Awards, Exhibitions, and Lectures

Awards

  • 2015 John Staub Award, Institute of Classical Art & Architecture, Texas Chapter
  • 2015 Golden Trowel Award,  Texas Masonry Council and Associated Masonry Contractors of Houston (AMCH)
  • 2015 Palladio Award, Clem Labine’s Period Homes and Traditional Building magazines
  • 2014 Palladio Award,  Clem Labine’s Period Homes and Traditional Building magazines
  • Mountain Living 2013 List of Top Mountain Architects
  • 2013 John Staub Award, Institute of Classical Art & Architecture, Texas Chapter
  • 2012 John Staub Award, Institute of Classical Art & Architecture, Texas Chapter
  • 2012 Star of Design in the field of Architecture, Decorative Center Houston
  • 2011 John Staub Award, Institute of Classical Art & Architecture, Texas Chapter
  • 1999 Arthur Ross Award, Classical America, Institute of Classical Art & Architecture
  • 1998 ASID / Houston Chronicle Interior Design Award, Houston Chronicle Magazine
  • 1997 Southern Home Award, Additions and Remodeling, Southern Living Magazine

Exhibitions

  • AIA Garden Architecture, juried exhibition by the AIA Houston, Architecture Center Houston, May – July 2014
  • Garden Conservancy Open Days Tour, featured gardens, March 2014
  • Garden Conservancy Open Days Tour, featured garden, Houston, March 2013
  • John Staub Awards Exhibition, San Antonio and Dallas, April 2012
  • Garden Conservancy Open Days Tour, featured gardens, Houston, April 2012
  • Garden Conservancy Open Days Tour, featured gardens, Houston, March 2011
  • River Oaks Garden Club Azalea Trail, featured gardens, Houston, February 2011
  • Snapshot – Current Houston Design on View, Rice Design Alliance, Houston 2001
  • Reconquering Sacred Space – Designing Churches for the New Renaissance,” an Exhibition and Conference, Rome, Italy 1999
  • Building Cities: Politics, Education, Practice, Patronage, University of Notre Dame London Centre, March 1999
  • Houston Works – A Catalog of Houston Architects’ Work, Rice Design Alliance, Houston 1997
  • Best Laid Plans – An Exhibit of Houston Architects’ Work, Rice Design Alliance, Houston 1994

Lectures

  • “Driven by Design” tour by Architectural Digest and Cadillac, Keynote Address, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, Texas, October 2015
  • “Building on Tradition: The Work of Curtis & Windham Architects,” Gregg County Historical Museum Architecture Lecture Series, Longview, Texas, February 2014
  • “The Architect John Staub and his Legacy in Houston” The Decorative Arts Trust Fall Symposium, Houston, Texas, November 2011
  • “Contemporary Architects in Texas Influenced by the Work of Robert Adam and Sir Edwin Lutyens,” 23rd Annual Library and Museums Collection Forum: “From Books, Tables, Walls, and Gardens: Collecting the History of the British Country House, the Immigration of Ideas from England to Texas,” Round Top Festival Institute, Round Top, Texas, September 2009
  • “Considering Robert Adam: The Eminent Architect of the 18th Century and His Legacy in Classical Architecture,” Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, Texas Chapter, Houston, Texas, March 2009
  • “Architecture’s Timeless Principles,” Texas Tech University School of Architecture, February 2006
  • “The Institute of Classical Architecture, A Decade of Art and Architecture 1992-2002” The Institute of Classical Art & Architecture, 2002
  • “1998 Southern Living Home Awards – A Lecture on the Work of Curtis & Windham Architects,” Southern Progress, Birmingham, Alabama
  • “The Work of Curtis & Windham Architects,” University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, March 1997
  • “Oh to be a Young Classical Architect, A Lecture on the Work of Curtis & Windham Architects,” New York University Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture, New York, July 1996