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Headquarters Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States | ||
Vjaa 2012 aia architecture firm award recipient
VJAA is an American architectural firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm is the recipient of the 2012 National American Institute of Architects Firm Award. VJAA was founded in 1995 and is led by Vincent James FAIA, Jennifer Yoos FAIA and Nathan Knutson AIA, Managing Principal. Recent projects include the Charles Hostler Student Center at the American University of Beirut, the Guesthouse at Saint John’s Abbey, the new Walker Library in Minneapolis and the Welland International Flatwater Centre for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am games. The firm’s work has been published in Architecture, Architectural Record, Architecture Review (UK), A+U (Japan), The New York Times, Perspecta, Praxis, and in a number of books in the U.S. and in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the U.K., India, China, and South America.
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Vjaa 2012 aia architecture firm award recipient
Awards
VJAA has received twenty-three national design awards, including six National American Institute of Architects Honor Awards, six Progressive Architecture Awards, and two American Institute of Architects/Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Building Awards. In 2010, Architect magazine ranked VJAA first in the United States for design recognition. In 2001, the firm received the Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.