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Nationality
  
American

Occupation
  
Architect

Name
  
Merrill Elam


Alma mater
  
Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia State University

Practice
  
Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects

Projects
  
Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture

Otis College George H. Scanlon Foundation Lecture 2010: Merrill Elam


Merrill Elam is an American architect and educator based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a principle with Mack Scogin in Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects where their work spans between buildings, interiors, planning, graphics and exhibition design, and research. In addition to an active practice, she is a visiting professor at schools of architecture and lectures widely about their work.

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Education, experience and affiliations

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. 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. 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. She has been a visiting architecture professor in architecture programs across the country including Harvard University, Yale University, University of Toronto, University of Virginia, The Ohio State University, Syracuse University, and University of Texas at Austin.

Selected projects

  • 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
  • Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1998
  • 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
  • Shutze Medal, Georgia Institute of Technology with Mack Scogin, 2013
  • Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture with Mack Scogin, 2012
  • Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters with Mack Scogin, 2011
  • Royal Institute of British Architects, International Fellow, 2008
  • Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design with Mack Scogin, 1996
  • Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters with Mack Scogin, 1995
  • References

    Merrill Elam Wikipedia