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Barry Johns was elected to Council of the Alberta Association of Architects in 2020. In recognition of his 4 ½ year tenure as Director of Practice, he was awarded the Tom Sutherland Leadership Award for advancing the profession and demonstrating extraordinary service to the community. This prestigious award follows the Leslie N. Boney Spirit of Fellowship Award given to Barry Johns (Hon)FAIA in 2018 by the American Institute of Architects. Barry is the first international recipient of this honour, given by the College of Fellows to signify extraordinary leadership and service to the profession.

Barry Johns Architecture is listed in this new publication on architects and architecture across Canada, co-published in 2019 by Princeton Architectural Press, New York and Canadian Architect, Toronto and edited by Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey.

This critically acclaimed book offers a 50 year retrospective on works by architects from across the country as seen through essays by distinguished architectural critics. The Foreward is written by Kenneth Frampton.

Barry Johns Architecture Limited has won one of four 2016 Canadian Architect Magazine Design Awards of Excellence for INFILLHAUS, a competition design for an urban prototype infill residence in a mature Edmonton neighborhood, now commissioned for construction by a private client.

Given each year to architects and architectural graduates for buildings in the design stage, 2016 marks the 49th anniversary of the Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence, which have recognized significant building projects in Canada since 1968. Jurors considered the following criteria:

• Physical organization and form, including attention to composition and detail;
• Response to program, site, geographic and/or urban context;
• Innovation in concept, process, materials, building systems and/or implementation;
• Demonstration of exemplary environmental and/or social awareness.

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After 6 years as Chancellor of the College of Fellows for the RAIC, Barry Johns leaves the position having doubled the number of women in the College and having been instrumental in establishing the Moriyama RAIC International Prize (now known as the RAIC International Prize). With a handmade crystal sculpture designed by Wei Yew and a $100,000 Cdn award, the Prize has completed three cycles with entrants from more than 20 countries around the world. In addition during each cycle three scholarships of $5,000 are awarded to students of architecture in Canada based on a written essay. For more see https://internationalprize.raic.org/