2021 Jeff Harnar Award Winners

The University of New Mexico School of Architecture and the Thornburg Foundation wish to congratulate this year’s Jeff Harnar Award winners. The top prize of Contemporary Architecture in the Southwest was awarded to Dust Architects, of Phoenix, Arizona, for their Casa Caldera. Congratulations Cade Manning Hayes and Jesús Edmundo Robles, Jr. To learn more about Casa Caldera, please visit https://www.dustdb.com/Casa-Caldera. In this category, the firm G. Donald Dudley Architects, Ltd, Albuquerque, NM, received an Honorable Mention for their Montessori of the Rio Grande Charter School.

In the Unbuilt Architecture category, the award was given to Ke Vaugn Harding of Falmouth, Trelawny, Jamaica, for the Agave Sanctuary / La Perla del Desierto. An Honorable Mention was given to Jon Anderson Architects, Elliot Hield, Albuquerque, NM, for the Arroyo Del Oso Elementary School.

In the Unbuilt Landscape Architecture category, the award was given to Rafael Montoya, Los Angeles, California, for the project entitled, Acequias: Building Social Resilience in Española, New Mexico. An Honorable Mention was given to Kartika Rachmawati, Lone Tree, CO, for the project ECO2 Venture.

This year, the Student Award in the Architecture category was given to Nathan McNeilly (Arizona State University) for his Fire Station 62 in Ahwatukee, Arizona. The Honorable Mention in this category was given to Trevor Orgill (University of New Mexico) for his Opera House in Talinin, Estonia. In the Landscape Architecture category, the Student Award was given to Isabelle Ghabash (University of Utah) for her Memorial to Women and Girls Lost to Climate Change, Rozel Bay, Utah.

2021 Jeff Harnar Award Honorable Mentions