AIA elevates 149 members and eight international architects to the College of Fellows

The 2016 Jury of Fellows from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) elevated 149 AIA members to its prestigious College of Fellows, an honor awarded to members who have made significant contributions to the profession. The 2016 Fellows will be honored at an investiture ceremony at the AIA Convention in Philadelphia in May.

The Fellowship program was developed to elevate those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. Election to fellowship not only recognizes the achievements of architects as individuals, but also their significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level.

2016 Jury of Fellows

Diane Georgopulos, FAIA, Chair, Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency; Steve Crane, FAIA, VCBO; Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA, University of Tennessee; Mary Katherine (Mary Kay) Lanzillotta, FAIA, Hartman Cox Architects; David Messersmith, FAIA, University of Texas; Karen V. Nichols, FAIA, Michael Graves & Associates and Donald T. Yoshino, FAIA, Yoshino Architecture, PA.

Out of a total AIA membership of nearly 88,000, there are fewer than 3,200 distinguished with the honor of fellowship and honorary fellowship. The elevation to fellowship is conferred on architects with at least 10 years of membership in the AIA in one or more of the following nomination categories:

Promoted the aesthetic, scientific, and practical efficiency of the profession
Advanced the science and art of planning and building by advancing the standards of architectural education, training and practice
Coordinated the building industry and the profession of architecture through leadership in the AIA or other related professional organizations
Advanced the living standards of people through an improved environment
Made the profession of ever-increasing service to society

Included in the list below are the newly elevated members, their component affiliation and category for which they were elevated.

2016 Fellows

Included in the list below are the newly elevated members, their component affiliation and category for which they were elevated. You can follow this link to view a more detailed list that includes images.

