Categories: Awards/Recognitions
B Arch Student Raquel Vera-Mijares Wins AIA SF Emerging Leader Scholarship
B Arch Student Raquel Vera-Mijares Wins AIA SF Emerging Leader Scholarship We congratulate BArch student Raquel Vera-Mijares who is the recipient of the 2025 AIA SF Emerging Leader Scholarship! This scholarship recognizes Raquel's growth as a designer and her commitment to her education. Raquel is an onsite student who balances school and full time work.…
Students Win AIASF Leadership Award
Students Win AIASF Leadership Award School of Architecture students and faculty were prominently represented at the AIASF Design Awards Ceremony and Gala. Architecture students were the recipients of the AIASF 2025 Leadership Award, in the Student Category, for their collaborative work on the Stay Over Program family shelter. The Award Ceremony was held at the…
Aurgho Jyoti wins AIA NY New Practice Award
Faculty member Aurgho Jyoti‘s firm AUR - Architecture Urbanism Research is one of the 6 architecture firms granted the prestigious “New York New Practice” award by The American Institute of Architects New York. They will exhibit their work at the Center for Architecture (AIANY) in Manhattan from May 8, 2025 - September 2, 2025, and…
AIA Medal for Academic Excellence
AIA Medal for Academic Excellence The AIA Medal for Academic Excellence recognizes top graduating architecture students in NAAB-accredited programs who have shown excellence throughout their academic career. For more than a century, AIA has provided a medal of excellence to the top graduating students in National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) or Canadian Architectural Certification Board…
Malik Louis Wins the Walker Warner Scholarship
Image: Malik Louis & Giewel David, Exploded Axon, BluePrint Autoheaven, ARH 315 Studio 5 Malik Louis Wins the Walker Warner Scholarship Third year BArch student, Malik Louis, is the recipient of the 2024 Walker Warner Scholarship! https://walkerwarner.com/practice/news/read/2024/2024-diversity-in-architecture-scholarship-winners/ Malik started his architectural education online while on active military duty stationed in Portugal. He is…
ACSA Conference Publication
ACSA Conference Publication ARH 498 faculty and students co-authored a paper presented at ACSA's 112th Annual Meeting: Disrupters on the Edge. Micro-Intervention and Co-Creation at a Family Shelter: Co-creation is not new, but it should be more widely embraced as one approach to tackle systemic problems. Paired with micro-interventions, it can reach those who are…
ARH students featured on NBC Bay Area, “Bay Area Proud”
ARH students featured on NBC Bay Area, “Bay Area Proud” We're so proud of the ARH students featured on NBC bay area, showcasing their design build work with the Stay Over Program shelter in San Francisco. See the article here: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/bay-area-proud/san-francisco-college-students-design-construct-dozens-of-beds-for-homeless-students-and-their-families/3465695/
FLAD Scholarship 2023 Recipients
Congratulations to Lowai Ghaly and Amanda Estrada! We are super pleased and excited to announce that Lowai Ghaly and Amanda Estrada are the recipients of the 2023 Flad Architects Scholarship! Our jury looked for students in the 3rd, 4th and 5th years of the program, with an emphasis on engagement, design thinking and…
Fall 2022 Studio Awards
Now posted on instagram!! Congratulations to all the awardees! See the full awards at https://www.instagram.com/process_aauarch_ug/ https://architecture.academyart.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/share.mp4
Flad Architects Scholarship Winners
Flad Architects Scholarship Winners Please congratulate Mai Ho-Nguyen and Andrew Hart who are the recipients of the 2022 Flad Architects Scholarship! Flad Architects generously offered scholarships of $2000 each to one 5th year student and one 4th year B Arch student. The scholarship is intended to support minority students who are US…
Braden Engel – Book Publication
We congratulate our Faculty Member and History Theory Coordinator Braden R. Engel, PhD, on his first Book Publication! Colin Rowe's Gospel of Modern Architecture Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 1st edition, Hardcover (June 1, 2022) The book can be ordered here About the Book Colin Rowe is recognized as one of the most influential architecture teachers of the…
Undergraduate Studio Awards: Fall 2021
Undergraduate Studio Awards for Fall 2021 At the conclusion of Fall 2021 semester, we asked studio faculty to nominate students deserving of recognition. We are delighted to announce the Fall 2021 Studio Award recipients! The pandemic continues to affect all of us in serious and less serious ways. We will continue to support…
William Cox Wins Gensler Rising Black Designers Scholarship
William Cox Wins Gensler Rising Black Designers Scholarship Please join us in congratulating William, a first year online student, who was awarded the Gensler Rising Black Designers Micro-Scholarship! According to Gensler, their scholarships "work to break down the barriers of entering the architectural profession for Black students." The Rising Black Designers scholarship…
