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A MEMORIAL
PROCLAIMING FEBRUARY 13, 2006 "ANTOINE PREDOCK DAY" AT THE
SENATE.
WHEREAS, on December 8, 2005, the board of directors of
the American institute of architects announced that Antoine
Predock of Albuquerque was the recipient of the institute's
2006 gold medal; and
WHEREAS, the gold medal, given annually, is the highest
honor the institute confers on an architect to honor the body
of work of that architect; and
WHEREAS, Antoine Predock will be presented this award
February 10, 2006 at the national building museum in
Washington, D.C.; and
WHEREAS, Antoine Predock said, upon notification of his
winning the award, "I am deeply honored. In some ways I feel
like my career is just starting; this is the ultimate."; and
WHEREAS, Antoine Predock is in select company, following
other winners such as Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright,
Louis Kahn and I.M. Pei; and
WHEREAS, in nominating Antoine Predock for the award,
Thomas S. Howorth, chair of the institute's gold medal
committee, explained, "Arguably, more than any American
architect of any time, Antoine Predock has asserted a
personal and place-inspired vision of architecture with such
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passion and conviction that his buildings have been
universally embraced."; and
WHEREAS, Antoine Predock's designs grow out of their
unique landscapes and are born out of his geographic
surroundings, New Mexico and the American West; and
WHEREAS, his work includes the famed Turtle Creek house,
built in 1993 for bird enthusiasts along a prehistoric trail
in Texas, the ballpark for the San Diego Padres baseball
team, which reinvents the concept of a stadium as a "garden"
rather than a sports complex; and
WHEREAS, he also designed the national palace museum in
Taiwan; buildings at Stanford and Rice universities; and
award-winning buildings such as the Pima community college
learning center in Green Valley, Arizona, the federal
courthouse in El Paso, Texas, the shadow house in Santa Fe,
the Robert Hoag Rawlings public library in Pueblo, Colorado,
and the Spencer theater for the performing arts in Alto, New
Mexico; and
WHEREAS, he attended architecture school at the
university of New Mexico and Columbia university; and
WHEREAS, he approaches design challenges by "listening
to the land, building with environmental sensitivity and
embracing all facets of a site's culture; and
WHEREAS, his spiritual connection to his work is
credited as the reason that he has been a legendary American
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architect;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE
STATE OF NEW MEXICO that Antoine Predock be congratulated and
recognized by proclaiming February 13, 2006 as "Antoine
Predock Day" at the senate; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
transmitted to Antoine Predock and to the American institute
of architects.