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The AIA gratefully
acknowledges the
following sponsors
of our 150th Anniversary
celebration:
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Founders Circle:
$1,000,000:
McGraw-Hill
Construction,
Official Media
Sponsor
Autodesk,
Official Software
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Year Awarded: 1982
Born: September 02, 1920;
Rome, Italy
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• 2003: St Patrick's Cathedral in Parramatta
• 1988: Australian Parliament House, Canberra
• 1985: Lafayette Place (now Swissotel), Boston
• 1977: Sherman Fairchild Center for the Life Sciences,
Columbia University
• 1976: Tredyffrin Public Library, Strafford, Penn.
• 1973: Lang Music Building, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore,
Penn.
• 1972: Columbus East High School, Columbus, Ind.
• 1971: United Fund Headquarters Building, Philadelphia
Biography
Romaldo Giurgola, an architect, author, and professor, began his
education in the School of Architecture at the University of Rome,
earining a bachelor’s degree in 1949. He went to Columbia
University as a Fulbright Scholar and received an MArch in
1951.
In 1957 he joined with Ehrman Mitchell to work on the Wright
Brothers Memorial Visitor Center for the U.S. National Park
Service. This project brought them national recognition, and in
1958 they formed Mitchell/Giurgola Architects in Philadelphia,
creating one of the world’s leading architecture firms. The
firm later became Mitchell/Giurgola & Thorp and began working
internationally, designing commercial, educational, civic, and
cultural projects in Europe, the United States, and the Pacific
Rim.
Giurgola became a professor of architecture, teaching first at
Cornell University, then at the University of Pennsylvania, and
eventually at Columbia University. He became the Ware Professor of
Architecture and architecture department head at Columbia
University in 1966. At that time, the firm opened an office in New
York City.
During the U.S. bicentennial year, 1976, Mitchell/Giurgola's second
U.S. Park Service building, the Liberty Bell Pavilion across from
Independence Hall, was dedicated.
In 1980 Giurgola moved to Australia and began work on the
Australian Parliament House in Canberra, opening offices there. He
has lived in Canberra permanently since the Parliament House was
opened; he became an Australian citizen in 2000. Although now
retired, he continues to work in Australia and serves on the
National Planning Authority in Canberra. He is a professorial
fellow at the University of Melbourne, and at the University of
Sydney he is an adjunct professor.
Giurgola and his firms have been recognized for a number of honors
from around the world, including the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial
Prize in Architecture from the American Academy and Institute of
Arts and Letters in 1966. In 1972 the Italian Government awarded
him the Commendation of the Order of the Republic of Italy. He was
made a fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1975, and
the firm Mitchell/Giurgola won the AIA Architecture Firm Award in
1976. He received the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture from
University of Virginia in 1987, and the Gold Medal from the Royal
Australian Institute of Architects in 1988. In 2003 the University
of Sydney awarded Giurgola an honorary doctorate in
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