Masonry Magazine June 1981 Page. 9
Skagit County Administration Building, Mount Vernon, Wash., designed by the Henry Klein Partnership, winner of the 1981 Louis Sullivan Award for Architecture. The building's design reflects open government and provides informal, easy access. Exterior walls are brick bearing and brick on concrete frame. (Photos by Dick Busher.)
Pacific Northwest Architectural Firm
Wins 1981 Louis Sullivan Award
The 1981 Louis Sullivan Award for Architecture, sponsored by the International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen, has been awarded to the Henry Klein Partnership. Mount Vernon. Wash., a small firm, located in a small town, that nevertheless has produced "a body of work gently fitting the area, serving the community well, and doing without theatrics what buildings ought to do." The Henry Klein Partnership, with Henry Klein. FAIA. as senior partner, follows five distinguished previous winners of the Award: Ulrich Franzen, FAIA, New York; Hartman-Cox Architects, Washington, D.C.; Philip Johnson, FAIA, Davis, Brody & Associates, and Edward Larrabee Barnes, FAIA, all of New York. The Sullivan Award and accompanying $5.000 prize was established in 1970 by the Bricklayers' Union to dem-
Another design by the Henry Klein Partnership which influenced the architectural jury's decision was the Mathes & Nash Residence Halls at Western Washington University in Bellingham. The two halls, with exterior walls of brick and interior partitions of brick and plaster, are on a steep site overlooking Puget Sound. They were planned to overcome the dominant effect of mass dictated by density and economy, and to give each student room good exposure, privacy and variety.
onstrate the concern of masonry craftsmen for architectural and environmental quality. It is given once every two years to the practicing U.S. or Canadian architect whose work is judged to best exemplify the ideas and accomplishments of one of America's greatest architects and the father of modern architecture, the late Louis Sullivan.
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