Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Johnsen Schmaling’s Stacked Cabin and OS House won two 2012 Small Project Design Awards from the American Institute of Architects. The awards will be formally announced May 18 at the National AIA Convention in Washington, D.C.

Johnsen Schmaling will lecture today on their work at the Hammons School of Architecture at Drury University.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Ferrous House won an Honorable Mention in the 2012 International Design Awards program. This year’s IDA jury included editors of prominent design publications such as Topos, Azure, House Beautiful, and Architects’ Newspaper.

Johnsen Schmaling is chairing the jury for this year’s AIA Springfield Design Awards.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects will present their work tonight at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and participate in a subsequent panel discussion on the topic of craft in contemporary architecture, moderated by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson.

Two buildings by Johnsen Schmaling Architects, Stacked Cabin and Studio for a Composer, received 2012 Residential Architect Design Awards. The projects will be featured in the May/June issue of Residential Architect magazine.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Studio for a Composer won a 2012 Merit Award from Custom Home Magazine.

Johnsen Schmaling’s work is profiled in the forthcoming book “Global Architecture Today” by Suky Li (Shanghai: D&D, 2012), an anthology of contemporary buildings from leading international designers.

Johnsen Schmaling’s OS House is featured in an article in the December issue of the Italian magazine Case di Campagna.

The Italian Edition of GQ is featuring Johnsen Schmaling’s Downtown Bar in its October issue.

Johnsen Schmaling’s residential work is highlighted in an article in the current issue of the Italian magazine Ville E Case Prefabbricate.

Johnsen Schmaling's work is featured in Lin Li's newly released book "International Commercial Spaces" (Beijing: Hauzhong University of Science and Technology Press, 2011).

Johnsen Schmaling is an invited juror for the 2011 AIA Chicago Small Projects Awards.

The German architecture magazine Häuser is featuring the OS House in its June 2011 issue, calling it an “exemplary fusion of architectural excellence and sustainability.” The project also appears in the July 2011 issue of the British magazine Grand Designs and in the July/August 2011 issue of Eco-Structure, highlighting this year’s winners of the AIA/COTE Top Ten Awards.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Layton Pavilion received a 2011 Honor Award from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. It is the twelfth AIA Wisconsin Design Award for projects by Johnsen Schmaling in the last seven years.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Camouflage House is included in the newly released book “Excellence in Wood Structures,” edited by Bernadette Johnson (CWC: Ottawa, 2011). The book documents the winning projects of the 2009-2010 North American Wood Design Awards.

A feature article about Johnsen Schmaling’s OS House appears in the May 2011 issue of Interior Architecture of China magazine.

Johnsen Schmaling is delivering this year’s AIA Central Pennsylvania spring lecture in York, PA

Johnsen Schmaling received a National AIA Small Project Award for its Layton Pavilion, an austere concrete structure that functions as a gatehouse between a suburban parking lot and a provisional green space.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects won a 2011 National AIA Housing Design Award for OS House, a LEED Platinum-certified residence in Racine, Wisconsin. The project was extensively featured in the New York Times last fall and is Johnsen Schmaling’s fourth residential project honored nationally by the AIA.

Johnsen Schmaling’s OS House received a 2011 Merit Award from Custom Home Magazine, where the project will be featured in the June 2011 issue.

Johnsen Schmaling’s OS House received a 2011 Residential Architect Design Award, one of only nine custom homes from around the country to win the honor. The project will be featured in the May/June issue of Residential Architect magazine.

This month’s issue of EcoHome magazine is taking a look at Johnsen Schmaling’s Ferrous House from an environmental perspective and concludes: “A brighter house emerges, proving that salvage can trump starting from scratch.”

The newly released book “Architecture Highlights,” edited by Hu Yanli and He Jiaxin, is featuring two projects by Johnsen Schmaling Architects (Hong Kong: Shanglin, 2010).

Johnsen Schmaling’s OS House is featured in this month’s issue of Society Interiors magazine, one of India’s leading interior design publications.

Johnsen Schmaling’s OS House is featured in the October issue of Metropolis magazine: “In a striking lakefront residence, Johnsen Schmaling deftly blends modernism, sustainability, and modesty... The architects created a bold – and LEED Platinum-rated – modernist box, its Miesian sobriety softened by judicious splashes of color, a mix of natural and industrial materials, and a blurring of inside and outside spaces.”

