Wilmington
Architect Receives Gold Metal
A
two-term mayor of Wrightsville Beach who was the architect for major
additions and renovations at the state’s three aquariums has been
awarded the highest honor the North Carolina Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects accords its membership.
Herbert P. McKim, FAIA, president of BMS Architects, PC, in
Wilmington, is this year’s recipient of the F. Carter Williams Gold
Medal. The Gold Medal is awarded in recognition of a distinguished
career or extraordinary accomplishments as an architect. The honor is
named for the late Raleigh architect F. Carter Williams. An endowment
established by the Williams family in 1998 supports the Gold Medal
award.
Born in Robersonville, McKim, 73, began his architectural firm as
Ballard and McKim Architects in 1955 after he and Frank Ballard
completed their internships with Leslie N. Boney Architects. BMS
Architects has grown to be a 25-person firm practicing primarily in
Eastern North Carolina.
McKim, a 1950 graduate of North Carolina State University, is best
known for his design work in the fields of education and institutional
projects. Chief among his noted works of the past 50 years are the
William L. Kenan Laboratories at UNC-Chapel Hill; Cox and Dabney halls
at N.C. State; Wahl Coates Elementary Lab School at East Carolina
University; renovations and additions at North Carolina aquariums at
Roanoke Island, Pine Knoll Shores and Fort Fisher; additions to St.
James Parish in Wilmington and the N.C. Legislative Office Building in
Raleigh; the award-winning Ogden and College Park elementary schools
in Wilmington; and the Episcopal Camp Leach Conference Center.
“I have witnessed Herb’s commitment to our profession and to good
architecture for the past 41 years,” says Robert Sawyer, who joined
with McKim and Ballard in 1960 to form Ballard, McKim & Sawyer
Architects. “I believe most architects with his record of service to
their community and the profession would be retired. Herb McKim is
definitely not, however. I hope he will slow down soon, but I see no
sign of it. I am proud of Herb’s record of achievement.”
Active in AIA North Carolina since 1952, McKim served on the
chapter’s board of directors and was its president in 1998. He was
invested in the AIA College of Fellows in 1989. In addition, the
former Marine has been president of the North Carolina Board of
Architecture.
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards honored him
in 1991 for 14 years of service to the organization as board member
and president. While serving NCARB, he led the effort to change the
design exam to a computerized test.
McKim has been a member of the accrediting team for schools of
architecture at the University of Kentucky, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Hampton University. He also served as a member of the
search committee when Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, was selected dean of
the College of Design at N.C. State.
“His enthusiasm for architecture is as bright as any first-year
student,” Dean Malecha says. “I have come to rely on his counsel
and support. His eyes are firmly set on the future while bringing the
legacy of modern architecture in North Carolina with him.
“He has built roads in the profession for others to travel,”
Malecha adds.
Reflecting on his profession, McKim says, “The architects’ first
responsibility is to use their creative and problem-solving skills to
make sure their buildings serve the client’s functional needs and
deliver maximum value for their dollar. That’s just as important as
any aesthetic value the building may have, maybe even more so.”
McKim’s distinguished architectural career has not deterred his zeal
for community service. A Sunday School teacher for 30 years at St.
James Episcopal Church, McKim also has been Chamber of Commerce
president, United Way president and campaign chairman, Wrightsville
Beach mayor, Lower Cape Fear Council of Arts president, Wilmington
Bi-Racial Committee co-chairman and N.C. Good Neighbor Council member.
Two Architects
Honored for Their Contributions
The
North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects has
recognized a retired Raleigh architect and a Charlotte architect for
their contributions to the profession.
Macon S. Smith, FAIA, of Raleigh is the 2001 recipient of the William
Henley Deitrick Medal for Service and Thomas B. Moore, AIA, principal
of ARCHITECTVS MCMLXXXVIII, PLLC in Charlotte, received the
Kamphoefner Prize for excellence in the modern movement of
architecture.
The Deitrick Medal is presented to a North Carolina architect who
performs extraordinary service to the chapter, profession or to his or
her community. Deitrick, a past president of AIA North Carolina,
donated his offices at the historic Raleigh Water Tower to be used as
the state chapter’s headquarters upon his retirement in 1963.
Coincidently, Smith was architect and construction manager for the
renovation project that converted Deitrick’s office to the AIA North
Carolina offices. The facility, located at 115 W. Morgan St. in
downtown Raleigh continues to serve as the chapter’s offices.
Smith was presented the Deitrick Medal in recognition of the 52 years
of service he has contributed to AIA North Carolina during which he
was president in 1966 and served on more than 35 state, regional and
national AIA committees.
During his presidency, Smith provided leadership to convince the
University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the state
legislature of the need for an additional school of architecture at
UNC-Charlotte. He retired in 1995 and for the following three years
was instrumental in the publication of an award-winning historical
chronology of the AIA North Carolina chapter.
Much of Smith’s professional career was spent as partner and
vice-president in the Raleigh architectural firm of F. Carter
Williams. Together the firm was involved in more than 600 projects,
including agencies of state government, campuses at North Carolina
State University, East Carolina University, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, Meredith College and several
commercial and residential projects.
A professor at the College of Architecture at UNC Charlotte from 1976
to1984, Thomas Moore holds both the bachelor and masters degrees in
design and architecture from the University of Florida. His numerous
achievements in architecture and education have been recognized with
17 honor and merit awards from the AIA’s South Atlantic Region,
State Chapter and Charlotte Section.
Moore also holds the Federal Design Achievement Award from the
National Endowment for the Arts for the Kings Mountain (N.C.) Post
Office project. Additional honors have come from the City of
Charlotte, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America,
Printers Industries of America, Printers Industries of the Carolinas,
the United States Postal Service and the Brick Association of North
Carolina.
Prior to launching his own firm in 1988, Moore was associated with the
Charlotte firms of Clark, Tribble, Harris & Li Architects, PA,
1983; McMurray, Abernathy & Poetzsch Architects PA, 1979-80; Omni
Architecture, 1978; and Godwin Associates, Architects, 1975-76.
The Kamphoefner Prize is sustained through an endowment to the North
Carolina Architectural Foundation bequeathed by Henry Kamphoefner,
former dean and founder of the North Carolina State University School
of Design, and his wife Mabel.
Return to Special Section on Architects
Return to magazine index
|
|