Name	Category	Chapter
Richard H. Abramson	Category Five	AIA Los Angeles
Mehrnoush Arsanjani	Category Two	AIA San Francisco
Karl Alan Backus	Category One	AIA San Francisco
Hans Baldauf	Category Two	AIA San Francisco
John Barbour	Category Two	AIA Minneapolis
William J. Bates	Category Three	AIA Pittsburgh
Douglas C. Bencks	Category Four	AIA New Hampshire
Douglas A. Benson	Category Three	AIA Portland
Luis Carlos Bernardo	Category Two	AIA Baltimore
Charles Besjak	Category Two	AIA New York
Donald R. Blair	Category Two	AIA New York
Barbara Bouza	Category Two	AIA Los Angeles
Robert A. Bracamonte	Category Two	AIA San Francisco
James A. Brady	Category Two	AIA Austin
Jeffrey Brown	Category Two	AIA Houston
Mary Buchanan Brush	Category Two	AIA Chicago
Michael Joseph Buono	Category Two	AIA Springfield
John S. Burcher	Category Two	AIA Chicago
Tamara Elizabeth Lapham Burns	Category One	AIA Huron Valley
Jane E. Cameron	Category Two	AIA Chicago
Polly Carpenter	Category Five	Boston Society of Architects
Larry S. Cash	Category Two	AIA Alaska
Margaret O'Donoghue Castillo	Category Three	AIA New York
Heister Clymer Cease Jr.	Category Five	AIA Triangle
Jeanine G. Centuori	Category Five	AIA Los Angeles
Sean Chuan-Sheng Chiao	Category Two	AIA Hong Kong
Annie Chu	Category One	AIA Los Angeles
Yolanda Cole	Category Two	AIA \| DC
Gianne P. Conard	Category Four	Boston Society of Architects
Lawrence Holdren Connolly	Category Two	AIA Austin
Ernesto Cragnolino	Category One	AIA Austin
Jeffrey Daniels	Category Two	AIA Los Angeles
Joel Davy	Category One	AIA North Dakota
Roberto C. de Leon Jr.	Category One	AIA Central Kentucky
Jack DeBartolo III	Category One	AIA Phoenix Metro
Gilbert Delgado	Category Four	AIA Southern New York
Ellen Bailey Dickson	Category Two	AIA Chicago
David Dimond	Category Two	AIA Minneapolis
Kathleen A. Dorgan	Category Five	AIA Connecticut
Nicole M. Dosso	Category Two	AIA New York
William Edward Dugger III	Category Two	AIA Treasure Coast
Christopher S. Dunlavey	Category Four	AIA \| DC
Blakely Carr Dunn	Category Three	AIA Arkansas
Philip Durham	Category One	AIA St. Louis
David Eisen	Category One	Boston Society of Architects
Cassandra D. Ensberg	Category Five	AIA Santa Barbara
Martin J. Finio	Category One	AIA New York
James D. French	Category One	AIA Kansas City
Hsinming Fung	Category One	AIA Los Angeles
R. Hunter Gee	Category One	AIA Middle Tennessee
Ruth M. Gless	Category Two	AIA Columbus
Manuel G. Gonzalez	Category Two	AIA Los Angeles
Emily A. Grandstaff-Rice	Category Three	Boston Society of Architects
Charles H. Griffin	Category Two	AIA Houston
Douglas C. Hanna	Category Four	AIA Detroit
Anne Hicks Harney	Category Two	AIA Baltimore
Robert Paul Harris	Category Four	AIA \| DC
Kelly Hayes-McAlonie	Category Five	AIA Buffalo/WNY
Jonathan Herz	Category Four	AIA \| DC
Paul C. Hutton	Category Two	AIA Denver
Steven Imrich	Category Two	Boston Society of Architects
Meral Iskir	Category Two	AIA \| DC
Thomas S. Ito	Category Two	AIA Los Angeles
Christof Jantzen	Category One	AIA Los Angeles
James Jennings	Category One	AIA San Francisco
Lamar A. Johnson	Category Five	AIA Chicago
Margo P. Jones	Category Three	AIA Western Massachusetts
Duane L. Jonlin	Category Four	AIA Seattle
Larry Kearns	Category Two	AIA Chicago
Dan Kirby	Category Five	AIA Orlando
Ned S. Kirschbaum	Category Two	AIA Denver
Lester Korzilius	Category Three	AIA London \| UK
Ann Kosmal	Category Four	AIA Northern Virginia
Alexander P. Lamis	Category Two	AIA New York
Aric J. Lasher	Category One	AIA Chicago
Bradley Leathley	Category Two	AIA Seattle
R. Steven Lewis *	Category Three	AIA Pasadena & Foothill
Rebecca J. Lewis	Category Two	AIA Northern Minnesota
Philip S. LiBassi	Category Two	AIA Cleveland
Anne-Marie Lubenau	Category Five	Boston Society of Architects
Jennifer Luce	Category One	AIA San Diego
Dean Marchetto	Category Two	Architects League of Northern N.J.
Glenn E. Mason	Category One	AIA Honolulu
Paula Burns McEvoy	Category Two	AIA Atlanta
Bettina Mehnert	Category Two	AIA Honolulu
Mark R. Miller	Category Two	AIA San Francisco
Amy Miller Dowell	Category Four	AIA Portland
Naomi O. Miroglio	Category One	AIA San Francisco
Victor A. Mirontschuk	Category Two	AIA New York
David D. Montalba	Category One	AIA Los Angeles
Anthony Mosellie	Category Two	AIA Connecticut
Jeffrey Murphy	Category Two	AIA New York
F. Jeffrey Murray	Category Two	AIA Pittsburgh
Kirsten R. Murray	Category Two	AIA Seattle
William Murray	Category Two	AIA Los Angeles
Stuart Narofsky	Category One	AIA Long Island
Sarah Nettleton	Category Two	AIA Minneapolis
Andrew G. Nielsen	Category Two	AIA Denver
David M. Oakland	Category Two	AIA Central Virginia
James Mary O'Connor	Category One	AIA Los Angeles
William S. Otwell	Category One	AIA Grand Canyon
Irvin A. Pearce	Category Three	AIA Triangle
Frederick Perpall	Category Five	AIA Dallas
John Scott Poole	Category Two	AIA Eastern Tennessee
David M. Powell	Category One	AIA Middle Tennessee
Jay Raskin	Category Five	AIA Portland
Kevin Ratigan	Category Two	AIA Orlando
Phillip A. Reed	Category Five	AIA Austin
Linda Reeder	Category Two	AIA Connecticut
Glenn Rescalvo	Category One	AIA San Francisco
David Brent Richards	Category Two	AIA Detroit
Henry Frank Ricks, Jr.	Category Two	AIA Memphis
Mark Ripple	Category Two	AIA New Orleans
David Mark Riz	Category One	AIA Philadelphia
Percy 'Rebel' Roberts III	Category Two	AIA Chicago
Ann Merideth Rolland	Category Two	AIA New York
Peter Rose	Category One	Boston Society of Architects
William Ryall	Category One	AIA New York
William Q. Sabatini	Category One	AIA Albuquerque
Michael M. Samuelian	Category Two	AIA New York
Michael Schnoering	Category Two	AIA Central New Jersey
David J. Segmiller	Category Two	AIA Charlotte
Kimberly Sheppard	Category One	AIA New York
Scott Simons	Category One	AIA Maine
James J. Slade	Category One	AIA New York
Ed Soltero	Category Four	AIA Phoenix Metro
Jeffrey C. Stouffer	Category Two	AIA Dallas
Max Wilson Strang	Category One	AIA Miami
Joseph A. Stypka	Category Two	AIA Chicago
Gail M. Sullivan	Category Two	Boston Society of Architects
Allen Swerdlowe	Category Five	AIA New York
Robert P. Theel	Category Four	AIA Chicago
Douglas Ashley Tilden	Category Two	AIA New York
Bryce A. Turner	Category Two	AIA Baltimore
Susan Doreen Turner	Category Two	AIA Chicago
Ronald Jan van der Veen	Category Two	AIA Seattle
James Voelzke	Category Two	AIA \| DC
Dennis Simmons Ward	Category Three	AIA Grand Strand
Daniel Watch	Category Two	AIA Atlanta
Gregory T. Waugh	Category Two	AIA New York
Don Weinreich	Category Two	AIA New York
Terry L. Welker	Category Five	AIA Dayton
R. Craig Williams	Category Five	AIA Dallas
Gary Wolf	Category One	Boston Society of Architects
Dan Wood	Category One	AIA New York
Thomas W. Wurtz	Category Four	AIA Dallas
(Charles) Al York	Category One	AIA Austin
Liz Harriss York	Category Four	AIA Atlanta
Alek Zarifian	Category One	AIA Pasadena & Foothill