Online Student Kenya Steward Wins SOM Award
Kenya Steward Wins SOM Robert L. Wesley Award Please join us in congratulating Kenya. We are so proud of her for being recognized by this prestigious award! Kenya, a second year online student, was selected to receive the SOM Robert L. Wesley Award for BIPOC students. She is one of five recipients, among seventy-six applicants,…
AIA-SF 2021 Award for M.Arch Student
M.Arch Alumna Yi-Hsien (Rachel) Wang is the only student among an illustrious field of outstanding professionals who won and AIA SF 2o21 Design Award. Rachel scored in the People Choice Category with her Thesis "Outer Mission Ramp Library" tutored by Graduate Director Mark Mueckenheim. Her project is also featured on our Blog and in the…
AIA SF Awards for our Students
AIA SF Awards for our Students Three of our Architecture students were awarded for their projects in the Unbuilt Design Category at the AIASF American Institute of Architects – San Francisco Design Awards. These awards are a credit to the hard work of the students who integrated their values and life experience and invested a…
Undergrad Faculty Sameena Sitabkhan talks B.Lab with Bobby Brill on the Creative Mind podcast
Check out the latest podcast in the Creative Mind series with Bobby Brill: Creative Mind - Community Architecture Community Architecture with Sameena Sitabkhan (ARH undergraduate faculty) In this episode of Creative Mind, Sameena walks us through some of B.Lab’s projects in the San Francisco Bay Area including community builds for the NCH Community Garden and…
ARH Faculty Writings Published
ARH faculty Nicole Lambrou, Eric Lum, and Karen Seong are contributing authors in a book published this September! Real and Fake in Architecture Close to the Original, Far from Authenticity? The condition of fake and real in architecture is rarely publicly discussed, nor has it encountered broad journalistic or scholarly attention. This book explores…
How Academy of Art Students Are Taking Analog Classes Digitally
Art From Afar: How Academy of Art Students Are Taking Analog Classes Digitally The Academy of Art University proves how innovative online practices were translated overnight and continues to offer art and design education during the COVID-19 crisis to students around the world Sheltering in Place. NBC Bay Area covers our story : https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/art-from-afar-how-academy-of-art-students-are-taking-analog-classes-digitally/2264294/
Congratulations Saida+Sullivan Design Partners!
Mimi Sullivan, Saida + Sullivan Design Partners October 3, 2019 Mimi Sullivan, Principal at Saida + Sullivan Design Partners (SSDP) and Executive Director of the School of Architecture, is proud to celebrate the Grand Opening of Hunter's Point East-West and the Westbrook Apartments affordable family housing rehabilitations. On September 16, 2019, SSDP, along with SF…
Jose Mayoral Moratilla: Selected To Edit “Revista Materia”
Materia #18: The Open Project August 14, 2019 Jose Mayoral Moratilla has been chosen to edit a well know Chilean architecture journal "Revista Materia." This issue of Materia Arquitectura assesses the notion of an open project. A notion that understands obsolescence as an integral part or function and accepts the possibility of transformation as an…
PRÁCTICA: Refurbishing the Monument to the Fallen
PRÁCTICA Does It Again February 2019 PRÁCTICA's proposal for the refurbishment of the Monument to the Fallen in Pamplona, Spain, into a new City Hall building has been shortlisted for the second phase of the international competition. It will be presented in public on February 19th as part of a participatory process aimed to involve…
PRÁCTICA Wins Social Housing Competition
School of Architecture Shows Its Pride The School of Architecture is proud to announce that PRÁCTICA, led by Jose Mayoral Moratilla, Jaime Daroca, and Jose Ramon Sierra, have won first place in a social housing competition held in Seville, Spain. This design was in collaboration with Daroca Arquitectos. Technical facts: Architecture: PRÁCTICA and Daroca…
Davidson Rafailidis Among 10 Best
School of Architecture Faculty Stephanie Davidson’s firm Davidson Rafailidis recognized among the 10 Best Residential Projects of 2018 Graduate School of Architecture's Faculty member Stephanie Davidson's work is listed among the 10 Best Residential Projects of 2018 by Azure Magazine. From resplendent single-family houses to imaginative, affordable and sustainable multi-unit dwellings, Azure Magazine selected the…
San Francisco Design Week Honors AAU Project
THE GUERILLA COFFEE UNIT (ARH 250 FALL 2017 AT THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY) IS HONORED AT FIRST ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO DESIGN WEEK AWARDS San Francisco Design Week honors projects encouraging thought leadership in design. Design Awards Theme: “Where Innovation Meets Social Responsibility” June 7, 2018–San Francisco, California ARH 250 was honored at…
Graduate Faculty included in an exhibition in Berlin, Germany
