Architecture & Planning's New Home Opens
The School of Architecture & Planning recently hosted the official opening of George Pearl Hall, the school's new home, which was designed by internationally renowned architect Antoine Predock, '01 HonD.
Alumni are invited to tour a gallery exhibit called "inside PREDOCK," featuring a retrospective of Predock's national and international work including models, competition boards, collages and prints. The gallery exhibition continues though Jan. 25, 2008.
Antoine Predock, who is the founder and principal of Antoine Predock Architect, based in Albuquerque, was an architecture student at UNM from 1957 to 1961. He has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, and Vanity Fair. He is the recipient of more than 50 national and international awards, including the prestigious Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. He also received the distinguished award of honor at the 2000 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Summit Awards.
In addition, his buildings have received numerous national, state, and regional awards from the AIA. Among his award-winning projects in New Mexico is La Luz community on Albuquerque's West Mesa. Last year, the New Mexico Society of Architects presented him with an Honor Award for Design Excellence for the Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts in Ruidoso.
As his schedule allows, Predock lectures and provides student critiques at the UNM School of Architecture & Planning. He has underwritten the School's Don Schlegel Annual Lecture and has also created the annual Antoine Predock Graduate Scholarship for a UNM student. Predock received the UNM Alumni Association's Zimmerman award in 1991, and an honorary UNM degree in 2001.