Fay Jones School Faculty, Alumni Receive Historic Preservation Awards from Preserve Arkansas

University of Arkansas Press

"Shadow Patterns: Reflections on Fay Jones and His Architecture" received the Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication in the 2017 Arkansas Preservation Awards.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Faculty and alumni of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas have been recognized by Preserve Arkansas for their achievements in promoting historic preservation around the state.

In the 2017 Arkansas Preservation Awards, the book Shadow Patterns: Reflections on Fay Jones and His Architecture received the Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication. Jeff Shannon, Fay Jones School professor and head of the architecture department, edited the 172-page volume of 15 essays and dozens of images.

Shannon was among several individuals and organizations honored in January for projects focused on historic preservation, advocacy and education throughout the state. Honorees and guests, celebrated with a Jan. 19 reception and banquet at the Albert Pike Memorial Temple, followed by a program recognizing award-winning projects.

Preserve Arkansas works to build stronger communities by reconnecting Arkansans to their heritage and empowering people to save and rehabilitate historic places. The Arkansas Preservation Awards have been given each year since 1981 to recognize important work being done to preserve and protect places of historic or cultural importance.

Shadow Patterns is a collection of critical essays and personal accounts of Fay Jones, whom the American Institute of Architects honored with its highest award, the Gold Medal, in 1990. The book helped broaden the understanding of this internationally known Arkansas architect's work and personal qualities, including his strong will, his ability to convince other people of the rightness of his ideas, and his willingness, at times, to change his mind. The book was published by the University of Arkansas Press in collaboration with the Fay Jones School.

Fay Jones School alumni Tommy Jameson, AIA, was awarded the Parker Westbrook Award for Lifetime Achievement, Preserve Arkansas' only award for achievement in preservation over a period of years. The Parker Westbrook Award recognizes Jameson's passion for preservation throughout his lifetime, as he has devoted nearly all of his 40 years in practice at Jameson Architects to working with historic properties across Arkansas. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Fay Jones School in 1977, and it was during his final year of college that he first became interested in historic architecture. Jameson has served on numerous preservation-related boards and commissions, lending his expertise and donating countless hours of his time to this cause.

An honorable mention for Outstanding Achievement in Preservation Education was presented to the Department of Landscape Architecture in the Fay Jones School for "If Walls Could Talk: The Story of the Hicks Property." The project uses Esri story mapping and a Historic American Landscapes Survey to tell the story of an abandoned Ozark mining town and a prominent family who lived there in the early 1900s. Kimball Erdman, associate professor of landscape architecture, teamed with Angie Payne and Brian Culpepper of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies and Fay Jones School students to create these multimedia resources.

The team documented the existing site with photographs, measured drawings and a detailed report, and then created a virtual tour to lead residents through the growth, boom years and subsequent decline of the Buffalo River mining town. Culpepper is a Fay Jones School landscape architecture alumnus. Undergraduate students Addison Warren and Jordan Pitts served as research assistants on the project and did much of the work, with additional contributions from students in the spring 2016 Historic Landscape Preservation course, including Nathan Adams, Morganne Bryner, Dalton Carlson, Jordan Pitts, Benjamin Magee and Addison Warren.

Other local projects that were honored during the ceremony include:

• Lane Hotel/Hass Hall Academy in Rogers, honorable mention for Excellence in Preservation through Rehabilitation
• War Eagle Bridge in Hindsville, Excellence in Preservation through Restoration – Infrastructure
• Cane Hill College in Canehill, Excellence in Preservation through Restoration – Nonprofit

A full list and details of the awardees from the 2017 Arkansas Preservation Awards are available on PreserveArkansas.org.

For more information about Preserve Arkansas or questions about the Arkansas Preservation Awards, contact Rachel Patton at 501-372-4757, rpatton@preservearkansas.org or visit PreserveArkansas.org.