Ted Flato, FAIA 2013 Louis I. Kahn Award

Since 1983, the annual Louis I. Kahn Award has honored the most influential and accomplished architects from around the world. Awardees present a talk in Philadelphia, open to the public, in which they discuss their innovative designs, their inspirations, and their motivations.
A Graduate of Stanford University, Ted Flato, FAIA started his career in the office of O'Neil Ford where he met David Lake. Since founding Lake|Flato in 1984, Ted has received wide acclaim both nationally and internationally for his straight-forward regional designs that leverage each unique site and connect people to the natural environment. By Employing sustainable strategies to a wide variety of building types and scales, Ted seeks to conserve energy and natural resources while creating healthy built environments. His firm and its work have been recognized with 43 national design awards, four AIA Top Ten Green Awards, AIA's National Firm Award in 2004 and in 2009, the Texas Medal of the Arts.
This program is presented by the Center for Architecture and Design in partnership with AIA Philadelphia.