Meet Our AIANY Design Awards 2025 Jury

The winners of any awards program reflect the values and ethos of the jury evaluating the entries, which is part of why AIA New York places such gravity on its jury invitations for the annual AIANY Design Awards program. This year, we welcome seven architects and educators from around the world who will deliberate this January during an in-person jury session at the Center for Architecture.

The Design Awards recognize outstanding architectural design in New York and around the world. Members, architectural professionals, and designers across the industry are encouraged to apply, and we welcome small- to large-scale and low- to high-budget projects. The program awards projects that exemplify design excellence, demonstrating exceptional skill and creativity in the resolution of formal, functional, and technical requirements. Projects should consider the impacts of built design, addressing issues including ecological stewardship and social responsibility.

As we solicit 2025 entries through November 22, 2024, we are honored to introduce the seven jurors who are participating in this year's program.

Anna Dyson, Founding Director, Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture
Anna Dyson is the Hines Professor of Architecture at the Yale Schools of Architecture (YSoA) and Environment (YSE). She is the founding Director of the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (Yale CEA), a research initiative that integrates interdisciplinary labs across campus to collaborate on the research, development and deployment of novel architectural systems that are focused on the challenge of metabolizing energy, water and materials within architecture in radically new ways. At the YSoA, Dyson has established a new model for PhD-level design research in Architectural Sciences which has received multiple honors for pedagogy, including the award for most innovative academic program from the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) and an Award of Excellence from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). Dyson has been directing design research programs that have competitively won awards and contracts from multiple sponsors such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the US Department of Energy (DOE), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), The New York City Dept of Design and Construction (NYC-DDC), NYSERDA, NYSTAR, NEXUS, and from private sponsors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Baruch Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, and others. In 2007, Dyson co-founded the ground-breaking Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE) with Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM LLP) and RPI.

Michael Guthrie, FAIA, LEED AP, Partner & Principal, INFORM Studio
Michael Guthrie, FAIA is a founding Principal of INFORM Studio, with offices in Detroit and Chicago. Michael has achieved significant professional awards and distinctions that include over 40 AIA Design Awards, including a National AIA Urban Design Award for the Van Leesten Bridge in Providence. His work has been published in Architecture, Architectural Record, Archiworld, and various other publications; and lectured and exhibited in numerous locations globally, including New York, Guangzhou and Cairo.

Lucas ter Hall, Co-founder, Studio RAP
Lucas ter Hall is a co-founder of Studio RAP, an award-winning architectural design and fabrication firm based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Alongside co-founder Wessel van Beerendonk, they are dedicated to bringing innovation to architecture through emerging digital technologies, aiming to inspire people worldwide. Since the establishment of Studio RAP, ter Hall and van Beerendonk have led various projects, including Theatre Zuidplein, The Float, New Delft Blue, and Ceramic House. The studio's mission is to enrich the world with a new architectural language, breaking barriers and making the world more exciting and diverse.

Stacy Passmore, PLA, AICP, Co-Founder and Principal, Superbloom
Stacy Passmore is a Principal and Co-Founder of Superbloom, a landscape architecture firm based in Denver, Colorado. She received a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a Masters of Community and Regional Planning from the University of British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Arts from New York University. Passmore is committed to collaborations that celebrate the relationship between humans and ecological systems, work which she explores through built projects, publications, design research, and site specific installations. Her honors include the Charles Eliot Fellowship and the Penny White Project Award from Harvard University, and her work has won the World Landscape Architecture Award, the Architizer A+ Award, and the AIA Colorado Award for Sustainability. Before starting Superbloom, she worked for the New York City Department of City Planning, MASS Design Group, Agency Landscape and Planning and with private, public, and non-profit sectors in the U.S., Canada and Africa. Her work has been published in Places Journal, the Urban Design Review, Platform X, and the Journal of Ecological Restoration. She is a licensed landscape architect and a certified urban planner.

Brian Phillips, FAIA, Founding Principal, ISA
Brian Phillips, FAIA, is Founding Principal of ISA, and serves as Creative Director across all aspects of the firm's work. He earned his MArch from the University of Pennsylvania and BS from the University of Oklahoma. He has lectured widely on urbanism, housing, and the work of ISA. Phillips was awarded a 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts and was named an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York in 2015. He is a Lecturer at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, and has taught visiting studios at the University of Miami and Parsons the New School for Design. ISA's work has been featured in ARCHITECT, Architectural Record, DWELL, Metropolis, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, and on NPR Radio. The office has won numerous local, regional, and national design citations, including five AIA National Housing Awards, the AIA Philadelphia Gold Medal, and an AIA COTE Top Ten Award.

Troy Schaum, AIA, Principal, Schaum Architects; Associate Professor, Rice University
Troy Schaum, AIA, is an Associate Professor at Rice University and is the principal at Schaum Architects, an award-winning architectural firm based in Houston. His firm considers the city at the scale of the building, both as a site of theoretical experimentation and as a reality that may be transformed through building. This work, which unfolds at a range of scales nationally and internationally, has received several AIA design awards. Recent and ongoing work a restoration of the Architecture Office Building for the Judd Foundation and a restoration of the Chamberlain Building for the Chinati Foundation, both in Marfa, Texas; the headquarters for an arts institution in Houston; and an art center in Jodhpur, India. His work has been exhibited globally-including at the Venice Biennale, MoMA, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the Center for Architecture in New York-and published in many journals, including Architect's Newspaper, Texas Architect, Dezeen, Domus, ARCHITECT, and Architectural Record. He is also the editor of  Totalization: Speculative Practice in Architectural Education with Park Books in which contributors explore the status of expertise in the formulation of contemporary practice.

Melodie Yashar, VP, Architecture & Building Performance, ICON; Professor, Art College of Design
Melodie Yashar is the VP of Building Design & Performance at ICON, a construction technologies company focused on large scale additive manufacturing for Earth and in space. Yashar oversees the architectural direction of ICON's built work as well as the performance of ICON's building systems to deliver optimally performing structures that shift the paradigm of homebuilding on Earth and beyond. In 2020, Yashar joined ICON to establish and build the Architecture & Building Performance department. Collaborating across technology and construction teams, she supports the design and construction of dignified and resilient terrestrial housing solutions in addition to supporting the development of ICON's off-world construction systems. Divisions within her department include: Construction Architecture, Architectural Technology, Structural Engineering, Building Science & Performance, and Regulatory Affairs.

In prior roles, Yashar was a Senior Research Associate with the Human Systems Integration Division at NASA Ames within the Human Computer Interaction Lab. She was also a co-founder of Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+), a research group developing human-supporting designs for space exploration, as well as a Professor within the Architecture department of Pratt Institute. Yashar teaches undergraduate and graduate space architecture studios at Art Center College of Design. She obtained a Master of Architecture from Columbia University and a Master of Human-Computer Interaction for Robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.

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