Major awards won by alumni in 2003 and 2004
Julian Bannerman:
The British landscape architect Julian Bannerman has been named, along with his wife, Isabel Bannerman, as the architect to design the British Memorial Garden at Hanover Square in Lower Manhattan. They are the winners of an international competition to design a memorial garden that will stand as a sign of support and remembrance after the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001. The garden, a gift to New York City from New York's British Community, is scheduled to open in the summer of 2004. It is to be "a place of remembrance, not only for the British subjects who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center, but also for the many thousands of British servicemen and others who have given their lives alongside their American comrades in war."
In 1976 and 1977, after graduating from the Ruskin School of Art and Oxford University, Mr. Bannerman served as an apprentice at the John David Mooney Foundation. He has gone on to become one of the most acclaimed landscape designers in the United Kingdom. He and his wife have contributed their designs to the grounds at Leeds Castle, Houghton Hall, Syndmonton Court, and Highgrove in Gloucestershire, making them the premier landscape architects for the British Royal Family.
Joseph G. Burns:
Mr. Burns has been promoted to the position of Managing Principal of The Thornton-Tomasetti Group, Inc., an international design and engineering firm based in New York. Mr. Burns directed Thornton-Tomasetti design teams on such high-profile projects as the recently completed Soldier Field and the UBS Tower in Chicago.
Presently, Mr. Burns serves as the lead structural designer of the Indianapolis Airport's 44-gate midfield terminal. He is widely sought after as a lecturer and is known for his innovative, cutting-edge structural engineering design that in itself becomes an art form.
As a Fellow of the Foundation, Mr. Burns has been involved with the John David Mooney Foundation in multiple capacities over the past 28 years. He first served as a young apprentice in architecture in 1976-1977, and is now a Foundation faculty member and advisor. The Foundation is proud of its continuing association with Joseph Burns.
Giuseppe Provenzano:
Mr. Provenzano has been awarded the AIA New York Chapter Brunner Grant for 2003. The project for his film, Landscape and Memory, will receive the entire funding prize of the award.
Founder of Studio di Composizione, Mr. Provenzano apprenticed and held the Walter Netsch Fellowship at the Foundation in 1999. Since that time, the young artist has been engaged in the practice of architecture and filmmaking and has received numerous accolades for his work, especially his Church designs.
The Brunner Grant is a nationally recognized annual grant for the purpose of furthering the development of architecture in the U.S. through advanced study in a special field of architectural investigation which, in the judgment of the AIA Chapter, will most effectively contribute to the practice, teaching, or knowledge of the art and science of architecture.
