Peter Exley
Peter Exley (born August 2, 1964 in Harrogate, England) is the co-founder of Architecture Is Fun, a Chicago-based architecture and design firm. Exley’s projects include the DuPage Children’s Museum, the House in the Woods, a 21,000-square-foot (1,950m2) Ronald McDonald House in Oak Lawn IL[1], the Exploration Station children’s museum[2] and the Young at Art Museum's exhibits and galleries in Davie, Florida.
Biography
Exley earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies with First Class Honours from Newcastle University in 1985 and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. Prior to founding his own firm in 1994, he worked for Skidmore Owings and Merrill in Chicago and London and with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. Architecture Is Fun’s work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago [3], the Chicago Architecture Foundation and the ICA in Philadelphia. Exley has taught architecture and interior architecture as an adjunct associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1992. He has presented lectures at Carnegie Mellon University, Newcastle University, Taliesin West and to other academic and professional conferences throughout the USA.
Awards
Peter Exley is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Projects under his design direction have won more than twenty five awards for design excellence including six AIA Chicago awards and the AIA Illinois Mies van der Rohe Award. In 1996 Exley was the recipient of the AIA Chicago Young Architect Award[4] and in 2003 received the AIA Illinois Excellence in Education Award. In 2012, with his partner and wife, Sharon Exley, he was awarded the Benjamin Moore HUE Award for exceptional use of color in commercial architecture[5].
External links
Architecture is Fun official website
World Architects official website
AIA Chicago official website
School of the Art Institute of Chicago official website
MOMA/MOMA PS1 Blog featuring the work of Architecture is Fun
References
- ^ Young, Cynthia “Giving Families Shelter and Comfort” AIA Architect http://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek07/1005/1005p_mcd.cfm
- ^ Kamin, Blair. “These Tricks are for Kids” Chicago Tribune (January 4, 1998) http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-01-04/news/9801040013_1_youth-museums-museum-field-architects
- ^ Exhibit, “Architecture for Children”, Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/1990-1999/1998-exhibition-history
- ^ AIA Chicago Young Architects Awards http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/1996_Design_Awards/Young_Arch/P_Exley.html
- ^ HUE Awards 2012 http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/for-architects-and-designers/hue-awards-2012