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July, 2010 Lehrer Architect's collaborative efforts with the Los Angeles City Bureau of Engineers on the Downtown Revitalization Project "Spring Street Park," was featured in this month's issue of "Bunker Hill Magazine. Download the PDF of the publication here... July 30, 2010 Lehrer Architects LA hosted a tour of the Water + Life Museums in Hemet, CA. Completed in 2007, the Lehrer Gangi Design team created the world's first LEED Platinum Museum. More info on the Water + Life Museums
July 21, 2010 Lehrer Architects is a proud sponser and participant in Rail LA. http://railla.org/ RailLA is a coalition of experienced professionals, passionate citizens, and business leaders organized to ensure that the people of California benefit from the nation’s first viable high-speed train network. railLA will advocate, serve, and inform communities and other stakeholders impacted as fast trains become a reality and transform the way we work and live. Erik A. Alden, LEED AP, Project Manager at Lehrer Architects, is heavily involved and is the acting Call for Ideas/Venues Co-Chair. Check out his Bio: A native Angelino, Erik received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California in 2005 and works as a Project Manager and Designer for Lehrer Architects in Silverlake. He resides in Cypress Park, a community neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles, where the northern leg of the High Speed Train will likely pass through. His desire for friendly public transportation has been life-long, and his primary reason for joining railLA is to help his community embrace the concept of rail as an alternative, friendly, mode of transportation, instead of another government-imposed blight on the community that should be opposed. July 29, 2010 Exhibition opening for Rail LA. Join railLA and our partners for the opening of LA Beyond Cars from 6:00-10:00pm at City National Plaza... June 25, 2010 Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA to speak at the 4th annual MOBIUS LA @ Dwell on Design Conference, this friday at the LA Convention Center. The Panel will be discussing the topic: Placemaking at it's best: Creating the "There-There"
For more info on the time and location of the panel discussion... June 24, 2010, 6:30 p.m. Join Lehrer Architects at the A+D Museum Book Signing Thursday Evening. Projects of Lehrer Architects were featured in the newly released publication A-5. For more information on the book signing visit their website... June 21, 2010 Board Members of the SIJCC (Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center) joined the design review team at Lehrer Architects to discuss the development of their center. Check out some images from that evening... June 10, 2010 SIJCC (Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center) in the Jewish Journal. Lehrer Architects is currently in the Master Planning Phase of the project with the center. This Friday morning, the SIJCC is set to honor its most generous — and probably most unexpected — benefactor, the Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles, J. Jon Bruno. Read more on the Jewish Journal on-line... June 7, 2010 Lehrer Architects LA and Westlake Reed Leskosky form strategic alliance. Westlake Reed Leskosky (WRL), a Cleveland-based firm of more than 150 people, is joining forces with Lehrer Architects. For more information on WRL, check out their website: http://www.wrldesign.com/ The alliance—which is not a merger in a financial or legal sense—will allow WRL to deepen its West Coast presence and Lehrer to enter new markets; Lehrer will also benefit from access to Westlake’s interdisciplinary staff. Read more at Architect on-line... June 4, 2010 Mia and Michael Lehrer hosted an art opening at the office of Mia Lehrer and Associates, for Mana Bernardes. Mana, a Brazilian born artist, has shown her work at the Cartier Foundation in Paris, and museums in London, New York, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Her work sells at MOMA stores worldwide. Check out her exquisite work on line at:: http://www.mana.cx/ Check out some images from the show! May 16, 2010 Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA is the Board President of Homeless Health Care Los Angeles which hosted their thirteenth annual benefit at Cafe Pinot this Sunday. Proceeds from the event support the services and programs of Homeless Health Care Los Angeles. Homeless Health Care Los Angeles, Established in 1985, strives to improve the health of homeless people through direct services, education and advocacy. It offers cutting edge, comprehensive services, housing and support. This nationally recognized program serves as a model for other communities and provides real alternatives to life on the streets. For more information on HHCLA, visit their website at: http://www.hhcla.org/index.htm Check out some images from the event! May 12, 2010 Lehrer Architect's is a proud recipient of the 2010 Gold Nugget Award of Merit. It is our pleasure to be a part of this competitive