As our 2023 Award season approaches, please get to know the jurors who will be viewing, discussing, and awarding your projects.
Please join us in thanking our jurors for volunteering their time and energy to review, discuss, and ultimately award the projects entered into the 2023 OAA program. Best of luck!
Jaime Torres Carmona, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+ C – Jury Chair
Principal and Founder
Canopy
Jaime Torres Carmona founded Canopy to explore his belief in design as a vehicle for positive change, through projects ranging in scale from community and health centers to housing, schools, mixed-use buildings and urban design. Jaime is drawn towards the urban and civic realm and its impact on the human experience, and is recognized for his sensitivity toward the end user, the community impact and the environment. Jaime is currently engaged in projects throughout Chicago and the Midwest, focusing on opportunities that allow him to combine research with a participative process to create meaningful spaces.
Jaime’s work has been presented in a number of venues including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, the Energy Center of Wisconsin, the Chicago Cultural Center, as well as the National AIA Conference in New York City. As both a Baker Fellow and a Ryerson Fellow, as well as a distinguished graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he has taught at UIUC, Judson University and other local universities where his studies have focused on cities, urbanism, people and culture. Jaime is a member of Chicago DPD’s Design Excellence Committee, and was appointed as a member of Mayor Lightfoot’s Housing Transition committee. He was also an appointed Jury member for the 2023 National AIA Firm of the Year and AIA Gold Medal selection committees.
Joseph King, AIA, LEED® AP
Associate Principal
SCB in San Francisco
Joseph King is an Associate Principal, Studio Leader, and Senior Designer in SCB’s San Francisco office, specializing in urban mixed-use and multifamily residential projects. Joe’s focus starts at the beginning of conceptual design, leading the data collection, site analysis, and massing studies that help define a project’s approach and initiate the design process. His emphasis on collaborative design involves working closely with clients, contractors, and consultants from the start of a project through delivery.
Joe’s investigative design process involves not only various digital modeling and rendering media, but also hand sketching, drawing, and 3D modeling. He believes in a holistic design approach which involves a deep understanding of the constraints and opportunities presented by each unique design scenario. Recent projects include 1900 Broadway, a 452-unit mixed-use apartment and office tower in Oakland, and 30 Van Ness, a 47-story luxury condominium and office tower in San Francisco.
Prior to joining SCB, Joe practiced with several highly regarded firms in both the Bay Area and Chicago, where his work as lead designer was recognized with numerous design awards and in several publications. His past experience extends to project types including master planning, office, urban retail, higher education, and single-family residences.
Joe believes in mentorship both within the office and profession as a whole. He has taught architectural design studios at the Academy of Art University and the University of California, Berkeley and has been a guest juror at Northwestern University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan. He is a licensed architect in Illinois and California, a LEED accredited professional, and an active member of American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
Kate Michaud, AIA, LEED® AP
Senior Associate, Director of Project Delivery
MSR Design in Minneapolis
As MSR Design’s director of project delivery and a firm senior associate, Kate is a thoughtful architect with experience in a diverse mix of projects, including public libraries, market rate and affordable multifamily housing, single-family residences, and corporate offices. Kate has a passion for community centered work and believes that everyone can benefit from good design. She is a member of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including an AIA Chicago Distinguished Building Award, AIA Iowa Honor Award, and two Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Architectural Excellence in Community Design.
Kate believes that everyone can benefit from good design and that buildings should positively impact their occupants and surrounding communities. As the recipient of the 2016 Scherer Travel Scholarship, she traveled to Bogota and Medellin, Colombia, to see firsthand how urban design has brought hope and increased opportunities for residents. Kate’s work has received numerous awards, including an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Chicago Distinguished Building Award.
Brett Randall Jones, AIA LEED® AP
Principal
David Baker Architects in Oakland, CA
Brett Randall Jones, AIA, LEED AP, is a Principal at David Baker Architects, a progressive architecture firm in San Francisco that creates acclaimed buildings and communities in diverse environments. Formed in 1982, DBA is known for innovative housing, creative site strategies, healthy design, and integrating new construction into the urban realm.
He believes that being connected with the community for which we are designing is essential to the creation of meaningful buildings. Focused on place-based architecture, Brett is a key figure in DBA’s hospitality practice. He also serves as the Principal in Charge of the DBA_Workshop—our prototyping and fabrication shop—expanding our shop capacity and facilitating the integration of original designs and custom pieces into DBA’s housing and hospitality projects.
Brett is an active member of the Boutique & Lifestyle Leaders Association, the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California’s Emerging Leaders Peer Network, and East Bay Housing Organizations. He received both a Bachelor of Architecture and Interior Architecture from Auburn University in Alabama and is a proud alumni of the Rural Studio, where he designed large-scale community projects and low-income housing and developed extensive construction knowledge through several self-built projects.
Since joining DBA in 2011, Brett’s work has spanned hospitality, affordable housing, market-rate housing, and more. Stand-out projects include the Harmon Guest House in Healdsburg, California; the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Building in San Francisco; Fillmore Park, affordable homes for first-time buyers in San Francisco; Potrero 1010—a mixed-use, mixed-income community and public park in San Francisco; and 388 Fulton, a micro-unit building that won a 2018 AIA San Francisco Honor Award.
Currently, Brett is working on a range of innovative hospitality and housing projects, including the HH Residences in Healdsburg; the Parkside Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama; Hotel Sebastopol in Sebastopol, California; and a large mixed-use artist and hotel co-living development at the historic California Cotton Mills in Oakland, California. Contact Brett at brettjones@dbarchitect.com.
Stephen Mueller
Founding Partner
Agency
Stephen Mueller is a registered architect and a founding partner of AGENCY, a design and research practice which leverages spatial design and spatial information to counteract nascent forms of global and urban inequality.
Mueller is the founding Director of Research at POST (Project for Operative Spatial Technologies), a territorial think-tank situated on the US-Mexico border. POST engages transformations in the borderland through projects intersecting urban geography, border studies, and digital humanities.
Mueller is a co-organizer of the Border Consortium for Actionable Spatial Research and Practice, a platform for shared, comparative, and impactful cross-border research, with participants from leading practices and universities in the US and Mexico.
Mueller is co-author of FRONTS: Security and the Developing World (AR+D, 2020), which uncovers a growing geography of codependence between the global security complex and the urban morphologies of the developing world which it increasingly incriminates.
Mueller is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2021 Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2018 Emerging Voices award from The Architectural League of New York, and the 2010-2011 Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. Mueller was awarded a University Design Research Fellowship at Exhibit Columbus in 2020-21, Cameron Visiting Architect fellowship at Middlebury University in 2016, was named a DISCREET Fellow in Residence at the Berlin Biennale in 2016, awarded residency fellowships at The MacDowell Colony in 2009 and 2013, and was named a Fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2010. Mueller was recognized as one of Architect Magazine’s Emerging Talents in 2011 and received the Architect Magazine R+D Award in 2008.
Mueller’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Hong Kong/Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale, the Berlin Biennale, the Venice Biennale, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Mueller has published extensively, including in Manifest, Bracket, e-flux, MONU, Scapegoat, Volume, and the Architect’s Newspaper.
Mueller received the Columbia University GSAPP Incubator Prize in 2019, for ongoing research to uncover, represent, and design for the unseen dangers of irradiated shade in the borderland.
Mueller holds a Bachelor of Architecture with Distinction from the University of Kansas, and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia GSAPP.