Johnsen Schmaling’s work is featured in Dwell’s Fall 2010 “Make it Yours” Special Edition.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Bottle Doors at the Blatz are featured in an article in the weekend magazine of the Israel’s Globes newspaper.

Several projects by Johnsen Schmaling are included in the newly released book “Architecture Highlights” by Yanli Hu (Beijing: Shanglin A&C), an survey of contemporary architecture, and in “2010 International Interior Design Yearbook” (Hong Kong: Madison Series, 2010). In addition, Johnsen Schmaling’s Welcome Center is featured in the book “Transformers: Reuse, Renewal and Renovation in Contemporary Architecture” by Wang Shaoqiang (Beijing: Sandu, 2010), and the Ferrous House is included in “Architecture Zone III” (Hong Kong: Rihan, 2010), a “collection of cutting-edge architecture from around the globe.”

Johnsen Schmaling’s design for Salve, the staff canteen at Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel, won a National Small Project Awards from the American Institute of Architects. The Award will be announced in Miami on May 28, 2010.

Johnsen Schmaling won a prestigious National AIA Housing Design Award for the design of Ferrous House in Spring Prairie, Wisconsin. The house is a radical reinvention of an obsolete suburban residence.

The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) awarded Johnsen Schmaling’s O-S House in Racine LEED Platinum certification, the highest possible rating of a building’s environmental sustainability. “As a LEED certified home, the O-S House serves as a model of greener living for the entire community,” according to Nate Kredich, Vice President of Residential Market Development for the U.S. Green Building Council.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Camouflage House won a 2009 Wood Design Award, commending it for “pushing the boundaries of conventional wood building practices and highlight the special qualities, versatility and sheer beauty of wood as a building material.” The project will be included in an upcoming book featuring all award-winning projects, and in the Winter 2010 issue of Wood Design & Building Magazine.

Johnsen Schmaling is an invited juror for the 2010 AIA Houston Design Awards.

Johnsen Schmaling will lecture on their work at the University of Toronto School of Architecture, Landscape and Design tonight at 6:30 pm. as part of the 2010 Bulthaup Lecture Series. This spring, Johnsen Schmaling is visiting faculty at the school, where they teach a graduate design studio on large-scale housing in the urban periphery.

Two Johnsen Schmaling projects are featured in the newly released Book “Architecture X-Files” (Rihan, Hong Kong), a collection of “architectural projects from around the world that push the global design envelope.”

Johnsen Schmaling is an invited juror for the 2011 AIA Chicago Small Projects Awards.

The Saudi Arabian architecture journal “Umran” is featuring Johnsen Schmaling’s Ferrous House in this months issue.

Johnsen Schmaling has been appointed the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. The Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture was established in the early 1980s, shortly after Goff's death, and elevated to an endowed chair in 1998: “Each year outstanding architects with unusual design talent are brought to the university to teach and work with architecture students.”

Johnsen Schmaling is speaking tonight at the Iowa State University College of Design, giving the opening keynote lecture at the Central States Region/AIA Iowa Convention.

Three projects by Johnsen Schmaling Architects are featured in the exhibit “Unseen Works”, which opens today at the Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design and will be on display until March 2010. Johnsen Schmaling’s installation was generously sponsored by the Milwaukee chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects won a 2009 Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Award for their design of Camouflage House.

A full-scale mock-up of Johnsen Schmaling’s Downtown Bar light ribbon is featured in this years Panelite Case Study Exhibition, one of six projects highlighted in the show. The exhibit opens today as part of New York’ ICFF and will travel to Los Angeles in June.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects will participate in a moderated panel discussion at the AIA National Convention in San Francisco, followed by a presentation about their work as one of twelve “critically acclaimed emerging voices in American architecture.”

Johnsen Schmaling won a 2009 Merit Award from Residential Architect Magazine for its design of Ferrous House.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects wins two Small Projects Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects for the Blatz and for Ferrous House.

The Chinese design magazine Vision is featuring Johnson Schmaling’s Downtown Bar and the Blatz in its April ’09 isue.

Johnsen Schmaling will lecture today on their work at Newman University’s De Mattias Fine Arts Center, part of the AIA Wichita lecture series.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Ferrous House won the 2009 House of the Year Award from Custom Home Magazine and will be featured in its May issue.

