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= Greg Faulkner = Greg Faulkner (born June, 24, 1956) is an American architect. He is founder and principal at Faulkner Architects, a design firm established in 1998 in Truckee, California.

Early Life
Raised in the rust belt mill city of Gary, Indiana, Faulkner grew up visiting U.S. Steel with his grandfather in the sixties. He earned an Associate of Science degree in Industrial Illustration Technology from Purdue and then worked as an aircraft design engineer at Cessna Aircraft Co. in Wichita, Kansas. He was part of the wing design group, drafting drawings by hand with ink on mylar for the Cessna Citation III transcontinental business jet. Later at LearAvia in Stead, Nevada, he helped design the aft fuselage of the Lear Fan 2100, the first graphite/epoxy and Kevlar composite aircraft to take flight.

Faulkner returned to school at the University of New Mexico, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture along with the Alpha Rho Chi medal in 1983. He received his Master of Architecture from MIT in 1987 and was awarded the Francis Ward Chandler Prize for design. While at MIT, he was inspired by the architecture department’s embrace of alternative design models, particularly the study of vernacular and regional architecture. His instructors included Maurice K. Smith, Imre Halasz, John Habraken, and Gottfried Böhm, among others.

Career and Recognition
Professional architecture work accompanied his education, with time spent in the offices of Kyu Sung Woo, Arrowstreet, Halasz & Halasz, Benjamin Wood, and Ben Thompson. The year he graduated from MIT, the stock market crashed, resulting in a loss of architectural work that pushed Faulkner west to wait out the recession and take time to explore the backcountry of the Sierra Nevada mountains. After working for a local firm and as part of a short-lived partnership, Faulkner formed Faulkner Architects in 1998.

Major Works

 * Red Rock, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 2022
 * CAMPout  , Truckee, California, United States, 2021
 * Analog House, Truckee, California, United States, 2019
 * Forest House, Truckee, California, United States, 2019
 * Lookout House, Truckee, California, United States, 2018
 * Big Barn, Glen Ellen, California, United States, 2018
 * Miner Road , Orinda, California, United States, 2017
 * Tack Barn, Glen Ellen, California, United States, 2017
 * Creek House, Truckee, California, United States, 2015
 * Burnt Cedar, Incline Village, Nevada, United States, 2015

Honors and Awards

 * 2023 AIA NEVADA, CAMPOUT (CAN’T REMEMBER THE EXACT AWARD)
 * AIA San Francisco Design Awards, Merit Award, CAMPout, 2022
 * LUXE Red Awards, Best Use of Color, Lookout, 2021
 * 2020 Top Ten International Designers, EST EXCEPTIONAL LIVING
 * LIT DESIGN AWARDS, Winner in Residential Lighting, Lookout, 2019
 * AIA California Residential Design Awards, Honor Award, Miner Road, 2017
 * AIA East Bay Design Awards, Honor Award, Creek House, 2017
 * AIA East Bay Design Awards, Honor Award, Miner Road, 2017
 * LEAF Award, House of the Year: Residential Building Single Occupancy, Creek House, 2016
 * AIA California Residential Design Awards, Honor Award, Creek House, 2016
 * AIA Central Valley Design Awards, Merit Award, Canyon Road, 2013
 * AIA Central Valley Design Awards, Honor Award, Martis, 2011
 * Environmental Award of Excellence: Green Award, Firm Award, City of Lafayette, 2009
 * AIA Central Valley Design Awards, Divine Detail, Saperstein, 2008
 * AIA Central Valley Design Awards, Citation Award, Crocker, 2000
 * AIA Central Valley Design Awards, Merit Award, Lahontan Starter Pavilion, 1998