2018-2019 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.
- Cynthia Sigler
- Phillip Breckler
Alice Wesoloski Scholarship
Selected by the faculty to provide tuition assistance to a student of particular ability and character.
- Alessandra Turi
- Stephanie Kubus
Brian Crumlish Scholarship
Selected by the faculty, the Brian Crumlish Scholarship is awarded to the students 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.
- Jacob Gillespie
Alliance Architects Scholarship
Selected by the faculty to a student of particular ability and character.
- Olga Handal Salomon
David M. Schwarz Architects Internship and Traveling Fellowship Award
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.
- Kangxin Wu
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.
- Jenna Frantik
Ruiz Award 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.
- Amali Wijesekera
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.
- Avani Agarwal
Jury’s Choice--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.
- Valeria Hasbun
Faculty’s Choice--Honorable Mention Award for Design Excellence in Architecture
Selected by the graduate thesis faculty, this honorable mention is for overall excellence in a graduate thesis project.
- Elena Ezzo
Amico Studio Award
Selected by the dean and faculty for design excellence in the fourth or fifth year of study.
- Michaela Mahon
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.
- Luke Palmer
Henry Adams Medal, Graduate
This American Institute of Architects Award honors the first-ranked graduate student in an accredited professional degree program.
- Roger Foreman
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.
- Spicer Emge
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.
- Connor Kooistra
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.
- Jonathan Unger
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.
- Gabriela Larumbe
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.
- Eva Baghdan
- Elise Emord
Jane Jacobs Award
Selected by the thesis faculty and the dean, this award is for demonstrated commitment to community building and urban planning.
- Gabriela Larumbe
Liang Ssu-Ch’eng Award
Selected by the fifth-year thesis jurors and the dean, this award recognizes excellence in non-Western architecture.
- Avani Agarwal
Michael and Julie Hanahan Architecture Prize
Selected by the students, this prize recognizes overall excellence in the study of architecture.
- Luke Palmer
Norman A. Crowe Award
Given to graduating students for their contributions to the idea of sustainability with respect to architecture and urbanism.
- Sean Gaouette
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.
- Rebekah Hall
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 Patrick Keough
- Roger Foreman
St. Joseph Award in Furniture Design
Selected by the furniture design professor for excellence in furniture design and construction.
- Daniel Patrick Keough
- Sean Gaouette
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.
- Adriana Sanchez
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.
- Christian Cullinan
Noel Blank Design Awards
This high honor goes to the top two thesis projects as selected by the fifth-year thesis jurors.
- Avani Agarwal
- Christian Cullinan
David M. Schwarz Architects Internship and Traveling Fellowship Award
A two-month internship for a graduate student with David M. Schwarz Architects and a one-month travel fellowship involving independent research and study.
- Metayah Tilahun
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.
- Margaret Zhang
Honorable Mention for Design Excellence in Architecture
Selected by the faculty to recognize design excellence in the thesis project.
- Daniel Kiser
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.
- Benjamin Felix
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.
- Margaret Zhang
Tau Sigma Delta Honors Society
An honors society for Architecture and the Allied Arts.
Class of 2019
- Avani Agarwal
- Eva Baghdan
- Christian Cullinan
- Elena Ezzo
- Benjamin Felix
- Roger Foreman
- Michaela Mahon
- Luke Palmer
- Jonathan Unger
- Xiaoyun Zhang
Class of 2020
- Katarzyna Baczynska
- Susanna Cohen
- Jacob Gillespie
- Yanjia Jin
- Stephanie Kubus
- Noah Legare
- Alessandra Turi
- Kangxin W
Tau Sigma Delta Bronze Medal Winner
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.
- Jonathan Unger
Educator of the Year
Selected by AIAS, SCA, SNU and SAWA, this award goes to the faculty member who exemplifies outstanding dedication and commitment to helping students learn.
- Prof. Kim Rollings