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Amherst, April 23, 2006

UMass Architecture+Design Alumnus wins 2006 AIA Young Architects Award

Patrick Tighe, a UMass BFA-Design alumnus, wins the AIA's (American Institute of Architects) Young Architects Award. He founded Tighe Architecture in 2000 in Santa Monica, Calif. He gained recognition for projects that transform substandard conditions into functional spaces. Sustainable design is an important aspect of his work.

Tighe and his firm have won National AIA Honor Awards for his Los Angeles work: The Collins Gallery, a 1,400-square-foot combined art gallery and residence; The Jacobs Subterranean project, a 1,200-square-foot art gallery beneath an existing post-and-beam structure on a severe hillside; and, most recently, the Black Box house, built in the Scandinavian tradition of an earthy palette. He has also won two Los Angeles AIA awards: one for a proposed affordable housing project in Norwalk, Conn., and one for the 2300 Live Oak Studio building, which blends into the surrounding Los Angeles mountains. Tighe’s Trahan Ranch project, a 3,200-square-foot, 14-acre sloped site in Wimberly, Tex., also emphasizes sustainability and features native oaks, natural springs, and a panoramic view that spans 260-degrees. Additional work includes the 2,500-square-foot Peroni Studio, which is a writer’s retreat secluded from but central to all of Los Angeles with form that makes reference to the Pelli monolith; the Ocean Front walk residences in Venice Beach, Calif.; the Redondo Beach House; and the Ocean Park Hatch Shell in Santa Monica’s Clover Park. Tighe’s work has been publicized in LA Architect magazine. His firm has also won two American Architecture Awards.

Tighe earned his BFA in Design from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an MArch from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to establishing his practice, he was an associate at the Santa Monica architecture firm Morphosis. He taught at the University of Southern California and at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has lectured at UCLA and the 2003 national AIA Convention.

UMass Design Alumnus wins 2006-07 Rome Prize in Architecture

Patrick Tighe, AIA, an alumnus of the UMass Architecture+Design Program, has won the 2006-07 Rome Prize in Architecture. Patrick, who graduated from the UMass BFA-Design program, is principal of Tighe Architecture in Santa Monica, California. During the Rome Prize fellowship, he will be studying “TENEBROSO/In between light and dark”.

For more information on the Rome Prize, see
http://www.aarome.org/2006_RPwinners.html

2005-2006 Archived News Items

INNOVATIONS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING DESIGN CONFERENCE
[February 16-17, 2006]:

The Architecture+Design Program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst held a conference, “Housing Within Reach: Innovations in Affordable Housing Design,” on February 16 and 17, 2006. The conference brought together national figures in the design and development of affordable housing together with statewide and local experts and activists.
Some of the presentations are available for download. More...

MAX PAGE RECEIVES ALLEN NOBEL BOOK AWARD
[December 1, 2005]

The Allen Noble Book Award, is given in honor of the scholarship he contributed to cultural geography. The award recognizes the best-edited book in the field of North American material culture. More...

FISETTE APPOINTED TO NAS PANEL
[September 30, 2005]

Paul R. Fisette has been reappointed to a three-year term on the Board of Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) of the National Academy of Sciences. More...

GARDEN TOOL STORAGE SHED CHARETTE:
[September 27, 2005]

On Friday, September 30, 2005, well-known New York artist/designer Allan Wexler held a workshop with 20 students at the Fine Art Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. More...