James Mayeux, AIA

PROJECTSRESUME

James Mayeux is an architect whose design practice includes planning and landscape, with a focus on low-environmental-impact projects on sensitive sites.  He studied architecture at the University of Texas at Austin and practiced architecture and building in Texas from 1972 to 1990, then in Mexico from 1990 to 1998. He studied landscape architecture at the Harvard Design School and practiced planning and landscape architecture with Sasaki Associates from 1999 to 2002. His teaching experience includes advanced architectural design studios at I.T.E.S.M. from 1991 to 1998. His projects, articles, and reviews have been published in Architecture, Texas Architect, Cite 52, Enlace, Urbis, and Land Forum, among others. His work includes projects as diverse as design guidelines for an historical/ecological village restoration in Saudi Arabia, a high-altitude resort of passive solar cabins in the Sierra Madre Oriental in México, environmental studies for a Resort on the Red Sea, a private estate on an organic coffee plantation in Costa Rica, and an ecological village in China.

He practices architecture, landscape, and planning with his firm, Upland Studio, in Porter Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

GAOQIAN ECOLOGICAL VILLAGEZhejiang Province, China

(with CLM, Zurich and Landscape Alliance, Rotterdam)

103 hectare master plan for an ecological village of 9,000 inhabitants.

ANALYSIS OF INFRASTRUCTURE / TOPOGRAPHY (by CLM)ALTERNATIVE I : HISTORIC TRACE VILLAGE

ALTERNATIVE II : LANDSCAPE VILLAGE

Architecture | Landscape | Planning

Alternative I: Driven by existing human settlements

Alternative II: Driven by topography of mountains, canals, and rivers

LAS CATALINASSan José, Costa Rica

6 hectare estate plan for two houses at the edge of the rain forest.

PANORAMAANALYSIS OF SLOPES AND SITE CONDITIONS

SITE SECTIONSSITE PLAN

Architecture | Landscape | Planning

CONDOMINIUMSMonterrey, México

(with Harari A+P & Carlos Miranda)

Site and building design proposals for condominiums on a steep 6 hectare site.

CLIMATE / ENERGY ANALYSIS (by Carlos Miranda)PROPOSAL WITH INTERCHANGEABLE UNITS

SITE

Architecture | Landscape | Planning

MARCOS RESIDENCEMonterrey, México

(Rangel Mayeux Arquitectos)

250 square meter mountainside tree house.

MODEL, PLAN, AND SECTIONBUILDING IN CONTEXT

Architecture | Landscape | Planning

BARRAGAN RESIDENCEMonterrey, México

(ongoing, originally with Rangel Mayeux Arquitectos)

800 square meter passive-solar house on a steep hillside.

PHOTOGRAPH FROM LOWER STREET SOUTH ELEVATION

PLANSCONSTRUCTION AND PATHS

Architecture | Landscape | Planning

James Mayeux, AIARESUME

EDUCATION>Master in Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2000>Bachelor of Architecture University of Texas at Austin, 1972 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE>Principal, Upland Studio (formerly Mayeux Associates) Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 2002>Architect/Landscape Architect, Sasaki Associates Watertown, Massachusetts, 2000-2002>Principal, Rangel Mayeux Arquitectos Monterrey, México, 1990-2000>Profesor de Cátedra, Departamento de Arquitectura, I.T.E.S.M. Monterrey, México, 1991-1998>Principal, James Mayeux, Architect, AIA Austin, Texas, 1980-1990>Associate, Holt+Fatter+Scott, Inc. Austin, Texas, 1977-1980>Apprentice Architect/Specifications Writer, Atkinson & Atkinson Architects Lubbock, Texas, 1976-1977>Apprentice, Robert Losch & Associates Portland, Oregon, 1975-1976>Managing Partner, Howard-Johnson-Mayeux, General Contractors Austin, Texas, 1974-1975>Apprentice Architect/Land Planner, Ford, Powell & Carson, Inc. San Antonio, Texas, 1973

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION / SOCIETIES>Registered Architect, Texas #6494, 1978>Registered Architect, Massachusetts #30007, 2002>NCARB Certification No. 30,237, 1984>American Institute of Architects, Member since 1978 >Boston Society of Architects, Member since 2000>Academia Nacional de Arquitectura de la Sociedad de Arquitectos Mexicanos, A.C., Miembro Capitular, desde 1995>Austin Solar Energy Society, 1977-78, Newsletter Editor

