Meet the Full List of the 2023 AIA Young Architects Award Winners

The American Institute of Architects has recently announced the recipients of its newest 2023 AIA Young Architects Award. Hallie Crouch of Cleveland, Ohio, and Jeremy Gentile of Chicago, Illinois, were recently presented with the AIA’s Associates Medal. Associate AIA membership was bestowed upon the pair in recognition of their extraordinary leadership and innovative thinking in furthering the architectural community.

At the same time, the AIA recognized seventeen designers with the Young Architects Award for remarkable leadership and making tremendous accomplishments in the architecture field at an early stage in their careers. Julie Hiromoto and Jonathan Moody are just two well-known architects who have won the honor in the past.

Here are the 2023 AIA Young Architects Award Winners:

The 2023 AIA Young Architects Award was given to these up-and-coming professionals in recognition of their influential achievements and notable contributions to the discipline of architecture, such as their promotion of environmental causes, broadening people’s access to excellent design, and fostering the careers of future architects.

1) Jacob Davis / Archimania

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Jacob Davis skillfully merges design and sustainability to mold a cleaner and more enduring future using a design process that genuinely responds to programs and contexts. Davis is an outstanding example of a young architect whose work has already had a profoundly positive effect on people’s lives in the built world.

2) Matthew R. Clapper / MAD

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In the years since he first went out on his own to found architecture and urban design consultancy firms in Chicago, Matthew R. Clapper has become an outspoken champion of small businesses nationwide. Because of his tireless efforts on behalf of the AIA, an essential network of small firms has been fostered, giving its leaders the tools they need to become involved in AIA and take on leadership positions.

3) Simona Fischer / MSR Design

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Simona Fischer, an influential figure in the climate change and sustainability movement, actively pursues influence and service in various settings. Fischer, an environmentalist from an early age, urges her peers to take risks and share their discoveries broadly for the benefit of the field as a whole.

4) Allison Dvorak / Avera Health

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Allison Dvorak has tailored her young profession around design tenets that prioritize client satisfaction. She pioneered humane and accessible design and advocated for community growth via design’s transformative power.

5) Christopher Haedt / DesignGroup

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Christopher Haedt is a healthcare creator who, mindful of the trust placed in him, has devoted his life to developing facilities that honor patients as whole people and tap into their spiritual needs. Headt’s expanding practice has inspired and pushed colleagues and customers to work together to create more welcoming, influential, and forward-thinking medical facilities for our communities.

6) Kimberly Tuttle / Gensler

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Kimberly Tuttle is dedicated to helping the next generation of design leaders find success, but she does so much more than that as a teacher, mentor, and supporter for her students. Tuttle is passionate about passing on what she has learned to the next generation. She offers students guidance, internships, and other crucial career development programming forms as they join the field.

7) Beresford Pratt / U.S. Army Corp of Engineers

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Beresford Pratt stands out as a leader and designer because of his commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion in the field. As an enthusiastic advocate for community empowerment, he actively searches out venues to create novel pedagogical methods and amplify the varied perspectives of emerging professionals.

8) Caroline Shannon / Gensler

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As a public health expert and architect, Caroline Shannon uses cutting-edge design and study to promote global health equity. She is a tireless advocate for her field, jumping at the chance to work on initiatives that help others.

9) Janica Ley Baker / NAC Architecture

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Janica Ley Baker uses community mental well-being design, volunteering, and mentoring to amplify historically silenced views. Baker, a first-generation Chinese American, woman engineer, and working mother, understands stigmatization and the benefits of advocacy.

10) Brien Graham / LPA Design Studios

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Brien Graham defines a more balanced and multi-cultural field as a natural citizen architect. Graham continues to help neglected students and communities obtain good design.

11) Kate Thuesen / DLR Group

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Kate Thuesen has paved a way that makes the most of her sociability as a designer, mother, wife, and architect who creates engaging learning spaces. As a hub for people and information, her initiatives strengthen existing communities and foster innovation.

12) Stephanie Vito / CannonDesign

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Stephanie Vito has improved the lives of patients and their families through her design work on mental health care projects. Vito has pioneered cutting-edge mental health facilities that produce positive outcomes, end discrimination, and give patients respect since the beginning of her professional career.

13) Shannon Gathings / Duvall Decker Architects, P.A

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After graduating from Mississippi State University in 2010, she began working at Duvall Decker Architects and became a partner in 2021. She has led some of the company’s most important initiatives, such as restoring Jackson’s Ellen Harris Center, a vital childcare center for the city’s student and family population.

14) Ryan R. Murphy / Shamrock+

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Ryan R. Murphy is the epitome of a public worker and citizen architect, despite his career trajectory being anything but conventional. From his time in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the launch of his innovative company, he has worked to change how people think about architecture and push the field forward through his work.

15) Efrie Escott / KieranTimberlake

Efrie Escott is a pioneer in the architectural field thanks to her innovative practices and selfless dedication to improving the built environment while pursuing her lifelong interest in environmental protection. Escott’s work covers the areas of ecological sustainability, architecture, and construction; she hopes to increase awareness of the environmental effects of construction by educating both professionals and students.

16) Jason Takeuchi / Ferraro Choi and Associates, Ltd.

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Jason Takeuchi has distinguished himself through selfless service and leadership throughout his brief professional life. In the spirit of service, he learned as an Eagle Scout, Takeuchi has contributed to the advancement of perseverance in the profession by funding sustainability initiatives in his native state of Hawaii and elsewhere in the United States.

17) David Wilson / HGA

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David Wilson uses design on projects of all sizes and scopes to keep building a force for good. From residential architecture to his current focus on serving a wide variety of cultural and educational societies all over the nation, his socially conscious designs have permeated every aspect of the built environment.