The AIA honors 18 recipients with their 2018 Young Architects Award

The AIA has announced the winners of their Young Architects Award. Now in its 25th year, the awards competition distinguishes early-career professional architects who have been licensed for 10 years or less regardless of their age. The following 18 winners for 2018 have all shown exceptional leadership and have already made significant contributions to the profession. Hailing from all across the country, they work across a range of disciplines within the field, specializing in everything from masterplanning and sustainable architecture to historical preservation and healthcare design.

Picked by a jury that includes Lenore M. Lucey, FAIA (Chair), LML Consulting; Raymond "Skipper" Post, FAIA, Post Architects, Baton Rouge; Edward Vance, FAIA, EV&A Architects, Inc.; Peter Kuttner, FAIA, Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc.; John Castellana, FAIA, TMP Architecture, Inc. and Evelyn Lee, AIA, Savills Studley; here are the 2018 recipients:

Michelle Acosta, AIA, SmithGroupJJR

Allison Albericci, AIA, City and County of San Francisco Planning Department

Jamie Crawley, AIA, HA Architecture

Matthew DeBoer, AIA, HDR

Lawrence Fabbroni, AIA, Strada

Tony Garcia, AIA, Asquared Studios

Kelly Haigh, AIA, DesignLAB Architects

Thomas Hurlbert, AIA, CO-OP Architecture

Erin Sterling Lewis, AIA, In Situ Studio

Nicole Martineau, AIA, Arrowstreet

Ryan McEnroe, AIA, Quinn Evans Architects

Stephen Parker, AIA, SmithGroupJJR

Pascale Sablan, AIA, S9 Architecture

Angela Wolf Scott, AIA, MacDonald & Mack Architects

Malini Srivastava, AIA, Design and Energy Laboratory

Satoshi Teshima, AIA, HGA Architects and Engineers

Anthony Viola, AIA, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Korey White, AIA, RNL Design 

In addition, the AIA has also selected seven Associate AIA members to receive their 2018 Associates Award. The honor is given to individual Associate AIA members to recognize outstanding leaders and creative thinkers for significant contributions to their communities and the architecture profession. The following recipients have been awarded:

Jake Banton, Assoc. AIA, Mackey Mitchell Architects

Melissa R Daniel, Assoc. AIA, WDG Architecture

Ryan Gann, Assoc. AIA, Ross Barney Architects

Gail Kubik, Assoc. AIA, Finegold Alexander Architects

Yiselle Santos Rivera, Assoc. AIA, HKS Architects

Jason Takeuchi, Assoc. AIA, Ferraro Choi and Associates

Timarie Trarbach, Assoc. AIA, Populous