10.30.24

DPAW has been included in the inaugural 2025 Forbes list of America’s Top 200 Residential Architects. From the Editor: ‘De Leon & Primmer is unique among firms in calling itself a workshop, underscoring its commitment to research. Founded in 2003 by Roberto de Leon and Ross Primmer, both Harvard grads and regular lecturers around the country, DPAW has garnered several awards, including, most recently, the 2023 Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Their work ranges widely from pavilions to visitors centers, from libraries to arts centers, and from homes to corporate headquarters nationwide. As expansive as that portfolio is, geographically and stylistically, de Leon and Primmer say local context is the real driver of each project.’

04.25.24

DPAW has been selected as a 2024 Architizer A+Firm Awards Special Mention in the Best Small Firm category. The Architizer A+Firm Awards is the largest awards program focused on promoting and celebrating the year’s best architectural practices. The A+Firm Awards is designed to honor firms of every size, across every region of the world.

03.25.24

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at NC State University School of Architecture for the 2024 Harwell Hamilton Harris Endowed Lecture [Raleigh, North Carolina].

03.20.24

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the University of Miami School of Architecture for the 2024 Technoglass Series Honor Lecture [Coral Gables, Florida].

03.01.24

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the 2024 Texas Society of Architects Design Conference held in the Northwest Arkansas region [Bentonville, Arkansas].

02.14.24

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the University of Cincinnati for the SAID Spring 2024 Lecture Series [School of Architecture & Interior Design / College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning in Cincinnati, Ohio].

11.10.23

The Locust Grove Event Pavilion has received a 2023 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The awards program honors new and cutting-edge design in the United States. The project will be featured in upcoming publication GLOBAL DESIGN + URBANISM XXII 'New American Architecture 2023'.

11.03.23

LECTURE/WORKSHOP: Roberto de Leon and M. Ross Primmer at Rural Studio / Auburn University [Morrisette House Great Hall in Newbern, Alabama].

10.26.23

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon and M. Ross Primmer at the 2023 Architectural Record Innovation Conference [New York City at the Museum of Jewish Heritage].

03.01.23

Roberto de Leon and M. Ross Primmer have been selected to receive the 2023 Award In Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

02.21.23

Ross Primmer has been elevated to The College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects. The Jury of Fellows selected Ross for his 'notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architecture'.

11.21.22

DPAW and the Filson Historical Society are featured in Episode 2 of the CBS TV series America ByDesign: Architecture, Season 1. The project has advanced to the Top 10 projects for the series.

11.10.22

Roberto will be a keynote speaker at the 2022 Forum On Architecture + Design, organized by AIA Philadelphia. [Center For Architecture and Design, Philadelphia, PA]

09.23.22 - 09.24.22

Roberto will be speaking at the The Place of Practice / The Practice of Place symposium at the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, an extension of the exhibition ‘A South Forty: Contemporary Architecture and Design in the American South’, which was originally displayed at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy.

09.11.22

The Locust Grove Event Pavilion and Rowan Pump Station Building have each received a 2022 AIA Aspire Award, an awards program that recognizes exceptional projects within the south Atlantic Region.

02.15.22

The Owsley Brown II History Center has been awarded a 2022 AIA National Architecture Award by the American Institute of Architects.

10.26.21

The Rowan Pump Station Building Facade has received the 2021 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The awards program honors new and cutting-edge design in the United States. The project will be featured in upcoming publication GLOBAL DESIGN + URBANISM XIX 'New American Architecture 2021'.

05.22.21 - 11.21.21

DPAW is participating at the 2021 Venice Biennale as part of the installation ‘A South Forty: Contemporary Architecture and Design in the American South’ in the Great Hall at the Palazzo Mora, curated by the Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design and Modus Studio, in partnership with the Oxford American Journal. [Venice, Italy: May 22 - November 21, 2021] www.asouthforty.org

02.26.21

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the Wood And Everything After Symposium, organized by the LU_Lab at the University of Miami School of Architecture [Virtual].

01.18.21

DPAW has been selected as a 2021 Architizer A+Firm Awards Special Mention in the Best Small Firm category. The Architizer A+Firm Awards is the largest awards program focused on promoting and celebrating the year’s best architectural practices. The A+Firm Awards is designed to honor firms of every size, across every region of the world.

