AIA Oregon Architecture Awards

Oregon's premiere annual architecture event, the Oregon Architecture Awards, celebrates outstanding design as a nationally renowned jury recognizes architects, their clients, industry partners and communities for achieving design excellence locally and globally. 

The AIAO Architecture Awards Committee emphasizes that all entrants have an equal chance for recognition, regardless of project scale, budget, type or location.

Only AIA Oregon Member Firms and individual AIA Members may participate and enter. Not an AIA Oregon Firm member? Now would be a good time to become one! Learn More

2024 AIA Oregon Architecture Awards

Awards Celebration

On On November 14, 2024 AIA Oregon members and friends gathered at the Portland Museum of Art to celebrate design excellence at the Oregon Architecture Awards.

Thank you to all attendees and sponsors for another memorable celebration!

A jury of architects selected 10 project awards and used energy data collected from project submissions to help determine the 2030 Award.

Congratulations to the 2024 Oregon Architecture Awards Recipients

2024 Professional Achievement Awards

The Professional Achievement Awards celebrate and recognize achievement at all levels of the profession within our community. The objective is to promote engagement within the chapter and recognize valuable contributions of members who are serving the community and proactively improving the architecture profession.

2024 AIA OREGON EMERGING PROFESSIONAL AWARD
Evon Calebrese, Associate AIA
Healthcare Designer, NBBJ Designer

“Through their work, the nominee has repeatedly demonstrated a high level of interest and engagement in professional advocacy, especially as it relates to the practice of healthcare architecture.…They actively participate in several internal committees their office and lead evidence-based research efforts. Specifically, the nominee assists teams by researching and evaluating evidence from other facilities and leading research projects exploring the impact of design on human health, well-being, and perception.

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Thank you to our jurors for volunteering their time and energy to review, discuss, and ultimately award the projects entered into the 2024 OAA program

Jury Chair

Katie Swenson, Associate AIA
Senior Principal, Advocacy
MASS Design Group

Katie is a senior principal at MASS Design Group, a global design collective with the mission is to research, build, and advocate for architecture that promotes justice and human dignity. Before joining MASS full time in 2020, she served as a board member for three years, providing insight on how design practice promotes economic and social equity, environmental sustainability, and healthy communities. Previously the vice president of Design & Sustainability at Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., Katie is an expert in affordable housing, community development, and leadership cultivation. A member of the second class of Enterprise Rose Fellowship, Swenson was tapped to grow and lead the program in 2007, after completing her fellowship with the Piedmont Housing in Charlottesville. Following her Rose fellowship, Swenson founded the Charlottesville Community Design Center in Charlottesville and, in partnership with Habitat for Humanity, led it to establish an international design competition. Based on the innovations that emerged from the competition and work, she co-authored, “Growing Urban Habitats: Seeking a New Housing Development Model,” with William Morrish and Susanne Schindler.

Katie holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Virginia. She was a 2018-2019 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is the author of “Design with Love: At Home in America” stories from 20 years of the Enterprise Rose Fellowship, with photography by Harry Connolly and a memoir, “In Bohemia: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Kindness,” both released fall 2020 by Schiffer Publishing.

Jury Members

Lani Adeoye
Founder, Studio Lani

Lani Adeoye is an award-winning designer and the founder of Studio- Lani, a design brand spanning design consulting, lighting, furniture, interiors and assistance devices. While her practice is multifaceted, it is consistently rooted in the ethos of connection, drawing individuals in on a deeper level and celebrating shared human values. Her creative process seamlessly blends the rhythmic warmth of her Nigerian heritage and echoes of time-honored craftsmanship with a forward-thinking approach. 

Lani's hybrid mindset and experimental approach allow her to embrace unexpected ideas, new futures and community centric narratives. Her process blends analytical rigor with an innate sensitivity to form and material. Her unique creations have earned placements in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions including the Vitra Design Museum, Die Neue Sammlung and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Notable accolades include winning the first prize in Milan's 2022 'SaloneSatellite: Designing for our future selves' award for her creation, RemX named after her Grandfather —an asymmetric walker praised by the jury for merging "elegance and dignity in a useful object for all." Additionally, she was honored by Elle Décor in its 'Women of the World: 75 Global Female Designers Worth Celebrating' issue in 2020 and in 2017 she won first place at New York City’s Wanted Design’s Launch Pad. She has also been featured in numerous publications including Architecture Digest, Wall Paper, Elle Décor and published in three prominent books by Phaidon: Designed For Life, Woman Made and 1000 Design Classics. 

Chris Cornelius -
Founding Principal, Studio Indigenous
Professor, Chair of the Dept. of Arch at University of New Mexico

Chris Cornelius is a citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of New Mexico. He is the founding principal of studio:indigenous and creates designs that dismantle stereotypes and offer a distinct vision of contemporary Indigenous culture.  Cornelius’ awards include the inaugural Miller Prize from Exhibit Columbus and multiple Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards. Chris has been exhibited widely including the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. He was the Spring 2021, Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University and the Spring 2024 Dean’s Visiting Professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Annya Ramírez-Jiménez, AIA -
Partner, MARVEL

Annya Y. Ramírez-Jiménez, AIA is a Partner at MARVEL, an MBE Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design practice with offices in New York City, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Richmond, VA & Barcelona. She is a passionate architect that advocates for equity and focuses on building spaces that create nurturing environments for users to thrive. Primarily leading civic projects in New York City, Annya seeks to impact the design environment beyond traditional approaches and utilize community engagement as a means to achieve design equity.  Annya has previously served on the AIANY Honors Committee and currently serves on the AIANY Fellows Committee. This year, she was a juror for the 2024 National AIA Architecture Award & the Twenty-five Year Award. She is an active leader in the community, serving on boards of The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, The Sato Project & The Clemente Center, a cultural organization that cultivates and promotes the preservation of Puerto Rican and Latinx arts & culture in New York City. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Design from the University of Puerto Rico & a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP. 

Katherine Hogan, AIA -
Owner & Principal, Katherine Hogan Architects

Katherine Hogan, AIA is owner and principal of Katherine Hogan Architects, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. As architect and educator, Katherine approaches each project with the belief that good design can happen at any scale and budget. Throughout her career, she has worked on projects of various scales and typologies, including, institutional, commercial and residential projects. Her firm has crafted a diverse body of work, and has received AIA awards at the local, state and national levels for innovative design solutions to complex problems and for using ordinary materials in inventive ways. The portfolio represents a fresh, distinctive approach to design, one that balances craft, making and implementation of architecture.

Katherine Hogan Architects was recently recognized as a 2023 Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York and 2024 Best of Practice - Southeast by The Architects Newspaper. The firm was included in an exhibition at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale entitled, A SOUTH FORTY that included 40 regional firms and aimed to provide an overview of the current vitality of contemporary architecture and design in the American South.

Katherine earned her B.Arch. in 2005 from Syracuse University as a University Scholar, with a minor in Italian language. She serves as an Advisory Board member to the Syracuse University School of Architecture and has been a Visiting Critic at the school since 2015.

Thank you to our 2024 OAA sponsors!

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Previous Years

2019 AIA Portland Architecture Award Results

2020 AIA Oregon Architecture Award Results

2021 AIA Oregon Architecture Awards

2022 AIA Oregon Architecture Awards

2023 AIA Oregon Architecture Awards