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Griffiths’ professional practice is based on a multidisciplinary approach to architecture working through buildings, competitions, public art, writing and photography. He has also been published in AA Files, Architecture, JA, JAE and the Sunday Times. Other publications include chapters in recent issues of 306090 through Princeton Architectural Press, Volume Magazine, Mas Context and regular contributions to UnCube. Griffiths received the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) book award (Typology) at the Frankfurt Book Fair and was included as one of the ten entries in “2011 year in review: Best in architecture” by Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne.
Griffiths’ book Manifest Destiny – A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Housing” Published by the Architectural Association Press explores a visual anthropology of the North American suburbs. Griffiths also received a 2017 USDA Forest Service Wood Innovations grant and 2020 Nebraska Environmental Trust grant. His work with PLAIN has been recognized by 2017 WoodWorks/ Wood Products Council Wood Design Award, the 20 ACSA Design-Build Awards. Other projects include Emerge at the Bauman Tree Farm in Eugene, Oregon, and Mazo in Wisconsin along with recent projects in Delhi and Ahmedabad. He is responsible for the first three CLT buildings within Great Plains region with projects for The Baxa Fellowship Residence, the South Sioux City Orchard Facility and the Santee Sioux Child Resource Center. In 2018 he established PLAIN Design-Build to integrate engineered lumber construction with design-build pedagogy at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Other competition prizes include Future Visions of Kyoto, Aomori Housing, Shinkenchiku Residential Design (three times) and the Oklahoma Memorial.
Griffiths’ teaching career is paralleled with architectural competition work winning prizes in eleven competitions including first prize in both the AA FAB 2009, Temple of Laughter, Millennium Café competitions. Griffiths has lectured widely throughout Europe, Asia and North America. He has also held visiting positions at ESTAM in Madrid, the AA Visiting School in Chengdu, Sharda University in Delhi and Nirma University in Ahmedabad and from 2017-19 was professor of summer immersion at The School of Architecture at Taliesin in Wisconsin. In 2003 he moved to North America and taught at the Tech de Monterrey, University of Texas at Austin, Iowa State University and Arizona State University.
He co-directed graduate studies at the University of Westminster and was senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. During the 90s he built a portfolio of competition prizes and teaching positions in London and Oxford. and Dip 9 Unit with Professor David Greene. After his first competition win, he was invited to teach with Sir Peter Cook on the Bartlett’s M. Our guest, Jason Griffiths received his Master’s in Architecture with distinction from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UK, in 1994 and began a career that mixed practice with teaching and competition work. When many people have lost hope of ever finding a job or owning their own home again, it is good to know that AIAS played a central role in cultivating Wayne’s career as an architect of communities.īurning Questions with Jason Griffiths explores the topic of climate change and how engineered lumber can help architects and designers achieve a more sustainable world. Earlier this year, Wayne was awarded the AIA Young Architects Award and has moved back to Lincoln to step into the role of CEO for Neighbor Works Lincoln.
He is a champion for urban communities and their recovery, and his spirit and human-centered practice lends a voice to those who, unfortunately, lack one. He has made unprecedented strides in his career and community-oriented leadership roles. Geneva and Quinn sat down this week with Wayne, a Nebraska native, former AIAS Nebraska President, and former AIAS National President, to discuss how he is bridging the gap between architecture, urban design, and social work. Thankfully, the same cannot be said for architects, who, like Wayne Mortensen, have been working overtime to solve this problem. Unfortunately, it is one of the biggest issues with public policy implications that Congress has largely left unaddressed. Across the country, not just in urban areas, America has a multi-generation affordable housing problem.
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