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

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.