Awards and Exhibitions
San Francisco Design Awards: People’s Choice Under $10M for Brisbane Library – AIA San Francisco, 2022
AIA Community Alliance Award for Chapter Service in 2019
Gold Nugget Award of Merit Winner 2018 for Alice Griffth – Best Affordable Housing Community, 2018
Landmark Library Award 2015 Winners for Bayview Libary – Library Journal , 2015
Sustainability Award — AIA Portland, 2013
Kirby Ward Fitzpatrick Award for Small Firms — Architectural Foundation of San Francisco, 2013
Small Firms, Great Projects — San Francisco Magazine, 2007, 2008/2009
The Art of Architecture, Exhibition — Danville Fine Arts Gallery, Danville CA, 2005
Inspired Outcomes: Women Leading Change Exhibition — AIA San Francisco, 2004
Totem Design “Workplaces” Competition, Honorable Mention — New York, 2001
Dollhouse: The Designer Showcase in Miniature — Benefit Project for The Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco; 2001
Petchitecture, A Benefit Exhibition for PAWS — San Francisco, 1995
New Utah Housing Competition, Small Multi-Family Site — Winning Scheme, 1994
California Women in Environmental Design Exhibition — San Francisco, 1994
Projects and articles have appeared in:
California Homes; Science & Spirit; Architectural Digest; Sunset Magazine;
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine; The Sacramento Bee;
The San Francisco Examiner Sunday Magazine; The New York Times and Zero Hour;
Archives of the Avery Architectural Library; Interiors; and
Occulus, The Magazine of the New York Chapter of the AIA.
Karin Payson architecture + design