While hundreds of students, family, and alumni toured the towering highrise models and home miniatures at the 2024 Open House at IIT College of Architecture, titled “In/Print,” a dozen visiting jurors were exploring S. R. Crown Hall for especially creative or outstanding projects that celebrate what the College embodies. The winners of these awards were presented at the Spring Awards Ceremony on May 10, 2024. The list of scholarships, awards, and merits follows:
The Samuel Horwitz Memorial Scholarship and Dwight T. Black Memorial Scholarship are tuition scholarships awarded to undergraduate students completing their first to fourth year of study whose studio projects demonstrate outstanding merit and professional promise. Students are nominated by their faculty and selected by the Spring Awards jury, listed below.
This year’s recipients are:
The Nagle/Hartray Scholarship, Jerrold & Ruth Wiel Loebl Scholarship, and the Brothers Finfer Scholarship are tuition scholarships awarded to nominated master of architecture students completing their first or second year of graduate study, and whose studio projects demonstrate outstanding merit and professional promise. Students are nominated by their faculty and selected by the Spring Awards jury. This year’s recipients are:
The AIA Chicago Foundation administers the juried Chicago Award in Architecture, which recognizes outstanding work by upper level students pursuing professional degrees in architecture in Chicago. One thousand dollars in prizes are awarded to projects of exceptional merit that are the work of 4th or 5th Year Bachelor of Architecture students or final year Master of Architecture students. The 2024 nominees from the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture are:
The Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Architecture, administered by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, recognizes the work of young, talented architects. The $15,000 prize is awarded to a winning project of exceptional merit that is the work of graduates or undergraduates in their final year of study in architecture from a selection of projects nominated by the faculty at IIT, SAIC, or UIC. The 2024 nominees from the College of Architecture are:
The Caldwell Medal is given to a 1st Year Master of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism student who exemplifies the commitment and convictions of the role of landscape architects in cities that distinguished Alfred Caldwell's public landscapes of democracy. This year, the Caldwell Medal is awarded to:
The Landscape Architecture Book Award in History, Theory, and Criticism is awarded in recognition of a landscape architecture student's scholarly achievement as selected by the landscape architecture faculty. This year, the Book Award in History, Theory, and Criticism is awarded to:
The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Scholarship for Masters in Landscape Architecture is a tuition scholarship open to continuing landscape architecture graduate students. This year’s recipients are:
The Hilberseimer Medal is given to a 2nd year MLA+U student who excels in critical thinking on city and regional planning and design that distinguished Ludwig Hilberseimer's career and work.
The Garden Club of Americas’ Loy McCandless Marks Scholarship in Tropical Horticulture/Landscape Architecture provides funding to a well-qualified graduate student or undergraduate student specializing in tropical horticulture, botany, or landscape architecture for the purpose of studying abroad at botanical institutions. This internationally competitive award goes to:
The Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects Awards of Honor or Merit are given to a graduating Master of Landscape Architecture student as nominated by the Landscape Architecture faculty. This year, a jury of Illinois ASLA leadership selected:
The Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Olmsted Scholars program recognizes and supports students with exceptional leadership potential who are using ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership to advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits. The Landscape Architecture Foundation has awarded a 2024 University Olmsted Scholarship to graduating MLA student:
The Landscape Architecture Foundation's Honor Scholarship for Inclusive Community Design recognizes students who show commitment to underserved urban communities and addressing community-scale design that is safe, healthful, economically productive, and beautiful.
This year’s award for the Best Defended Doctoral Dissertation in the 2024 academic year and the 18th Annual Architectural Research Centers Consortium | King Student Medal for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Design Research, given to one student per ARCC member school, that acknowledges innovation, integrity, and scholarship in architectural and/or environmental design research:
The Graham Resource Center Book Award assists students in building their personal libraries. Applicants submit essays on the role books play in their learning, growth, and studio work, with awardees selected by this year's College of Architecture Library Committee: Chair Colleen Humer, Ryan Roark, Kindon Mills, Jonathan Miller, and Kim Soss
The Peterhans Visual Training Prize is given by faculty in the Design Communications and Visual Media courses nominate students whose work demonstrates the visual training principles of Walter Peterhans, the noted architecture professor and colleague of Mies van der Rohe. We are very grateful to The Gertrude P. Kerbis Trust for their continued support of this award. Many thanks, as well, to the 2024 Peterhans Prize jury: Casey Jones, Julie Michiels, Kristin Jones, and Julian Kerbis Peterhans.
The recipients of this year’s Peterhans Visual Training Project Prize are:
Faculty Awards
The studio faculty recognize students for going above and beyond the expectations of the studio by fostering a strong and positive studio culture throughout the year.
The 2024 Studio Faculty Awards go to the following recipients:
B.Arch. 1st Year: Anjana Ramachandran, JP McCullough, & Emiliano Godinez Scroggins
B.Arch. 2nd Year: Andrew Nichols
B.Arch. 3rd Year: Maddigan Cox
B.Arch. 4th Year: Jlees Ahmed
M.Arch. 1st Year: Yesenia Contreras, Elizabeth Escobar, Catherine Economopoulos, Mia Fitzpatrick, and Eunnyong Lee
MLA 1st Year: Calyn O’Banion
MLA 2nd Year: Jincheng Chen
The Peer Mentor Program unites groups of 1st year undergraduate students with qualifying students in their final year of study. In the fall semester of each year, the Peer Mentors conduct weekly afternoon field trips for the 1st year students to various locations around Chicago, focusing on discussion of the built environment, critical thinking, and sketchbook development. This program gives those entering our college a student mentor for their first semester of study and provides Peer Mentors with their first taste of teaching and mentoring. This year’s Peer Mentor Scholars are:
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards the Medal for Academic Excellence, formerly known as the Henry Adams Medal, for the top graduate of the NAAB-accredited B.Arch., M.Arch., or D.Arch program who has displayed general excellence in their program. This year’s recipients of the AIA Medal for Academic Excellence are:
The Alpha Rho Chi Medal, provided by the National Professional Fraternity for Architecture and the Allied Arts, is awarded to a graduating student who has shown outstanding professional leadership; provided generous service for the college; and has demonstrated remarkable potential for professional merit. This award is nominated and voted upon by college faculty.