Gathering: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

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Sam Lubell is a writer based in New York. He has written nine books about architecture for Phaidon Rizzoli Metropolis Books and Monacelli Press. He is a Contributing Editor at The Architect's Newspaper and writes for The New York Times The Los Angeles Times Wallpaper Dwell Wired Metropolis The Atlantic Architectural Record Architect Magazine Contract Architectural Review and other publications. He co-curated the exhibition Never Built New York at the Queens Museum and the shows Never Built Los Angeles and Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson founded in 1965 is an architecture practice with offices in Wilkes-Barre Pittsburgh Philadelphia Seattle and San Francisco. The firm is recognised for elegant and humane design ranging in scale and circumstance from major academic civic cultural and corporate buildings to private homes large and small. Its architecture is alive to the subtleties of place both man-made and natural; to the varied natures of people; to the character of institutions; and to the rich possibilities of material and means of construction. Since 1965 Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has received more than 600 design awards including nine AIA National Honor Awards and three AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Green Projects. In 1994 the firm received the American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award and in 2010 Peter Bohlin was awarded the Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects the highest honor an individual American architect can receive.