ACSA picks 2024 Architectural Education Award winners

The recipients of the 2024 Architectural Education Awards have been announced by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) in recognition of their contributions to teaching and scholarship at ACSA-accredited schools in the United States and Canada. The group was led by this year's Topaz Medalist, University of Miami professor Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who was previously announced in conjunction with the American Institute of Architects, along with the Whitney M. Young, Jr. and Edward C. Kemper Award recipients in early December.

She was joined by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign’s Lynne Dearborn and University of Maryland faculty member Mohammad Gharipour, who were named the winners of the Distinguished Professor Award. A total of seven individual award winners were granted alongside another seven category awards for Diversity Achievement, Creative Achievement, Collaborative Practice, Faculty Design, Design-Build, Practice + Leadership, and Housing Design Education.

The program also included winners of the annual Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) Award and the Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) Research Contribution Award.

Here is the full list of winners in their respective categories:

AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion

• Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk | University of Miami

Distinguished Professor Award

• Lynne Dearborn | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Mohammad Gharipour | University of Maryland

AIAS/ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award

• Gillian Shaffer Lutsko | University of Southern California (Part-time faculty)
• Lukas Pauer | University of Toronto
• Robert Williams | University of Massachusetts Amherst

Diversity Achievement Award

• Blind Design Workshop: Advancing Inclusivity with Non-Visual Pedagogy
  Andrew Gipe-Lazarou | Virginia Tech
• An Architectural Imaginary of Identity and Exclusion: Drawing Out the Legacies of Japanese American Designers after WWII Incarceration
  Kelley Murphy | Washington University in St. Louis
• Critical-Pathways
  Suzanne Lettieri | Cornell University (Honorary Mention)

Creative Achievement Award

• Serious Play: Reimagining Children’s Playscapes
  Joseph Altshuler | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• The Activated Atlas
  Erin Kasimow | University of Southern California
• Making Space for Community – Learning from Collective Living as a Basis for Designing Policy
  Antje Steinmuller | California College of the Arts
  Neeraj Bhatia | California College of the Arts

Collaborative Practice Award

• Home for Alice
  John Folan | University of Arkansas and Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS)
  Candice Adams | University of Arkansas
• ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Campus: Architecture for Indigenous Language Revitalization and Normalization
  Karla Sierralta | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  Brian Strawn | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• Bears Ears Education Center Outdoor Classroom
  Elpitha Tsoutsounakis | University of Utah
• Crafting a Collaborative Curriculum: The Design Build Initiative
  Michael Hughes | American University of Sharjah
  William Sarnecky | American University of Sharjah
  Gregory Spaw | American University of Sharjah
  Ammar Kalo | American University of Sharjah
  Patrick Rhodes | American University of Sharjah
  Kenneth Tracy | American University of Sharjah
  Juan Roldán | American University of Sharjah
  Marcus Farr | American University of Sharjah
  George Newlands | American University of Sharjah
  Camilo Cerro | American University of Sharjah
  Jason Carlow | American University of Sharjah
  Daniel Chavez | Scarab Design
  Emily Baker | University of Arkansas
  Matt Trimble | Scenic City Nomads

Faculty Design Award

• MESO-COSM
  Brittany Utting | Rice University
  Daniel Jacobs | University of Houston
• Aging Against the Machine
  Neeraj Bhatia | California College of the Arts
  Ignacio González Galán | Barnard College
  Karen Kubey | University of Toronto
• Susan’s House, design for a new typology
  Mary English | Auburn University
  Xavier Vendrell | Auburn University
• Contested Circumpolar: Domestic Territories
  Mason White | University of Toronto
  Kearon Roy Taylor | University of Toronto
  Matthew Jull | University of Virginia
  Leena Cho | University of Virginia
  Lola Sheppard | University of Waterloo

Design-Build Award

• The Mizer’s Ruin
  Jason Griffiths | University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• The Hip-Hop Xpress: Double Dutch Boom Bus
  Kevin Erickson | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center
  Scott Lawrence | University of Idaho
• A Stop Worth Waiting For: Transit in Service of the Public Good
  Julia Lindgren | University of Texas at Arlington

AIA/ACSA Practice + Leadership Award

• Professional Horizons
  Hans Herrmann | Mississippi State University
  Thomas Kligerman | Design Leadership Foundation
  Abbey Franovich | Mississippi State University
  Ashley Studdard-Hughes | Mississippi State University
• Relocalize Our Food
  Courtney Crosson | University of Arizona & Drachman Institute (Honorable Mention)

AIA/ACSA Housing Design Education Award

• Denver Low-Rise: New Domestic Forms of Collective Living
  José Ibarra | University of Colorado Denver
  Leyuan Li | University of Colorado Denver
• Housing Connecticut: Designing Healthy and Sustainable Neighborhoods
  Andrei Harwell | Yale University
  Alan Plattus | Yale University
  Anika Singh-Lemar | Yale University
  Kate Cooney | Yale University
  Elise Barker Limon | Yale University
• Not for Sale! – Housing Education at the Intersection of Activism, Architecture, and Advocacy
  Adrian Blackwell | University of Waterloo
  Matthew Soules | University of British Columbia

JAE Article Awards

• Essay Award
  Spatializing Reparations: Mapping Reparative Futures
  Danika Cooper | University of California, Berkeley
• Design Essay Award
  Attending to Unbuilding: The One Tree Project
  Jesse Vogler | Free University of Tbilisi
  Ken Botnick | Independent Scholar
  Alisa Blatter | Washington University in St. Louis
• Narrative Award
  Worship the Lift Engineer
  Jordan Whitewood-Neal | University of Brighton

TAD Research Contribution Award

• Article from Volume VI
  Decoding the Architectural Genome: Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms in Design
  Mohammed Makki | University of Technology Sydney
  Diego Navarro-Mateu | Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
  Milad Showkatbakhsh | Architectural Association
• Article from Volume VI
  Neural Image Classifiers for Historical Building Elements and Typologies
  Andrew Witt | Harvard University
  Eunu Kim | Trimble, Inc.