Merrill Elam

EDUCATION

  • Georgia State University, Master of Business Administration, 1982
  • Harvard Graduate School of Design, Management of Design and Planning Firms Short Course, 1980
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Architecture, 1971

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Principal, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Inc., 2000–present
  • Principal, Scogin Elam and Bray Architects, Inc., 1984–2000
  • Architect and Senior Associate, Heery and Heery, Architects and Engineers, Inc., 1969–1981
  • Intern, Taylor and Collum Architects, 1967–1969

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Visiting Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, Atlanta, Georgia, 2015,
  • Visiting Professor, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California, 2014
  • Harry S. Shure Visiting Professor in Architecture, University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2010
  • Visiting Critic, Syracuse University, 2007
  • Visiting Dist. Professor, The City College of New York, 2006
  • Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design, University of Toronto, 2005
  • Herbert Baumer Dist. Visiting Professor, Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, 2003–2004
  • Ruth Carter Stevenson Chair Visiting Professor of Architectural Design, The University of Texas at Austin, 2003
  • William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design, Yale University, 1996
  • Visiting Critic, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1987, 1993, 1994
  • Louis Henri Sullivan Research Professor of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1994

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

  • Architecture Society of Atlanta, Founding Member, Past President
  • U.S. Green Building Council, Corporate Member
  • American Institute of Architects, Corporate Member
  • American Institute of Architects, Atlanta Chapter, Member, Book Center Board of Directors, Past Chairperson, Past Executive Committee Member
  • Georgia State Board of Architects, Past President, Member
  • Women in Architecture, Member
  • American Institute of Architects, National Committee on Design, Member, Membership Committee Chair

REGISTRATION

  • Georgia
  • Alabama
  • Texas
  • Pennsylvania
  • Illinois
  • New York
  • Florida
  • Arizona
  • California
  • Connecticut
  • Virginia
  • Ohio
  • Louisiana
  • Arizona
  • Maryland
  • Missouri
  • Rhode Island
  • NCARB Certification
  • American Institute of Architects
  • U.S. Green Building Council Corporate Member

SELECTED HONORS

  • Architectural Imagination, United States Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2016
  • Design Excellence Award, University of Florida, 2015
  • Design Leader, Architectural Record, Women in Architecture, 2014
  • Shutze Medal, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013
  • AIA Atlanta Silver Medal Award, 2012
  • Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture, 2012
  • Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2011
  • Royal Institute of British Architects, International Fellow, 2007
  • 1999 Charles and Ray Eames Lecture, University of Michigan
  • 1996 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design
  • Academy Award in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1995
  • Panel Member: ASA / Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta Design Competition Symposium; Public Space in the New American City, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994; 1996
  • Critical Architecture / Architecture Criticism: The Work of Scogin Elam and Bray, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1990
  • Silver Medal for Consistent Pursuit and Achievement in Architectural Design, Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1989
  • Art Papers, Board of Directors, 1986–1994; Editorial Advisory Board, 2000–present
  • Honored for Achievement in Architecture at the celebration of “Women’s Work” sponsored by Atlanta Women in Film, 1983
  • Competition Winner, “A Tower of Southern Memories,” Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia 1982

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

  • Exhibitor: “The Architectural Imagination,” The United States Pavilion hosted by Venice Architecture Biennale at the 15th International
    Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy, May–November 2015
  • Exhibitor: “White Napkins,” Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2015
  • Exhibitor: “PM60: Column | Cover,” Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2013
  • Exhibitor: “Work + Work,” Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, January 2013
  • Exhibitor: “Leathers, Feathers and Legs,” The United States Pavilion hosted by Venice Architecture Biennale at the 13th International
    Architecture Exhibition,, Venice, Italy, May–November 2012
  • Exhibitor: “Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and
    Recipients of Honors and Awards,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York, May–June 2011
  • Exhibitor: “East and West Meet in Architecture Exhibition,” Domus China, Joyart–798 Art District, Beijing, China, November 2010
  • Exhibitor: “Maine Modern: 50 Years of Modern Architecture in Maine,” Storefront for Architecture Maine, Portland, Maine, October–November 2010
  • Exhibitor: “Southern Exposure: Contemporary Regional Architecture,” Virginia Center for Architecture, Richmond, Virginia, February–June 2008
  • Exhibitor: “Syracuse Builds: After the Masterplan,” Syracuse University, School of Architecture, The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, New York, October–December 2007
  • Exhibitor: “Unbuilt Atlanta,” Eyedrum, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2007
  • Exhibitor: “Build Boston 2006,” Boston Society of Architects, Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2006
  • Exhibitor: “GA Houses Project 2006,” GA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Spring 2006
  • Exhibitor: “Civic Spirit: Changing the Course of Federal Design,” Center for Architecture, New York, New York, September–December 2004
  • Exhibitor: “Architectural Freehand Drawing,” GA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, September–October 2001
  • Exhibitor: Permanent Collection, Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, 1999
  • Exhibitor: “The Un-Private House,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, Summer 1999
  • Exhibitor: “Architecture: Intimate Space, The House for the 21st Century,” Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, New York, 1998
  • Exhibitor: GA Gallery: “Enric Miralles, Scogin Elam and Bray, Bolles   Wilson,” Tokyo, Japan, Summer 1994