GARCIA RESIDENCE

AWARDS>I.T.E.S.M., Campus Monterrey, Conferencista Distinguido Departamento de Arquitectura, Primavera 1991>Austin Chapter AIA Merit Award for The Whittington, Meis & Narro Offices, December 1988>Austin Chapter AIA Honor Award for The Seton Avenue Apartments, December 1988>Austin Board of Realtors Community Revitalization Award for The Seton Avenue Apartments, December 1987>Broadcast Management & Engineering Magazine Best AM Station Facility Design for KSJL Radio Station, 1985OTHER PROJECT EXPERIENCE>Dirriyyah Historic District Master Plan, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 8 km² Ecological restoration of a wadi and historic district with new urban infrastructure (Sasaki Associates)>Jubail New City, Jubail, Saudi Arabia New residential community for 40,000 inhabitants (Sasaki Associates)>Mayo Clinic Masterplan, Phoenix, Arizona 210 acres Sustainable building and landscape planning and guidelines (Sasaki Associates)>SR Smelter Superfund Land Reuse Project; Dallas, Texas Reuse alternatives study for four Superfund sites in West Dallas (Sasaki Associates)>Puerto Rico Trade & Convention Center District; Puerto Rico District urban and landscape development (Sasaki Associates)>Condominio del Sur, Los Sueños, Costa Rica 6ha master plan and landscape plan for 120 unit condominium project on the Pacific (Mayeux Associates and Rangel Mayeux Arquitectos)

MILMO STUDIO

CONDOMINIO DEL SUR

PUBLIC LECTURES>Mountain Development VII Urban Development Forum, I.T.E.S.M., Monterrey, México, November 2002>Teaching, Building, Thinking Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Latin American Architecture Symposium, November 2000>Projects of Rangel Mayeux Harvard University Graduate School of Design Overview Lecture, March 2000>En el Aire, Where Cultures Collide Rice Design Alliance, February 2000>Obras Recientes Espacio Común, Julio 1998>Monterrey Blanco y Negro Dos escenarios para el futuro, Espacio Común, Septiembre 1996>Desarrollo Regional Academia Nacional de Arquitectura, Agosto 1996> Encuentro con los Arquitectos Obras Recientes de Rangel Mayeux Arquitectos, MARCO, Febrero 1996>Desarrollo Arquitectónico e Impacto Ambiental H. Ayuntamiento de San Pedro y Secretaría de Desarrollo Urbano y Ecología, Febrero 1995>Crossing the Divide University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, March 1994>Arquitectura Ambiental Universidad Regiomontana, Noviembre 1991>Obra Espacio Común, Verano 1991>Luz Natural en Arquitectura Conferencias en el Departamento de Arquitectura, I.T.E.S.M., Primavera 1991

PUBLIC LECTURES>Mountain Development VII Urban Development Forum, I.T.E.S.M., Monterrey, México, November 2002>Teaching, Building, Thinking Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Latin American Architecture Symposium, November 2000>Projects of Rangel Mayeux Harvard University Graduate School of Design Overview Lecture, March 2000>En el Aire, Where Cultures Collide Rice Design Alliance, February 2000>Obras Recientes Espacio Común, Julio 1998>Monterrey Blanco y Negro Dos escenarios para el futuro, Espacio Común, Septiembre 1996>Desarrollo Regional Academia Nacional de Arquitectura, Agosto 1996> Encuentro con los Arquitectos Obras Recientes de Rangel Mayeux Arquitectos, MARCO, Febrero 1996>Desarrollo Arquitectónico e Impacto Ambiental H. Ayuntamiento de San Pedro y Secretaría de Desarrollo Urbano y Ecología, Febrero 1995>Crossing the Divide University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, March 1994>Arquitectura Ambiental Universidad Regiomontana, Noviembre 1991>Obra Espacio Común, Verano 1991>Luz Natural en Arquitectura Conferencias en el Departamento de Arquitectura, I.T.E.S.M., Primavera 1991

James Mayeux, AIA UPLAND STUDIO

5 Upland Road, Suite 4Cambridge MA 02140617 868 1144 office617 642 8972 cellular

mayeux@uplandstudio.comuplandstudio.com

OLINALA RESIDENCE