattle-based Olson Kundig Architects, where she works across a broad range of project types, including mixed use and single family residential design, adaptive reuse, workplace design and urban design and planning.

She has collaborated on projects that have received both National AIA Honor and Housing Awards, and her project work has been published in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Architectural Digest, Interior Design and Architectural Record.

Murray lectures around the country on topics related to design and architectural practice. She has recently served as the featured lecturer at the Bowman Design Forum at the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design; was a panelist at Tulane School of Architecture’s New Ecological Strategies Colloquium; and lectured at the Edmonton, Alberta, Design Days.

Since 2008, she served as both juror and chair on numerous AIA juries at the local, state and regional level from New Jersey and Florida to the Western Mountain region. Murray has a Master of Architecture degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental design from the University of Colorado.

Prentis Hale
Principal, SHED Architecture & Design

Prentis Hale received his Master of Architecture from the University of Washington, has an undergraduate degree in history from Yale University and has performed traveling research in Stockholm on a Valle scholarship.

Prior to establishing SHED, Hale worked as a lead carpenter for a Seattle design/build firm. Since 1998, Hale has worn the various hats of business principal, designer, builder and fabricator through the conceptualization and realization of a broad range of commercial, residential and fabrication projects.

In addition to his professional activities, Hale teaches design studio on an annual basis at the University of Washington College of the Built Environment, participates in local architectural collaboratives and arts communities and undertakes numerous independent architectural research projects.