The Grocery won a 2019 AIA Central States Merit Award in the Unbuilt Category. The award was announced in St. Louis on October 11, 2019. tHe Grocery is a project of FACT & Actual Architecture Co. for the Sandhills Institute to convert a mid-century era grocery store to support temporary exhibitions, public meetings, lectures, casual … Continued
On June 7, 2019 Jeff was invested as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) at the convention in Las Vegas. The AIA elevated 115 member-architects to its prestigious College of Fellows, an honor awarded to members who have made significant contributions to the architecture profession. The fellowship program was developed to elevate … Continued
Nebraska Today has profiled FACT’s on going project with the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts to create facilities for the new Sound Art and Experimental Music Program. Follow this link to the story and video.
The Grocery, a collaboration with Actual Architecture Co., is winner of a 2019 Progressive Architecture Citation Award from Architect Magazine, and the cover feature. This is the first P/A Award for FACT and Actual Architecture Co., and the first major award for The Grocery. The project was one of 10 selected from over 200 submissions. … Continued
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, a long-time FACT partner has publicly announced a Mellon Foundation grant to support our current on-going project, the Sound Art and Experimental Music Residency Program. FACT is working artist & carpenter Sean Ward, musicians, sound engineers, mechanical experts, and the Bemis staff to design and realize a performance venue, … Continued
Communication Arts magazine featured www.factlab.org as one of it’s webpicks, see the feature here. The new website is based on the original www.actual.ac web template created by South Bend Design and modified by Justin Kemerling Design. The FACT website has a long scrolling homepage, designed by Kemerling, that shows off its less formal nature with project … Continued
As part of its ongoing feature series “Small Studio Snapshot” the popular architecture website Archinect has published an interview with Jeffrey L. Day and a profile on Actual Architecture Co. The story highlights the connection between Actual and FACT. Check out the story here…
Bemis Gardens (2011) has been recognized with a ACSA 2016 Collaborative Practice Award. The Collaborative Practice Award honors the best practices in school-based community outreach programs. See the Bemis Gardens project page for details.
FACT, working with Min | Day, won an AIA Small Project Award for the Bemis InfoShop in the “small project construction, object, work of environmental art or architectural design element up to $150,000” category. The award was presented during the AIA National Convention in Denver in June 2013. Jury comments: “This is such a remarkable process! … Continued
Led by Professor Jeffrey L. Day at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, FACT is a winner of the the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Design-Build Award in 2013, the first year it was given. Entitled “Design Fabricate”, FACT’s entry chronicled the approach of FACT through selected projects covering the history of the program to date. … Continued