News / Awards / Exhibitions
2023 "Navigating new climates: Three ICF & SIP passive houses in North Texas," PhiusCon 2023 Presentation.
2022 "Tiny-Home Design Build: Creating an Arlington Micro-Community," and "An Arlington Micro-Community: Documenting Wynn Terrace," CAPPA Geisel Faculty Research Grants. With Brad McCorkle. UTA student-designed project and construction of a tiny-hime micro-community in Arlington, TX. Research goals include interdisciplinary collaboration and the establishment of a comparative analysis project exploring alternative construction techniques, four separate certification standards, followed by cost and data collection.
2022 "PH01:BRK: Potentials of Teaching Building Science through Design-Build," ACSA Paper & Presentation. With Robert Arlt.
2022 "Sowing the Seeds of Passive House Research and Design in North Texas," PhiusCon 2022 Presentation.
2021 "Passive House Advocacy and Implementation in Hot and Humid Climates," UTA Research Enhancement Proposal Grant.
2021 "Micro-community: A Design Build Catalyst." AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference Paper & Presentation. With Brad McCorkle and Joshua Nason.
2021 "Passive House Design Build for Architecture Students," Phius webinar.
2021 "Teaching Lightweight and Tensile Structures: A Pedagogy for Beginning Design Students," IASS Conference Paper & Presentation
2020 Dezeen's Top 10 Student and Graduate Projects, PH01:BRK / Passive House Brookings
2020 "Design-Build Monitoring & Post-Occupancy Analysis: Improving Housing Practices through Continuing Research," CAPPA Individual Faculty Research Grant.
2020 "Why We Do What We Do," PHIUS Educators Hootenanny Co-organizer and moderator with Mary Rogero.
2019 AIA Honor Award, South Dakota chapter PH01:BRK/Passive House Brookings Completed with Robert Arlt and DoArch students.
2019 AIA President’s Award, South Dakota chapter SDSU DoArch Passive House Studio Awarded for “putting theory into practice and teaching all of us how we can build better for our environment.”
2019 Outstanding Researcher, Scholar, Performer, or Artist SDSU College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. ”Professor MacBride led the team that designed the Brookings Passive House, showcasing principles of passive house design, maximizing energy efficiency and sustainability. The house has spurred collaborative research efforts across the university and brought national attention to SDSU. His work addresses a vital need for the Brookings community and the state of South Dakota, advancing the Department of Architecture’s mission to combine research with locally-relevant practice.”
2018 “Orange Driver 2” Workshop Co-designed and led with Donald Kunze, Professor of Architecture and Integrative Arts, Emeritus, Penn State University.
2018 Brookings Mayor’s Sustainability Award Presented for PH01:BRK, recognizing excellence in sustainable practices while promoting a culture of resiliency.
2018 “PH01:BRK” Sioux Falls Design Center Exhibition of the student designed PH01:BRK passive house. With Robert Arlt.
2017 Faculty Award of Excellence SDSU Department of Architecture
2016 AIA Merit Award, South Dakota chapter Wrigley Square, Mobridge Completed with Brian Rex, DoArch faculty and students.
2016 South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) Future Funds Grant, "The South Dakota Passive House/Housing Initiative," Principal Investigator. Additional funding and project expansion approved fall 2018. Integrated design & research of passive house principles for South Dakota & SDSU DoArch.
2016 Outfitting: DoArch entry screen SDSU AME Building Directed student fabrication & installation.
2015 “Public Works: Small Urbanism in Vast Places” DoArch / AME Gallery
2013 AIA Merit Award, South Dakota chapter Mobridge Riverfront Masterplan
2012 “Re:Seed House” SDSU / Ritz Gallery Proposals for a New SDSU Visual Arts Facility.
2011 “Threshold” temporary outdoor alterations A one-day installation and charette of temporary thresholds and impediments.
2010 “Drawings: Work by Architecture Faculty” UCD Gallery, Denver.
2008 Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Colorado Denver, non-tenure track
Media
"TALKdesign with Adrian Ramsay," Podcast, January 2024.
"PhiusCON 2023," Podcast recorded at PhiusCon by Matthew Cutler Welsh for the Passive House Accelerator, November 2023.
"PH01:BRK," ARCHITECT, October 2020.
"Architecture Students Complete Passivhaus in South Dakota," Dezeen.com, April 2020.
"The South Dakota Initiatives: A Conversation with Dennis Daugaard," Passive House Accelerator, February 2020.
"2019 AIA SD Honor Award: Passive House, SDSU DoArch'," AIA South Dakota, November 2019.
"Passive house unleashes creativity, innovation," Brookings Register, October 2018.
"Are Passive Houses Part of the Conversation?" Blueprint South Dakota, October 2018.
"Design and the Future of Small Cities: A Case Study in Progress," Architecture SD: Regeneration, 2012.
“SD town tapping architecture students for ideas,” Associated Press, December 2011.