program, and awarded for our submission of the Camp Shalom renovation. For more info on our Camp Shalom project click this link... April 27, 2010 After winning the design competition for Temple Mishkon Tephilo of West Los Angeles in 2008, Lehrer Architects is now engaged with the congregation in a series of workshops and presentations that kick-off the design effort to transform the existing facilities and to create a Master Plan for future development. Check out some images from the meeting! April 22, 2010 Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA, was invited to last nights EARTH DAY EVENT at the Metropolitan Water + Life Museums in Hemet, CA., as honorary host and spokesperson for the Lehrer/Gangi Design Build Team. Completed in 2007, the Lehrer Gangi Design team created the world's first LEED Platinum Museum. More info on the Water + Life Museums April 20, 2010 WHAT A SMASH! Silverlake Jewish Community Center GALA was a success and tons of fun. More info on the evening to follow. Check out some images from the event! April 19, 2010 Michael B. Lehrer is honored to announce his new position on the Board of Directors for the Harvard Alumni Association, representing the Harvard Graduate School of Design, beginning July 2010. April 7, 2010 Lehrer Architects hosted a Life Drawing Class. Joining us were students from the USC Graduate School of Architecture. See some images from that evening... Please feel free to email us if you are interested in participating in next month's class. William Anthony, a long time friend and photographer of Lehrer Architects, wrote a wonderfully introspective piece of the evening on his blog entitled, Artistic Cross-Pollination. Read more.... March 30, 2010 Michael Lehrer, FAIA was featured in the Jewish Journal today. Find out more here.... March 25, 2010 Lehrer Architects is excited to start work on the masterplan for Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center this week. Please join us on April 17th as we host a fundraising event for the Center. Find out more here.... March 24, 2010 Lehrer Architects congratulates Travis Frankel on becoming licensed to practice architecture in the State of California. Lehrer Architects encourages and expects all employees to actively pursue licensure while working at LA. 60% of LA's design staff is now licensed. February 24, 2010 Lehrer Architects's Featured in The Architects News online today. Find out more... June 23, 2009 Join us June 30th, with AIGA, for a tour and stimulating conversation looking at architecture, landscape, art, graphics and other shared affinities. What is a glorious workplace and why does it matter? How do we create and nurture a culture of creativity that fosters excellent work and happy creators? To register for this event and find out more information visit the AIGA website. June 15, 2009 The European Centre for Architect Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design announced the winners of the 2009 Green GOOD DESIGN award. Lehrer + Gangi Design Build won in the category of Environment Architecture for the Water + Life Museums and Campus. The European Center’s International Advisory Committee (worldwide leaders in the design industry) served as the jury and selected 105 products, programs, people, governments environmental planning, and architecture as outstanding examples of Green Design. Visit their website to see a full list of winners. June 10, 2009 TASCHEN’s new publication GREEN ARCHITECTURE NOW! is to include Lehrer +Gangi Design+ Build’s Water + Life Museums and Campus. The six page spread will include a bio of LA’s own Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA, images, and site plan of project that describes the complex as a clear understanding on how green design can go hand-in-hand with crisp, modern forms. Other firms featured in the book our Morphosis, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Foster + Partners. May 30, 2009 LA received a Los Angeles Architectural Award for Interiors-Civic spaces for the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Operation Center. The award sponsored by the Los Angeles Business Council acknowledges that design and architecture play a critical role in the development of cities by creating environments that attract economic development and growth. The award ceremony, held the 28th of May, was emceed by LA’s own Frances Anderton. Eric Owen Moss, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Julis Shulman and other where in attendance. We congratulate others that were among the selected group of architects, contractors and owners who have helped to enhance the Los Angeles Urban Environment. May 16, 2009 The Los Angeles Chapter of USGBC held a tour of the Water + Life Museums and Campus lead by Michael and Mia Lehrer. The tour started off with a Bio-Diesel ride to Hemet’s Diamond Valley Lake, the location of the Museums and Campus and concluded with a round a questions. Participants walked the grounds and explored both the Center for Water Education and Western Center for Archeology and Paleontology