June 2008

Douglas Moss has been selected by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to be a member of the National Register of Peer Professionals appointed by the Public Buildings Service Commissioner. Peer Professionals ensure that decision-making discussions are focused on design excellence so that the public architecture reflects “the dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of the Federal Government” and embodies the “finest contemporary architectural thought.”

Renovation of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Aycock Auditorium is complete. As a multi-use auditorium, Aycock serves as the University’s primary performance space, key venue for its University Concert & Lecture Series, and center for student organization activities. The comprehensive renovation improved patron amenities and modernized the auditorium’s systems to create a flexible performance space that fully addresses the artistic programmatic needs of the University.

On June 2nd, Ramapo College of New Jersey celebrated the groundbreaking of its new Spiritual Center. Serving as a venue for formal religious services, as well as providing a place of serenity or individual contemplation, the core of the Spiritual Center is a prayer and peace room accommodating eighty people.



Other groundbreakings include the new Student Center at Delaware State University, in Dover. Located on the edge of the Main Quad, the Student Center will have a close relationship to the new Wellness Center and Natatorium that Holzman Moss Architecture is also designing, and the Athletic Department’s Strength and Conditioning facility just completed. The arrangement of buildings defines a new intramural quad where students can gather informally for basketball and volleyball and be a part of the “star court,” for intramural games.

Opening this month, the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center is the only syllabus-based ballet academy in New York City. Located in a new 30-story residential tower, students and professionals have already begun using the dance studios and performance space.

As of July 1st, the Holzman Moss Architecture softball team is 7-0, our best start ever! We currently stand alone in first place.

Free on June 29th? Come hear Malcolm Holzman present "Avoid Gray Hair! Building Passion: Three Steps to an Extraordinary New Library for Your Community or Campus." Malcolm will be joined by Marilyn Gell Mason (WebJunction), George B. Forsythe (Westminster Coll., Fulton, MO), and Howard Taylor (San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, TX). This session, which includes a step-by-step way to articulate a vision of the community or campus library, enhance the building program, and establish a fundraising method is important for anyone planning new or renovated buildings. This session is taking place as part of the American Library Association’s annual conference held this year in Anaheim, CA, from June 26–July 2, 2008. Also in attendance from Holzman Moss Architecture will be Margaret Sullivan.

Pay us a visit at SCUP Montreal! Holzman Moss Architecture will participate in the 43rd annual Society for College and University Planners Conference held this year in Montreal, Canada on July 19-23, 2008. At this conference, Partner Douglas Moss will be involved in two presentations:

“Get a Life – Student Life at Delaware State University” with Director of Intramural Sports Recreation and Events Coordinator, Matt Fortune, and architect Amado Fernandez, a partner of Hughes Group Architects.

“Steps to Successful Partnerships for Performing Arts Center” with Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University, William Reeder, and Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art and Theatre at Shepherd University, Rhonda Smith.

May 2008

In 2001 Douglas Moss completed the Feasibility Study for the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC) in Bowling Green, Kentuckyand in 2005 prepared a Conceptual Design. Holzman Moss Architecture is delighted to learn that we have been commissioned to further the project from design through construction. SKyPAC is planned as a state-of-the-art performing arts center containing a 1,600-seat prosce¬nium theater. It is to serve as a landmark of the newly created TIF district in downtown Bowling Green, and help promote new development in the urban core.

Holzman Moss Architecture was selected to provide planning and architectural design services for the new Anchor Public Library in Dover, Delaware. The Library serves the City of Dover as well as Kent County; as the region continues to experience population growth and development, the library continues to be the busiest public library facility in all of Central and Southern Delaware. The new “Anchor Library” is estimated to be approximately 52,000 square feet and is planned for a governmental campus location within the historical district in downtown Dover.

Principal Patty Chen was selected as the first featured architect on Pittsburgh Corning's newly launched website: Pittsburgh Corning. On “Possibilities: A Blog of Architectural Ideas,” Chen wrote : “Faced with global warming, there is no doubt that the architecture and construction industry needs to find effective responses that deal with climate change. The challenge lies in separating en vogue measures from far-reaching, long-lasting solutions that transform industry standards.” Check it out, add a comment, send it to your friends. Sustainability's Zone Diet

April 2008

Brad Lukanic was a panelist at this year's Coverings conferancein Orlando, Florida. Speaking on trends in the use of stone, Brad focused on its application in facilities for higher education.

