Nov. 7, 2001: Mark Horton, Mark Horton/Architecture, San Francisco, Calif. (www.mh-a.com) In addition to founding his own firm in 1986, Horton also founded the 3A Garage architectural gallery in San Francisco, providing a forum for architectural work in an educational environment and offering a platform for the discussion of architectural issues. 3A Garage holds exhibits from local, national and international sources. The gallery is devoted to architectural material including drawings, models and artist installations, and book and magazine publishing events. Mark Horton/Architecture has garnered a host of awards, including an award of honor for design excellence in the 1997 Best of the Bay and Beyond awards given by the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Nov. 14, 2001: James Timberlake, FAIA, Kieran Timberlake Associates, Philadelphia, Pa. (www.kierantimberlake.com). A registered architect in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., Timberlake received a bachelor's degree with honors in architecture from the University of Detroit, and a master's degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, also with honors. Along with his partner, Stephen Kieran, FAIA, Timberlake is the inaugural recipient of the AIA College of Fellows' Benjamin Latrobe Fellowship for architectural design and research. The Latrobe fellowship, "The Design Research Laboratory – Architecture 2025," explores the "emerging interface between architecture as high art, materials science development, assembly and service. … The laboratory works across the disciplines of architecure, material science development, production, and construction industries to engage new assemblies, ideas, and strategies …" www.KieranTimberlake.com/arch2025/home.htm Timberlake is an adjunct associate faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, and he has been Eero Saarinen distinguished professor of design at Yale University. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a recipient of its Rome Prize in 1982-83.

Jan. 16, 2002: Karen Bausman, Karen Bausman and Associates New York, N.Y. Shortly after receiving her bachelor's degree in architecture from the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York, N.Y., Bausman formed Bausman & Gill with her classmate, Leslie Gill. She worked for M.Pei & Partners, Architects, in New York while still in school. She is now the principal of Karen Bausman and Associates which she founded in 1995. Her work has been published and exhibited widely, including the Fellow's Exhibition (1995) at the American Academy in Rome. She was Eero Saarinen visiting professor of architecture at Yale University, and she also has taught at Columbia University, the Parsons School of Design, and at the Cooper Union School of Architecture. She is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including the 1994 Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome. She is a fellow of the AAR.

Feb. 13, 2002: Nader Tehrani, Office dA, Boston, Mass. Tehrani is a partner with Monica Ponce de Leon in the architectural and interiors design firm of Office dA, which they founded in 1991 in Boston, Mass. A major focus of the firm is the manipulation of methods of construction and materials to create innovative spaces, surfaces, and iconic images in the urban landscape. The firm also focuses on urban planning and rejuvenating obsolete infrastructure, as for example the areas beneath highways and rail lines as opportunities to introduce functional public space. In 1998, Tehrani and Ponce de Leon exhibited in the Fabrications exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, exploring the "poetry of construction." The exhibit, which showed simultaneously at the San Francisco Museum of Modern art and the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, with four architects per venue, addressed the processes, materials, and technology of the constructed world. Tehrani's installation was made from folded and perforated sheet aluminum. Tehrani is adjunct professor of architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has been practicing architecture in the Boston area since 1986, has a bachelor's degree in architecture from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence R.I., and a master's degree in urban design from the Harvard GSD. He has done post-graduate work at the Architectural Association in London, England, where he was born.

Feb. 27, 2002: Odile Decq, Odile Decq & Benoit Cornette, Paris, France. A graduate of the School of Architecture of Paris, Decq is known for articulating a concept called "Hyper-Tension" — a dynamic vision of space involving displacement, movement, tension, and complex perceptions apropos to the end of the century and accompanying new architectural and social identities. With her partner Benoit Cornette, who died in 1998, Decq was honored in 1996 with the Golden Lion at the Architecture Biennale in Vienna for their body of work. The firm they founded in Paris, France, in 1985 also was honored with 10 international awards, including the Dupont Benedictus award in 1994, for design with glass for the Banque Populaire de l¹Quest in Rennes, France. The firm received the Dupont award again in 1999 for the School of Economic Sciences and Law Library at the University of Nantes, France. Decq frequently is an adjunct professor at architecture schools in Paris, Montreal, London, and Vienna.