interactive exhibits and screenings, with special access to behind door locations. April 25, 2009 LA gathered at the Water + Life Museums and Campus for the LEED Dedication Ceremony, where Michael presented the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest award of LEED standard, Plantium, to the Metropolitan Water District. The Water + Life Museums and Campus are the first Museums to be honored at such a level. April 14, 2009 In the new book Sketch: Public Buildings, How Architects Conceive Public Buildings by LOFT publications, two of LA’s projects the Bat Yahm Temple and the Water + Life Museums and Campus are featured in a seventeen page spread. The book illiterates the important aspects of sketching in Architecture and the connection it established with drawing. The work also explores the different phases of design that begins with a sketch and includes modess, renderings and eventually reaches the final plans. April 3, 2009 In this month’s issue of Motor Trend Magazine featured the Water +Life Museums and Campus as a back drop for a 3.5 page spread on GM’s vehicle The Chevy Volt. The Article, titled The Birth of a Notion, tells the story of how GM is starting to change the way it thinks about “GREEN Cars”. Read the article HERE. Also in publication, Ecological Architecture published by Braun Publications features the Water + Life Museums and Campus in a four page spread. Apart from the use of ecological building material, the book draws attention to project, such as the Water + Life Museums and Campus, that reach for a high degree of independence from fossil energy sources and aims for a high energy efficiency level. March 27, 2009 LA’s own design office made its primetime debut on the TV series “In the Motherhood” March 2, 2009 Building Up Form and Function – read Michael B. Lehrer’s Op Ed piece on the rebuilding of infrastructure in this week’s Los Angeles Business Journal. February 14th, 2008 Michael
and Mia Lehrer welcomed New York Times bestselling author and nephew,
Jonah Lehrer, to Lehrer Architects to celebrate the release of his second,
How We Decide. Over 60 guests engaged in dialogue about the neuroscience
of design, art and, of course, love at the Valentine’s Day event.
January 14th, 2008 Is there a silver lining for architects in this economically unprecedented time?Lehrer Architects hosted Robert J Gardner from Richard Charles Lesser, a real estate advisement firm, along with over 30 members from the AIA/LA community, and engaged in lively discussion about the current economic situation and architecture’s role in the recovery. December 19th, 2008 "Civic engagement empowers us as designers and shapes us as leaders, which makes us powerful citizens." Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA is quoted in the latest issue of AIA Angle. December 16th, 2008 The Southern California Development Forum (SCDF) awarded the Registrar Recorder / County Clerk Elections Operations Center it’s Interiors Award. Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA; Travis Frankel, Project Manager; and Steve Deyer, AIA, Project Architect were on hand to accept the award. Congratulations to the entire team! December 12th, 2008 Michael Lehrer, FAIA installed the charge for the incoming board for the AIA Pasadena & Foothill Chapter. Mark S. Gangi, AIA, design partner for the Water + Life Museums, will serve as the Chapter’s new president. November 10th, 2008 More design accolades! Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA and Mark S. Gangi, AIA accepted an Honor Award for the Water + Life Museums from the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles’ first Design Green Awards at the USGBC-LA’s 4th Annual Green Gala. November 7th,2008 Lehrer Architects and special invited guest Councilmember Tom LaBonge welcomed over 30 members of the design and planning community for AIA/LA “Opinion Makers Shaping the City” Breakfast Series. November 4th, 2008 One person, one vote, one storage spot. “Los Angeles County's Elections Operations Center, which stores ballots, is a cornerstone of democracy. But its design is not just about utility. Pains were taken to add color and visual charisma.” - Christopher Hawthorne, LA Times Architecture Critic October 29, 2008 Groundbreaking – Lehrer Architects celebrated the groundbreaking of the Westside Jewish Community Center’s new Aquatic Center. The project is expected to complete construction May 2009. The Jewish Journal also featured the Aquatic Center. Gimme Shelter - Lehrer Architects’ S(TREE)T design is featured in an article about Park(ing) Day LA in the October 29th issue of Architects Newspaper’. October 24, 2008 Canstruction LA – Michael B. Lehrer, along with Frances Anderton and Gloria Gerace, juried this year’s event. All cans used in the designs will benefit the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank. October 23, 2008 Voting Matters – Lehrer Architects celebrated the opening of the Registrar Recorder / County Clerk Elections Operation Center of Los Angeles County on October 23rd. This new 110,000 square foot