Southern Pine Council Selects Long-Sullivan Recipient

The Southern Pine Council (SPC) has chosen Kevin Harris, AIA, NCARB, CSI, as the recipient of its 2007 Long-Sullivan Award. The award was presented to Harris during SPC’s recent 2007 annual meeting in Charleston, S.C.

Named after two early 20th-century marketing pioneers of the Southern Pine lumber industry, the Long-Sullivan Award is given each year to recognize an individual architect, designer, builder, engineer or other building professional who has demonstrated the commercial and residential uses of Southern Pine in unique and creative ways.

Harris is principal of Kevin Harris, Architect LLC, in Baton Rouge, La., a practice that focuses on residential new construction and renovations, small commercial and adaptive reuse of older buildings. For more than 25 years, Harris has used the product in a wide variety of ways throughout his projects, including: treated sills, floor joists, tongue-and-groove flooring, exposed heavy timber beams, v-cut tongue-and-groove ceilings and wainscoting, wide plank flooring and many more. Southern Pine studs, joists and rafters are staples of his construction, and the majority of Harris’ custom-designed homes incorporate a raised floor foundation.

“I prefer the poetic connections of crafting a home of materials indigenous to its surroundings, such as Southern Pine,” Harris says. “The wood is strong and beautiful, and truly enhances any project with which it’s associated.”

Harris’ designs have won local, regional, national and international awards, including several Region Merit Citations from the AIA.

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