ACSA honors the 2022 Architectural Education Award winners

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture has announced the winners of the 2022 Architectural Education Awards. More than 50 architectural instructors from around the world received recognition for their inspiring research and teaching methods. 

Yale Dean Deborah Berke led the field as this year's Topaz Medal winner. Faculty from the University of Arkansas were particularly well represented. 

Scroll down to see a full list of winners.

AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education

• Deborah Berke of the Yale School of Architecture

Distinguished Professor Award

• LaVerne Wells-Bowie of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
• Michael J. Crosbie of the University of Hartford
• David Hinson of Auburn University
• Mitra Kanaani of the NewSchool of Architecture and Design
• Ethel Goodstein-Murphree of the University of Arkansas

ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award

• Camille Sherrod of Kean University
• José Ibarra of the University of Virginia
• Aneesha Dharwadker of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Liz McCormick of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Diversity Achievement Award

• Super Resilient: Finding Solid Grounds for Hlauleka School in Mozambique - Maged Guerguis of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville
• Engineering Independence: Concrete Architecture in the Global South - Mohamed Ismail and Caitlin Mueller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Accessibility in Beginning Design - Nikole Bouchard of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Creative Achievement Award

• Worthy Curricula: M.Arch Winter Term Options Studios - Ozayr Saloojee of Carleton University 
• Architecture of Ecological Attunement: Environment Form Feedback - Dana Cupkova of Carnegie Mellon University 
• _mpathic design: The Great Migration - Elgin Cleckley of the University of Virginia

Faculty Design Award - Research and Design Category

• Zippered Wood | Creating Non-orthogonal Architectural Assemblies Using the Most Common Linear Building Component (the 2×4) - Blair Satterfield, Alexander Preiss, Derek Mavis, Graham Entwistle, and Jon Ackerley of the University of British Columbia; and  Marc Swackhamer and  Matthew Hayes from the University of Colorado Denver

Faculty Design Award - Excellence in Community/Research Category

• Co-Designing Wellness: Arctic Indigenous Wellness Centre - Lola Sheppard of the University of Waterloo and Mason White of the University of Toronto, Kearon Roy Taylor | University of Toronto

Faculty Design Award - Applied Representation Category

• Web Model Dot Space - Aaron Jones of Lawrence Technological University

Faculty Design Award - Structural Innovation Category

• Skyroom Pavilion - Kristina Yu of the University of New Mexico

JAE Best Article Award - Best Design as Scholarship Article

• The Building Site, Redux - Timothy Hyde of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JAE Best Article Award - Best Scholarship of Design Article

• Climatic Design and Its Others - Jennifer Ferng and Daniel J. Ryan of the University of Sydney and Jiat-Hwee Chang, Erik L’Heureux of the National University of Singapore  

JAE Best Article Award - Best Micronarrative

AIA/ACSA Housing Design Education Award

• Middle Grounds – New Prototypes for Medium-Density Housing - Martin Hättasch of the University of Texas at Austin
• Housing at Markham Square: One Square Master Plan, Six Students, Six Housing Projects - Stephen Luoni and Claude Terral of the University of Arkansas
• From House to Housing: Remixing Mar Vista - Brian Holland of the University of Arkansas

AIA/ACSA Practice + Leadership Award

• Empowered Voices: Practice Chronicles - John Folan of the University of Arkansas
  

*Honorable Mention AIA/ACSA Practice + Leadership Award 

• Integrated Pedagogy - David Karle of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Mark Bacon of BVH Architecture
• Crossing Boundaries: Professional Practice and the RFP in Deeply International Zones of Poverty, Conflict, and Diversity - Marcus Farr of the American University of Sharjah

TAD Research Contribution Award

• Architectural Laboratory Practice for the Development of Clay and Ceramic-Based Photosynthetic Biocomposites - Assia Stefanova, Ben Bridgens, Pichaya In-na, Gary Caldwell, and Rachel Armstrong of Newcastle University

Collaborative Practice Award 

• Future of Hawai’i’s Housing, A Bottom-Up Exploratory Research Collaboration - Karla Sierralta of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Brian Strawn of the University of Hawaiʻi Community Design 
• Constructing Inclusivity - John Folan of the University of Arkansas and Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS) 
• Roaming Porches – A Participatory Action Research Studio - Stefan Gruber of Carnegie Mellon University 
• Activate, Articulate, Advocate: for the Right to Occupy, Hold Ground, and Upgrade - María Arquero de Alarcón and Ana Paula Pimentel Walker of the University of Michigan

Design-Build Award

• The Kunga Accessory Dwelling Unit - Jörg Rügemer of the University of Utah 
• The Arroyo Bridge - R. Scott Mitchell of the University of Southern California 
• New River Train Observation Tower - Edward Becker and Kay Edge of Virginia Tech 
• A.B. McDonald Elementary School Outdoor Classroom - Scott Lawrence, Brett Carter, and LaRae Tomera of the University of Idaho