


The IIDA Texas-Oklahoma Chapter would like to thank the Judges of our 2010 Design Excellence Awards. We appreciate the time they give to review all the entries and select the winners for each category.

Carol Disrud , FIIDA 
Disrud & Associates
Carol Disrud, FIIDA, is the owner and principal designer of Disrud & Associates, Healdsburg, CA. which she opened in 1993 after 25 years in the commercial design business. The firm focuses upon innovative design solutions for a wide range of local and state-wide clients, including retail shops, banks, corporate offices, senior living facilities, wineries and wine tasting rooms. The firm's work has been featured in numerous magazines including Contract Design, B3, Visual Merchandising + Store Design and Interiors. In 2006, the firm received the Honor Award in the commercial category in the Northern California Chapter of International Interior Design Association Competition for its design of the Lake Sonoma Winery Tasting Room in Healdsburg, CA.
Before opening her own firm, Disrud was Vice President and Project Director for Gensler in San Francisco, where, for 13 years, she was project director for large scale national and international projects, requiring extensive travel to projects in the U. S. and in Asia. In 1989 her team won the National IBD Best of Competition Award in Chicago for the design of the Apple Market Center in Dallas, TX.
Disrud has been an active member of the design community and has served as International Vice President of Professional Development for the International Interior Design Association (IIDA). She was named a Fellow in 1988.
She graduated from North Dakota State University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design.

Gerard F.X. Geier, II, FAIA, FIIDA, LEED AP
FXFOWLE Architects
An architect and interior designer, with over 30 years of experience
in the design and management of corporate and institutional
projects, Guy Geier is Managing Partner of FXFOWLE Architects
as well as leader of the firm’s Corporate and Interior Design
practice. A strong proponent of the value design plays in creating
a healthy and productive workplace, Guy focuses on developing
spaces that reflect a client’s mission and current program, while
anticipating future needs.
Guy’s current projects include the conversion of a landmarked
Armory in New York City into a 55,000 square foot office for
Disney, targeted for LEED Silver. He is also leading the programming,
interior planning and design for a new 250,000-square-foot
Federal Office Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico to be designed
under the GSA Workplace 2020 Guidelines and to attain LEED
Silver minimum. He is also overseeing the renovation of the
200,000 square foot Kings County Criminal Court, which is being
designed to achieve LEED Silver CI certification. Guy was Partnerin-Charge for the recently completed Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s
new location on Manhattan’s Morningside Heights. FXFOWLE’s
vision for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund coincides with the organization’s commitment to ensure that sustainability is incorporated
holistically throughout the entire project. The office is designed to
achieve LEED Platinum certification from the USGBC.
Guy and his team recently completed a new environmentally
responsible LEED Platinum Corporate Headquarters for a confidential
client near Philadelphia. The 210,000-square-foot building
integrates with an existing office campus and landscape. Other
recent projects include law offices in The New York Times Building
for Covington & Burling; corporate offices for Oaktree Capital
Management in New York and Stamford, and the Hosfelt Gallery
in Manhattan. A new LEED Platinum 28,000-square-foot office for
the National Audubon Society incorporates numerous innovative
features including under floor air distribution, daylight dimming
sensors and controls, recycled and locally produced materials, and
an open plan with no full height enclosed offices—all in a former
printing house with high ceilings and large operable windows.
Guy’s portfolio includes many award-winning and published projects:
the Arizona State University School of Architecture building won a P/A Award; Turkiye Is Bankasi received the SARA Grand
Prize Design Award and was published in Interior Design magazine;
GRID and Interiors & Sources magazine featured StarMedia
offices; and the LVMH Tower was published in Architecture,
Architectural Record, and won an AIA New York Chapter Design
Award. The National Audubon Society Headquarters has been
honored with numerous awards including the 2009 CoreNet
Global Sustainable Leadership and Design Award and the 2008
Award of Honor from the Society of American Registered Architects.
Recognizing his contributions to the profession, the American
Institute of Architects named Guy a Fellow of the Institute, and
he is currently serving as the New York Regional Representative
to the AIA College of Fellows. He remains active in the New York
Chapter of the AIA as well as other industry groups. He has also
been named a Fellow of the International Interior Design Association
and is a past president of IIDA’s New York Chapter. He also
serves on the Board of Interior Designers for Legislation in New
York (IDLNY). Guy has been a featured speaker at a number of
industry conferences including FORTUNE magazine’s Brainstorm
Green, SMPS New York and Philadelphia Chapters, NACORE
New York, IFMA National Convention, ICFF New York, NEOCON
Chicago, and AIA New York Chapter and has written articles for
many industry publications. He is an active member of CORENET
and the New York Building Congress. In 2007, he was named
Marketing Champion by the Society for Marketing Professional
Services. He sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for Contract
magazine and has taught Professional Practice at Parsons, The
New School for Design. Guy is a LEED Accredited Professional by
the US Green Building Council.
Guy received both his Bachelor of Science in Architecture and
Masters of Architecture from the University of Virginia, where he
is also Chair of the Dean’s Advisory Board and a member of The
Raven Society. He lives in Cranbury, NJ with his family and is a
trustee at The American Boychoir School in Princeton.

