ACSA announces the 2023 Architectural Education Award winners

The winners of the 2023 Architectural Education Awards were revealed by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture this morning. Academics from U.S.-based institutions and abroad received recognition for their teachings and contributions to the "profession’s knowledge base." 

Parsons School of Design distinguished visiting professor Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton led the field as the Topaz Medallion winner. 

Here is the full list of this year's winners:

AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education

• Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton of the Parsons School of Design

Distinguished Professor Award

• Linda N. Groat of the University of Michigan
• Kent Kleinman of Brown University
• Thomas Leslie of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Iowa State University
• Joanna Lombard of the University of Miami
• Peter MacKeith of the University of Arkansas

AIAS/ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award

Part-Time Faculty

• Evan Shieh of the New York Institute of Technology and Parsons School of Design

Full-Time Faculty

• Shawn Bailey of the University of Manitoba
• César A. Lopez of the University of New Mexico

Full-Time Faculty Honorable Mention

• Zahra Safaverdi of Texas Tech University

Diversity Achievement Award

• Design as a Tool to Develop Social Agency: Proyecto Volcadero by Milagros Zingoni of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Oriana Gil Perez of Arizona State University; and Oriana Venti and Sonia Garcia of the Universidad de Oriente

Diversity Achievement Award Honorable Mention

• Building Equality(ies) in Architecture North - BEA(N) by Shannon Bassett of Laurentian University
• Drawing Out Stories - Building Up Diversity by Dr. Jill Bambury, MRAIC of the University of Hartford

Creative Achievement Award

• Site, Matter, Ecology, and Indigenous Storywork by Adrian Phiffer of the University of Toronto
• Reenvisioning Everyday Architecture: Experiments in Visual Mapping and Hybrid Media by Aki Ishida of Virginia Tech University 
• Subjective Waters by Curry Hackett of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Collaborative Practice Award

• Deconstructing Blight by John Folan of the University of Arkansas and Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS)
• Five Points Alley: Crafting Community Through Full-Scale Prototyping by Terry Boling of the University of Cincinnati
• The Power of Place and Social Production: building a sustainable community through design and technology in Westside Neighborhood - English Avenue by Julie Ju-Youn Kim of the Georgia Institute of Technology
  
• Environmental Justice at Bayview-Hunters Point by Margaret Ikeda & Evan Jones of the California College of the Arts (CCA)

Faculty Design Award

• Four Dioramas by Neyran Turan of the University of California, Berkeley
• Redemption by John Folan of the University of Arkansas and Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS)
• CloudHouse Shade Pavilion by Iman Fayyad of Syracuse University

Faculty Design Award Honorable Mention

• The Bronzeville Action Coalition: A Model for a Distributed Urban Commons by Neeraj Bhatia of the California College of the Arts (CCA) and César A. Lopez of the University of New Mexico

Design-Build Award

• Stadium Rowhouses: Macro to Micro by Mary Hardin of the University of Arizona
• Omaha Mobile Stage by Jeffrey L. Day, FAIA | University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Circular Chromatics: Biomaterial Invention through Research-Build by Kyle Schumann of the University of Virginia
• The LivingRoom: A prototype outdoor classroom and learning garden by Hans Herrmann, Cory Gallo, Abbey Wallace & Suzanne Powney of Mississippi State University

AIA/ACSA Practice + Leadership Award

• Clipper Academy: ARCH517 - Douglas Noble & Karen Kensek of the University of Southern California

AIA/ACSA Housing Design Education Award

• Housing America: Architecture's Social Agenda at the Center of Pedagogy - Tricia Stuth, Ted Shelton, Clayton Adkisson & William Rosenthal | University of Tennessee-Knoxville

AIA/ACSA Housing Design Education Award Honorable Mention

• The New Attainable House - Jeffrey L. Day, FAIA & Frank Ordia of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

JAE Best Article Award

Essay Award

• A ‘Holding Place’: An Indigenous Typology to Mediate Hospital Care by Janet McGaw, Alasdair Vance & Uncle Herb Patten of the University of Melbourne

Design Essay Award

• Equity & Dignity by Design: Co-creating Guidelines with Planned Parenthood Affiliate Health Centers' by Deborah Richards & Angela M. Person | University of Oklahoma

Narrative Award 

• Reframing Stories: A Woman and Her Building at the Dawn of the Mexican Revolution by Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

TAD Research Contribution Award

Article from Volume V

• On GANs, NLP and Architecture: Combining Human and Machine Intelligences for the Generation and Evaluation of Meaningful Designs by Jeffrey Huang, Mikhael Johanes, Frederick Chando Kim, Christina Doumpioti & Georg-Christoph Holz of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)