ACSA is pleased to announce the 2016-2017 Architectural Education Award Winners. Each year, ACSA honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. Award winners inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academy into practice and the public sector. Congratulations to all the award winners!

Robert A. Stern
Yale University


Lisa Findley
California College of the Arts

Christopher Long
University of Texas at Austin

Jorge I. Rigau
Polytechnic University
of Puerto Rico

Christine O. Theodoropoulos
California Polytechnic
State University

Roger Schluntz
University of New Mexico


Alexander Eisenschmidt
The University of
Illinois at Chicago

Art of Space
Gerard Nadeau
Drury University

Lydia Kallipoliti
Polytechnic University
of Puerto Rico


Dotte Agency
Nils Gore, Shannon Criss,
& Matthew Kleinmann
University of Kansas

Education Center for
Beardsley Community Farm
Jennifer Akerman & Robert C. French
University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Studio 335: Collaborative Service Learning
Robert Brooks & Thomas Bradley Deal
Louisiana Tech University


Learn & Grow: An Educational Garden
for the Boys & Girls Club
Alexis Gregory
Mississippi State University

Beginning Design: The HBCU Experience
Pavlina Ilieva, Gabriel Kroiz, & Adam Bridge
Morgan State University


Ian Caine
University of Texas At San Antonio

Aki Ishida
Virginia Tech

Lance Walters
University of Hawaii At Manoa


Unbuilding Long Branch
Matt Burgermaster
Parsons The New School for Design

Pacific Aquarium
Rania Ghosn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
El Hadi Jazairy
University of Michigan
Faculty Design Honorable Mentions

Church and Parish Center
Miguel Guitart
University At Buffalo, SUNY
Daniel Gimeno
Gimeno Guitart

Atlas of Another America:
An Architectural Fiction
Keith Krumwiede
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Bluestone Church
Jungwoo Ji
Iowa State University

Post Rock
Meredith L. Miller &
Thom Moran
University of Michigan


Bus Shelter Prototypes
Christopher D. Trumble
University of Arizona

Food Trip Market Stall
Elizabeth Golden & Ray Villanueva
University of Washington

Preston Outdoor Education Station
David Dowell
Kansas State University

Louder than a Bomb 2
Terry Boling
MetroLAB, University of Cincinnati


Third Place Ecologies
Stephen D. Luoni, Francisco J. Mejias Villatoro, David Marroquin Juarez, & Tanzil Idmam Shafique
University of Arkansas

Retrofitting the Rustbelt City
Erkin Özay
University At Buffalo, SUNY


UWM SARUP Externship Program
Mo Zell
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Integrated Project Delivery Theater
Hans Curtis Herrmann, Emily M. McGlohn,
& Michele Herrmann
Mississippi State University


Smart Geometries for Smart Materials: Taming Thermobimetals to Behave
Doris Sung
University of Southern California
ACSA would like to thank the awards jurors, board of directors, and JAE editorial board for their work in reviewing almost 200 submissions and selecting the above award winners. View past winners.
TM JURY
Stephen Vogel, U. of Detroit Mercy
Geraldine Forbes Isais, U. of New Mexico
Sharon Johnston, Johnston Marklee & Associates
Chere R. LeClair, LeClair Architects
Sarah Wahlgren, AIAS Rep.
NFT JURY
Rachel Law, AIAS Rep.
Sarah Wahlgren, AIAS Rep.
Corey Griffin, Portland State U.
Magdalena Garmaz, Auburn U.
DA JURY
Carlos Reimers, Catholic U. of America
Nichole Wiedemann, U. of Texas at Austin
Maria Arquero De Alarcon, U. of Michigan
CP JURY
Rashida Ng, Temple U.
Michael Hughes, American U. of Sharjah
Vandana Baweja, U. of Florida
HDE JURY
Kevin Alter, U. of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Debs, RISD
Adrianne Steichen, PYATOK
DP JURY
Francisco Rodriguez-Suarez, U. de Puerto Rico
Elizabeth Danze, U. of Texas at Austin
Judith Sheine, U. of Oregon
CA JURY
Jori Erdman, Louisiana State U.
Marilys Nepomechie, Florida International U.
Julian Bonder, Roger Williams U.
FD JURY
Grace La, Harvard U.
Kelly Bair, U. of Illinois at Chicago
Dan Wheeler, U. of Illinois at Chicago
DB JURY
Francis Lyn, Florida Atlantic U.
Frank Flury, Illinois Institute of Technology
Linda Samuels, Washington University in St. Louis
PL JURY
Jeff Day, U. of Nebraska
John Cays, NJIT
Richard Borrelli, WBRC Architects Engineers
Lisa M. Chronister, City of Oklahoma City Planning Department
JAE Best Article Award Jury
JAE Editorial Board
ACSA Board of Directors
Study Architecture
ProPEL