02.17.20

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at Ball State University [Muncie, Indiana].

11.11.19

We are honored to be in the 2019 Architect 50: Top 50 Firms In Design by Architect Magazine, ranking #22 nationwide in the Design category!

09.20.19

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the 2019 AIA Western Mountain Region Conference [Jackson Hole, Wyoming].

09.19.19

DPAW has been awarded a 2019 AIA KY Merit Award for the Rogers Historical Museum: The Hailey Building.

08.12.19

The Mary F. Rounsavall Pavilion has received the 2019 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The awards program honors new and cutting-edge design in the United States. The project will be featured in upcoming publication GLOBAL DESIGN + URBANISM XIX 'New American Architecture 2019'.

01.14.19

The Owsley Brown II History Center is featured in Hinge Magazine, Volume 269 [Hong Kong].

12.15.18

The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center is featured in the December 15 issue of Wine Spectator Magazine.

10.18.18

DPAW has received two awards from the AIA KY, including an Honor Award for the Mary F. Rounsavall Pavilion at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens and a Merit Award for the Living Arts & Science Center Expansion and Renovation.

09.11.18

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at The Filson Historical Society.

09.01.18

The Mary F. Rounsavall Pavilion at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens is featured in the September issue of Architect Magazine.

07.30.18

The Owsley Brown II History Center at the Filson Historical Society has been selected as a Jury Winner for the 2018 Architizer A+ Awards in the Higher Education & Research Facilities category.

07.26.18

ArchDaily has selected the Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center and the Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility on its list of the '100 Best Wood Architecture Projects in the US'. Link to article here.

07.10.18

The Owsley Brown II History Center at the Filson Historical Society has been selected as a finalist for the 2018 Architizer A+ Awards.

05.04.18

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the Saskatchewan Association of Architects 2018 SAA Conference [Saskatchewan, Canada].

01.01.18

The Owsley Brown II History Center at the Filson Historical Society Campus is featured in the January 2018 issue of  Architectural Record Magazine.

10.26.17

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the 2017 ARQfestival [Guadalajara, Mexico].

10.24.17

The Knoxville Botanical Garden & Arboretum Visitor Pavilion is featured in issue #82 of AV Proyectos [Spain].

09.27.17

DPAW has been awarded a 2017 AIA KY Honor Award for the Owsley Brown II History Center at the Filson Historical Society Campus.

09.08.17

The Owsley Brown II History Center at the Filson Historical Society Campus has been shortlisted for the 2017 Blueprint Awards from a pool of international projects.

06.02.17

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the 2017 AIA Colorado Symposium [Denver, Colorado].

03.28.17

The Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility is featured in the new Phaidon book 'Wood', an international compendium of exemplary wood structures.

03.17.17

The Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility is featured in issue #53 of Zawód:Architekt Magazine [Poland].

03.13.17

The Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility is featured in Architectural Digest's list of 'The World's 10 Most Incredible Buildings Made Entirely of Wood'.

01.01.17

The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center has received an Honor Award for the 2016 Wood Design Awards. The project is featured on the cover of the Winter 2016-2017 Wood Design & Building Magazine.

11.29.16

The Knoxville Botanical Garden & Arboretum Visitor Pavilion has been longlisted for the 2016 WAN (World Architecture News) Adaptive Reuse Awards.

11.18.16

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at 2016 AIA/IIDA Cleveland Design Awards [Cleveland, Ohio].

10.18.16

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at The Modern / The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth [Fort Worth, Texas].

10.05.16

The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center has been awarded the title of Bronze in the first annual 2016 Edition of the American Architecture Prize.

09.19.16

The Knoxville Botanical Garden & Arboretum Visitor Pavilion has been selected as a Finalist for the 2016 Blueprint Awards from a pool of international projects.

09.19.16

DPAW has been awarded a 2016 AIA KY Honor Award for the Knoxville Botanical Garden & Arboretum Visitor Pavilion.