More than 200 faculty, staff, students, donors, and community members attended Shepherd University's Center for Contemporary Arts(Phase I) dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony on April 17. The Center contains visual arts studios as well as offices for faculty in the Department of Contemporary Art and Theater and for the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF). According to Ed Herendeen, founding and producing Director of the CATF, and professor of theater at Shepherd University, “Holzman Moss Architecture’s design brilliantly articulates the University’s critical role as a nexus for new ideas. Their plan immediately addressed and realized our goals to foster open exchanges and meaningful dialogues between artists, students, faculty, and visiting playwrights that will inspire the development, production, and presentation of new works of art.”

March 2008

The George A. Purefoy Government Center, Frisco, TX has won two Coverings™ 2008 Prism Awards: an Award of Merit and a special Green Award (the only project to win two awards)! The Prism award celebrates and honors creativity and achievement in the use of natural stone in architecture. The building was also honored with the Tucker Design Award, by which the Building Stone Institute recognizes excellence and innovation in the use of natural stone.

Writer and researcher, Dr. Glen Holt, in his article “ImaginOn, The First 21st Century Public Library in the US” concludes that ImaginOn is different from other libraries of its era; it is “frankly and openly about creating a great customer experience, not book storage or erecting a community icon, with customer service as an afterthought.” Holt writes that “Along with functioning well, this structure is imaginative, intuitive and adaptable.” The article is being published in Public Library Quarterly.

On another ImaginOn note, we congratulate Alan Poindexter for winning Creative Loafing’s Director of the Year award. CL gives him praise for “how ImaginOn is becoming a more proactive player” under his leadership, noting “Little Wachovia Playhouse hosted regional auditions under the auspices of MTA, and the big McColl Family Theatre hosted portions of the annual gathering of America's community theaters, AACTFest 2007. Thanks in large part to the ImaginOn he helped to shape, Charlotte was more ready for its close-up when the nation's grassroots companies came calling.”

From March 6th through March 9th, Middlebury College hosted a celebration of the 15-year anniversary and rededication of the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts. The four-day event included lectures, exhibitions, performances, films, and a symposium. “Since 1992, the Center for the Arts has enriched the life of the college and its community as a focus and catalyst for thriving programs in the visual and performing arts,” said Middlebury College Director of the Arts, Glenn Andres.


On March 7th, Malcolm Holzman presented “The Three Sides of Building a New Theatre” at the Southeastern Theatre Conference in Chattanooga, TN, together with Steve Zapytowski and Michael Bruder of Kent State University. The School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State is breaking ground on extensive renovations and additions that will transform their building into The Roe Green Center. While there may be two sides to every story, in this case there are three; the School’s, the University Architect’s, and the Architect’s.

In attendance at this year’s Association of College Unions International conference in New Orleans, LA, were Patty Chen and Bradley Lukanic. Both contributed some muscle and skill as volunteers for New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity in the construction of a new home. Brad Lukanic also participated in “10 Steps for Getting Renovations, Additions, or Expansions on the Right Track,” with Mitch Kilcrease, Director of the Oklahoma State University Student Union, and Bart Hall of Brailsford & Dunlavey. The educational session outlined a 10-part process to consider when starting a capital project, including solutions to such challenges as lack of student awareness for the need of a new/improved union and senior administrators not wanting to increase student fees.


















Doug Moss presented at the USITT Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Houston, TX

February 2008


Holzman Moss Architecture has expanded rapidly in since opening in 2004. In recognition of the contributions of key members of the firm, new positions of Principal and Controller have been created. Please join us in congratulating Steve Benesh, Patty Chen, Eddie Kung, Bradley Lukanic and Debbi Waters as our new Principals and Connie Tannazzo as our new Controller.

Nestor Bottino joins Holzman Moss Architecture. Having worked with our key staff for 17 years at Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, we are delighted to now welcome him as our exclusive consultant. Nestor will carry forward the tradition of work embodied in Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi Performing Arts Center, TX; the George A. Purefoy Government Center, Frisco, TX; and United States Military Academy at West Point, Jefferson Hall Library and Learning Center, West Point, NY.

