James Logan Abell

Background

James was bprn on July 14, 1951, in Pueblo, Colorado, United States.

Education

1973 Hired by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation as one of five designers to prepare fire reconstruction drawings for the famed 1928 Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Albert Chase McArthur with Frank Lloyd Wright as a brief consultant. Winner of the ASU Northampton, England Work-Study Fellowship for employment in a British New Town, 1974. Professional degree, B.ARCH.1976 Arizona State University, Worked with landscape architect,James Kellogg Wheat, land planner A.Wayne Smith, architectural firms DWL,Phoenix, AZ before establishing private architectural practice in 1979.

Career

James Logan Abell, FAIA, LA is a noted architect, landscape architect, and urban designer In 2010, Mr. Abell was awarded the national AIA Kemper Medal, one of the highest individual honors that can be given to an American architect. Awarded annually for 65 years, it was conferred to James for his many years of creating civic visioning plans for dozens of communities all across the USA in the cause of livable communities and excellence in urban design.

Known for campus masterplans, budget-driven K-12 public schools, and a wide-ranging interest in hotel design, office buildings, zoological gardens, and fine residential design, James established his diversified design practice in Tempe, Arizona in 1979.

Mr. Abell was also awarded the national AIA Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture in 2014 for having “….evidenced great depth, with a cumulative effect on the quality of public architecture, with excellence that has impacted a broad cross-section of the community, and recognized for the significance of their lasting contribution to our enhanced quality of life….” . As of 2021, this AIA lifetime achievement honor for architects in private practice has only been awarded 12 times in AIA history.

Works

• Architecture Review

  • James Logan Abell, FAIA, 2014 Thomas Jefferson Award Recipient

    (James Abell, FAIA, is the recipient of the Thomas Jeffers...)

    2014

Membership

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  Elevated to the American Institute of Architects national College of Fellows, 1996

  American Institute of Architects , United States

  1977 - present