The Dutch design magazine “Frame” is featuring Johnsen Schmaling’s Downtown Bar in its January/February 2009 issue.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects is an invited juror for the 2008 AIA Minnesota Honor Awards program and will lecture on their recent work at the AIA convention in Minneapolis on November 13.

The Chinese design magazine Vision is featuring four projects by Johnsen Schmaling in its November issue.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Downtown Bar and Ferrous House received ALA Gold Medals, the top design awards from the Association of Licensed Architects.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Camouflage House is featured in the November 2008 issue of “Architecture & Detail”, the Chinese edition of “Detail” magazine, focusing on the building’s innovative envelope.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Urban Infill 02 project is featured in this month’s issue of Architectural Record as one of 18 nprojects that received a national AIA Housing Design Award.

Johnsen Schmaling won a 2008 National Housing Design Award from the American Institute of Architects for Urban Infill 02.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Urban Infill 02 project won a 2008 Merit Award from Residential Architect magazine.

The Chinese design magazine In-Out features the Camouflage House in this month’s issue.

The Architectural League of New York named Johnsen Schmaling Architects a 2008 Emerging Voice. The program honors “architects who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession.” Johnsen Schmaling Architects will lecture on their work in March at the New Museum in New York and at the National Building Museum in Washington.

Johnsen Schmaling’s design for the Blatz won one of 12 national 2008 Interiors Awards from Contract magazine, which will feature the project in this month’s issue.

Interior Design magazine is featuring the Blatz in its November Issue.

The magazine Azure is featuring Johnsen Schmaling’s design of pivoting bottle doors in this month’s “Material World” section.

The Irish architecture magazine Plan is featuring Johnsen Schmaling Architects.

D Casa, the design magazine published by Italy’s largest newspaper La Repubblica, features the Camouflage House in its September issue.

This month’s issue of Dwell is featuring the Camouflage House in its “Houses We Love” section.

Three projects by Johnsen Schmaling receive design awards from the Association of Licensed Architects.

The Camouflage House wins a national design award from Builder magazine.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Camouflage House wins the Home of the Year Award from Custom Home Magazine for the Camouflage House, and a Grand Design Award for the Parts House Pavilion.

Johnsen Schmaling gives keynote address and lecture on their work at the Savannah College of Art in Design, in conjunction with the International Conference on the Beginning Design Student.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Urban Infill 01 is one of 16 residential projects from the last 150 years featured in the exhibit “Reweaving the Neighborhood,” at the AUP Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, organized by the AIA Milwaukee.

Johnsen Schmaling received the “Up and Comer of the Year” Award from Wisconsin Builder Magazine.

Johnsen Schmaling wins two design awards from the Association of Licensed Architects for the House in the Woods and for Urban Infill 01.

Johnsen Schmaling receives two national design awards from Builder Magazine.

Johnsen Schmaling’s design for a $100 million mixed-use project in wins an RFP for a downtown city block in Milwaukee’s Park East Corridor. The development will include environmentally sustainable features, roof gardens and a public plaza with the goal to obtain LEED certification.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects wins the “Ferrous Park International Design Competition” with its design for a componentized mixed-use complex in Kansas City.

Johnsen Schmaling’s Veil House is featured in an Exhibit at the Seattle Architecture Foundation, June 10th - July 8th, 2006.

Johnsen Schmaling presents recent work at the 2006 AIA Wisconsin Convention in Madison.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects win a Grand Design Award from residential Architect Magazine for the Parts House Pavilion.

Residential Architect Magazine features Johnsen Schmaling’s House in the Woods project, emphasizing its sustainable features and contextually sensitive architecture.

Johnsen Schmaling is a featured speaker at the 2005 AIA Nebraska Convention in Omaha.

Johnsen Schmaling is an invited panelist at the Young Architects Forum at the 2005 AIA National Convention in Las Vegas.

Johnsen Schmaling wins an AIA Wisconsin Design Award for Urban Infill 01.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects’ Urban Infill 01 wins a National Housing Design Award from the American Institute of Architects.

The exhibit “Johnsen Schmaling – Extending the Surface” opens in Chicago’s I-Space gallery. The show feautures models, drawings, and photography of Johnsen Schmaling’s recent work and is the Chicago Tribune’s “Critic’s Choice.”

Johnsen Schmaling is the featured emerging architecture office by Architectural Record.

This month’s Dwell features the Parts House Pavilion.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects’ Parts House Pavilion wins a design award from the AIA Wisconsin.