Jean Hansen, FIIDA, LEED® AP, CID, AAHID, EDAC
HDR Architecture
Jean Hansen, FIIDA, LEED® AP, CID, AAHID, EDAC, is the Sustainable Interiors Manager for HDR Architecture’s Sustainable Design Solutions team and firm nationwide. She is based in San Francisco, California with 30 year of experience in interior design, medical planning and sustainable design. Ms. Hansen is responsible for advancing HDR's sustainability initiatives in project and research work for healthcare, commercial and institutional environments.
Ms. Hansen is a Certified Interior Designer and past president of IIDA (International Interior Design Association) for the Northern California Chapter and a past board member and secretary of the USGBC Northern California Chapter. Currently Ms. Hansen is co-chairing the USGBC-NCC’s Education Committee. Ms. Hansen is a core committee member for the development of LEED for Healthcare and has been involved in the development and review of the Green Guide for Healthcare. She served as a BIFMA joint committee member developing sustainable furniture standards for NSF/ANSI. Ms. Hansen sits on Kaiser Permanente's (KP) High Performance Building Committee working on market transformation, materials evaluation and green building interior strategies for KP’s health care facilities. She also serves on the Global Health and Safety’s ‘Built Environment’ committee developing tools for greening healthcare interiors.
Ms. Hansen led a team in the development of a USGBC LEED for New Construction (NC) Pilot for volume certification for Wells Fargo Bank in 26 states. In October 2007 the Healthy Building Network and Healthcare Without Harm published The Future of Fabric: Healthcare, a white paper she co-authored on fabric as they are used in contemporary healthcare settings following the sustainable fabric research project for Kaiser Permanente. She recently led materials research for NOAA and a healthcare facility in Abu Dhabi.
In 2004, she received IIDA’s Leadership Award of Excellence in recognition for her sustainable commitment and guidance to the San Francisco Bay Area design community. She has presented at numerous seminars and workshops nationally.

Kendall P. Wilson, FAIA, FIIDA, LEED AP
Envision
Ken Wilson is the founding principal of Envision, a multidisciplinary design firm focused on environmental responsibility. Envision’s work includes a variety of project types in the areas of architecture, interiors, and product design. Ken’s clients include several of the nation’s leading environmental organizations, as well as numerous socially responsible associations, non-profits, and corporations. His recent projects include the IIDA headquarters in Chicago, the New York office for Al Gore’s investment firm – Generation Investment Management, and the new U.S. Green Building Council headquarters in Washington, DC. Ken’s projects have been published internationally and have received over 80 national and local design awards. In 2005 he was the recipient of the prestigious Designer of the Year award, regarded as one of the design industry’s highest honors. Ken was a key participant in the development of the LEED Rating System serving on the US Green Building Council’s LEED Commercial Interiors and LEED Core & Shell National Committees. He was the IIDA’s Sustainability Forum Advisor from 2003-2007 and founded the IIDA’s Sustainability Advisory Council. In 2009 Ken received the IIDA’s Distinguished Leadership Award. Ken is the incoming chair of the AIA’s National Interior Architecture Advisory Group. Ken is one of seven architects in the country to have become a member of the College of Fellows in both the AIA and the IIDA. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies.
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