06.06.16

The Knoxville Botanical Garden & Arboretum Visitor Pavilion has received the 2016 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The awards program honors new and cutting-edge design in the United States. The project will be featured in a December 2016 exhibit 'New American Architecture' at the Contemporary Space in Athens, Greece, as well as a January 2017 exhibit in Istanbul, Turkey.

06.06.16

The Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility is selected for the ArchDaily 'Top 100', highlighting the top 100 most important works of architecture in the United States.

05.26.16

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the AIA Redwood Empire 2016 NXNC Lecture Series [Santa Rosa, California].

03.22.16

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the Hite Institute for the 2016 Frederic Lindley Morgan Lecture [Louisville, Kentucky].

03.04.16

The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center has been nominated for the 2014/2015 Mies Crown Americas Prize [MCHAP], established by The College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology to 'recognize the most distinguished architectural works built on the North and South American continents'. An accompanying exhibit will be held at S. R. Crown Hall during March.

01.29.16

Roberto de Leon has been elevated to The College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects. The Jury of Fellows selected Roberto for his 'notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architecture'.

01.14.16

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the AIA Indianapolis Lecture Series [Indianapolis, Indiana].

12.18.15

DPAW has been selected to design the Rogers Historical Museum Campus Expansion in Rogers, Arkansas, in association with the 2015 Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program sponsored by the Walton Family Foundation.

11.20.15

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the AIA Omaha Annual Meeting & Lecture [Omaha, Nebraska].

11.12.15

DPAW has been selected to design the renovation/expansion of the University of Kentucky Arboretum Visitor Center.

10.29.15

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the AIA San Antonio Design Awards Juror Lecture [San Antonio, Texas].

10.20.15

DPAW featured in the October issue of Casabella Magazine [Italy]; 'De Leon & Primmer, Wild Turkey Visitor Center - The America's Native Spirit' by Matteo Vercelloni.

10.17.15

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the AIA Colorado Western Mountain Region Practice + Design Conference [Keystone, Colorado].

10.07.15

DPAW has been selected for the 2015 Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program.  Sponsored by the Walton Family Foundation, the program promotes the highest level of design in the development of future public buildings and spaces in Arkansas’ Benton and Washington counties. The program is intended to elevate the quality of architectural and landscape design in the Northwest Arkansas region.

10.01.15

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at Syracuse University School of Architecture [Syracuse, New York].

09.03.15

Roberto de Leon will be a Visiting Critic at Syracuse University School of Architecture for the 2015 Fall Season.

08.17.15

DPAW was nominated for the 2015 Marcus Prize, an architectural prize offered worldwide to recognize architects ‘on a trajectory to greatness', supported by the Marcus Corporation Foundation.

07.01.15

DPAW featured in the June/July issue of Cultured Magazine; 'Locally Sourced' by David Sokol.

06.30.15

DPAW featured in new book by the Architectural League of New York: '30 YEARS OF EMERGING VOICES: IDEA, FORM, RESONANCE' (Princeton Architectural Press). The new publication 'chronicles the program’s long history of presciently identifying and encouraging the most promising and exciting young practices in North America'.

05.01.15

The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center is featured in Issue No. 2/2015 of Tra! Magazine [Sweden].

05.14.15

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the 2015 AIA National Convention Atlanta. 'Regionalism In A Global Environment' session speaker with Marlon Blackwell, Andrew Freear, and Frank Harmon.

05.14.15

DPAW projects featured in new Phaidon monograph 'ARCHITIZER A+ AWARDS 2015', celebrating the 100 2015 Architizer A+Award winners as chosen by an international jury of 300 experts, including the Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center and the Guthrie Transportation Museum & Welcome Center.

05.11.15

The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center is featured in the May issue of Architect Magazine: ‘2015 AIA Honor Awards’.

04.14.15

With entries from over 100 countries, DPAW has received three awards from the 2015 ARCHITIZER A+ AWARDS program, including The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center in both the 'Jury Winner' & 'Popular Choice Winner' categories, and the Guthrie Transportation Museum & Welcome Center  in the 'Jury Winner' category.

01.06.15

The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center has been awarded a 2015 AIA National Honor Award by the American Institute of Architects.

12.01.14

The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center has been selected by Architect Magazine for the 2014 Annual Design Review, which showcases the best American architecture of the year.

