Awards & Recognition
2024
2020
Princeton Design Guild Wins Master Design Award
- Princeton Design Guild has been named winner of the 42nd Annual Qualified Remodeler Master Design Awards Contest. PDG was awarded gold for an addition and renovation of a mid-Century Modern home on Drakes Corner Road in Princeton, NJ.
2019
Inducted into the Remodeling Big 50
- The REMODELING Big50 annually inducts 50 companies from across America that have met exceptionally high standards for professionalism and integrity through exemplary business practices, craftsmanship, impact in their community, and industry recognition.
2015
Historical Society of Princeton House Tour
2013
The Goldberg Lectures in Architecture Series
2008
2006
Outstanding Implementation - Short Term Project
- American Planning Association / New Jersey Chapter “Quark Park”, Princeton, NJ
“Blissful Bathrooms”
- Design NJ, August/September 2006
“Art, Science Thrive in Garden”
- The Trenton Times, Living Section, September 5, 2006
Design Merit Award
- American Institute of Architects / New Jersey Chapter “Quark Park”, Princeton, NJ
“It’s a Lot of Inspiration”
- The Sunday Star-Ledger, Section One
“Science In Bloom”
- U.S. 1, August 23, 2006
“Science Come to Life in a Park Full of Surprises”
- The New York Times, Sunday, October 22, 2006
“Quark Park Makes its Debut”
- The Princeton Packet, September 12, 2006
“Germinating Ideas”
- Time Off, August 11-20, 2006
2005
AIA NJ Growth Award, Creative Initiative
- New Jersey Department of Community Affairs “Writers Block”, Princeton, NJ
Remembrance Fountain
- Time Off – Packet Publications, September 30, 2005
Literary Landscape
- Riprap Landscape Architecture, May 2005
2004
Honor Award for Built Project
- American Institute of Architects / New Jersey Chapter “Writers Block”, Princeton, NJ
Writer's Block
- Planning Magazine, December 2004
Kitchens & Baths
- Fine Homebuilding, Winter 2004
Princeton’s Follies
- Time Off - Packet Publications, August 13-22, 2004
Collections For The Cook
- Design NJ, February/March 2004
Writer's Block
- Architectural Record, October 2004
Beautiful Bathrooms
- Design NJ, August/September 2004
Suite Success
- Design NJ, June/July 2004
2003
Building a Grand Veranda
- Best of Fine Homebuilding
Grown-up Getaways
- Design NJ, October/November 2003
Change of Face
- Design NJ, August/September 2003
2001
For the Love of Art
- Design NJ, Spring Issue 2001, pp. 65-70
2000
Best of the Best - Excellence Award
- The Frog and the Peach Restaurant” Downtown New Jersey, Inc.
Building a Grand Veranda
- Fine Homebuilding, July 2000
1990s
Evolution of an Ideal: The Princeton Design Guild
- American Institute of Architects / New Jersey Chapter “Writers Block”, Princeton, NJ
Kitchen Ideas That Work
- Kitchen and Bath Business, June 1998
Finishing Touches
- Fine Homebuilding Annual Issue on Houses, Summer 1998
A New Jersey Tea House
- Fine Homebuilding, June-July 1997
Finalist, Competition for Architectural Services
- Edison National Historic Site, Visitor Center
1980s
Kevin Wilkes: Double Life of a Princeton Prefab
- Architectural Digest, April 1989, pp. 102-106
Fellowship, Design Arts/Architecture
- New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Wilkes Awarded Grant to Design Housing
- Princeton Packet, 29 July, 1988, Front page
Modest Mansions: Design Ideas for Luxurious Living in Less Space
- By Donald Prowler AIA, Rodale Press
Young Architect Turns a Nightmare to a Dream House
- Trenton Times, Living Section, 8 October, Front page
Young Architects Competition, Honorable Mention
- Architectural League of New York
Third Place Winner
- Newport News Cultural Arts Pavilion, Kelbaugh + Lee Architects

