Amy C. Williams (GD, ED) San Diego, CA

Blaine Brownell (AIA LEED) Seattle, WA

Blaine Brownell is a LEED-accredited architect and an associate with NBBJ, with eight years of experience working in Tokyo, Houston, Nagoya, and now Seattle. He is an advocate of a rigorous, research-based design process which aims to integrate a wide variety of design disciplines within architectural practice, and he edits a weekly electronic journal which highlights innovative materials for architectural and industrial design applications. His book Transmaterial, a catalogue of materials which are transforming our physical environment, will be published by Princeton Architectural Press in February 2006.

Blaine has collaborated on several projects which have been published in Architectural Record and Architecture, two of which received P/A awards, and his work has been exhibited at the Seattle Architectural Foundation; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; Consolidated Works, Seattle; DiverseWorks, Houston; Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen, Nice; and Seaside, Florida, where he was selected as a finalist for the Seaside Ceremonial Landmark Design Competition in 2001.

http://www.transstudio.com

    
Dr. Peter Taylor (PE) Skokie, IL

Peter Taylor is a Senior Engineer and Group Manager in the Materials Consulting Group at CTL. He has 20 years of experience in a wide range of civil engineering activities.

His Bachelors and Doctoral degrees were completed at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Dr. Taylor is currently involved in research investigations into various aspects of concrete durability including investigating materials effects on potential concrete durability, and investigating test methods to evaluate concrete performance. He is also active in providing consulting and laboratory services to manufacturers of traditional and innovative materials for use in concrete.

He is the author of more than 30 technical papers covering a range of concrete materials topics.

Dr. Peter Taylor has been at CTL since 1997. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Illinois and a member of ACI Committees 236 and 232, ASTM Committee C9 and TRB Committee AFN30.

Flora Fairbairn (Art Curator, Art Agent) London, England

Flora Fairbairn curates exhibitions of works by both established and young artists working in a wide variety of media, including sound, film and mechanical sculpture. She often invites artists to create work specific to the highly unusual environment in which it is to be exhibited, so that the unique space and work resonate to create a highly charged environment that attracts an audience that stretches beyond the traditional gallery-going public.

With a background in architecture and painting, Flora Fairbairn’s idiosyncratic style was launched at her 2000 show of 10 artists at the top of Arno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower in West London. Subsequent projects include Gimme 5, which launched the gallery at Westbourne Studios under the Westway flyover and the co-foundation of The Luminaries Gallery www.theluminaries.com. In collaboration with the organisation Measure, she curated We Love to Kill what we Love in a disused gin distillery and Mementoes and other Curiosities in a disused glass and lead manufacturing warehouse, both in St John’s Street, Clerkenwell. More recently she was London Director of –scopeLondon www.scope-art.com, Co-Curator of ‘Put ‘em ‘up’ at the Laura Bartlett Gallery www.laurabartlettgallery.com and co-producer of Headspace at the Freud Museum in Hampstead.

She is currently organising an exhibition called Young Masters www.artfortnightlondon.com for which she has selected 31 artists whose work highlights the use of Old Master iconography in contemporary art. She is also an artists’ agent and art dealer.
flora.fairbairn@candyspace.tv

Young Masters Exhibition June 22to July 4. The web address is www.artfortnightlondon.com

G. Martin Moeller, Jr. (VP, NBM) Washington, D.C.

Martin Moeller is currently Senior Vice President for Special Projects at the National Building Museum. In this capacity he has curated several exhibitions, including Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete, and he also edits the Museum’s quarterly magazine, Blueprints. He previously served as the Museum’s Executive Vice President and chief operating officer, with day-to-day responsibility for exhibitions, education programs, development, and Museum operations.

Before joining the National Building Museum in 1998, Moeller served as Executive Director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, whose members include the faculty of all colleges and universities with accredited architecture programs in the United States and Canada. Previously, he was Executive Director of the Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and simultaneously served as Executive Vice President of the chapter’s affiliated foundation, the Washington Architectural Forum.

