Moody Nolan and the Preservation of Black Neighborhoods
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2021 AIA Architecture Firm Award: Moody Nolan
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10 Questions With… Curtis and Jonathan Moody
February 22, 2021
By Edie Cohen
Moody Nolan has much to celebrate. Black History Month is one. Receiving the 2021 AIA Architecture Firm Award is another. Still another is its diversity. The Black-owned and led firm with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, and 10 more offices nationwide counts 42 percent women and 32 percent identifying as minorities in its staff of 230. Kudos to the team, but especially to Curtis J. Moody who had the vision and bravery to start an architecture firm in 1982 in the midst of an economic downturn with just one graduate student. By year’s end, however, Moody and Associates had grown to nine staff members, and Curtis joined forces with the engineering firm Howard E. Nolan and Associates. Ergo the name of the father-son-helmed firm we know today. Its mantra is “responsive,” the precept applying to architecture, interior design, and experiential design comprising the studio’s vast portfolio across commer
The Columbus architectural firm Moody Nolan has received the 2021 Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects, the highest award the trade association gives to a practice.
The award, given to one firm a year since 1962, recognizes companies that have consistently produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years.
Moody Nolan is the first African American and first Ohio firm to win the award, which has been given to a host of blue-chip practices including Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, I.M. Pei & Partners and Cesar Pelli & Associates.
Founded in 1983 by Curt Moody and engineer Howard E. Nolan, Moody Nolan has grown to become the nation s largest African American-owned-and-operated architectural firm. Based in Columbus with offices in 11 cities, the firm now employs