Barton Myers received the most prestigious honor California can bestow upon an architect. The American Institute of Architects California Council introduces the 15th recipient of the Maybeck Award: Barton Myers, FAIA.
Coined in some circles as “The Gold Medal of California,” the Maybeck Award was instituted in 1992. The honor recognizes outstanding achievement in architectural design as expressed in a body of work produced by an individual architect over a period of at least 10 years. Myers fits in this elite category not only with his body of work, but also with his commitment to the profession. A passionate advocate for integrated health with design, he has always believed there needs to be a balance within urban settings between preservation, renewal, and the overall health of the human being.
Myers is also a “devoted and open-minded” professor at UCLA. However, his teaching career spans from the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, University of Virginia where he served as the Thomas Jefferson Professor, The University of Pennsylvania as the Graham Professor and visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Jurors commented, “Myer’s willingness to tolerate the prosaic in the pursuit of larger issues his work–the spiral ducts in the early houses, the coil door hardware in the Santa Barbara houses– is reminiscent in some ways of Maybeck’s work, borrowing steel sash and asbestos board from industrial sources.”
Myers was inspired by Thomas Jefferson, who once said, “About style, swim with the tide; about principle, stand like a rock.” We invite you to look through this gallery for further illustration.
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