10.02.14

DPAW has received two awards from the AIA KY, including an Honor Award for the Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center and a Merit Award for the Guthrie Transportation Museum & Welcome Center.

09.02.14

LECTURE: DPAW at the Kent State College of Architecture & Environmental Design [Toguchi Lecture].

06.01.14

The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center is featured in the June issue of Architectural Record Magazine.

06.01.14

The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center has received the 2014 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The awards program honors new and cutting-edge design in the United States. The project will be featured in the 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial, the Contemporary Space Athens, a travelling exhibit throughout Europe, and the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

06.01.14

The Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center has been selected for a 2014 HD Award for design excellence by Hospitality Design Magazine, chosen from a pool of over 400 international project entries. The project is featured in the June 2014 issue.

02.28.14

LECTURE: DPAW at the University of Cincinnati in association with the DAAP SAID Lecture Series.

01.01.14

D&PAW is featured in the monograph 'RETHINKING BAMBOO: Aspects of Contemporary Design' [China].

10.11.13

LECTURE: DPAW at the 2013 AIA Arkansas State Convention.

09.23.13

LECTURE/EXHIBIT: DPAW at the University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Architecture and Design, in association with the Church Memorial Lecture Series (9/23/13), and at the AIA East TN Chapter Luncheon (9/24/13).

09.20.13

DPAW has been awarded the 2013 Distinguished Firm Award from the AIA KY.

09.19.13

DPAW has been awarded two 2013 AIA KY Awards for the Rickhouse Speakeasy and Red Room projects.

04.11.13

LECTURE: DPAW at the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture, in association with the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture.

04.05.13

LECTURE: DPAW at the Shaw Center For The Arts in Baton Rouge, LA in association with the 2013 Celebrate! Architecture symposium.

01.11.13

The Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility has been awarded a 2013 AIA National Honor Award by the American Institute of Architects.

12.01.12

The Stout Little House project is featured in the monograph 'HOUSE' by Dianne Keaton, published by Rizzoli.

10.10.12

Roberto de Leon panelist at MICD: Mayors' Institute on City Design / East in Lexington, Kentucky.

09.01.12

The Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility has been awarded the 2012 American Architecture Award by the Chicago Athenaeum: Musuem of Architecture & Design, and the European Center for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies. The project will be exhibited at the Istanbul Biennial in October 2012 and is featured in a new monograph in conjunction with the award.

08.20.12

D&PAW is featured in the new Princeton Architectural Press monograph 'AsBuilt 3: Details, Technology, and Form'.

08.06.12

The principals & associates of DPAW have been commissioned as Kentucky Colonels by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

07.01.12

The United Mail Corporate Headquarters is featured in the new monograph 'Eco Remodeling Green Architecture' by MONSA publications [Spain].

05.18.12

DPAW has been selected by the Knoxville Botanical Garden & Arboretum for their new master plan and Phase I expansion.

05.15.12

DPAW has been selected by Saint Andrews Episcopal Church to design a new chapel in Glasgow, Kentucky.

03.30.12

LECTURE: Roberto de Leon at the North Carolina Center For Architecture and Design.

03.02.12

LECTURE: DPAW at the Lexington Center in association with the Kentucky Arts Council.

01.01.12

The Everett House project has been selected by the editors of DWELL Magazine as one of eleven international residences for 'Our Favorite Dwellings of 2011'.

12.02.11

The Riverview Park Visitor Service Building has been selected by Architect Magazine for the 2011 Annual Design Review, which showcases the best American architecture of the year. The project received the highest designation of 'Award'.

12.01.11

DPAW has been selected to design a new visitor center for Wild Turkey Bourbon.

11.01.11

DPAW is featured in the November/December 'Renegade Architecture' issue of Design Bureau magazine.

10.01.11

DPAW is featured in the new monograph Ultra Low Tech Architecture by MONSA publications [Spain].

10.01.11

The Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility is featured in Construire Magazine [Italy].

10.01.11

The Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility is featured in Arquitectura Viva Magazine, Vol. 137, [Spain].

10.01.11

The Everett House project is featured in DWELL Magazine.

09.30.11

LECTURE: DPAW at the 2011 AIA Iowa Convention.