2010 Jury

Clifford Curry is an Oregon-based architect who worked with developer William Colson to pioneer modern-day retirement facilities as affordable and livable communities. Curry is a 1970 alumnus of the University of Kentucky’s College of Architecture (now the UK College of Design). He is co-founder of the Curry Stone Foundation, making grants to innovators working for public vitality.

Adriaan Geuze received his bachelor's degree in landscape architecture at the Agricultural University of Wageningen, site of the first department of Landscape Design in the Netherlands. In 1987, Geuze and his colleagues founded «West 8» specializing in urban design and landscape architecture. Geuze and «West 8» have become widely known at an international level for their unique approach to planning and design of public use zones. In 1992, Geuze founded the SLA(Surrealist Landscape Architecture) Foundation, that has created substantial interest of the general public towards architecture.

Guta Moura Guedes, co-founder of the cultural non-profit association “Experimenta – Associação para a Promoção do Design e Cultura de Projecto”, and Chair of ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam Foundation. Guedes is also part of the International Advisory Committee of the “Torino 2008 World Design Capital” travelling to this city regularly to contribute to the first world capital of design. She is part of the International Think Tank for the Scottish event “Six Cities Design Festival," in Scotland in 2007, and of the Editorial Committee of the “Utrecht Manifest Design 2007,” in Holland. Guedes is the Curatorial Director of the Massimo Dutti Design Award, whose first edition takes place in 2007, for the promotion and recognition of the Portuguese equipment design. She is one of ten international curators of contemporary industrial design featured in “& Fork” (Phaidon Press, 2007).

Deputy curatorial director and head of the Textiles department at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Matilda McQuaid proposes and organizes national and international exhibitions and publications, and oversees one of the premier textile collections in the world—including more than 30,000 textiles produced over 2,000 years, beginning with the Han Dynasty of China. Prior to joining the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, McQuaid held a 15-year tenure at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she began as a curatorial assistant in 1987 and eventually became associate curator in 1995. She is an accomplished author and editor on art, architecture, and design, with many books and articles to her credit, including Shigeru Ban Architect (Phaidon Press, 2003); Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art (The Museum of Modern Art, 2002); Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles (The Museum of Modern Art, 1998); Architecture: A Place for Women (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989); and, Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005). McQuaid holds a master’s degree in architectural history from the University of Virginia and a bachelor’s degree in art history from Bowdoin College.

The office of Rahul Mehrotra Associates was founded in August 1990 and has since designed and executed diverse projects ranging from Interior Design and Architecture to Urban Design, Conservation and Planning. Rahul Mehrotra is actively involved with Urban Conservation projects in the city of Bombay and served from 1992 to 1999 on the Advisory Commitee that advised the Municipal Commissioner on Conservation of Heritage Buildings and artifacts in the city of Bombay. Mehrotra has also authored a number of books on Bombay and has written extensively on architecture, urban design and planning in India. Mehrotra has taught at The National University of Singapore, (1998) and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, (2000) where he is now been an Associate Professor. Rahul Mehrotra studied at the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad, and at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard where he received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree.

Jury Associates:

David Mohney is the former Curry Stone Design Prize Secretary.

Chee Pearlman, Curry Stone Design Prize Advisor and Principal of Chee Company, presided over the deliberations. Chee Company

Jury Assistants:

University of Kentucky undergraduate student research assistants: Kyle Ankenbauer, Laurel Christensen, Mark Froelich, Kelsey Adele Glauque, Kasey Hall, Victor Locke, Matthew Long, Parahita Rachmani, Taisa Sehic, Keith Stone, and Carrie Wahl

SCI-Arc student research assistants: Javier Cambon, Seyoung Choi, Reed Finley, Alique Garabed, Michael He, Nikos Kotsatos, Jeff Kuruvilla, Jorge Mutis, Mark Ng, Lennard Ong, Gabriel Ramirez, and Spencer Steenbik.