Peter Exley
Peter Exley | |
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 Peter Exley in 2013 | |
| Born | 2 August 1964 |
| Alma mater | Newcastle University (B.A. Hons.,1985), University of Pennsylvania (M.Arch.,1990) |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Architecture Is Fun, Inc. |
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. In 2013 Exley served as the President of AIA Chicago, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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]
Design For Kids
Co-authored by Peter and Sharon Exley, the monograph "Design For Kids" [6] illustrates architecture, interiors, exhibits, and learning resources for young people through the work and research of their design atelier Architecture Is Fun. Through photographs of built work, diagrams and design proposals, “Design For Kids” introduces the Exley’s concept of “Educative Design”. The monograph examines this unique methodology that integrates architecture, learning, design and experience in projects designed specifically for children.
In their review of the book, architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown described the work of Architecture Is Fun and its founders Peter Exley and Sharon Exley, to be "of significance and relevance, joy and seriousness, range and depth".
Published Work
- Ed. Broto, Carles & Links Books (2006), Great Kids' Spaces. Barcelona (pp. 42-47, 190-197, 226-227, 238-241, 250-255). ISBN 84-96263-61-4
- Fang, Abby, (2012), Eden For Boys & Girls. Hong Kong: Designer Books (pp. 42-51, 62-99). ISBN 978-988-16075-1-5
- Exley, Peter & Exley, Sharon (contrib.); Vieyra, Daniel, (contrib.) (2007), Design for kids. Mulgrave: Images Publishing. ISBN 978-1864701807
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-your-home/benjamin-moore-hue-awards-to-be-presented-for-br-exceptional-use-of-color-in-architecture-interio
- ^ Exley, Peter & Exley, Sharon (contrib.); Vieyra, Daniel, (contrib.) (2007), Design For Kids Images Publishing, Mulgrave. ISBN 978-1864701807
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