March 25, 2021 | 5:30pm ET (2:30pm PT)

Awards Ceremony & Topaz Presentation

2021 Architectural Education Awards

2021 Award Toast

March 25, 2021 | 5:30pm–7:00pm ET (2:30-4:00pm PT)

Please join us to celebrate the 2021 Architectural Education Award winners. At the virtual celebration: toast the winners and hear from Kathryn Anthony, 2021 Topaz Laureate. To end the session, we will have the opportunity to join an awards open house to mingle with the award winners.

2021 Topaz Presentation

Kathryn H. Anthony
2021 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion

For more than four decades, ACSA Distinguished Professor Kathryn Anthony, PhD, has been one of the profession’s most prominent guiding forces, long urging architects and the public to embrace the importance of designing spaces for people and designing for diversity. Having influenced a long list of distinguished architects and educators around the world, Anthony is widely recognized for placing diversity, inclusion, and social justice at the forefront of her pedagogy.

“In a time where the Black Lives Matter movement is challenging us to act with agency and thoughtfulness, with respect and responsiveness, her profound work underscores the importance of social justice in all fields, especially ours,” Frances Bronet, president of the Pratt Institute, wrote in support of Anthony’s nomination. “She built on a legacy of architecture to make more vital and engaging public places that reflect the diversity of the American people.”

2021 Award Winners

AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion Kathryn H. Anthony University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Distinguished Professor Julio Bermudez Catholic University of America	Distinguished Professor Renee Y. Chow University of California, Berkeley	Distinguished Professor Bradford Grant Howard University	Distinguished Professor Alison Kwok University of Oregon

Distinguished Professor Kenneth Schwartz Tulane University	ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Omar Al-Hassawi Washington State University	ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching María González Aranguren University of Virginia	ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Cathi Ho Schar University of Hawai’i at Mānoa	Diversity Achievement From Settler Colonies to Black Utopias: The Dialectics of American Architecture in Black and White Charles Davis University At Buffalo, SUNY

Diversity Achievement Honorable Mention Women’s Reunion + Symposium Sara Bartumeus Ferre, Marci Uihlein, & Andrea Melgarejo De Berry University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Creative Achievement Kinesthetic Montage Hong Kong Esther Lorenz University of Virginia	Creative Achievement Waste Matters Nikole Bouchard University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Practice + Leadership Engage-Design-Build Emilie Taylor Tulane University	Practice + Leadership Research-Based Design \| Arch 563: Building Science Research Topics Corey Griffin Pennsylvania State University

Faculty Design ALFAMA 2.0 // RE-habilitation // RE-vitalization // RE-structuration// María González Aranguren University of Virginia	Faculty Design Drawing Fields Erik Herrmann & Ashley Bigham The Ohio State University	Faculty Design New Investigations in Collective Form Neeraj Bhatia & Cesar Lopez California College of the Arts (CCA) & University of New Mexico	Faculty Design Honorable Mention All Access John Folan University of Arkansas and Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS) with PROJECT RE_	Faculty Design Honorable Mention Expanded Views, With Rooms Megan Panzano Harvard University

Faculty Design Honorable Mention The Ripple Effects – Martin Luther King, Jr. & Coretta Scott King Memorial Julian Bonder, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Maryann Thompson, & Walter Hood Roger Williams University, Harvard University, & University of California, Berkeley	Faculty Design Honorable Mention 2 Projects in 12 Constraints Felipe Mesa Arizona State University	Housing Design Education Cooperative Housing for the 2000-Watt Society – Neighborhoods as Commons Stefan Gruber Carnegie Mellon University	Housing Design Education Neighborhoods for All: Expanding Housing Opportunity in Seattle’s Single-Family Zones Richard Mohler & Bradley Khouri University of Washington & b9 architects	Housing Design Education Re-Live Downtown Pine Bluff Stephen Luoni University of Arkansas

Collaborative Practice An Atlas of Commoning Stefan Gruber Carnegie Mellon University	Collaborative Practice Cultivating the Future: Enabling, Designing, Constructing & Managing a Didactic Garden Hans Herrmann, Cory Gallo, Suzanne Powney, Peter Summerlin, & Lee Carson Mississippi State University	Collaborative Practice The Field of Dreams Ecocommunity in Utah Jörg Rügemer University of Utah	Design Build Negotiation Tables John Folan University of Arkansas and Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS)	Design Build Neonomads Patrick Rhodes, Gregory Spaw, & Lamya Al Qassimi American University of Sharjah

JAE: Design as Scholarship Taking Stock Ang Li Northeastern University	JAE: Scholarship as Design Beyond Participation: Rethinking Social Design Gabriel Arboleda Amherst College	JAE: Micronarrotive Images Doing Work: Construction Photography at the Tuskegee Institute and Black Mountain College Anna Goodman & Maura Lucking Portland State University & University of California, Los Angeles	TAD: Volume 3 Backyard Housing Boom: New Markets for Affordable Housing and the Role of Digital Technology Alysia Bennett, Dana Cuff, & Gus Wendel Monash University & University of California, Los Angeles

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