Merrill Elam
{{Short description|American architect and educator}}
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Merrill Elam is an American architect and educator based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a principal with Mack Scogin in Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects where their work spans between buildings, interiors, planning, graphics and exhibition design, and research.{{cite web|title=Merrill Elam|url=http://archinect.com/firms/cover/1044/mack-scogin-merrill-elam-architects|website=Archinect|accessdate=15 October 2015|ref=1}}
Biography and education
She received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1971 and a Master of Business Administration at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business Georgia State University in 1982.
Career
She worked as an architect and senior associate at Heery & Heery Architects & Engineers for 12 years prior to establishing Scogin Elam and Bray Architects in 1984.{{Cite web|title = Merrill Elam « Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects|url = http://msmearch.com/firm/merrill-elam|website = msmearch.com|accessdate = 2015-11-11}} In 2000, Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam Architects was established. She has been a licensed architect in 13 states, a member of the American Institute of Architects and is NCARB certified.
In addition to an active practice, she has been a visiting architecture professor in architecture programs across the country including Harvard University, Yale University, University of Toronto, University of Virginia, Ohio State University, Syracuse University, and University of Texas at Austin. {{When|date=May 2019}} She also formerly acted as president of the Georgia State Board of Architects. In addition she aided in founding the Architecture Society of Atlanta and is the former organization's former president.{{Cite book|date=2001-11-01|title=The Architect: women in contemporary architecture}}
Selected projects
- The Round House, Connecticut, 2020 {{Cite web|last=Reiner-Roth|first=Shane|date=2020-01-31|title=Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects completes renovation of a rotating home|url=https://www.archpaper.com/2020/01/interior-mack-scogin-merrill-elam-architects-renovation-rotating-home/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-12|website=The Architect’s Newspaper|language=en-US}}
- One Midtown Plaza Lobby, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007
- Health Services Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006
- Ernie Davis Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 2005
- Gates Center for Computer Science and Hillman Center for Future Generation Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2005
- Zhongkai Sheshan Villas, Shanghai, China, 2004
- Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 2004
- U.S. Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Austin, Texas, 2003
- Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center and Davis Garage, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2001
- Carol Cobb Turner Branch Library, Marrow, Georgia, 1991{{Cite journal|last1=Elam|first1=Scogin|last2=Bray|last3=Linder|first3=Mark|title=House Chmer / Carol Cobb Turner Branch Library|date=1992|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29543802|journal=AA Files|issue=24|pages=7–15|jstor=29543802|issn=0261-6823}}
- John J. Ross - William C. Blakley Law Library, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1993
- Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1998{{cite news|last1=Architect Staff|title=AIA Announces 2010 Institute Honor Awards|url=http://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/aia-announces-2010-institute-honor-awards_o|accessdate=15 October 2015|work=Architect|date=25 January 2010}}
- Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1998
- Mountain Tree House, Dillard, Georgia, 1998
Honors and awards
- 2014 Design Leader award, Women in Architecture Awards, Architectural Record, 2014{{Cite web|title = Architectural Record Announces Winners of First Annual Women in Architecture Awards - News - Architectural Record|url = http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2014/08/140812-architectural-record-winners-first-annual-women-in-architecture-awards.asp|website = archrecord.construction.com|accessdate = 2015-11-11}}
- Shutze Medal, Georgia Institute of Technology with Mack Scogin, 2013{{cite web|url=http://www.coa.gatech.edu/hg/item/219891|title=Georgia Tech College of Architecture|work=gatech.edu}}
- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture with Mack Scogin, 2012 {{cite web|url=http://www.cooperhewitt.org/national-design-awards/history-of-honorees-jurors/|title=Chronicle of Honorees & Jurors|work=Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum|date=17 May 2014 }}
- Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters with Mack Scogin, 2011{{cite web|url=http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=brunner|title=American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners|work=artsandletters.org|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330042847/http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Brunner|archivedate=2014-03-30}}
- Royal Institute of British Architects, International Fellow, 2008{{cite web|url=https://www.architecture.com/RIBA/Awards/RIBAInternationalFellowships/Archive/InternationalFellowships2008.aspx|title=RIBA International Fellowships 2008|work=architecture.com}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design with Mack Scogin, 1996{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}
- Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters with Mack Scogin, 1995{{cite web|title=American Academy of Arts and Letters, Architecture, 1995 |url=http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Academy |accessdate=14 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013232000/http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Academy |archivedate=13 October 2008 }}
References
External links
- [http://msmearch.com/ Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects]
- International Archive of Women in Architecture, https://web.archive.org/web/20151023163207/http://lumiere.lib.vt.edu/iawa_db/view_all.php3?person_pk=278®ion=&table=bio&cSel=
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