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ProPEL 2025 Best Paper and Best Project Awards
Washington, D.C., March 28, 2025 – The College of Distinguished Professors, along with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Best Paper and Best Project Awards. These awards recognize the outstanding peer-reviewed research presented at the ACSA Annual Meeting, sponsored by the ACSA College of Distinguished Professors.
This year’s Best Paper and Best Project winners presented their work at the ACSA113 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. The winners’ abstracts and images are available on the 2025 Architectural Education Awards winners’ webpage.
The winners are:
BEST PAPER
Bias in the Machine: Standardized Tools and Irregular Materials
Kyle Schumann, University of Virginia
BEST PROJECT
Too Small to Succeed: Assessing the Spatial Impacts of Zoning Ordinances on ADU Development in the Northeast
Robert Williams, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ray K. Mann, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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About ACSA College of Distinguished Professors
The College of Distinguished Professors, founded in 2010, is composed of members of the Associations who are awarded the ACSA/AIA Topaz Medal Laureate and/or the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award. College membership is one of the highest honors the ACSA can bestow upon an educator. All College members may use the title “ACSA Distinguished Professor, DPACSA” in perpetuity. For more information, click here.
About the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
Leading Architectural Education and Research
ACSA is a nonprofit membership association founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education. The school membership in ACSA has grown from 10 charter members to over 250 schools in several membership categories. These include full membership for all accredited programs in the United States and government-sanctioned schools in Canada, candidate membership for schools seeking accreditation, and affiliate membership for schools for two-year and international programs. Through these schools, over 5,000 architecture faculty members are represented. In addition, over 500 supporting members composed of architecture firms, product associations and individuals add to the breadth of interest and support of ACSA goals. ACSA provides a major forum for ideas on the leading edge of architectural thought. Issues that will affect the architectural profession in the future are being examined today in ACSA member schools. For more information, click here.
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