About:

A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Merrill Elam is a principal and founding partner of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, established in 1984 as Parker and Scogin, later Scogin Elam and Bray Architects. The firm has won a number of awards including regional and national AIA Awards of Excellence and it has designed across the span: academic, residential, corporate, and civic. One of the firm's most recent projects is the well publicized Wang Campus Center at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Scogin Elam is also working on residential projects in China, the subject of a recent exhibition in Tokyo.

Books:

"House in Brookline" in The new American house 4: innovations in residential design and construction.  Whitney Library of Design, 2003.   On Reserve.

Mack & Merrill: the work of Scogin, Elam and Bray, architects. University of Michigan College of Architecture + Urban Planning, 1999.   (Available through Inter-Library Loan).

Scogin, Elam, and Bray: critical architecture/architectural criticism.  Rizzoli, 1992.  NA737.S365 S37 1992.
________________________________________________________________________ Books listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.

Articles: (Selected from 2001- 2006)                 

"Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center and Alumnae Valley [Wellesley College]" in Harvard design magazine, 2006 Spring-Summer, n.24, p.130-131.

"Interview: Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam" in Competitions, 2005-2006 Winter, v.15, n.4, p.40-51.

"A case of form over function: what design lessons will students take away from Ohio State's new school of architecture?" in Landscape architecture, 2005 Sept., v.95, n.9, p.172, 170-171.

"Instructive spaces [Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture]" in Architecture, 2005 July, v.94, n.7, p.62-[67}.

"Night and day [Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library]" in Architecture, 2004 Dec., v.93, n.12, p.74-83.

"In an unusual scenario, Mack Scogin & Merrill Elam joins forces with a volume builder for a one-of-a-kind project: Bailey House Studio]" in Architectural record, 2004 Apr., v.192, n.4, p.[128]-[133}.

"Mack Scogin, Merrill Elam: a country house, New York, U.S.A" in GA Houses, 2004 Mar., n.80, p.37-39.

"Mack Scogin Merrill Elam: Bailey House and Studio, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A" in GA houses, 2003 Sept., n.77, p.22-39.

"Mack Scogin Merrill Elam mediates deftly between the man-made and the natural in its Herman Miller Cherokee Operations plant" in Architectural record, 2002 Nov., v.190, n.11, p.[150]-157.

"Scogin Elam and Bray: a house in Brookline, Massachusetts" in GA houses, 2002, n.69, p.[10]-27}.

"Cool jazz [dormitory, Tulane]" in Architecture, 2001 Sept., v.90, n.9, p.128-[135].

"Mack Scogin Merrill Elam: Mountain Garage, Dillard, Georgia, U.S.A " in GA houses,, 2001, n.66, p.156-157.                  _______________________________________________________________________ Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Web Sites:

Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects.   www.msmearch.com/msmearch.html
This site offers extensive visuals on the firm's many projects.