After 3 years, 2 months and 9 days of design and construction, the faculty and students at Shepherd University have moved into their new Center for Contemporary Arts, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The building is Phase One of a complex that encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and houses spaces for a variety of artistic endeavors. Dow Benedict, Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, made our day when writing “how much we LOVE the new building now that we are in it and using it. It is everything we had hoped for and, if possible, even more.”




For no special reason at all, Holzman Moss Architecture staff and guests went for a bowling night-out at Leisure Time Bowl. There were many strikes, some misses, and a dramatic fall, but overall, fun was had by all.





January 2008

Malcolm Holzman and Andy Landsman’s loft apartment was featured in the UK’s January edition of Elle decoration, “Wonder Walls.” Writer Kate Jacobs refers to the loft’s design as “bonkers!” That is in “a joyous, low-tech, DIY way.” Read more to find out why…

ELLE decor

Holzman Moss Architecture unveiled a conical tower design for the University of Southern Indiana’s University Center Expansion project. The addition integrates the stone entryway from the old Orr Iron Co. building, in honor of former Indiana Governor and Evansville businessman, Robert D. Orr. In a January 11, 2008 article the Courier & Press allowed readers to vote on online as to whether they “like it”, “hate it” or rate it just “OK.” Readers like it!

Steve Benesh attended the International Society for the Performing Arts Foundation’s 60th International Congress in New York City. The Congress featured “lively debates on the psychology of audiences to the imagining of new models/forms of presenting the performing arts.”

Margaret Sullivan attended the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting held in Philadelphia, PA. Margaret is serving as the Chair for the Interiors Discussion Group from 2008-2010.

December 2007

On December 4th, the Greater Dallas Planning Council > Read More honored the City of Plano and the Plano Independent School District for the Plano Courtyard Theater and the Cox School Building as a recipient of their 2007 Urban Design Awards under the "Built" Category. In the past year, the Courtyard Theater has been the site of 149 public events, ranging from drama to concerts in a variety of musical styles.

No year would be complete without our annual Holzman Moss Architecture holiday party. The entire staff and their guests enjoyed an evening of live jazz at Harlem's legendary Lenox Lounge. Jazz great Wycliffe Gordon and his band gave us a spectacular performance in the art-deco zebra room and an extraordinary night to remember.

November 2007

Work began on the new Institute for Global Culture, Economics and Understanding at Park University in Parkville, Missouri. Programming for the facility includes a 500-seat concert hall / international conference center; a 100-seat recital / lecture hall; a 150-seat black box theater; a gallery, classrooms, administrative offices and public spaces that welcome both its Kansas City regional community and members of the University. The building is to be a flagship, campus icon and an international destination.

October 2007

Several staff members including partner Douglas Moss, AIA, LEED AP, Lyna Vuong, Cale Sadowski, Kevin Morin, and Matthew Lewis took part as volunteers in New York’s fifth annual Open House New York, which celebrates architecture and design throughout all five boroughs. Margaret Sullivan, LEED AP, serves on OHNY’s Board of Directors. Find out more about this yearly anticipated event at www.ohny.org.
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Holzman Moss Architecture was selected as architect of the new Arts Complex at New Mexico State University. It is anticipated that the facility for music, theater, dance and visual arts will be constructed in three phases. The Complex will address core academic needs, as well as provide needed economic support for an improved town-and-gown seam connecting the campus and its host community of Las Cruces and southern New Mexico

Women's eNews selected Holzman Moss Architecture to design its new lower Manhattan office space. Our charge is to create an innovative plan and design that advances the practice of sustainable and civic design while showcasing the work and contributions of women. Women's eNews covers issues of particular concern to women and provides their perspectives on public policy. The new office environment will provide space for women from around the globe to gain employment, economic and social opportunities.

September 2007

Holzman Moss Architecture is starting work on the new Performance Hall – Crocus International – Expo 3, in Moscow. This 6,000-seat auditorium, the largest in Moscow, is being constructed adjacent to the soon to open convention center. The auditorium will support convention center activities, as well as accommodate touring shows and special events of all kind. The performance hall includes a fully-rigged stage, an orchestra pit and lift, and technology for broadcast capabilities.

