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The AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education is awarded jointly by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) to an individual, who must be living at the time of nomination, who has spent at least a decade primarily involved in architectural education, and whose primary contribution to architectural education has been on the North American continent.
Douglas S. Kelbaugh
University of Michigan
Douglas S. Kelbaugh, FAIA, recipient of the 2016 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, has been renowned throughout his career for his teaching, practice, and writing regarding the environmental aspects of architecture
The ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award recognizes demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career.
Erin Carraher
University of Utah
Lisa Huang
University of Florida
Adam Marcus
California College of the Arts
The ACSA Diversity Achievement Award recognizes the work of faculty, administrators, or students in creating effective methods and models to achieve greater diversity in curricula, school personnel, and student bodies, specifically to incorporate the participation and contributions of historically under-represented groups or contexts.
Kiwana T. McClung
University of Louisiana – Lafayette
Jason Logan, Gregory Marinic,
Ziad Qureshi, Josh Robbins and Susan Rogers
University of Houston
Greg Donofrio
University of Minnesota
The ACSA Faculty Design Award provides a venue for work that advances the reflective nature of practice and teaching by recognizing and encouraging outstanding work in architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor.
Durotaxis Chair
Alvin Huang, University of Southern California
Electroform(alism)
Anya Sirota, University of Michigan
Learning from the Countryside
Taiji Miyasaka, Washington State University
Blue Barn Theatre & Boxcar 10
Jeffrey L. Day, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
E.B. Min, California College of the Arts
The ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award, Excellence in Housing Education Course or Activity recognizes the importance of good education in housing design to produce architects ready for practice in a wide range of areas and able to be capable leaders and contributors to their communities.
University of Oregon Housing
Specialization Program
Michael Fifield, Peter A. Keyes, & Rob Thallon
University of Oregon
The Invisible Houses
Gonzalo Lizarralde, Universite de Montreal
The AIA/ACSA Practice and Leadership Award discovers and recognizes “best practice” examples of highly effective teaching, scholarship, and outreach in the areas of professional practice and leadership.
Building Stories
Renee Cheng, University of Minnesota
Voices from the Field
Caryn Brause, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Public Interest Architecture Program
Georgia Bizios, North Carolina
State University
The ACSA Distinguished Professor Award recognizes sustained creative achievement in the advancement of architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service.
Daniel Friedman
University of Hawaii – Manoa
Francisco J. Rodriguez-Suarez
Universidad de Puerto Rico
The ACSA Creative Achievement Award recognizes a specific creative achievement in teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service that advances architectural education.
Unearthing Traces of Rhode Island’s Slavery and Slave Trade
Julian Bonder, Roger Williams University
Emmanouil Vermisso
Florida Atlantic University
Troy Schaum
Rice University
The ACSA Collaborative Practice Award honors the best practices in school-based community outreach programs.
Bemis Gardens
Jeffrey L. Day, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
E.B. Min, California College of the Arts
Louder than a Bomb
Terry Boling, MetroLAB, University of Cincinnati
Fayetteville 2030: Food City Scenario
Stephen D. Luoni, University of Arkansas
Jeffrey Erwin Huber, Florida Atlantic University
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John E. Folan and Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS)
Carnegie Mellon University
The ACSA Design-Build Award honors the best practices in school-based design-build projects.
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Patrick Doan, William U. Galloway & Frank
Weiner, Virginia Tech
Camp Daisy Hindman in Dover, Kansas
David Dowell, Kansas State University
Lamar Station Classroom for Urban Farming
Rick Sommerfeld, University of Colorado Denver
Colorado Outward Bound Micro Cabins
Rick Sommerfeld, University of Colorado Denver
These awards are selected as the Journal of Architecture Education (JAE) Best Articles from the all those submitted to the journal in the award year. The JAE has for more than 60 years represented the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture as the flagship publication of this important architectural organization.
Scholarship of Design:
Practicing Reform: Experiments in
Post-Revolutionary Chinese Architectural Production, 1973–1989 Cole Roskam,
The University of Hong Kong
Cole Roskam, The University of Hong Kong
Design as Scholarship:
Rematerializations: Prototypical Exploration
of Neovernacular Structures in South Africa
Daniel Baerlecken, Georgia Institute of Technology
Judith Reitz, Peter Behrens School of Architecture
Nora Mueller, RWTH Aachen University
Bernadette Heiermann, RWTH Aachen University
ACSA would like to thank the awards jurors, board of directors, and JAE editorial board for their work in reviewing almost 200 submissions and selecting the above award winners. View past winners.
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Michael Hoffman, Norwich U.
Stephen Vogel, U. of Detroit Mercy
Danielle Mitchell, AIAS Rep.
Katherine L. Schwennsen, Clemson U.
Marilyn Jordan Taylor, U. of Pennsylvania
NFT JURY Chair: Joel Pominville, AIAS Rep.
Tori Vuono, NYIT
Francis Lyn, Florida Atlantic U.
Stephen White, Roger Williams U.
DA JURY Chair: Ming Fung, SCI-Arc
Rashida Ng, Temple U.
Nichole Wiedemann, U. of Texas at Austin
CP JURY Chair: Mary Hardin, U. of Arizona
Michael Hughes, American U. of Sharjah
Nonya Grenader, Rice U.
HDE JURY Chair: John Cays, NJIT
John Quale, U. of New Mexico
Katherine Williams, Fifth Generation Holdings / AIA Rep.
R. Denise Everson, DC Housing Authority / AIA Rep.
Cheryl Morgan, Auburn Urban Studio
Nadia Anderson, Iowa State U.
DP JURY Chair: Ming Fung, SCI-Arc
John Cays, NJIT
Carmina Sanchez del Valle, Hampton U.
William Carpenter, Southern Poly State U.
CA JURY Chair: John Cays, NJIT
Ila Berman, U. of Waterloo
Stephen Phillips, California Poly. State U.
FD JURY Chair: Marlon Blackwell, U. of Arkansas
Ming Fung, SCI-Arc
Aziza Chaouni, U. of Toronto
DB JURY Chair: John Cays, NJIT
Ryan Smith, U. of Utah
Chad Kraus, U. of Kansas
JAE Best Article Award Jury
JAE Editorial Board
ACSA Board of Directors
+ 2015-2016 ACSA Awards Program – View the original “Call for Nominations & Submissions”
