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Jurors

Nootan Bharani, Arts & Public Life & U.Chicago 
David Brown, UIC 
Zurich Esposito, AIA Chicago
Casey Jones, Perkins & Will
Yvette Kaiser-Smith, Yvette Kaiser-Smith Studio 
Caz Kujawa, Range Design
Ann Lui, Future Firm & U.Michigan 
Francesco Marullo, UIC 
Lori Mukoyama, Gensler
Conor O’Shea, U.Illinois & Hinterlands
Alex Timmer, UW-Milwaukee 
Antonio Torres, UIC & Bittertang Farm
Mark Sexton, K+S Partners (and IIT CoA Board of Advisors)

Samuel Horwitz Scholarship

1st Yr honorable mention: Abigail DiModica
1st Yr recipient: Cody Lopez
2nd Yr honorable mention:vSeungheon Han
2nd Yr recipient: Lucas Fraeyman (for their work in ARCH 201)
2nd Yr recipient: JP McCullough (for their work in ARCH 202)

Dwight T. Black Scholarship

3rd Yr honorable mention: Sara Cattenoy
3rd Yr honorable mention: Angie Conwell
3rd Yr Scholarship recipient: Casey Kowalsky
4th Yr  honorable mentions: Hali Parker + Faith Zinger for their project Blueprints for Better Living (Mills + Tinucci Studio)
4th Yr honorable mentions: Stephen Cruz + Swun Tun for their project Reimagine Englewood (Mills + Tinucci Studio)
4th Yr recipients: Maria Alcantara + Nicholas Papas for their project Carpenter’s Trail (Ojrzanowski + Pantazis Studio)

The Jerrold & Ruth Wiel Loebl Scholarship

Honorable mention: Danny Bracamontes 
Winner: Clayton Mast

The Nagle/Hartray Scholarship

Ivan Gonzalez-Vazquez, Anthony Skokal, Kelly Sullivan for their project Chicago Museum of Glass Art & Technology w/professor Brock S25

The Brothers Finfer Scholarship 

Honorable mention: Erika Vidales, Charlotte Stohr and Shashank Shete for their project Ethology (w/ professor Rubio F25)
The Brothers Finfer Scholarship recipients: Anthony Skokal, Matthew Terrell, Airyanna Eason for their project Equilibrium (w/ Professors Brininstool & Metter F24)

George Danforth Fellowship

Honorable Mention: Udochukwu Anidobu and Patricio Olea for their project The Theatre with Professor (Villalobos and collaborators)
Winners:

• Noah Johnson for their project Jaeja (with Professors Martin Felsen and Yohan Kim)
• Udochukwu Anidobu, Jonathan Cienfuegos, Calyn O'Banion for their project Vineyards of Change: Santiago (with Professor Maria Villalobos and collaborators)
• Zoe Koehl for their project Calan Steelworks Playground (with Professors Martin Felsen and Yohan Kim)
• Gemma Brizzolara for their project  “Attenzione!” (with professor Leslie Johnson)

Jerrold Loebl Traveling Prize

Honorable mention: Zoe Koehl & Ethan Phillips for their project Azul (with Professors Rogelio Cadena and Justin DeGroff and collaborators from Guadalajara)
Winner: Jlees Ahmed for his two projects: Islamic Cultural Center (with Professor Jen Park) and The Slow Laundromat (with Professor Leslie Johnson)

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 2025 nominees from the IIT College of Architecture are:

• Jaeja by Noah Johnson (FELSEN and KIM F24)
• Calan Steelworks Playground by Zoe Koehl  (FELSEN and KIM F24)
• Whispering by Alex Collins and Ethan Pulvermacher (RADUTNY S25)
• “Attenzione!” by Gemma Brizzolara (JOHNSON F24 and S25)
• The Slow Laundromat by Jlees Ahmed (JOHNSON S25)

The Caldwell Medal Winner: Julian Stanfield

The Hilberseimer Medal Winner: Erik Norwood

The LIRIO Landscape Architecture Summer Fellowship Awardee: Erik Norwood

Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Scholarship for Masters in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism: Alexandra Gomez, Brianna Henderson, Fabian Perez

2025 Landscape Architecture Studio Faculty Awards

MLA 1st Year: Aman Shah
MLA 2nd Year: Udochukwu Anidobu

Landscape Architecture Book Award in History, Theory, and Criticism: Mohammad Arabmazar

The Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (Illinois ASLA) Awards of Honor or Merit

for the Honor Award: Mohammad Arabmazar
for the Award of Merit: Calyn O’Banion

MLA Outstanding Contribution to Community Service: Brenda Cardenas

The Landscape Architecture Foundation has awarded a 2025 University Olmsted Scholarship to graduating MLA student: Ruth Muniz

The Landscape Architecture Foundation IGNITE program honoree: Brendan Tyler Hall

Graham Resource Center Book Award

Honorable mention: Logan Plaisted
The Continuing Student Award recipients: Cicek Karatas and Judai Smith
The Graduating Student Award recipient: Eden Ephraim

Peterhans Visual Training Prize

Peterhans Honorable Mentions:

• Anjishnu Dey for their work in Visual Training I with Professor Kristin Jones
• Ava Brown for their work in Collage Making with Professor Catherine Wetzel
• Andrew Siegwarth for their work in Material Narratives with Professor Dillon Pranger

The recipients of this year’s Peterhans Visual Training Project Prize are:

• Henry Conkright for their work in Design Communications I & II 
• Adam Berrahou for their work in Introduction to Digital Fabrication with Professor Alphonso Peluso
• Julia Bucci for their work in From Vernacular to Modern with Professor Colleen Humer

Peer Mentor Program Scholars:

• Julia Bucci
• Moises Enciso
• Colin Fialkiewicz
• Ivan Gonzalez-Vazquez
• Reilly Kenney
• Nishtha Mehta
• Hali Parker
• Maria Plencner
• Anthony Skokal
• Swun Tun

With 1st Alternate: Shashank Shete
and 2nd Alternate: Stephen Cruz

The 2024-25 ARCC King Student Medal for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Design Research

Logan Plaisted for his M.S. in Architecture thesis titled: Relief of Architecture: Conflict and the Built Environment

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards the Medal for Academic Excellence (formerly known as the Henry Adams Medal) for the top graduate

B. Arch Medal: Gemma Brizzolara
M. Arch Medal: Leigh Kadlec

The Alpha Rho Chi Medal

Recipient: Caleb Kwok

Graduate program student speakers: Master of Architecture candidates Soumya Pandit and Zubia Jahangir 
B. Arch student speaker: Julian Glaser

View photos from the ceremony here.