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Tristan d'Estree Sterk, AIA, Wins the
2011 Dubin Family Young Architect Award
Tristan d'Estree Sterk, AIA
Tristan d'Estree Sterk, AIA, of the Office for Robotic Architectural Media & Bureau for Responsive Architecture (ORAMBRA), has been recognized as AIA Chicago's 2011 Dubin Family Young Architect of the Year. The award recognizes excellence in ability and exceptional contributions by a Chicago-area architect between the ages of 25 and 39.
An assistant professor at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Sterk received his bachelor of architecture in 1999 from The University of Adelaide, Australia, and his MFA specializing in emerging technologies from the SAIC in 2004. That same year, Sterk started working as a design architect at SOM in Chicago, and from 2006 to 2008 he worked at Busby Perkins+Will inVancouver. "Interior of the Rolex Tower, Dubai. Tristan's work stood out because it was about the type of structures we could live in tomorrow," said a juror. That type of forward thinking design can be seen in Sterk's "Prairie House: House for a Fashion Pattern Maker and Fiber Artist," which received a 2011 AIA Chicago Design Excellence Award, Special Recognition in the Unbuilt category. The home was designed to use actuated tensegrity systems, in conjunction with soft cladding systems, to produce a house estimated to emit less than half of the carbon of a typical house in Illinois. Sterk was awarded the Schiff Fellowship in Architecture in 2003 and the Chicago Architectural Club Emerging Vision Award in 2005.
When asked about the Dubin Family Young Architect designation, Sterk said, "It's an honor to be a part of such a successful crowd—I hope to live up to the standards they have set both within their practices and their contributions to the Chicago scene."
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