2022 Jury
Rodolphe el-Khoury
Rodolphe el-Khoury is Dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture. Trained as both a historian and a designer, he divides his time between scholarship, research, and practice. He is the author of numerous books on architecture and urbanism, including See Through Ledoux; Architecture Theatre, and the Pursuit of Transparency; Monolithic Architecture; and Figures: Essays on Contemporary Architecture. el-Khoury’s leads RAD-UM, a research lab for embedded technology and robotics aiming at enhancing responsiveness and resilience in buildings and smart cities. The work of his firm, Khoury Levit Fong (KLF), has won international awards.
el-Khoury’s work has been featured in national and international media outlets that cut across disciplines ranging from WIRED Magazine to the Wall Street Journal to the Space Channel to BBC World. He has shared his work through teaching, visiting professorships and lectures at dozens of institutions in the U.S. and abroad.
Sharon Johnston, FAIA
Sharon Johnston is founding partner of Los Angeles-based firm Johnston Marklee and Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Works by Johnston Marklee span thirteen countries and are diverse in scale and type. Recent projects include the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston; a renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the new Dropbox global headquarters in San Francisco; and the new UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios in Culver City.
Publications on the work of the firm include House Is a House Is a House Is a House Is a House (Birkhauser, 2016); 2G N. 67; El Croquis N. 198; and A+U N. 614. In 2019, Sharon was named Architectural Record’s Women in Architecture: New Generation Leader. Together with partner Mark Lee, Sharon was Co-Artistic Director of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Nader Tehrani
For his contributions to architecture as an art, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of the 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which he was also elected as a Member in 2021, the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in The United States. Nader Tehrani is Founding Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. Tehrani is also Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union. His work has been recognized with notable international awards in architecture.
Marion Weiss, FAIA
Marion Weiss is co-founder of WEISS/MANFREDI and the Graham Chair Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. Her New York City-based multidisciplinary practice is known for the dynamic integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape. Her firm’s Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park was recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the “top ten architectural marvels.” Current projects include the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum Master Plan, the Tampa Museum of Art, Longwood Gardens, and the US Embassy in New Delhi, India. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Sao Paulo Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, the National Building Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. She is a National Academy Inductee, recipient of Architectural Record’s Design Leader Award, and her firm has been recognized with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture, the NY Center for Architecture President’s Award, and the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
Angela Wu, AIA
As Director of KPF leading the San Francisco office, Angela provides seamless communication and on-the-ground personal approach in working with clients and stakeholders on West Coast projects. With more than 20 years of architecture experience, Angela has led a variety of projects in terms of both type and scale, ranging from singular residential, office, retail and institutional buildings to large-scale, mixed-program, multi-building complexes. Through her deep and diverse experience, she has developed a design sensibility that is highly program-driven and culturally-based. Her interest in multidisciplinary collaboration to create synthesized architectural projects is key to her approach. Angela is a deep believer in the integration of architecture, structure, sustainability, and planning for a human-scaled environment, and these guiding principles are behind her design and management of numerous award-winning and prominent projects, such as Platform 16 and South Almaden Boulevard in San Jose and 5M Soma, 415 Natoma and 10 South Van Ness in San Francisco to name a few.
AIASF Design Awards Jury Selection Team
Anne Fougeron, FAIA
Principal | Fougeron Architecture
Craig Hartman, FAIA
Senior Consulting Design Partner | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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