August 2007

Holzman Moss Architecture was selected to program and design the new Fine Arts Academic and Performance Complex at the University of Texas – Pan American, in Edinburg. The anticipated 105,000-gross-square-foot facility will provide space for academic studies in the fine arts, for performing arts and other University events, and for and planned community activities. Among the goals for the project is to create a premiere building in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

August 2007 marks our three-year anniversary. Since opening, we have tripled our staff size, to 32 professionals, and have expanded our office twice. Our work continues to focus on projects that welcome public use as well as take us to every corner of the country.

Holzman Moss Architecture has expanded our office space to accommodate more staff, an additional model building studio and materials research library. The design character of the existing office was brought forward, as well as the continuity of sustainable design features. Among the green design elements are the use of discontinued overstock carpet with a recycled content backing system; low VOC paint and adhesives; Zody, the first task chair certified as a Cradle to Cradle™ Gold product and designed to maximize human and ecological health; shelving made of ‘Dakota Burl’, a unique composite material manufactured from a rapidly renewable agricultural fiber product with no VOCs; recycled shelving; reuse of electrical and plumbing fixtures from the prior tenant; and natural light and outdoor views from all desk and conference areas.

New York Construction News featured Jefferson Hall Library and Learning Center at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, in “Operation Build-Out.” The campus has historic buildings by Bertram Goodhue and Paul Cret among others, and there is a responsibility and challenge to provide new structures that equal the high standards established by them.
Jefferson Hall Library and Learning Center, now under construction, celebrates the charge to provide a building of quality and character that is perceived as a progression of past success and also leads to future opportunities.

NY Constuction News

July 2007

Eddie Kung, LEED AP, Brad Lukanic, AIA, LEED AP, and Debbi Waters attended this year’s Society of College and University Planning conference “Shaping the Academic Landscape: Integrated Solutions” in Chicago, IL. In addition to having the opportunity to showcase our work from our booth, Brad presented a standing room only panel on “Libraries and Student Centers: Blurring the Boundaries,” with Barney Forsythe, Senior Vice President & Dean/Faculty, Westminster College. Debbi served as SCUP Reviewer for Proposals, a role she will continue to serve in 2008.

Texas Architect magazine featured Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Performing Arts Center in its July portfolio section. “Taking advantage of the project’s scenic location along Corpus Christi Bay, Holzman Moss Architecture of New York City, the design architect for the team, designed the Performing Arts Center at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi to offer stunning views as well as first-rate acoustics. Completed in 2005, the $14 million concert hall seats 1500 on three levels for a variety of student and professional productions.”

Texas Architect

June 2007

Margaret Sullivan, LEED AP, chaired a pre-conference for the American Library Association’s 2007 Annual conference. At “Building Blocks: Touring a Block at a Time” Margaret led 100 librarians and architects on a walking tour of some of the most interesting public, academic and specialty libraries in the District of Columbia, including the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art Library.

May 2007

Holzman Moss Architecture has been selected to design the Renovation and Expansion to the University Center at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. This project includes the adaptive reuse of a former library building, which connects to the existing University Center, to create an expanded complex for student activities and organizations, the bookstore, food service, and conference and meeting space.



Stone World magazine features an article on the new George Purefoy Municipal Center in Frisco, Texas, entitled, “Reflecting Texas Pride.” This new municipal complex, which includes a City Hall and Library, incorporates “local materials inside and out, including a combination of Texas granite and limestone, which was utilized for a range of innovative applications.”

Building Stone Magazine also features the new George Purefoy Municipal Center in its article on “Green Naturally.” “The structure carries Silver LEED certification, due in large part to the fact that it is built from regional and remnant stone materials… Holzman used "deconstructed" granite — or granite that is taken from one project and then reused on another. The use of deconstructed stone also made sense economically.”

On May 18th, Holzman Moss Architecture took a field trip! We visited the Jefferson Hall Library and Learning Center at United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, which is currently under construction and the Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts at Ramapo College, which we completed a few years back. While at Ramapo, we toured the site of the new Spiritual Center Holzman Moss designed, which is anticipated to break ground this summer. Other highlights of our trip included a visit to Dia:Beacon, a museum housing major works of art from the 1960s to the present, and exotic cuisine at Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant in Newburgh, NY. Stay tuned for the Field Trip Travel Journal online this summer.

