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Jurors

Nicole Ashurian, Booth Hansen  
Margaret Cavenagh, Perkins & Will  
Firat Erdim, Iowa State University  
Laura Ettedgui, Studio Gang 
Chandra Goldsmith Gray, Chandra Goldsmith Gray Landscape Architect 
Chana Haouzi, Architecture for Public Benefit & University of Chicago 
Sara Lundgren, K+S Partners 
Conor O’Shea, Hinterlands 
Ann Thompson, Related Midwest 
Anca Trandafirescu, University of Michigan  
Dan Wheeler, Wheeler Kearns Architects & University of Illinois at Chicago

Samuel Horwitz Scholarship

1st Yr recipient: Eli Dicken 
1st Yr recipient: Rina Vy Nguyen
2nd Yr honorable mention: Eva Narvarte 
2nd Yr honorable mention: Sofia Del Valle Zakhem 
2nd Yr recipient: Angelo Van Zito

Dwight T. Black Scholarship

3rd Yr recipient: Emiliano Godinez Scroggins
4th Yr honorable mention:  Marcelino Villegas + Peyton Wade for their project the Armature (Ojrzanowski + Xu Studio)
4th Yr recipient: Casey Kowalsky + Nathan Kalman for their project St. Paul Fieldworks (Mills + O’Riley Studio)
4th Yr recipient: Natalie Kuri Sayeg + Allison Murray for their project Floodline (Mills + O’Riley Studio)

Jerrold and Ruth Wiel Loebl Scholarship

Avanishaa Samudraala, Jeehyuk Sun and Janis Wegner for their project Interfaces w/ professor Elva Rubio Studio, fall 2025

Nagle/Hartray Scholarship

Solomon Bass

Brothers Finfer Scholarship

Elizabeth Angle, Jalyn Haynes and Murtuza Mohammed for their project Interlocking w/ professor Tom Brock, spring 2026

George Danforth Fellowship

Honorable mention: Stephen Cruz and Swun Tun for their project Fabric Meets Form: Re-envisioning Acapulco, La Quebrada Cliff Divers residence and training facility w/ visiting Morgenstern Professors Loreta Castro Reguera and Jose Pablo Ambrosi, and Brianda Mireles, fall 2025
Honorable mention: Ivanna Mora and Thao Vo for their project Sonata w/ professor Vlad Radutny, spring 2026 

Winners:

• Ivanna Mora & Hassan Perez for their project Hakoniwa: Little Tokyo Super Stop w/ professors Julie Eizenberg + Bryant Pitak, fall 2025
• Omar Rodriguez, Alisha Mitchum, + Kyle Johnson for their project Ritmo del Fuego: Designing with the Burn Fire Protection in the Napa Valley w/ professors Maria Villalobos and Jordi Barri in the MLA+U studio, spring 2026
• Bridgette Anne Galve, Andres Llanes + Hai Truong for their project T’ähi: Parque Cultural w/ professor Rogelio Cadena in the MCHAP studio, fall 2025

Jerrold Loebl Traveling Prize

Honorable Mention: Colin Fialkiewicz + Maria Plencner for their project Lake Meadows Prairie Museum: The Architecture of Memory w/ professors Susan King and Nootan Bharani, fall 2025 

Winner: Dien Phat (Tony) Truong + Josh Palmer for their project Call and Response w/ professor Sydney Rose Maubert, spring 2026

The Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Architecture

The 2026 nominees from the IIT College of Architecture are:

• “Fabric Meets Form” by Stephen Cruz and Swun Tun 
  CASTRO, AMBROSI, and MIRELES STUDIO
• “Sonata” by Ivanna Mora & Thao Vo 
  RADUTNY STUDIO
• “T’ähi: Parque Cultural” by Bridgette Anne Galve, Andres Llanes, and Hai Truong 
  CADENA (MCHAP) STUDIO
• “Northerly Island Bathhouse” by Maria Fernanda Alcantara and Nicholas Papas 
  DEZINSKI STUDIO
• “Some Assembly Required” by Julia Bucci 
  RONAN STUDIO

AIA Chicago Foundation Award in Architecture

The 2026 nominees from the IIT College of Architecture are:

In category 1: First- and second-year undergraduate architecture students

• Rina Nguyen (UG1)
• Angelo Van Zito (UG2)
• Sofia Del Valle Zakhem (UG2) 

In category 2: Third, fourth, and fifth-year undergraduate architecture students

• Emiliano Godinez Scroggins (“Urban Nest”)
• Marcelino Villegas & Peyton Wade ("The Armature")
• Ivanna Mora and Thao Vo ("Sonata")

And in Category 3: Graduate students enrolled in NAAB-accredited degree programs

• Elizabeth Angle, Jalyn Haynes & Murtuza Mohammed 
  for their project Interlocking w/ professor Tom Brock, spring 2026
• Avanishaa Samudraala and Janis Wegner 
  for their project Interfaces w/ professor Elva Rubio Studio, fall 2025

The Caldwell Medal: Yash Nilesh Lokhande

The Hilberseimer Medal: Brianna Henderson

The LIRIO Landscape Architecture Summer Fellowship: Yash Nilesh Lokhande

Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Scholarship for Masters in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism: Elio Armas-Rojo, Matthew A Arenas and Taryn Randle

2026 Landscape Architecture Studio Faculty Awards: Ellie Michaels and Leo Gonzalez

Landscape Architecture Book Award in History, Theory, and Criticism: Fabian Perez

The Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (Illinois ASLA) Awards of Honor or Merit for the Award of Merit to Julian Stanfield, and Honor Award, Omar Rodriguez

MLA Outstanding Contribution to Community Service: Elio Armas-Rojo

National Landscape Architecture Foundation Scholarships: Taryn Randle

Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellow: Julian Stanfield

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

National Fountain Scholar for the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture: Julian Stanfield

Graham Resource Center Book Award

The Continuing Student Award recipients: Solomon Bass, Sara Cattenoy, and Debashish Roy 

The Graduating Student Award recipient: Anjishnu Dey

Peterhans Visual Training Prize

Winners:

• Natalie Kuri Sayeg + Ava Brown for their work in Fieldwalking with Professors Leslie Johnson & Lukasz Kowalczyk
• Rina Nguyen for her work in Design Communications I with Professors Dillon Pranger & Jacob McCarthy
• Iona Pettigrew for her work in Visual Training I with Professor Kristin Jones

Peterhans Honorable Mentions:

• Sofia Del Valle Zakhem for her work in Architecture of the Adriatic with Professor Colleen Humer
• Angelica Conwell for her work in SubjectCity with Professor Claudia Ansorena

Peer Mentor Program Scholars:

• Daniel Bracamontes
• Angelica Conwell
• Jasmine Chung
• Simon Freydell
• Jalyn Haynes
• Helen Hauser
• Natalie Kuri Sayeg
• Allison Murray
• Syed Hamza Sadiq
• Aman Shah

Alternates:

• Owen Hoffer
• Ny Phan
• Ruqiyah Oladejo

The 2025–26 ARCC King Student Medal for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Design Research

PhD candidate Aamena Mubarak Saeed Bakarmom for her Doctoral dissertation research entitled: “Investigating the Integration of Passive Cooling Strategies and Grid Edge Technologies for Affordable and Equitable Solutions in Low-Income Communities in Hot-Dry Climates.”

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: Sunggyu Park
• M. Arch Medal: Chinmayee Nabar

The Alpha Rho Chi Medal

Recipient: Ivan Gonzalez-Vazquez

Graduate program student speakers: Master of Architecture candidates Anthony Skokal and Kelly Sullivan

B. Arch student speaker: Maria Plencner