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Irving Gill Distinguished Architect Award
The TCA created the Irving Gill Distinguished Architect Award to recognize members of the Tilt-Up industry who are committed to pursuing design excellence and advancing the industry.
2008 - Powers Brown Architecture
Without a doubt, one of the biggest names in Tilt-Up architecture today is Powers Brown Architecture. A frequent participant in the Tilt-Up Achievement Awards, the firm continues to push the envelope in Tilt-Up construction and has been recognized with multiple winning projects. Their accomplishments include four projects in the 2008 crop of Achievement Awards.
2007
Stephen Guest (RMW architecture & interiors)
2006
Intergroup Architects, Inc.
2005
Kovert Hawkins Architects
2004
Alan Wilson (Haskell)
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The TCA’s Distinguished Architect Award is newly named this year honoring Irving J. Gill. Early in the history of concrete construction, Gill—a prominent architect in Southern California—designed and constructed a house in Hollywood employing Aiken’s method for Tilt-Up in 1912. This led Gill to purchase the patent rights of the bankrupt Aiken Reinforced Concrete Company forming his own Concrete Building and Investment Company.
Without the architectural mindset of Gill, the industry may very well have taken a much slower time to rise to its current dominance. His crowning Tilt-Up achievement remains as one of the great early examples of modern concrete, the La Jolla Women’s Club.
The award is presented during the World of Concrete.
