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GCA Alum Wins Award for Multifamily Housing Project

Phillips' award-winning project XS House.

GCA Alum Wins Award for Multifamily Housing Project


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February 13, 2020

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The work of Brian Phillips, AIA, a Gibbs College of Architecture alumnus and principal architect of architecture firm ISA, was recently featured on the cover of Architect Magazine. The featured project, the “XS House,” is a 5,000-square-foot, seven-unit building with a very narrow footprint located in Philadelphia. The XS House was named a winner of the 2019 Residential Architect Design Award for Multifamily Housing.

Congratulations to Phillips and the team at ISA!

Read more about the project at Architect Magazine.

Feature photo credit: Sam Oberter.


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