Doug Moss contributed to May 2007’s edition of College Planning & Management. In “Partnerships in Creating Performing Arts Centers” Moss explores the process of establishing partnerships as an effective means to secure financial resources and realized a shared vision for success.



ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center continues to win awards! In the past six months, the project has been the recipient of the prestigious 2007 AIA Charlotte Honor Award for Design, the 2007 Carole Hoefener Carriker Honor Award for Sustainable Design, and the 2007 American Council of Engineering Companies: Honor Award.

April 2007

Partner, Douglas Moss, AIA, LEED®AP, lectured at the College of Architecture at the University of Kansas. Moss discussed the firm’s work and presented case studies of Holzman Moss Architecture projects. He also spoke about the where the practice of architecture is heading and how students can shape its future.

Holzman Moss Architecture attended the Association of College Unions International conference in Atlanta, GA. Among the many highlights of exhibiting, attending education sessions and participating is special events, we were honored to receive the prestigious 2007 Facility Design Award for the Texas Tech University, Student Union Building in Lubbock. “I was thrilled that Holzman Moss and the Texas Tech Student Union project were honored with the Facility Design Award,” said Matt Ducatt, union director. “Not only is the building aesthetically beautiful, but also its functionality serves the students and the campus community extremely well. It is a union director’s dream!”

2007 Facility Design Award

The Project for Public Spaces included ImaginOn in its feature on “Libraries That Matter.
Reaching beyond the buzz of high design, libraries are redefining themselves as community centers for the 21st Century.” The article reflects on “the critical role that civic partnerships can play in expanding the impact of a community institution,” noting that “ImaginOn
emerged from the cooperative efforts of the Children's Theater of Charlotte and the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.”

Project for Public Spaces

March 2007

Holzman Moss Architecture was selected to design the new Francis Marion University Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Florence, SC. Funded in part by a grant from the Drs. Bruce & Lee Foundation and a multi-partnership agreement between FMU and the City of Florence, the Performing Arts center will contribute to the transformation of downtown Florence into the cultural and economic center of the entire Pee Dee region.

Partner, Douglas Moss, AIA, LEED®AP presented the work of Holzman Moss Architecture to the School of Architecture at Oklahoma State University. Doug has been working with the University over the past seven months on a Student Union Master Plan.

This is a good time to catch up on your reading about stone. Contemporary Stone & Tile Design’s Spring 2007 issue features a roundtable interview with Holzman Moss designers’ Malcolm Holzman, FAIA, Brad Lukanic, LEED®AP, Steve Benesh, and Eddie Kung, LEED®AP. The article includes insightful questions, such as “Have you often run into owners, who philosophically don’t like the idea of using “scrap” as stone?”
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Malcolm Holzman, FAIA, with his former partners at Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, was awarded the first ever USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) Distinguished Achievement Award conferred on a theater architect. The award recognizes achievement by designers and technicians with established careers.

February 2007


This month’s cover story of Stone Business “Remnants No More” illustrates three Holzman Moss Architecture projects: the George A. Purefoy Municipal Center, Frisco, TX; Middlebury College Center for the Arts, Middlebury, VT; and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX as examples of our innovative use of remnants as viable building material.

Holzman Moss was selected to conduct a feasibility study, which analyzes the conditions and functions of nine branch libraries of the St. Paul Public Library System in Minnesota. The study further evaluates opportunities to define and achieve a Strategic Vision for the entire library system. Two primary objectives of this Vision are to (1) provide an active experience within each library that becomes a destination feature, and (2) respond to the character of each branch's community.



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November 2006





City of Wylie Library,City Hall, and Recreation Center




Cedar Hill Government Center



October 2006

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September 2006


Texas Tech University Student Union
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George A. Purefoy Municipal Center



The Sharp House


August 2006


Oklahoma State University Student Union

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The Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts
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July 2006


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June 2006


Community Performing Arts Center at George Mason University Groundbreaking


Kansas City Municipal Auditorium Music Hall


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Delaware State University





April 2006


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March 2006


Association of College Unions International Conference




Performing Arts Center at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi


ImaginOn


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The Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts



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