Architect Gene Zema was the very first to win the Home of the Year award from the Seattle chapter of American Institute of Architects—for his very own home, built in Northeast Seattle. He’d only gotten his license four years before, after honing his residential design skills with other legendary midcentury home architects like AO Bumgardner and Benjamin McAdoo.
He didn’t just design houses. He lent his skills to a number of medical buildings, and even two buildings on the University of Washington campus: More Hall Annex (formerly the Nuclear Reactor Building) and Gould Hall. But it was the houses that kept bringing in the awards, starting
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