* By virtue of receiving the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award, Mr. Lewis was automatically elevated to Fellowship

2016 Honorary Fellows

The 2016 Jury of Fellows in conjunction with the 2015 Jury of Honorary Fellows also elevated eight individuals to become Honorary Fellows of the Institute. Honorary Fellowship was developed as the international counterpart to the Fellowship program. It recognizes the achievements foreign architects as individuals, but also elevates before the global public and the profession, model architects who have significantly contributed to the profession on an international level.

Name	Primary Location	Firm
Hayder Ahmed Ali	Sudan	Hayder A. Ali Architects & Building Consultants
Louisa Hutton	Berlin	Sauerbruch Hutton
Don Kasian	Vancouver, British Columbia	Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning LTD
Teodoro Fernández Larrañaga	Santiago, Chile	Teodoro Fernández Arquitectos Compañía Limitada
John McAslan	London, UK	John McAslan + Partners
Reiulf Ramstad	Oslo, Norway	Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS
Yoshihiko Sano, JIA	Osaka, Japan	Yasui Architects & Engineers, Inc.
Denise Scott Brown*	Philadelphia	VSBA Architects and Planners
Gonzalo Mardones Viviani	Santiago, Chile	Gonzalo Mardones Arquitecto

* By virtue of receiving the AIA Gold Medal, Denise Scott Brown was automatically elevated to Honorary Fellowship

Jury of Honorary Fellows

George Miller, FAIA, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects, LLP; Diane Legge Kemp, FAIA, RTKL Asia Ltd.; Steve Crane, FAIA, VCBO; Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA, University of Tennessee; Diane Georgopulos, FAIA, Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency; Mary Katherine (Mary Kay) Lanzillotta, FAIA, Hartman Cox Architects; David Messersmith, FAIA, University of Texas; Karen V. Nichols, FAIA, Michael Graves & Associates and Donald T. Yoshino, FAIA, Yoshino Architecture, PA.

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Former Richardson Romanesque hotel now houses books, not beds

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Justice center on Fall River harbor serves up daylight, sustainable elements, including eucalyptus millwork

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Research facility separates but also connects lab spaces

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A feast of dining options at University of Colorado community center, but hold the buffalo stew

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Chicago high-rise mixes condos with classrooms for Art Institute students

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Iowa surgery center addresses both inpatient and outpatient care

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Grocery store anchors shopping center in Miami arts/entertainment district

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