A-I-R’s continuing contributions to the larger project of architecture are evidenced by extensive publications and many coveted awards including an AIA National Housing Award, Record House Award, Progressive Architecture Award, and an Emerging Voices Award from the New York Architecture League.
Luxe Magazine May-June 2024
Villegardini November 2022
Phoenix Home & Garden April/May 2022
Phoenix Home & Garden February/May 2022
Phoenix Home & Garden April/May 2021
Solace in Nature November 2020
Martha Stewart Living March 2020
The Red Book Magazine February 2020
ARTRAVEL Summer 2019
mooool April 2019
Suvremena Žena March 2019
Living in the Desert November 2018
AIA Awards Housing June 2018
RD Residential Design Vol 3. 2018
FastCompany Online May 2018
Luxe Magazine Mar/Apr 2018
Luxe Magazine Jan/Feb 2018
Architect Magazine December 2017
Architect Magazine August 2017
Luxe Magazine May/June 2017
Dorado Magazine May/June 2016
ASU Magazine 2015
Inverse August 2015
Interiors & Living July/August 2011
Narrow Houses 2010
Collection October 2009
KÚCA April 2009
ASU Research Spring 2009
Vernacular Arch. 2009
30 Years of Emerging Voices 2009
Spaces August 2008
Boston Magazine Summer 2008
Design Awards August 2008
Architectural Record April 2008
Martha's Vineyard
NCARB 2008
Retrofitting Suburbia 2008
PURL LAB Report 2008
AZ Foothills October 2007
a + t Issue 27 | 2006
phx 2006
Places Issue 17.2 | 2005
Metropolis August/September 2005
ASU Research Winter 2004
Metro Premiere Issue | 2003
Re-Envisioning LA 2003
Architecture January 2002
NCARB 2002
Sprawl & Public 2002
VIDEOS
Watch “We Are Arizona: A-I-R”
Darren Petrucci Interviewed by Chamber Business News
Watch “TEDxScottsdale”
Darren Petrucci – Amenity Infrastructure” Video at TEDxTalks
Watch “Phoenix 2050”
This project emanated from the research in the field of nanotechnology & the integration of design thinking with scientific scenario building aimed towards the understanding of sociopolitical & physical implications of a nano-enhanced urban environment.
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Center for Nanotechnology in Society dedicated to helping the public become a voice in nano and other emerging technologies
AWARDS
Master of the Southwest Award – Phoenix Home & Garden – February/March
2022
2018
AIA National Housing Award – Custom Residences – Ghost Wash House
2017
AIA Arizona Distinguished Building – Citation Award – Ghost Wash House
Gold Trowel + Craftsmanship Award, Arizona Masonry Guild – Ghost Wash House
2008
Flip-a-Strip Architectural Competition and Exhibition.
Record Houses, Architectural Record Magazine. International Prize.
NCARB Prize for the Creative Integration of Practice and Education, National Prize.
2005
Americans For the Arts, Public Art Network. For 7th Avenue art panels. Phoenix, AZ.
2003
Valley Forward Crescordia Award. Pedestrian Amenities Along Seventh Avenue. Phoenix, AZ.
2002
NCARB Prize for the Creative Integration of Practice and Education, National Prize.
49th Annual Progressive Architecture Award [citation]. Architecture magazine, Project: G.L.U.E.
2001
Gold Nugget Award of Merit. Arizona. Flinn Foundation Award with The Orcutt Winslow Partnership.
2000
Award of Merit for Public Assembly, Valley Forward Arizona. Flinn Foundation Award with The Orcutt Winslow Partnership.
Excellence in Masonry, Arizona Masonry Guild. Phoenix, AZ. Flinn Foundation Award with The Orcutt Winslow Partnership.
Outstanding Private Office Building of the Year, Phoenix. Arizona. Flinn Foundation Award w/The Orcutt Winslow Partnership.
1995
Chicago Bears Training Facility Competition, Lake Forest, IL, First Place.
Boston Civic Plaza Design Competition, Boston MA. Second Place, personal entry.
1990
A.I.A. Design Excellence Competition, First Place. College of Architecture, Arizona State University, Marina on the Rio Salado.
Interdisciplinary Design Competition, First Place. College of Architecture, Arizona State University, Nomadic Art Gallery.
WRITINGS
2010
Forthcoming Book Chapter Stripscape: Pedestrian Amenities on Seventh Avenue, Fast Forward, Dana Cuff, Editor, Princeton Architectural Press. 2010.
2009
Forthcoming Book Chapter Stripscape: Pedestrian Amenities on Seventh Avenue, The Nature of Place: Strategies Toward a Situated Regionalism, Kingston Heath, Editor, Architectural Press.
2008
VH R-10 gHouse, Boston Home Magazine, Rachel Levitt Editor., summer 2008, pp97-103.
VH R-10 gHouse, Architectural Record, Record Houses 2008, Christopher Hawthorne guest editor, Beth Broome author, McGraw Hill, 04/2008, pp126-133.
2006
Stripscape: Pedestrian Amenities Along Seventh Avenue, Phoenix: 21st Century City, Edward Booth-Clibborn, Booth-Clibborn Editions, United Kingdom, pp52-53.
Stripscape: a+t (architecture + technology), published by a+t ediciones Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Number 27, 2006.
2005
Urban Oasis Metropolis Observed in Metropolis Magazine, August/September 2005.
Stripscape: Pedestrian Amenities Along Seventh Avenue in PLACES, A Forum of Environmental Design: Retrofitting Suburbia, Voume 17, Number 2, Summer 2005
2002
49th Annual Progressive Architecture Award [citation], Architecture magazine, Project: GLUE (Generic Landscapes Urban Environments) Public infrastructure proposal for the revitalization of Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale AZ.
Infrastructural Landscapes: Power Center Densification in Redressing The Mall, National Endowment for the Arts publication. Book Edited by Mark Robbins and David Smiley. Excerpts from master’s thesis and descriptive text. Forthcomming.
2001
Infrastructural Landscapes: Power Center Densification in Redressing The Mall, National Endowment for the Arts publication. Book Edited by Mark Robbins and David Smiley. Excerpts from master’s thesis and descriptive text. Forthcomming.
Stripscape in Redressing The Mall, National Endowment for the Arts publication. Book edited by Mark Robbins and David Smiley. Excerpts from Stripscape project and descriptive text. Forthcomming.
Stripscape in Re-Envisioning Landscape/Architecture. ed. Catherine Spellman. Actar Press, Barcelona, Spain. Chapter in Book- Illustrations and essay describing aspects of Stripscape Studio, Forthcomming.
Modifications: A Research and Design Methodology for Urban R/Evaluation. Paradoxes of Progress: Architecture and Education in a Post-Utopia Era. 89th ACSA Annual Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland.
Grant Spurs Revamping of Block Near 7th Ave. in The Arizona Republic newspaper, 01.06.01. Valley & State section. Article acknowledges $500,000 and describes demonstration site. Photos and interviews included.
1999
Addressing 7th Avenue, Heterotopolis, 88th ACSA Annual Conference, Los Angeles 1999.
Amenity as Infrastructure: The Urban Form of Leisure., ACSA Annual International Conference, Conference Proceedings Rome.
1995
Elements of Urban Design, Studio Works 3, Harvard University, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, p.32.
1994
Havana Cuba, Studio Works 2, Harvard University, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, p.79.