APS Environmental Showcase Home
1994, Phoenix, AZ

The result a local design competition between four of Arizona’s top architects, this demonstration project “promised” to introduce production home builders to the benefits inherent in environmentally responsible design and implementation. Completed in 1994, the house was internationally recognized in 1997 as the top environmental project in all of North America.

 

Awards:

  • 2004 American Institute of Architects (AIA)/Arizona
    Judges Special Sustainability Building Award

  • 1998 American Institute of Architects (AIA)
    Committee on the Environment (COTE)
    1998 Earth Day Top Ten
    Best Examples of Environmentally Responsible Design

  • 1996 American Institute of Architects (AIA)/ Arizona
    Citation Award

  • 1996 Governor’s Pride in Arizona Awards Program
    Arizona Clean & Beautiful
    Environmental Leadership Award

  • 1996 Edison Electrical Institute
    Common Goals Special Distinction
    National Leadership Award for Outstanding
    Marketing Programs

  • 1996 Wilkhahn, Inc. - National Eco Awards
    Best of Competition
    Grand Prize

  • 1996 Arizona Landscape Contractors Association
    Excellence in Landscaping Awards – 1st Place

  • 1995 Valley Forward Association
    Environmental Excellence Awards
    President’s Award - Special Achievement in
    Environmental Excellence
    Crescordia Award (Top Honor) - For a Single
    Family Residence
    Award of Merit - Environmental Technologies
    Award of Merit - Environmental Education
    (The Honeywell Award)
    Award of Merit - Public Media

  • 1995 City of Phoenix Mayor’s Environmental
    Awards Program
    Mayor’s Grand Award (Grand Prize)

  • 1995 Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
    Merit Award – Energy Efficiency

  • 1995 Aileen Page Cutler Award for Lighting
    Merit Award – Quality of Lighting

  • 1995 Public Relations Society of
    America Copper Anvil Awards
    Merit Award – Public Relations/
    Marketing Communication

  • 1995 Arizona Association of Progression
    Energy Managers
    1st Place

  • 1993 AIA Colorado Design Conference
    “Creativity & Visionary Projects” Awards Program
    Design Award

  • 1992 Arizona Public Service Company
    Winner “Environmental Showcase Home”
    Design Competition

 

Publications:

Books:

OFF THE GRID HOMES, 2007
Gibbs Smith (Publisher)
Lori Ryker, Author

STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE, 2006
Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Paola Sassi, Author

GREEN ARCHITECTURE, 2000
Taschen Publishing
James Wines, Author

THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1996
Washington, D.C.

THE ENVIRONMENT COMES HOME, 1994
“ APS Environmental Showcase Home”
Published by Arizona State University,
College of Architecture,
Herberger Center For Design Excellence

Magazines:

ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE May 2002

ARCHITECTURAL RECORD Jan 1996

RESIDENTIAL CONCRETE Mar 2005

PHOENIX MAGAZINE Mar 1995

SOUTHWEST CONTRACTOR Dec 1995

INTERIORS & SOURCES Oct 1998

PHOENIX HOME AND GARDEN Feb 1995

PHOENIX HOME AND GARDEN Apr 1993

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC May 2001

CONCRETE MASONRY Aug 2000

UTAH STYLE & DESIGN Summer 2000

BUILDING IDEAS Summer 1998

AIA ARCHITECT Oct 1998

INTERIORS MAGAZINE Jun 1996

MASONRY CONSTRUCTION Jun 1996

NEW DIGEST Apr 1996

HOME Feb 1996

DESIGN/BUILD BUSINESS Feb 1996

HOUSE BEAUTIFUL Oct 1995

BUILDER MAGAZINE Sept 1995

BUILDER MAGAZINE Jul 1995

ABITARE`, ITALY #343 Sept 1995

PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE Jul 1995

POPULAR SCIENCE Mar 1995

Newspapers:

The Christian Science Monitor
February 1996

Environmental Times
November 1994

Arizona State University INSIGHT
October 1994

The Business Journal
May 1994
April 1995
September 1995

Arizona Republic, HOME Section
April 1994
July 1994
November 1994
January 1995

TV – Film – Radio:

The Home & Garden Cable Television
network (HGTV) Winter 1999
with Joe Ruggiero

KTVK - TV Channel 3 - Good Morning Arizona May 1995
with Jodi Applegate

KACU - Radio 89.7 Abilene, Texas April 1995
Bill Teague Morning Show

KPHO Channel 5 - Evening News
Earth Day, 1998
Spring 1998
February 1995

KPHO Channel 10 - Arizona Prime February 1995

KPNX Channel 12, NBC - Evening News February 1995

KAET Channel 8 - Horizon - “This New House”
APS Environmental Showcase Home
(Six part documentary)
September, October, and November 1994

KTAR - Rosie Romero Home Repair & Car Care Show
July 1994