Moeller holds a Master of Architecture degree from Tulane University. He also studied architecture at the University of Manchester in England.

In his positions with various non-profit organizations, Moeller has written, edited, and designed hundreds of publications. He is currently writing the fourth edition of the AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC, to be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2006.

Moeller has served as a guest critic at six schools of architecture, and is an associate member of the American Institute of Architects. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee for the Tulane University School of Architecture, and of the Advisory Committee for Skyscraper: Achievement and Impact, a major new exhibition being developed by the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey.

Public Art for us is Public Experience: The public should relate to it, identify with, and feel ownership. We look for relevance in its surroundings...its people...its needs and we search for that voice that
communicates the spirit of a place. That's our mission, our history and
our philosophy at Firefly Studio

James Maloney (RLA)  Laguna Beach, CA

James Maloney received his Bachelor of Science, cum laude, 1982, in Natural Resources from the University of Massachusetts. After completion of studies, he attended and received his masters in Landscape architecture in 1985, from Harvard University Graduate School of design. He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Planning Association. He is currently a principle with SWA in their Laguna Beach office.

John Ainslie (R.I.D.)  Swindon, England

John Ainslie studied Interior Design at The Surrey Institute of Art and Design, one of the UK’s leading art colleges. After graduating he worked freelance, primarily doing hi-end private residential work in the London area but also traveled to The Canary Islands off the coast of Africa to design a nightclub built into the side of an old volcano. It was during this time that he also traveled extensively in Asia buying ethnic artifacts to incorporate into his design work and also to sell on to other designers.

For the last three years John has been Business Manager of Plus Point UK Ltd – www.epluspoint.com. His role has been to use his design expertise to find new and innovative products to present to the 4000 architects, interior designers and developers that Plus Point regularly conduct face to face meetings with. It was while doing his research that John came across Intaglio Composites and realizing the potential of the Concrete Imaging Process he entered into discussions with the company to promote and sell the product across Europe.

Paul Carlos (Designer) New York, NY

Pure+Applied is a studio specializing in the design of visual and textual content for books, magazines, exhibitions, web sites and other image-and-type projects. Our approach is inspired and guided by the content and context of each project. Our clients include: American Museum of Natural History, D.A.P., Hirshhorn Museum, Metropolis magazine, Monacelli Press, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of the City of New York, National Building Museum, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York magazine, The Noguchi Museum, Princeton Architectural Press & Rafael Viñoly Architects.

Paul Carlos is a founding principal at Pure+Applied. He teaches typography and graphic design at Parsons School of Design in New York, and has taught at The Cooper Union and Maryland Institute College of Art. After receiving a BFA from The Cooper Union in 1991, he served as a design associate at the firms Design/Writing/Research and Donovan and Green and was art director of Interiors magazine, which received a silver medal for best re-design during his tenure.

Peter Taylor Ernst (AIA, R.I.D.) Simsbury, CT

With over 20 years of experience in all aspects of the profession and on published and award winning projects, Mr. Ernst established his own individual practice in 1995.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis and a Masters of Architecture from Yale University and is both a registered Architect and Interior Designer.

Active in his local community, he has served on various boards of community organizations including six years on the Board of Directors of the Mutual Housing Association, a non-profit organization that owns, develops, and manages affordable housing.

Offices are located in Simsbury, Connecticut in a new studio designed by Mr. Ernst and located in the fields of historic Terry’s Plain.

contest entry form -pdf format

contest entry form - zip

Inquiries? - contest @intagliocomposites.com

We also have provided a small poster for replication. We invite anyone to print this and forward to any design oriented prospective applicant.

8 x 11 print for posting-pdf format

contest poster-pdf, zip for download

The above sample of art was provided courtesy of Peter Ernst, Architect and was used to demonstrate the possible application of photo-engraved concrete for use in the building supports for a newspaper headquarters building in New York. This design shows the creative ingenuity displayed by Peter and just a sampling of the enormous impact that the photo-engraved process can have on a project and would have been an ideal entry for this contest.