February 18, 2021 | 6:00pm ET (3:00pm PT)
Awards Ceremony & Topaz Presentation
2020 Architectural Education Awards
2020 Award Toast
February 18, 2021 | 6:00–7:30pm ET (3:00-4:30pm PT)
Please join us to celebrate the 2020 Architectural Education Award winners. At the virtual celebration: toast the winners, remarks from ACSA’s Past President Rashida Ng & AIA’s Past President Jane Fredrick; along with a presentation from David Leatherbarrow, 2020 Topaz Laureate. To end the session, we will join breakouts to mingle with the award winners.
Due to the unprecedented time we faced last year, we were not able to have the opportunity to formally recognize the 2020 Architectural Education Award winners. We looking forward to celebrating their achievements at the 2020 Awards Toast.
2020 Topaz Presentation
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David Leatherbarrow
2020 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion
Dr. Leatherbarrow has taught theory and design at the University of Pennsylvania since 1984, and before that at Cambridge University and the University of Westminster (formerly PCL) in England. He lectures throughout the world and has held honorary professorships in Denmark, Brazil, and China. Dr. Leatherbarrow was the recipient of the Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the Canadian Center of Architecture (1997-98) and two Fulbright Fellowships. Books include: 20th Century Architecture, Three Cultural Ecologies (with R. Wesley), Architecture Oriented Otherwise, Topographical Stories, Surface Architecture (with Mohsen Mostafavi), Uncommon Ground, Roots of Architectural Invention, and On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time. His research focuses on history and theory of architecture and the city.
2020 Award Winners
AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion | Distinguished Professor | Distinguished Professor | Distinguished Professor | Distinguished Professor |
Distinguished Professor | ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching | Diversity Achievement | Diversity Achievement | Creative Achievement |
Creative Achievement | Creative Achievement | Practice + Leadership | Practice + Leadership | Faculty Design |
Faculty Design | Faculty Design | Faculty Design | Faculty Design Honorable Mention | Faculty Design Honorable Mention |
Faculty Design Honorable Mention | Housing Design Education | Housing Design Education | Housing Design Education | Collaborative Practice |
Collaborative Practice | Collaborative Practice | Design Build | Design Build | Design Build |
JAE: Design as Scholarship | JAE: Scholarship as Design | JAE: Micronarrotive | TAD: Volume I | TAD: Volume 2 |
ACSA108: Best Paper | ACSA108: Best Project | ACSA108: Best Paper Honorable Mention | ACSA108: Best Project Honorable Mention |