Building Tradition Episode 5: 2023 Palladio Awards II

Interviews with Peter Zimmerman of PZA Architects & Brent Hull of Hull Millwork

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Design awards recognize the best work by architects, interior designers, landscape architects, builders and their project collaborators. Who wins them and why? How are design competitions juried? In this episode, Peter H Miller Hon AIA interviews the winners of TRADITIONAL BUILDING's Palladio Awards which celebrate the best in traditional and classical design.

Interviews with Peter Zimmerman of PZA Architects & Brent Hull of Hull Millwork

Building Tradition Episode 5, Part 1: 2023 Palladio Awards, Interview with Winner Peter Zimmerman, AIA

"Good architecture, whatever the 'style,' is about good portion, scale, harmony, light and shadow. Most important, it's about the building's relationship to the cultural and historic precedents of its place." Peter Zimmerman of PZA Architects discusses his firm's work, what their seven Palladio Award winning projects have in common and how they go about both entering and winning design competitions. For their sympathetic additions and renovations work, PZA often "peels away layers to discover the building's original architectural bones and build back from there." Using quality natural materials to build houses which last for generations, Peter Zimmerman Architects know that durability is fundamental to sustainability. Listen in as Peter Zimmerman imparts down-to-earth advice for building and design professionals.

Building Tradition Episode 5, Part 2: 2023 Palladio Awards, Interview with Winner Brent Hull

For a client who insisted on historic authenticity, Brent Hull of Hull Millwork created a timber frame window which replicates those found in early 19^th century Pennsylvania farmhouses. "We hollowed out heavy white oak timbers and installed a weight and pully system for the wood double hung windows," Brent explained. His attention to period-detail and quality of construction won Hull Millwork Palladio's Craftsmanship Award this year. We talk to Brent Hull, homebuilder, millwork specialist, craftsman, author and social media influencer about who influenced him: the master builders of the late 1700s, William Buckland and Asher Benjamin. We learned that Brent's appreciation and knowledge of old-world craft started while he was a student at the North Bennet Street school for historic preservation. Who says, "craftsmanship is dead?" Baloney! Craftsmanship is reborn at Hull Millwork.