Shutze Awards, Feb 12, I'm going, You too, I hope.

When they show the slides of the winners, the crowd gasps. Really, they gasp. Me too. Buy tickets here.

I'm going even though I'll have to wear a coat and tie. Sound stuffy? Realize that most of the audience prefers work boots, noisy building sites, sawdust, red clay, and the occasional un-ladylike language heard when hammer meets thumb.


The Shutze's will be at Piedmont Driving Club next Saturday night. Cocktails and food followed by an educational awards presentation. It's Architecture Tourist heaven.

The room will be filled with architects, landscape architects, designers, builders, craftsmen, and fans like me who love these beautiful things. Once in a while these folks have the privilege to interpret classical design for modern requirements. Is The Villa only 90 years old?


Buy tickets here. And please join me that morning at the Atlanta History Center for a presentation by Jonathan LaCrosse. Philip Shutze and His Georgian Muse. It starts at 10:30. Good chance to meet fellow travelers.

From the Award Announcement:

"The Southeast Chapter is pleased to announce the fifth annual design competition to recognize excellence in traditional and classical design. The Shutze Awards will be given for small, large, and multi-family residential design, commercial/civic/institutional projects, interior design, craftsmanship, renovation, and landscape/garden design.

The awards are named for Philip Trammell Shutze, the Atlanta architect whose work is revered internationally as one of the twentieth century’s most devoted classicists. The awards will recognize similar individuals who are contributing to the creation of twenty-first century classical and traditional architecture.

The awards will be presented on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at a gala event at the Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta, GA. In addition, the work of the award winners will be showcased in Atlanta Homes & Lifestyle magazine."

The awards will honor Norman Askins, one of Atlanta's living architecture legends.

Judges are David Brussat Providence Journal’s architecture critic, Arthur Ross Award winner, blogger at Architecture Here and There.

Gary L. Brewer is also Master of Ceremonies. He is a partner at Robert A. M. Stern with projects everywhere including a favorite of mine in Seaside and a Life Magazine Dream House north of Atlanta.

Lindsay Bierman is editor at Southern Living and formerly of Coastal Living. Enough said.

Buy tickets here.

Here is my little collection of Shutze's doors that might wet your appetite.

Shutze's sparkling brick at Grady High School

Whole sections of the wall sparkle in the low winter sun.


I've just bought my ticket to the 2010 Philip Trammell Shutze Awards on February 20th in Atlanta. You should too. Mr. Shutze "...placed Atlanta on the map of America's great classical architecture." The awards recognize new architecture and landscaping in the classical tradition here in the southeast.

I went to the Shutze Awards last year. It's quite a treat for architecture tourists. The event gathers the architecture, the architects, and the clients in one place for one evening. And there will be way more bowties than average.

Atlanta is full of Shutze buildings. This was a busy, productive man with great clients.

In the run up to the awards I will do a batch of posts about Shutze in my neighborhood, places that reward deeper looks.

Shiny brick? On Sunday while taking pictures of Shutze's Grady High School (where my kids went to school, where I've been 100's of times), I had my first brick epiphany.

I took a routine photo of the brick in the shade. It's Flemish bond with gray headers, red stretchers. Nice. Why did Mr. Shutze selected these particular bricks?


I presumed that's all there was to know about the brick. Then I moved to the sunny side and with a sidelong glance caught the reflections. The gray headers shine:


What else am I missing?

I will do another post on Grady High School. For fellow Atlantans, it's across 10th street from Piedmont Park. You've been there but you haven't really noticed. It's worth a closer look. How 'bout them urns?


Thanks,
Terry

P.S. If you are going to the Shutze awards, please let me know at terry @ surf303.com.