AIA Gold Medal to Lake|Flato Architects, Champions of Sustainability
The American Institute of Architects’ highest annual honor is bestowed on individuals “whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture.” Meeting that demanding requirement this year are two men who lead a distinguished and widely accomplished Texas firm: David Lake and Ted Flato. Both partners grew up in Texas. Lake earned his Bachelor degree in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin in 1976, and Flato received his at Stanford in 1977. They founded the firm Lake|Flato in San Antonio in 1984 and opened a second office in Austin in 2016. From the outset Lake and Flato have identified sustainability as a key objective in their practice. It is a major factor in the commissions the firm takes on, which range from individual houses to campus buildings to public open spaces. In the words of the AIA announcement, in …
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