Greg Faulkner
editGreg Faulkner (born June, 24, 1956) is an American architect. He is founder and principal at Faulkner Architects, a design firm established in 1998 in Truckee, California.
Early Life
editRaised in the rust belt mill city of Gary, Indiana, Faulkner grew up visiting U.S. Steel with his grandfather in the sixties. He earned an Associate of Science degree in Industrial Illustration Technology from Purdue and then worked as an aircraft design engineer at Cessna Aircraft Co. in Wichita, Kansas. He was part of the wing design group, drafting drawings by hand with ink on mylar for the Cessna Citation III transcontinental business jet. Later at LearAvia in Stead, Nevada, he helped design the aft fuselage of the Lear Fan 2100, the first graphite/epoxy and Kevlar composite aircraft to take flight.
Faulkner returned to school at the University of New Mexico, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture along with the Alpha Rho Chi medal in 1983. He received his Master of Architecture from MIT in 1987 and was awarded the Francis Ward Chandler Prize for design. While at MIT, he was inspired by the architecture department’s embrace of alternative design models, particularly the study of vernacular and regional architecture. His instructors included Maurice K. Smith, Imre Halasz, John Habraken, and Gottfried Böhm, among others.
Career and Recognition
editProfessional architecture work accompanied his education, with time spent in the offices of Kyu Sung Woo, Arrowstreet, Halasz & Halasz, Benjamin Wood, and Ben Thompson. The year he graduated from MIT, the stock market crashed, resulting in a loss of architectural work that pushed Faulkner west to wait out the recession and take time to explore the backcountry of the Sierra Nevada mountains. After working for a local firm and as part of a short-lived partnership, Faulkner formed Faulkner Architects in 1998.
Major Works
edit- Red Rock, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 2022
- CAMPout[1][2][3][4], Truckee, California, United States, 2021
- Analog House[5], Truckee, California, United States, 2019
- Forest House[6], Truckee, California, United States, 2019
- Lookout House[7], Truckee, California, United States, 2018
- Big Barn[8], Glen Ellen, California, United States, 2018
- Miner Road[9][10][11], Orinda, California, United States, 2017
- Tack Barn[12], Glen Ellen, California, United States, 2017
- Creek House, Truckee, California, United States, 2015
- Burnt Cedar[13], Incline Village, Nevada, United States, 2015
Honors and Awards
edit- 2023 AIA NEVADA, CAMPOUT (CAN’T REMEMBER THE EXACT AWARD)
- AIA San Francisco Design Awards, Merit Award, CAMPout, 2022
- LUXE Red Awards, Best Use of Color, Lookout, 2021
- 2020 Top Ten International Designers, EST EXCEPTIONAL LIVING
- LIT DESIGN AWARDS, Winner in Residential Lighting, Lookout, 2019
- AIA California Residential Design Awards, Honor Award, Miner Road, 2017
- AIA East Bay Design Awards, Honor Award, Creek House, 2017
- AIA East Bay Design Awards, Honor Award, Miner Road, 2017
- LEAF Award, House of the Year: Residential Building Single Occupancy, Creek House, 2016
- AIA California Residential Design Awards, Honor Award, Creek House, 2016
- AIA Central Valley Design Awards, Merit Award, Canyon Road, 2013
- AIA Central Valley Design Awards, Honor Award, Martis, 2011
- Environmental Award of Excellence: Green Award, Firm Award, City of Lafayette, 2009
- AIA Central Valley Design Awards, Divine Detail, Saperstein, 2008
- AIA Central Valley Design Awards, Citation Award, Crocker, 2000
- AIA Central Valley Design Awards, Merit Award, Lahontan Starter Pavilion, 1998
External links
edit- Faulkner Architects website (https://faulknerarchitects.com/)
- “Built Form: Observation, Association and Transformation - Lecture by Greg Faulkner.” University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. Spring 2023.
- “Architectural Truths & The Analog House” Episode #308. Second Studio.
- “Analog House: Olson Kundig / Faulkner Architects” Design: ED
Further reading
editMiner Road House (2020). Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited. ISBN: 978-1-946226-34-1
- ^ Landsberger, Martina (October 20, 2023). "Immersa nella natura". Abitare.
- ^ Mafi, Nick. "Tour a Modern Lake Tahoe Home That Lets the Outdoors In". Architectural Digest.
- ^ Testoni, Chiara (August 18, 2023). "In California, un "guscio" per isolarsi dalla città (e dal fuoco)". Domus.
- ^ Moonan, Wendy (August 23, 2021). "CAMPout House by Faulkner Architects". Architectural Record.
- ^ Moonan, Wendy (January 2022). "House of the Month: Analog House by Olson Kundig & Faulkner Architects". Architectural Record.
- ^ Keates, Nancy (December 10, 2020). "For One California Couple, Their New Tahoe Home Served as an 'Antidote to L.A." The Wall Street Journal.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Tagliabue, Francesca (November 21, 2021). "Faulkner Architects, rifugio sul vulcano in Sierra Nevada,". Abitare.
- ^ Brandy, Kat (April 13, 2020). "Faulkner Architects' modern 'big barn' echoes rural California". Designboom.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Cummings-Grady, Mackenzie (April 5, 2018). "Clad in Weathering Steel, This Oakland Hills Remodel Packs Sustainable Features". Metropolis.
- ^ De Conti, Massimo. "Nuda e cruda Bella ed ecologica. A San Francisco, una casa concepita secondo i dettami della sostenibilità risulta un'architettura dalla forte identità". Corriere della Sera.
- ^ Mauk, Laura (August 11, 2017). "Nature Drove the Design of This Sculptural, Cor-Ten Steel House". Dwell.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Stinson, Liz (January 24, 2020). "Wine country barn renovated into simple family retreat". Curbed.
- ^ McNight, Jenna (January 8, 2018). "Faulkner Architects creates family home with sweeping Lake Tahoe views". Dezeen.
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