2026 AIA Houston Holiday Party
Honoring David Bucek, FAIA,
We are proud to announce that David Bucek, FAIA will be honored with the AIA Houston Award for Career Distinction at our Holiday Party on December 15 at the Museum of Fine Arts. We are currently raising funds to purchase in David’s honor an architect designed object for the museum’s permanent design collection.
Gifts can be made online by completing and submitting a donation form by following this LINK to MFAH.
Please make your donation on or before November 15 so that we will have time to purchase the item for display at the party.
The American Institute of Architects, Houston Design Collection
Museum purchase funded by friends of David Bucek, in his honor
About the Honoree:
David Bucek, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, is a principal with Stern and Bucek Architects. David specializes in new construction, adaptive reuse, renovation, and historic preservation. David holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Houston, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture 1990 and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design 1992. He has taught architectural design at the University of Houston and the University of Texas at Austin. David began working for William Stern & Associates in 1992. In 1999, David partnered with Bill Stern to form Stern and Bucek Architects. By 2009, Stern and Bucek Architects was honored by AIA Houston as Firm of the Year. David was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows for Design/Historic Preservation in 2011.
David is a preservation advocate whose body of work demonstrates exemplary support of historic architectural research and restoration in Texas communities. His work has garnered awards from the, Advisory Council for Historic Preservation (ACHP), National Trust for Historic Preservation, DOCOMOMO US, Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, Texas Society of Architects, Texas Historical Commission, Preservation Texas, Preservation Houston, AIA Houston and PaperCity.
David is the 2024 recipient of Preservation Houston’s President’s Award, the 2020 recipient for the Texas Society of Architects Community Service Award in Honor of James D. Pfluger FAIA, 2006 Wharton’s Person of the Year Award bestowed by the Wharton Journal Spectator and the 2001 Texas Historical Commission’s Award of Excellence in Historic Architecture Research.
Professional noteworthy projects are the renovation of the Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum, preservation of the Frame/Harper House (Harwood Taylor), the Menil House, (Phillip Johnson), Christ Church Cathedral, Baker Commons at Rice University, Eldorado Ballroom, Sengelmann Hall in Schulenburg, Texas, Bellville Turnverein in Bellville, Texas and the NASA Johnson Space Center “Apollo” Mission Operations Control Center.
Volunteerism matches his professional career in terms of timeframe (34 years). David is the Chair of the City of Houston Archaeological and Historical Commission (HAHC). He currently serves as President and Chair of the Buildings Committee at the Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park/Houston, and serves on the board of Houston Mod, Wharton County Heritage Partnership, Wharton County Courthouse Restoration/Preservation and was recently appointed to the State Board of Review, as an Architect member, by the Texas Historical Commission. He formerly served on the boards of Preservation Texas, Texas Architecture Foundation, AIA Houston, where he served as 2016 AIA Houston President and the Architecture Center Houston Foundation, where he served as 2023 ArCH President.