SELECTED RECENT AWARDS

  • AIA New York, Design Merit Award, 2016: Ernie Davis Hall—Syracuse University
  • General Services Administration Honor Award, 2014: United States Courthouse
  • Georgia AIA Merit Award, 2014: Ernie Davis Hall—Syracuse University
  • Georgia AIA Test of Time Award, 2014: Buckhead Branch Library— Atlanta, Georgia
  • Georgia AIA Honor Award, 2014: Yale Health Center—Yale University
  • Design with Brick President’s Award, 2014: Yale Health Center—Yale University
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Merit Award, 2012: Ernie Davis Hall— Syracuse University
  • National AIA Insttitute Honor Award of Excellence, 2012: Gates Center for Computer Science and Hillman Center for Future Generation Technologies—Carnegie Mellon University
  • Georgia AIA Honor Design Award, 2010: Gates Center for Computer Science and Hillman Center for Future Generation Technologies—Carnegie Mellon University
  • Georgia AIA Merit Award, 2010: Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center—Clemson University
  • Georgia AIA Citation Design Award, 2010: Two Alliance Center—Atlanta, Georgia
  • National AIA Honor Award of Excellence, 2010: Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Honor Award, 2009: Bailey HouseStudio
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Honor Award, 2009: Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley
  • General Services Administration Citation in On-the-Boards Architecture, 2008: United States Federal Courthouse—Austin, Texas
  • Boston Society of Architects Harleston Parker Medal, 2006: Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center and Davis Garage, Wellesley College
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Special Commendation, 2006:  Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center and Davis Garage, Wellesley College
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Honor Award, 2006: Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University
  • National AIA / ALA Award of Excellence, 2005: Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University
  • National AIA Award of Excellence, 2005: Mountain Tree House
  • Georgia AIA Design Award of Excellence, 2004: Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley
  • Architectural Record Houses Award, 2004: Bailey HouseStudio
  • Architectural Record Houses Award, 2003: Mountain Tree House
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Honor Award, 2003: Herman Miller Cherokee Operations
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Honor Award, 2003: Willow Street Residence Hall, Tulane University
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Honor Award, 2003: Lee B. Philmon Branch Library
  • National AIA / ALA Award of Excellence, 2003: Lee B. Philmon Branch Library
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Honor Award, 2000: 64 Wakefield
  • National AIA Award of Excellence, 1999: Nomentana Residence
  • Architectural Record Houses Award, 1998: 64 Wakefield
  • Architectural Record Houses Award, 1997: Mountain House
  • Architectural Record Interiors Award, 1996: Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries
  • Architectural Record Interiors Award, 1996: Don and Sylvia Shaw Salon and Spa
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Honor Award, 1994: John J. Ross – William C. Blakley Law Library, Arizona State University
  • National AIA Award of Excellence, 1993: Buckhead Branch Library
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Honor Award, 1992: Turner Village at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University
  • National AIA Honor Award, 1992: House Chmar
  • South Atlantic Region AIA Honor Award, 1992: Carol Cobb Turner Branch Library
  • National AIA Honor Award of Excellence, 1989: Clayton County Headquarters Library
  • National AIA Honor Award of Excellence, 1988: High Museum at Georgia-Pacific Center

SELECTED RECENT BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS

  • 2014 Queens Plaza, Tishman Speyer Properties, New York, New York
  • 2014 Harvard Science Center and Cabot Library—Harvard University,Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 2013 One Museum Place, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 2012 Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, Invited Competition with Morphosis, Hong Kong, China*
  • 2012 Pulaski Street House, Athens, Georgia
  • 2012 Threshold, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 2012 Kaiser Family Foundation, Tulsa, Oklahoma
  • 2012 Helsinki Central Library, Helsinki, Finland, International Competition
  • 2011 The Round House, Wilton, Connecticut
  • 2011 Kiener Plaza Cafe, St. Louis, Missouri
  • 2010 Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Invited Competition*
  • 2010 Museum of the Second World War, Gdansk, Poland, International Competition*
  • 2010 The Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective for the Gee’s Bend
    Foundation in Boykin, Alabama*
  • 2008 Common Spaces Feasibilty Study — Harvard University
  • 2007  Various projects, Tishman Speyer Properties
  • 2006  Yale University Health Services Center — Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
  • 2005  New Student Housing Project — Syracuse Univeristy, Syracuse, New York
  • 2005  Harvard University Allston Campus and First Science Buildings — Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 2005  Gates Center for Computer Science — Carnegie Mellon Univeristy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 2004  Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center — Clemson University, Greenville, South Carolina
  • 2004  Zhongkai Sheshan Villas, Shanghai, China
  • 2003  Nexus — Barnard College, New York, New York,Invited Competition*
  • 2003  School of Fine Arts — University of Connecticut, Storrs,Connecticut, Invited Competition*
  • 2003  U.S. Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Austin, Texas
  • 2001  Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center and Davis Garage — Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
  • 2000  Bailey HouseStudio, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 1999  Wolfsburg Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany, Invited Competition†*
  • 1999  Woodland Park Offices, Tishman Speyer Properties, McLean, Virginia†
  • 1998  Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library — University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California†
  • 1998  Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture — The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio†
  • 1998  Mountain Tree House, Dillard, Georgia†
  • 1997  Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, London, England, Invited Competition†*
  • 1997  Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland, Invited Competition†*
  • 1997  Herman Miller Cherokee Operations, Herman Miller, Inc., Canton, Georgia†
  • 1995  Lee B. Philmon Branch Library, Clayton County Library System, Riverdale, Georgia†
  • 1995  Willow Street Residence Hall ­— Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana†
  • 1994  Nomentana Residence, Stoneham, Maine†

* Construction of project unrealized
† Completed as Scogin Elam and Bray Architects, Inc.