2023-2024 Honorees
AIA Medal for Academic Excellence, Graduate
This American Institute of Architects Award honors the graduating MArch student who has the highest grade-point average for the complete course of study.
- Hannah Wahle
AIA Medal for Academic Excellence, Undergraduate
This American Institute of Architects Award honors the graduating BArch student who has the highest grade-point average for the complete course of study.
- Christian Orme
Alice Wesoloski Scholarship
Selected by the faculty to a student of particular ability and character.
- Chioma Oparaji
Alliance Architects Scholarship
Selected by the faculty, the Alliance Architects Scholarship is awarded to a student who has shown a personal or professional interest in serving or otherwise supporting underrepresented minority communities.
- Myldred Hernandez-Gonzalez
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.
- Nathan Alan Walz
Amico Studio Award
Selected by the dean and faculty for design excellence in the fourth or fifth year of study.
- Kyle Dellenbaugh
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.
- Rob Baranko
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.
- Hayden Strong
David M. Schwarz Architects Internship and Traveling Fellowship Award, Graduate
A two-month internship for a student with David M. Schwarz Architects and a one-month travel fellowship involving independent research and study.
- Sylvia Maina
David M. Schwarz Architects Internship and Traveling Fellowship Award, Undergraduate
A two-month internship for a student with David M. Schwarz Architects and a one-month travel fellowship involving independent research and study.
- Emily Fuchs
Dean’s Graduate Award for Design Excellence in Architecture
These awards are made by the dean upon recommendations by the graduate thesis jury.
- Christian Orme
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.
- Kyle Dellenbaugh
Ferguson & Shamamian Graduate Prize
Selected by the respective thesis juries, the Ferguson & Shamamian Architects Prizes are awarded to students for excellence in classical/traditional design exhibited in thesis.
- Nikolai Grigorevskii
Ferguson & Shamamian Undergraduate Prize
Selected by the respective thesis juries, the Ferguson & Shamamian Architects Prizes are awarded to students for excellence in classical/traditional design exhibited in thesis.
- Nathan Walz
- Ben McCabe
Gertrude S. Sollitt Prize for Architectural Structure
Selected by the fifth-year thesis jurors, the Gertrude S. Sollitt Prize is awarded to the student who submits the best work as a solution to a special problem in structure.
- Nathan Walz
Honorable Mention Award for Design Excellence in Architecture, Jury's Choice
Selected by the graduate thesis jurors, this honorable mention is for overall excellence in a graduate thesis project.
- Benae Buss
- Xavier Mills
- Andrea Miloslavic
Honorable Mention Award for Design Excellence in Architecture, Jury's Choice
Selected by the thesis jurors, this honorable mention is for overall excellence in an undergraduate thesis project.
- Elizabeth Reay
- Truc Le
- Julia Rabito
- Elizabeth Hentges
Honorable Mention Award for Design Excellence in Architecture, Faculty's Choice
Selected by the undergraduate graduate thesis faculty, this honorable mention is for overall excellence in a undergraduate thesis project.
- Alegria Ubidia
- Elise Maletta
- Sara Nelson
- Juan Marquez
- Madeline Hartman
- Olivia Althoff
- Isabella Botello
Jane Jacobs Award
Selected by the thesis faculty and the dean, this award is for demonstrated commitment to community building and urban planning.
- Truc Le
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.
- Nikolai Grigorevskii
Liang Ssu-Ch’eng Award
Selected by the Dean, on the recommendation of the fifth-year thesis jury, this award recognizes excellence in non-Western architecture.
- Matthew Espeland
Michael and Julie Hanahan Architecture Prize
Selected by the fifth year students, this prize recognizes one of their classmates for overall excellence in the study of architecture.
- Abby Meyer
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.
- Miriam Suttie
Noel Blank Design Awards
This high honor goes to the top two thesis projects as selected by the fifth-year thesis jurors.
- Rob Baranko
Norman A. Crowe Award
Given to graduating students for their contributions to the idea of sustainability with respect to architecture and urbanism.
- Elizabeth Reay
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.
- Jordan Fredricksen
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.
- Hannah Wahle
- Caroline Larocca
Rambusch Prize, Graduate
Selected by the faculty, the Rambusch Prize is given for the best solution to a problem related to a religious architecture project for graduate students.
- Christian Orme
Rambusch Prize, Undergraduate
Selected by the faculty, the Rambusch Prize is given for the best solution to a problem related to a religious architecture project for undergraduate students.
- Nathan Walz
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.
- Madison Mauch
Rickety Porch Award
Selected by faculty, this award recognizes the graduating fifth year student who shows the most promise in Architecture scholarship.
- Ashley Straub
St. Joseph Award in Furniture Design
Selected by the furniture design jury for excellence in furniture design and construction.
- Elizabeth Reay
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.
- Rob Baranko
Tau Sigma Delta Honors Society
An honors society for Architecture and the Allied Arts.
Class of 2024
Undergraduate
- Robert Baranko
- Kyle Dellenbaugh
- Mathhew Espeland
- Caroline Larocca
- Ben McCabe
- Sara Nelson
- Ashley Straub
- Hannah Wahle
- Nathan Walz
Class of 2025
- Emily Fuchs
- Elizabeth Gribschaw
- Hayden Strong
- Sydney Heim
- Angela Li
- Myldred Hernandez Gonzalez
- Anna Cross
- Garrett Nagorzanski
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.
- Leanne Bujalski