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Author: Jeff Day

The Grocery wins a 2019 P/A Award

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

Sound Art and Experimental Music Residency Program

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

FACT website featured by Communication Arts

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

Archinect Profiles Actual Architecture Co.

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 Wins ACSA Design Award

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.

Bemis InfoShop Wins AIA Small Project Design Award

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

FACT Wins Inaugural ACSA Design-Build Award

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