Merrill Elam

Merrill Elam is an American architect and educator based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a principal with Mack Scogin in Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects where their work spans between buildings, interiors, planning, graphics and exhibition design, and research.

Biography and education She received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1971 and a Master of Business Administration at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business Georgia State University in 1982.

Career She worked as an architect and senior associate at Heery & Heery Architects & Engineers for 12 years prior to establishing Scogin Elam and Bray Architects in 1984. In 2000, Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam Architects was established. She has been a licensed architect in 13 states, a member of the American Institute of Architects and is NCARB certified.

In addition to an active practice, she has been a visiting architecture professor in architecture programs across the country including Harvard University, Yale University, University of Toronto, University of Virginia, Ohio State University , Syracuse University, and University of Texas at Austin. She also formerly acted as president of the Georgia State Board of Architects. In addition she aided in founding the Architecture Society of Atlanta and is the former organization's former president.

Selected projects The Round House, Connecticut, 2020 One Midtown Plaza Lobby, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007 Health Services Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006 Ernie Davis Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 2005 Gates Center for Computer Science and Hillman Center for Future Generation Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2005 Zhongkai Sheshan Villas, Shanghai, China, 2004 Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 2004 U.S. Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Austin, Texas, 2003 Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center and Davis Garage, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2001 Carol Cobb Turner Branch Library, Marrow, Georgia, 1991 John J. Ross - William C. Blakley Law Library, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1993 Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University , Columbus, Ohio, 1998 Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1998 Mountain Tree House, Dillard, Georgia, 1998

Honors and awards 2014 Design Leader award, Women in Architecture Awards, Architectural Record, 2014 Shutze Medal, Georgia Institute of Technology with Mack Scogin, 2013 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture with Mack Scogin, 2012 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters with Mack Scogin, 2011 Royal Institute of British Architects, International Fellow, 2008 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design with Mack Scogin, 1996 Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters with Mack Scogin, 1995