facility serves the largest single election operations in the United States. The balloting equipment and materials used in over 5,000 voting stations throughout Los Angeles County are prepared and maintained here. The Registrar Recorder was also featured on Curbedla.com September 19th S(TREE)T – LA once again reclaimed a portion of Hyperion Avenue for the second annual Park(ing) Day LA. This year’s “park” demonstrated the singular power of a tree to heal, repair, and make beautiful our streets. September 4th Michael Lehrer, FAIA and Mark Gangi, AIA presented the LEED Certified Platinum Water + Life Museums at the first Green Action Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center. August 15, 2008 ArchitectureWeek raves about our "Desert Museums in Platinum". August 5, 2008 Chika Ito joins Lehrer Architects. Welcome Chika! July 23, 2008 What's Love Got To Do With It? This month's ArCA features an article written by Michael Lehrer about his relationship with architecture and landscape. July 30th, 2008 On the heels of the AIA/LA Honor Award for the Water+Life Museums, comes news of a Merit Award -Savings by Design from the AIA California Council. "To get LEED Platinum is a remarkable accomplishment in itself, and then in a very handsome building of this scale in this location is quite a feat. This is a 100-year building". - Jury Comments June 23, 2008 “It’s very important that these things be vetted in a credible way.” – Michael Lehrer Michael recently spoke with the New York Times to discuss his thoughts on the LEED rating system. June 19, 2008 Lehrer Architects recently received recognition for our office project in the Architectural Record & Interior Design magazines. Also in the press, the Water + Life Museums continue to receive attention following the certified LEED Platinum rating. You can read the most recent feature in Metropolitan Home by clicking HERE. June 11, 2008 Earlier this year we announced an award nomination from the International Interior Design Association (IIDA). Michael Lehrer and Nerin Kadribegovic were on hand at the NeoCon Gala in Chicago where it was announced that Lehrer Architects won the award! We were one of four award recipients for the 35th Annual Design Competition recognizing excellence in interior design. May 29 , 2008 Harvard Alum, Michael Lehrer hosted an alumni event at the LA office for Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, the new Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Over 170 guests welcomed the Dean for his West Coast debut. View the evening’s festivities here. May 21 , 2008 Michael Lehrer & Nerin Kadribegovic recently returned from the National AIA Convention in Boston where they were presented with an Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture for the LA Office project! April 28 , 2008 On the heels of the LEED Platinum rating announcement for our WATER+LIFE Museums, comes lots of press! CurbedLA.com; CurbedSF.com; The Press-Enterprise; US Green Building Council; AllHeadlineNews.com April 15 , 2008 Today the USGBC announced that our WATER+LIFE Museums, completed by Lehrer Gangi Design Build, have obtained a LEED Platinum rating making it the first museum to achieve this level of certification. Lehrer Architects would like to thank all of our fellow team members and consultants who worked tirelessly over the past year preparing our submittal. It really was a team effort! March 20, 2008 “It’s the whole system that ultimately defines what your building footprint is.” – Michael Lehrer Michael recently spoke with Eco-Structure magazine to discuss our award winning Water + Life Museums. Visit eco-structure.com for more info, or click HERE to view the full article. March 10, 2008 Lehrer Architects LA has been selected as a finalist for the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Award. There were over 300 projects, of various types, considered for the award. The winner will be announced this June at NeoCon in Chicago. January 16, 2008 The Sustainable Buildings Industry Council announced today that Lehrer Architects has won their Beyond Green™ 2007 High Performance Buildings award for the WATER+LIFE Museums. All applicants were challenged to demonstrate the successful application of the whole building approach and show how they maintained the proper balance of eight design objectives (accessible, aesthetic, cost effective, functional, historic, productive, safe/secure and sustainable) that make up a high performance building. Click here to learn more about our WATER+LIFE Museums project. January 14, 2008 This week’s Los Angeles Business Journal and ArchitectureWeek.com recognizes Nerin Kadribegovic, who was recently promoted to Associate Director at Lehrer Architects. Congrats, Nerin! January 12, 2008 The Riverside Press Enterprise features the Water + Life Museums. January 7, 2008 Lehrer Architects wins NATIONAL AIA HONOR AWARD for design of our studio!!! The art of Michael Lehrer is featured in this month’s Architectural Record, in the “Architect’s Hand” column. Take a look. January 4, 2008 The regional publication, Whole Life Times, features the LA Office as an “(En)Lightening Workspace” in an article about “Finding Our Happy Place: Why ‘where we are’ is ‘how we are’ is ‘who we are.’ December 27 , 2007 Congratulations to our team member Ellen Pietrzyk on becoming LEED Accredited Professional. December 14 , 2007 Lehrer Architects is featured prominently on the Current TV, Nobel laureate Al Gore's TV station, for our Parking Day design. Also, Architect Online and The Architects Newspaper both recently featured the massive SUV cutout November 14 , 2007 Congratulations to our team members; Tim Jordan and Erik Alden on becoming LEED Accredited Professionals. October 15, 2007 Architect Magazine’s Product Spec Guide featured our Water + Life Campus as the cover article. Full details can be found here: September 21, 2007 As part of this world-wide event, we designed an installation to visualize the carbon footprint of our city’s primary mode of transportation. Each mile a SUV emits 1.57 pounds of CO2 into the Los Angeles air. Converted to volume, it fills 99 balloons September 20, 2007 The Los Angeles Times previews tomorrow's Parking Day LA, highlighting our design. September 18, 2007 Lehrer Architects will be honored on Thursday, September 27th at the AIA Pasadena Foothills Design Award ceremony. The Lehrer Gangi Design team won the only Honor Award presented at this year's ceremony for the Water+Life Museums and Campus. July 31 , 2007 DVL Museums have just been featured in Green Source Magazine...click here for more info... July 24 , 2007 Michael B. Lehrer wrote an article in the summer issue of focus, the AIA California Council Newsletter. The article is called, “Loving Community: The Act of Intimacy of the Citizen Architect". July 03 , 2007 AIA LA presented Lehrer Architects with a Design Award for our Silverlake office on June 21st at the Beverly Hilton. Award submissions will be on display at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center on UCLA’s campus through July 16th. This is the fifth design award we received for the LA Office. “In just a few moves, the architect has created a lovely space to work, where the interior corresponds to the building and the furniture is sculpting the space. I would really like to work there.” An AIA LA Design Award Juror May 31, 2007 Lehrer Architects received two Gold Nugget Grand Awards at the Pacific Coast Builders Conference. One was for the LA Office, in the category of Best Rehab Commercial/Industrial Project. LA also received a Grand Award, with Gangi Development, for the WATER + LIFE Museums at Diamond Valley Lake in the category of Best Sustainable Commercial Project. The team also received the Award of Merit for Best Public/Private Use Facility for the Museums. May 20, 2007 Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA, received the Plato de Oro from Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles in recognition of his commitment to our City’s underserved. This annual award is the only honor the nonprofit bestows May 17th, 2007 Diamond Valley Lake Museums have been featured in the current issue of Architects Newspaper. May 14th, 2007 Lehrer Architects wins 2 Gold Nugget Merit Awards for their Offices and Diamond Valley Lake Museums. May 1st, 2007 Lehrer Architects will host the Silver Lake Film Festival's Sustainable LA panel discussion and After Party on Sunday, May 6th at 4:00 PM. April 30th , 2007 Lehrer Architects Diamond Valley Lake Museums are featured in Azure's Green Revolution themed magazine. Click here for the jpg. April 16th, 2007 ArchNewsNow.Com explains how our Water + Life Museums in the desert offer engaging environmental lessons, both inside and out. April 6th, 2007 Lehrer Architects hosts LIFE DRAWING every other Wednesday. January 26th, 2007 Lehrer Architects has just recieved Contract Magazine Award for our Studio in small office category. January 25th, 2007 Diamond Valley Lake Museums have been featured as a US Green Building Council Case Study. Please click here for more information. January 23rd, 2007 Our award-winning Norton Towers, a high-end, multi-family residential complex in West Hollywood, is featured in a new book by James Grayson Trulove called The Modern Townhouse. Click here for the excerpt (2.5Mb) from the book. January 20th, 2007 Temple Bat Yahm is featured in a new book by Michael J. Crosbie called Houses of God. Click here for the excerpt from the book. January 17th, 2007 Our Diamond Valley Lake Museum Complex (along with Gangi Architects) is featured prominently in this month’s LA Architect. Click here for Morris Newman’s article. December 28th, 2006 Michael and Mia Lehrer featured alongside other Harvard Alumni, including Barack and Michelle Obama and Silda Wall and Eliot Spitzer, as "Power Couples" in Harvard's new publication 02138. Click here for the PDF. December 8th, 2006 Temple Bat Yahm’s green architecture is currently featured on the Business Week magazine website. December 7th , 2006 Lehrer Architects is hiring. Find out more here. November 12th, 2006 Lehrer Architects won the 28th Annual Interiors