AIA Announces 2015 Recipients for the Thomas Jefferson Award and Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced recipients for two of its annual awards. Thomas E. Lollini, FAIA, and Thomas Luebke, FAIA, have been selected as the recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Award, and The Lyceum Fellowship Inc. and Transsolar KlimaEngineering have been selected as the recipients of the 2015 Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement.

The Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture recognizes excellence in architectural advocacy and achievement of architects in the private and public sectors and public officials. Lollini is being recognized for his contributions as campus architect at both University of California-Berkeley and University of California-Merced. Luebke has served as the Secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts since 2005, and he act as a mediator between designers and the rest of Washington D.C.s regulatory stakeholders.

The Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement recognizes and encourages distinguished achievements of allied professionals, clients, organizations, architect teams, knowledge communities, and others who have had a beneficial influence on or advanced the architectural profession.

The Lyceum Fellowship Inc. has provided meaningful design, travel, and educational opportunities for architecture students for nearly 30 years. In the years since its founding, the Lyceum has awarded more than $423,000 in prize money to 84 students; and more than 100 students have been recognized with merit or citation awards.

Transsolar KlimaEngineering, a climate engineering firm founded in Stuttgart, Germany in 1992, enriches the architectural dialog by examining every aspect of a project in light of the dual objectives of lowering energy consumption while increasing human comfort. As an example, Transsolars collaboration with Solomon Cordwell Buenz at Loyola University Chicago has helped the campus reduce its carbon footprint by half.

The jury for the 2015 Thomas Jefferson Award includes: Donald King, FAIA (Chair), DKA Architecture; Hiroshi Jacobs, Assoc. AIA, Studios Architecture; Michael Pyatok, FAIA, Pyatok Architects; David Trevino, AIA, City of Dallas and Karen E. Williams, AIA, PIVOT Architecture.

The jury for the 2015 Collaborative Achievement Award includes: Donald King, FAIA (Chair), DKA Architecture; Hiroshi Jacobs, Assoc. AIA, Studios Architecture; Michael Pyatok, FAIA, Pyatok Architects; David Trevino, AIA, City of Dallas and Karen E. Williams, AIA, PIVOT Architecture.

This years award recipients will be honored and receive their awards at the 2015 AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in Atlanta.

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