2019-2020 Honorees
Association of Licensed Architects Student Merit Award
The Association of Licensed Architects chooses Student Merit Award winners for their academic excellence, numerous awards, honors and significant achievements in the schools of architecture.
- Noah Legare
- Maddie Speicher
Alice Wesoloski Scholarship
Selected by the faculty to provide tuition assistance to a student of particular ability and character.
- Joanna Skros
Brian Crumlish Scholarship
Selected by the faculty, the Brian Crumlish Scholarship is awarded to the student who has displayed outstanding academic achievement in Building Technology and Structural Mechanics during the second year of study, and the Building Technology II and Structural Design during the fourth year of study.
- Ryan Cove
Alliance Architects Scholarship
Selected by the faculty to a student of particular ability and character.
- Nick Oddo
Ray Stuermer Memorial Award for Excellence in Design
Selected by faculty, the Stuermer Award is given on the basis of design work through the fourth year for overall improvement and design excellence.
- Hollie Hastings
Ruiz Scholarship for Excellence in Accessibility Design
This award goes to a rising fifth-year student to recognize their inclusion of accessibility issues in their studio work. Their work is well designed, demonstrates an awareness of ADA, and goes above and beyond the minimum design standard.
- Kat Shelby
Alpha Rho Chi Medal
Selected by the faculty, the Alpha Rho Chi Medal goes to the graduating student who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and service, showing true professional merit beyond the design studio and their academic career.
- Caroline Colella
Jury's Choice- Honorable Mention for Design Excellence in Architecture
Selected by the undergraduate thesis jury to recognize design excellence in the thesis project.
- Moataz M. Bashir
- Stephanie Kubus
- Noah Legare
- Darius Zacharakis
Amico Studio Award
Selected by the dean and faculty for design excellence in the fourth or fifth year of study.
- Ryan Fitzgerald
Henry Adams Medal
This American Institute of Architects Award honors the graduating architecture student who has the highest grade-point average for the complete course of study.
- Stephanie Kubus
Henry Adams Medal, Graduate
This American Institute of Architects Award honors the first-ranked graduate student in an accredited professional degree program.
- Michael DeMaagd Rodriguez
Andrew F. Kervick Award for Drawing
Selected by the faculty, the Andrew F. Kervick Award honors the student whose work in freehand drawing over the entire course of study has been of the highest merit.
- Madeline Fairman
Nellie Wynn Kervick Award for Design and Drawing
Selected by the Rome Studies studio faculty, the award honors the student whose work in freehand drawing in the third year of study has been of the highest merit.
- Natalie Pratt
Ralph Thomas Sollitt Award
Selected by the fifth-year thesis jury, the Ralph Thomas Sollitt Award is given to the student who submits the best design as a solution to the thesis architecture problem.
- Andrew Seago
Gertrude S. Sollitt Prize for Architectural Structure
Selected by the fifth-year thesis jurors, the Sollitt Prize is awarded to the student who submits the best work as a solution to a special problem in structure.
- Nik Procaccini
Walsh Family Hall Civic Award in Architecture and Urbanism
Given to a graduating student for their contribution to a culture of environmental sustainability and civic virtue within the School of Architecture.
- Jake Gillespie
Jane Jacobs Award
Selected by the thesis faculty and the dean, this award is for demonstrated commitment to community building and urban planning.
- Caroline Colella
Liang Ssu-Ch’eng Award
Selected by the fifth-year thesis jurors and the dean, this award recognizes excellence in non-Western architecture.
- Amali Wijesekera
Michael and Julie Hanahan Architecture Prize
Selected by the students, this prize recognizes overall excellence in the study of architecture.
- Madeline Fairman
Norman A. Crowe Award
Given to graduating students for their contributions to the idea of sustainability with respect to architecture and urbanism.
- Cal Kurtz
Paris, Rome, Athens Prize
Selected by the thesis faculty and the dean, this award is for the scope of exploration and the quality of individual buildings which successfully unite architecture and urban design.
- Kasia Baczynska
Rambusch Prize
Selected by the faculty, the Rambusch Prize is given for the best solution to a problem related to a religious architecture project.
- Daniel Prize
- Stephanie Kubus
St. Joseph Award in Furniture Design
Selected by the furniture design professor for excellence in furniture design and construction.
- Jack Adams
Ferguson & Shamamian Graduate Prize
Selected by the graduate review jury, the Ferguson & Shamamian Architects Graduate prize is awarded to a graduate student for excellence in classical/traditional design exhibited in a terminal project or graduate thesis.
- Julian Murphy
Ferguson & Shamamian Undergraduate Prize
Selected by the fifth-year thesis jury, the Ferguson & Shamamian Architects Undergraduate Prize is awarded to a fifth-year student for excellence in classical/traditional design exhibited in thesis.
- Austin Proehl
Dean’s Graduate Award for Design Excellence in Architecture
Selected by the graduate thesis jurors and the dean, this award goes to overall excellence in a graduate thesis project.
- Samuel Fischer
Dean’s Undergraduate Award for Design Excellence in Architecture
Selected by the fifth-year thesis jurors and the dean, this award goes to overall excellence in a fifth-year thesis project.
- Zhuofei Tang
Noel Blank Design Awards
This high honor goes to the top two thesis projects as selected by the fifth-year thesis jurors.
- Madeline Fairman
- Austin Proehl
David M. Schwarz Architects Internship and Traveling Fellowship Award, Graduate
A two-month internship for a graduate student with David M. Schwarz Architects and a one-month travel fellowship involving independent research and study.
- Patrick Vercio
David M. Schwarz Architects Internship and Traveling Fellowship Award, Undergraduate
A two-month internship for a fourth-year student with David M. Schwarz Architects and a one-month travel fellowship involving independent research and study.
- Tia Williams
Leon Battista Alberti Award
For the graduate student with the highest grade point average for the complete course of study in the post-professional degree program.
- Julian Murphy
Honorable Mention Award for Design Excellence in Architecture
Selected by the graduate thesis jurors, this honorable mention is for overall excellence in a graduate thesis project.
- Ashlen Zapara
Tau Sigma Delta Honors Society
An honors society for Architecture and the Allied Arts.
Class of 2020
- Alex Athenson
- Katarzyna Baczynska
- Susanna Cohen
- Jacob Gillespie
- Yanjia Jin
- Stephanie Kubus
- Noah Legare
- Julian Murphy
- Michael DeMaagd Rodriguez
- Andrew Seago
- Alessandra Turi
- Kangxin Wu
Class of 2021
- Ryan Cove
- Christopher Ebner
- Joseph Faccibene
- Matthew Gschwind
- Hollie Hastings
- Nicole Larkin
- James Pescio
- Kathryn Shelby
- Joanna Skros
- Tia Williams
Tau Sigma Delta Bronze Medal
The Tau Sigma Delta Bronze Medal is awarded to a student for overall excellence in design. The recipient is chosen by members of Tau Sigma Delta, giving the medal the particular distinction of being bestowed by one’s peers.
- Madeline Fairman
- Alessandra Turi
Educator of the Year Award
Selected by the graduating students, this award goes to the faculty member who exemplifies outstanding dedication and commitment to helping students learn.
- John Mellor