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

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 David Leatherbarrow University of Pennsylvania	Distinguished Professor Stephen Luoni University of Arkansas	Distinguished Professor Karen Kensek University of Southern California	Distinguished Professor Vikramaditya Prakash University of Washington	Distinguished Professor Gail Dubrow University of Minnesota

Distinguished Professor Richard Sommer University of Toronto	ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Jacob Mans University of Minnesota	Diversity Achievement The Work: USC Architecture’s Diversity and Inclusion Plan Amy Murphy & Lauren Matchison University of Southern California	Diversity Achievement _mpathic design: pedagogy, initiative, practice Elgin Cleckley University of Virginia	Creative Achievement Iowa State University Computation + Construction Lab (CCL) Shelby Doyle Iowa State University

Creative Achievement Fabricating Customization Jeremy Ficca Carnegie Mellon University	Creative Achievement The Future of the Netsch Campus Judith De Jong University of Illinois at Chicago	Practice + Leadership UHCDC: Exploring Public Sector Practice Cathi Ho Schar UH Manoa	Practice + Leadership Forensics Studio Federico Garcia Lammers South Dakota State University	Faculty Design City Thread Molly Hunker & Gregory Corso Syracuse University

Faculty Design Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab Adam Marcus, Margaret Ikeda & Evan Jones California College of the Arts (CCA)	Faculty Design Shaped Places of Carroll County New Hampshire McLain Clutter & Cyrus Penarroyo University of Michigan	Faculty Design Swissness Applied Exhibition Nicole McIntosh & Jonathan Louie Texas A&M University	Faculty Design Honorable Mention Salvage Swings Jessica Colangelo & Charles Sharpless University of Arkansas	Faculty Design Honorable Mention Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture Sekou Cooke Syracuse University

Faculty Design Honorable Mention Ashes & Ashes Cabin Leslie Lok & Sasa Zivkovic Cornell University	Housing Design Education Between Neighbors: Staging Domesticity in Multifamily Housing Katie MacDonald University of Tennessee-Knoxville	Housing Design Education New Domesticities New Collectivities Jonathan Rule & Kathy Velikov University of Michigan	Housing Design Education Over Under In Between: Affordable Housing within an Industrial Ecology Jason Carlow American University of Sharjah	Collaborative Practice Waipahu Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Collaboration Cathi Ho Schar University of Hawaiʻi Community Design Center

Collaborative Practice Urban Acupuncture for Community Forge Stefan Gruber Carnegie Mellon University	Collaborative Practice Sustainability Laboratory and Urban Garden (SLUG) Christopher Trumble & Linda Samuels University of Arizona & Washington University in St. Louis	Design Build Groundwork Adam Modesitt Tulane University	Design Build Tarkeeb Gatehouse + Garden Michael Hughes & William Sarnecky American University of Sharjah	Design Build ASHED – The South Sioux City Community Orchard Facility Jason Griffiths University of Nebraska-Lincoln

JAE: Design as Scholarship Constructing Mystery Yael Erel Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	JAE: Scholarship as Design Atmospheric Pressures Susanneh Bieber Texas A&M University	JAE: Micronarrotive Growing Up Modern – Oral History as Architectural Preservation Julia Jamrozik University At Buffalo, SUNY	TAD: Volume I Benchmarking the Embodied Carbon of Buildings Kathrina Simonen, Barbara X. Rodriguez Droguett, & Catherine De Wolf University of Washington & Massachusetts Institute of Technology	TAD: Volume 2 Experiments Toward Hyper-Local Reverse Heat Flow Assemblies Lars Junghans, Daniel Tish, Dustin Brugmann, Kathy Velikov, & Geoffrey Thün University of Michigan

ACSA108: Best Paper A Biophilic Approach to Net-Positive Design Mary Guzowski University of Minnesota	ACSA108: Best Project Between Living and Consuming the Territory Marcel Sanchez-Prieto & Adriana Cuellar Woodbury University & University of San Diego	ACSA108: Best Paper Honorable Mention Hugo Häring’s “Philosophy of Gestalt” Liyang Ding University of Pennsylvania	ACSA108: Best Project Honorable Mention Isochronic Mountains Joshua Stein Woodbury University

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