The ICAA Honors Emerging Talent with the Award for Emerging Excellence in the Classical Tradition

The 2021 Bunny Mellon Curricula Landscape Design Prize Winner Was Also Recgonized

On Sunday, October 3rd, 2021, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) was honored to present the Award for Emerging Excellence to winners Gerald Bauer and Austin Tunnell. The Award is a collaboration between the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA), The Prince's Foundation, and the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU), and recognizes exceptional talent exhibited by young professionals in classical and traditional architecture, landscape and interior design, building crafts, urban design and planning, and the allied arts.

Gerald Bauer has received the Award in the field of Architecture. He received his Master of Architecture degree in 2014 at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and a Master of Classical Architecture and Urbanism degree at the University of Notre Dame in 2017. Gerald has since worked for several firms in restoration and new construction, and currently is an architect at Wade Weissmann Architecture in Milwaukee, where he works on residential and hospitality design. His research and work has focused on restoring beauty and sustainability to the global architectural discourse.

Austin Tunnell, who has received the Award in the field of Building Craft, is the founder of Building Culture, a design and build firm based in Oklahoma. In 2012, Austin left his job as a CPA to study and work in urbanism, design, and building. Trained first and foremost as a mason, Austin designs all of his own homes and manages the construction of each element. His passion is using human-scaled design and traditional, enduring materials to create new beauty and pursue humanist ideals.

Also recognized during the ceremony was the winner of the 2021 Bunny Mellon Curricula Landscape Design Prize, Alexandra Bolinder-Gibsand, whose design for a Los Angeles property with dramatic canyon views was completed for Christine London, Ltd., and reflects a deep sensitivity to the surrounding land, the local climate, considerations of practical use, and to a thoughtful symbiosis with the architecture of the newly built home on site. The result is a landscape that features multiple garden rooms and skillfully deploys native plantings and low water use features, providing countless moments of beauty, whimsy, and elegance, ready to be enjoyed by the family that will live here.

The Bunny Mellon Curricula Landscape Design Prize recognizes the excellence and creativity of a project from an emerging landscape or architectural design professional whose work is inspired by classical or traditional design, holistically considers the symbiosis between outdoor environments and physical structures, and interweaves garden and architectural elements within their design. This Prize is presented annually as part of the ICAA’s Bunny Mellon Landscape Curricula.

About INTBAU

INTBAU was established in 2001, and has since gained over 5,500 members worldwide. INTBAU works under the patronage of its founder, HRH The Prince of Wales. INTBAU’s mission is to support traditional building, the maintenance of local character, and the creation of better places to live. This is done through workshops, summer schools, study tours, conferences, awards, and competitions. Their three objectives are to research, educate, and engage as widely as possible on the value and relevance of traditional architecture and urban design. INTBAU is a unique, established resource for global knowledge of traditional architecture and urban design. INTBAU's active network consists of individuals and institutions who design, make, maintain, study, or enjoy traditional buildings and places.

About The Prince's Foundation

The Prince's Foundation was created in 2018, as a result of the consolidation of four existing charities, The Prince's Foundation for Building Community, The Prince's Regeneration Trust, The Great Steward of Scotland's Dumfries House Trust, and The Prince's School of Traditional Arts.

The Bunny Mellon Curricula

The ICAA is very grateful to the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation for its generous support of this program, along with the Curricula's Lead Co-Sponsor Hollander Design Landscape Architects, Film Series Co-Sponsor Janice Parker Landscape Architects, Landscape Prize Co-Sponsor Harrison Design, Continuing Education and Public Programs Co-Sponsor Charlotte Moss, and Garden Symposium Co-Sponsor Kathryn M. and Ronald J. Herman Charitable Foundation.

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