News / Awards / Exhibitions
2021 UTA Research Enhancement Proposal Grant, "Passive House Advocacy and Implementation in Hot and Humid Climates," Principal Investigator. Passive House design is emerging in Texas and the southern US despite the challenges of our hot and humid climate. This research will expand upon and serve as a stimulus supporting this larger effort, cataloging, detailing and comparing the paths and opportunities to achieve high-performance building.
2021 PHIUS webinar presentation "Passive House Design Build for Architecture Students."
2020 Dezeen's Top 10 Student and Graduate Projects, PH01:BRK / Passive House Brookings Recognizing the graduate design-build project PH01:BRK as part of its annual review of international student work.
2020 CAPPA Individual Faculty Research Grant, "Design-Build Monitoring & Post-Occupancy Analysis: Improving Housing Practices through Continuing Research," Principal Investigator: Funding for post-occupancy monitoring of CAPPA design-build projects, conference, travel, and dissemination.
2020 PHIUS Educators Hootenanny, "Why We Do What We Do," Co-organizer and moderator with Mary Rogero. The Annual PHIUS Conference, reformatted and online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was realized as a week-long series of "hootenannys" following a conference tradition. The Tuesday Educators Hootenanny was co-organized as a Zoom panelist roundtable and Q&A.
2019 AIA Honor Award, South Dakota chapter PH01:BRK/Passive House Brookings AIA SD chapter honor award for PH01:BRK/Passive House Brookings: a “case study house for the 21st century,” meeting Passive House (PHIUS) certification and reaching energy net-zero. Completed with Robert Arlt and students at SDSU DoArch as part of a grant from the South Dakota GOED.
2019 AIA President’s Award, South Dakota chapter DoArch Passive House Studio AIA SD chapter President’s Award for “putting theory into practice and teaching all of us how we can build better for our environment.”
2019 Outstanding Researcher, Scholar, Performer, or Artist SDSU College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. Professor MacBride led the team that designed the Brookings Passive House, showcasing principles of passive house design, maximizing energy efficiency and sustainability. The house has spurred collaborative research efforts across the university and brought national attention to SDSU. His work addresses a vital need for the Brookings community and the state of South Dakota, advancing the Department of Architecture’s mission to combine research with locally-relevant practice.
2018 Orange Driver 2 Workshop Co-designed and Led with Donald Kunze, Professor of Architecture and Integrative Arts, Emeritus, Penn State University. A student installation for projecting and manipulating images, following the theories of the “sagittal plane” and its narrative/filmic presence.
2018 Brookings Mayor’s Sustainability Award The Brookings Mayor’s Sustainability Award: Sustainability Leadership / Innovative Best Practices was presented for PH01:BRK, recognizing excellence in sustainable practices while promoting a culture of resiliency.
2018 South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) Future Funds Sub-Grant, "Integrating Solar PV with the SDSU DoArch Passive House: A Proposal for Collaborative Research and Monitoring," Principal Investigator, with co-investigators Robert Arlt, Reinaldo Tonkoski, and Timothy Hansen.
2018 PH01:BRK Sioux Falls Design Center Exhibition of the student designed PH01:BRK passive house. Installation included presentation boards, construction photos, and full size wall assembly mockups. Organized with Robert Arlt.
2017 Faculty Award of Excellence SDSU Department of Architecture
2016 AIA Merit Award, South Dakota chapter Wrigley Square, Mobridge AIA SD chapter merit award presented to DoArch Public Works for the design and installation of Wrigley Square. Completed with Brian Rex, DoArch faculty and students, and taught across a range of studio and design build classes.
2016 South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) Future Funds Grant, "The South Dakota Passive House/Housing Initiative," Principal Investigator. Additional funding and project expansion approved fall 2018. Integrated research and curriculum proposal featuring hands-on design, construction, evaluation and scholarship of passive houses for South Dakota using relevant principles and technologies.
2016 Outfitting: DoArch entry screen Design, fabrication and installation of an interlocking geometry of bent acrylic pieces creating a screen at the DoArch entry. Directed student work.
2015 “Public Works: Small Urbanism in Vast Places” DoArch / AME Gallery Speculation on the future of small cities in the northern plains, through mapping, architectural documentation, and built examples.
2013 AIA Merit Award, South Dakota chapter Mobridge Riverfront Masterplan Concept masterplan, including full urban, programmatic, and infrastructural analysis, and proposals combining "smart growth" and "big ideas.” AIA SD Jury comments: "The number of unexecuted and unrealized urban master plans could be stacked from the floor to ceiling of this space, mostly because they tend to be proscriptive rather than visionary. The Mobridge Plan avoids this. Instead it lays out eight grand projects that can be undertaken individually, over time, [and] the success of the master plan does not rely on every piece of the puzzle being put into place."
2012 “Re:Seed House” SDSU Ritz Gallery Proposals for a New SDSU Visual Arts Facility. Directed charette, faculty, and student work.
2011 “Threshold” temporary outdoor alterations A one-day installation and charette of temporary thresholds and impediments, using modular wood sandboxes.
2010 “Drawings: Work by Architecture Faculty” UCD Gallery Designer, curator and exhibitor of faculty work at the University of Colorado at Denver.
2008 Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Colorado Denver, non-tenure track
Media
"PH01:BRK," ARCHITECT, October 2020.
"Architecture Students Complete Passivhaus in South Dakota," Dezeen.com, April 2020.
"The South Dakota Initiatives: A Conversation with Dennis Daugaard," Passive House Accelerator, February 2020.
"2019 AIA SD Honor Award: Passive House, SDSU DoArch'," AIA South Dakota, November 2019.
"Passive house unleashes creativity, innovation," Brookings Register, October 2018.
"Are Passive Houses Part of the Conversation?" Blueprint South Dakota, October 2018.
“First ‘Passive Home’ In Brookings Opens Its Doors,” KDLT News, October 2018.
“SDSU passive house under construction,” Brookings Register, December 2017.
"Design and the Future of Small Cities: A Case Study in Progress," Architecture SD: Regeneration, 2012.
“SD town tapping architecture students for ideas,” Associated Press, December 2011.