It is a great achievement, without a shred of doubt and Santa Fe architect Ed Mazria is this year’s winner of the Hanley Award for Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Housing. It is to be noted that the award is sponsored by The Hanley Foundation, EcoHome magazine and Hanley Wood LLC, a media and information company in Washington, D.C., known for serving the housing and construction industries.
Let’s focus on Ed Mazria then, in brief. Edward Mazria is an internationally renowned architect, author and educator and after receiving his Bachelors of Architecture Degree from Pratt Institute in 1963, he spent two years as an architect in the Peace Corps in Arequipa, Peru. He later worked with the firm of Edward Larabee Barnes in New York before completing his Master’s Degree and beginning a teaching and research career at the University of New Mexico in 1973. His architecture and renewable energy research at both UNM and the University of Oregon established his leadership in the field of resource conservation and passive heating, cooling and daylighting design.
The selection was tough since there were 18 nominees. It has been found that Ed Mazria will receive the award and a $50,000 grant at the U.S. Greenbuilding Council’s Hanley Award Dinner Nov. 12 during the USGBC international conference and expo in Phoenix.
Speaking on this, Michael J. Hanley, President of The Hanley Foundation and creator of the Hanley Award, praised Mazria vociferously for exerting a powerful impact on sustainable housing for more than 35 years. He said in a press release, “He has influenced innovative advances in design and technology through his creative architecture, energetic teaching and groundbreaking writing.”
Ed Mazria formed the architecture and planning firm Mazria Associates, Inc. in 1978, and ever since then he has completed award winning architecture and planning projects from the day-lit Mt. Airy Public Library in North Carolina to the Rio Grande Botanic Garden Conservatory in New Mexico. In 2002 he formed Architecture 2030, a nonprofit environmental research and education organization in Santa Fe.
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