Graduate Faculty included in an exhibition in Berlin, Germany M.Arch Faculty Member Ben Rice's autonomous drawings were recently acquired for the permanent collection of the Architekturmuseum at TU Berlin. They will be part of an exhibit titled “Artifacts of Architectural Design and their Knowledge Practice: Sketching, Drawing, Scripting and Modeling” the exhibition is up until February 22nd at…
Austin+Mergold wins 2018 City of Dreams Competition
Austin+Mergold wins 2018 City of Dreams Competition AAU Architecture Faculty member Jason Austin with his firm Austin+Mergold, recently won the 2018 City of Dreams Competition, with their proposal to recycle metal grain bins to frame sky views and track the path of the sun in New York. For further information see https://archpaper.com/2018/02/winner-2018-city-dreams-pavilion-competition-announced/
Faculty member José Mayoral curator of the 2017 Chile Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism
Faculty member José Mayoral curator of the 2017 Chile Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism Graduate School of Architecture Faculty is one of the curators of the next Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2017 titled “Diálogos Impostergables” in Valparaiso, Chile. Biennial Brief: Thinking about what we consider unpostponable requires us to start a dialogue about new alternatives, in which there…
Architecture Faculty members win Competition in Málaga, Spain
Architecture Faculty members win Competition in Málaga, Spain School of Architecture faculty members Jaime Daroca Guerrero, José Mayoral Moratilla and José Ramón Sierra Y Gómez de León's practice PRACTICA together with Daroca Arquitectos have been awarded the first prize for the competition proposal for the "New Forms of Habitation - The Green Block" competition in…
Competition Success for Graduate Architecture Student
Competition Success for Graduate Architecture Student Master of Architecture Student Tsz Wai Leung was shortlisted in the The Hong Kong Pixel Home Competition for her architecture thesis project LiSC “Living in Shared Community” an innovative housing proposal that utilizes the concept of a sharing economy. The project introduces a social and sustainable community that addresses…
Spring Show: ARH 550 Awards
Spring Show: ARH 550 Awards Congratulations to the B.Arch thesis students whose achievements were recognized with the following awards: Stefan Ultsch: Outstanding Thesis Award José Martín Melara: Most Honorable Thesis Award and AIA Certificate of Merit based on overall GPA Maria Niella Grajales: Most Curative Thesis Award Saeed Alneyadi: Most Playfully Provocative Thesis Award…
AAU Undergraduate Student, Naomi Rojas, Featured in USA TODAY
AAU Undergraduate Student, Naomi Rojas, Featured in USA TODAY USA Today article "Silicon Valley applies a tech fix to homelessness," by Jon Swartz, focuses on fixing the SF Homeless problem. This article mentions the Academy of Art University and quotes Undergraduate Director, Jennifer Asselstine about the students role in designing futuristic solutions. It also…
Graduate Faculty Member Stephanie Davidson Among Blueprint Award Winners
Graduate Faculty Member Stephanie Davidson Among Blueprint Award Winners Graduate faculty member, Stephanie Davidson, won the 2016 Blueprint Awards with her firm Davidson Rafailidis. Stephanie, as well as her partner Georg Rafailidis, are also scheduled for a lecture on November 10th as part of our Fall Lecture Series. http://bustler.net/news/5254/zaha-hadid-gr-ntuch-ernst-davidson-rafailidis-among-2016-blueprint-award-winners Best Small Project Winner: Davidson Rafailidis,…
Congratulations to Mallory Cusenbery for AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice Award
Congratulations to Mallory Cusenbery for AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice Award We congratulate faculty member Mallory Cusenbery, as his firm RossDrulisCusenbery Architecture just won an AIA award for their Sutter County Courthouse. For more information, go to http://new.aia.org/showcases/15896-sutter-county-courthouse.
Thesis Award Recipients
School of Architecture 2016 B.Arch Thesis Award winners Front Row: Karen Seong, Undergraduate Assistant Director, Benny Flores, Paris Yuan, Erina Yamada, Jennifer Asselstine, Undergraduate Director Back Row: Michael Attwell, Micheal Donahue The Thesis Awards this year were: Paris Yuan, 2016 Outstanding B.Arch Thesis Award For her thoughtful exploration of human condition Michael Attwell,…
MCKNHM Work Featured in AMC
MCKNHM Work Featured in AMC Designed by Mark Mueckenheim, principal of MCKNHM, the CMYK house was published in the prestigious AMC magazine earlier this year. The CMYK house was also included in AMC's special "Maisons" issue. AMC is the leading architecture magazine in France.
Students at Schoool of Architecture Winners at 280 Freeway Competition
The Winning Project ARC DE DEFE[E]T ARC DE DEFE[E]T, by Academy of Art University graduate students Jonathan Bradley and Ye Bao, creates demand for bikes by giving them away to the people that choose to park their automobiles at one of the existing parking structures of Mission Bay. With the growing demand for a…