Award by Contract Magazine for the design of our offices in Silverlake. October 20th, 2006 Barnsdall Art Park is honoring Michael and his wife, Mia Lehrer, on November 4th. We’d love to see you there! CLICK HERE FOR INVITATION. October 17 , 2006 As one of the three finalists MLA in collaboration with Lehrer Architects presented their scheme for the Cornfields site. July 31, 2006 Lehrer Architects in partnership with Mia Lehrer and Associates has been chosen as one of the three finalists in the State Historic Park Competition at the Cornfields site in downtown Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times article has more... June 30, 2006 Michael B. Lehrer was quoted in the cover article of this week’s edition of Los Angeles City Beat. Click here to read the article about the homeless issue in downtown Los Angeles. June 15, 2006 Our AIA Kick-off party was a success. Bob Ivy, of Architectural Record, thought so too. See for yourself.... May 19 , 2006 New images of Diamond Valley Lake Museums have been posted... May 22,2006 Lehrer Architects is hiring... please click here for more information April 18 , 2006 Lehrer Architects won an award from Los Angeles Business Council for the design of our offices July 27th , 2005 After 20 yrs at Talmadge St. Lehrer Architects has MOVED to a new location at 2140 Hyperion Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027-4708. Our phone and fax numbers remain unchanged. Please address all future correspondence to this new location. November 20th , 2004 Lehrer Architects has won the Business Week/Architectural Record Honor Award for James Wood Community Center! Please see Archrecord.com for more information. In addition Norton Towers is featured on the site in the Building Types Study showcasing Multi-Family Living. August 02, 2004 Lehrer Architects is pleased to announce that James Wood Community Center has become a finalist for the prestigious Business Week / Architectural Record Honor Award. The results of the competition will be known in November of this year. June 17, 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court and Temple Bat-Yahm both received a Grand Prize in their respective categories from Golden Nugget Awards in San Francisco. June 11 , 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court received an Honorable Mention in Urban Solutions-Environment Category from Westside Urban Forum in Los Angeles. April 30, 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court and Temple Bat-Yahm both received an Award of Merit from Gold Nugget Awards. April 12, 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court has received the Los Angeles Business Council Architectural Award in the category of housing. The awards ceremony will be held at The St. Regis Hotel on Thursday, May 13 from 11 am to 2 pm. March 19, 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court has received the National Housing PIA Award in the category of multi-family dwellings. Established in 2000 to recognize the best examples of housing design, the program emphasizes the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource. The recipients of the 2004 Housing Awards will be formally recognized by the Housing PIA Committee PIA at the 2004 AIA National Convention and Expo in Chicago, June 10–12. February 4, 2004 CONGRATULATIONS !!! Michael B. Lehrer has been elected to the College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects in the category of Design for promotion of the aesthetic, scientific and practical efficiency of the profession. Quote from the acceptance letter states: "The Jury of Fellows selected you for elevation to Fellowship in the Institute because of your notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architecture". The Investiture Ceremony will be held at the National AIA Convention and EXPO in Chicago. January 15, 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court has received the Residential Architect Design Award for multi-family housing. The award will be presented at the National AIA convention and EXPO in Chicago. September 20, 2003 Temple Bat Yahm was published as the winner of the AIAOC in the Orange County Business Journal. September 19, 2003 AIA Orange County named Temple Bat Yahm the Top Honor Award winner among 70 other contestants. The jury was comprised of Robert Ivy, editor in chief of Architectural Record, and Los Angeles Architects Mark Mack and Mehrdad Yazdani. September 05, 2003 James M. Wood Community Center has been featured in the article by Jane Kolleeny of the September 2003 edition of Architectural Record. August 19, 2oo3 Temple Bat Yahm has been published in July/August edition of LA ARCHITECT in the "Houses of Worship" article by Alison Miliones. June 26, 2oo3 The Light House has just been featured in a new book from Loft Publications and Feierabend. "La Casa" features over 200 contemporary residences all over the world. June 15, 2oo3 Lehrer Architects received another award for "James M. Wood Community Center". Westside Urban Forum honored our firm with its 2003 Westside Prize."  |
