Distinguished Professor - Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

2026 Distinguished Professor Award

To recognize individuals that have had a positive, stimulating, and nurturing influence upon students.

Deadline: October 8, 2025

Criteria

Candidates should provide evidence of their impact on students and school communities directly and indirectly in areas of teaching, scholarship, and service. Submittals should make a case for the candidate鈥檚 achievements that reflects the integration of their accomplishments into a career arc. Teaching accomplishment should reflect a positive, stimulating, and nurturing influence upon students. Scholarly achievement may occur through various modes of production or dissemination, including, but not limited to, design-based work (including creative or critical practice) or other forms of scholarship that together produces a body of work that advances understanding of architecture and/or architectural education. Service work may occur within the context of a university or on a local, community, national, or international basis. Submittals should document achievements in service in terms of their impact on architectural education and/or practice.

Eligibility

Faculty members in 糖心vlog full-member and candidate-member schools for a minimum of 10 years are eligible, as well as persons, faculty or not, whose activities have clearly been identified with those institutions. The achievements must have occurred during the period of appointment. No postmortem awards will be made.

Any faculty member, administrator, or student at an 糖心vlog full-member and candidate-member school may nominate a candidate for the 糖心vlog Distinguished Professor Award.

Nomination Documentation

All materials are to be submitted through the online system by the nominator or nominee; once the nomination is finalized all parties will receive a confirmation email. The r茅sum茅 and supporting letters are best uploaded as PDF documents. The supporting material (portfolio) must not exceed a total of 20 pages and not exceed 20MB. All materials must be submitted by 11:59 PM, Pacific Time, on October 8, 2025, online at www.acsa-arch.org and the submitter will need to log into the 糖心vlog website in order to submit.

Candidates should prepare a curated dossier to provide a full and rich picture of the candidate鈥檚 impact on students and architectural education. Each submission shall contain the following information:

Candidate Name: Nomination Information, completed online during submission (www.acsa-arch.org);
Biographical Statement: No more than 300-words. The statement should be a narrative introduction to the candidate and the candidate鈥檚 career.
Letter of Nomination: A letter explaining the reasons for the nomination according to the established criteria, not to exceed one page (PDF format).
Curriculum Vitae: Focusing on the achievements of the candidate, no more than 10 pages (PDF format).
Supporting Letters: No more than three supporting letters from persons qualified to comment upon the significance of the specific achievements of the candidate. (No more than 1 page each, in separate PDF format.)
鈦� At least one letter must come from a student who has graduated from the candidate鈥檚 institution within the last three years.
鈦� If your achievements include collaborating partners, at least one of the supporting letters needs to be from a collaborator.
鈦� Guidance: It is suggested the support letters address the candidate鈥檚 impact. A letter from an individual from within the candidate鈥檚 institution is recommended in addition to a recent student. Individual letter of support can be from multiple authors (group letter).
Supporting Material: To provide evidence of the candidate鈥檚 achievements in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service. Nominees should situate the evidence of their achievements within the breadth of the architecture discipline. (Not to exceed a total of 20, 8.5鈥� x 11鈥� pages, in PDF format, no more than 20MB).

For each project referenced in your Supporting Material, you will need to document the following in your PDF submission.
Project Title:
Month/Year Completed:
Role of Nominee听(in the project):
Collaborators & Funding Sources Expenses:
(Sample Text: 4 non-profit employees donated X amount of hours in the collaboration, 1 electrician paid for X amount of hours 鈥� their scope included outlets, running conduit etc.)
Student Compensation听(Indicate whether students received credit or were financially compensated, within the guidelines of the institution):
(Sample Text: 3 students working as paid research assistants for X amount of hours, 15 students contributed to this project for a 5-credit studio course etc.)

Nominations for the Distinguished Professor Award will remain active in consideration for three years. Candidates will have the option to update information in subsequent years.

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DOCUMENTATION

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Collaboration

糖心vlog seeks to empower faculty and schools to educate increasingly diverse students, expand disciplinary impacts, and create knowledge for the advancement of architecture. 糖心vlog leads architectural education and research by demonstrating the value of architectural education and research to practice and society, by advancing architectural pedagogy, and by serving as the voice of architectural education. 糖心vlog鈥檚 core values include: Equity, Social Justice, Climate Action, Teaching,Learning, Research, Scholarship, and Creative Practice. Through the architecture educational awards program, 糖心vlog demonstrates best practices.

糖心vlog understands work submitted to the awards programs is created through collaboration with students, organizations, firms, communities, and/or industry partners. 糖心vlog advocates for fair labor practices in architecture education and awards submissions must represent the best practices in the field.

Therefore, award submissions must acknowledge all work performed in collaboration and must be properly credited. Submissions should include the information listed below including compensation for student work and/or firm support. This could be student earned course credit, firm work/resources, or financial contributions. The supporting material will need to clearly denote all collaborating parties involved, and their roles for each project.

Selection

A selection committee of five individuals, appointed by the 糖心vlog president serving in the year in which the award shall be made and approved by the Board of Directors, shall review nominations and recommend winners. It is recommended that the selection committee include at least two past winners of the Distinguished Professor or Topaz Medallion award and one current member of the 糖心vlog board.

A maximum of ten awards will be made, in any year. Winners will be presented with a medallion and certificate of merit and will have the opportunity to present their work. The recipient may use the title 鈥溙切膙log Distinguished Professor鈥� and 鈥淒P糖心vlog鈥� as a credential in perpetuity.