Amanda Aman, AIA

Licensed Architect, Lecturer and Fourth Year Coordinator at UTA CAPPA

Amanda is a licensed architect, Lecturer and Fourth Year Coordinator in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA) at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her work operates at the intersection of environmental and social systems and the built environment, informed by over fifteen years of professional experience with architecture and landscape urbanism practices, including Lake | Flato, SWA, Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis, and Welch | Hall Architects. She has taught undergraduate and graduate design studios, visual communication courses, and elective seminars at CAPPA for nine years. She received the 2025 CAPPA Teaching Excellence by APT Faculty Award and was CAPPA’s nominee for the 2024–25 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Her creative practice focuses on mapping, designing within and advocating for critical geographies of the built environment – human and non-human, physical and ephemeral – with particular attention to contested territories shaped by environmental and social injustice and inhabited by marginalized communities. Her work bridges professional and field-based creative practice and has been supported by grants and fellowships from the UTA Libraries Special Collections, the Dillon Center for Texas Architecture, Downtown Dallas Parks Conservancy, Landscape Architecture Foundation, Anchorage Design Week and the AIA New York and Center for Architecture.

Her research has been presented at national conferences and published in peer-reviewed venues. It has been recognized with the 2018–2019 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant and the 2022 National ACSA Best Project Award, and is published in Landscape Research Record, Journal of Creative Geography and the Atlas of Design.

Arne Emerson

Design Partner at Morphosis Architects

Arne Emerson is a Partner and Design Partner at Morphosis Architects in Los Angeles, with nearly three decades of experience leading cultural, civic, and urban projects across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. His work spans museums, embassies, academic institutions, commercial environments, and mixed-use developments.

At Morphosis, Emerson has led major international projects including the U.S. Embassies in Beirut and Riyadh, the ENI Headquarters in Milan and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas and served as Design Lead for the UT Dallas Athenaeum cultural district, including the Crow Museum of Asian Art and the new Music Building and Performance Hall.

Prior to joining Morphosis, Emerson spent a decade at Studio Daniel Libeskind, where he led major international projects including the Denver Art Museum expansion, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the 18.36.54 House, as well as several international competitions.

Arne teaches graduate design studios at Arizona State University and is a faculty member at YACademy in Bologna. He has served as a visiting professor, lecturer, and critic at multiple institutions, and as a jury member for international design competitions. He continues to value the drawing as a fundamental tool for thinking, exploration, and the development of ideas.

Thad Reeves, AIA

Principal at A Gruppo Architects

Thad Reeves received his Masters of Architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1997. During this time, he studied in Spain and traveled extensively in Europe. His interest in historic European architecture’s influence on contemporary design has led him on numerous architectural pilgrimages throughout Western and Central Europe, Australia, and the United States.

Upon graduation, Thad worked for RTKL Associates in Dallas, where he worked on both local and International award winning projects. After a short time he had the opportunity to participate in the legacy of Oglesby Greene Architects where he honed his skills on well-crafted, smaller scale projects.

In 2003, Thad helped form the offices of Thomas Krahenbuhl and Truett Roberts Architects where, as a senior associate, he continued to work on commercial and residential projects at all phases of the design process.

Thad co-founded IPB LLC in 2005 as a way to purchase and develop projects. He undertook the restoration of an historic 1920’s residential complex where he acted as developer, designer and contractor.

In 2005, Thad began teaching at the University of Texas in Arlington and co-founded A.GRUPPO Architects. He is a registered architect in the state of Texas and is the recipient of the McDermott traveling fellowship.

Joshua M. Nason

Dean of Hammons School of Architecture

Professor Joshua M. Nason is Dean of Hammons School of Architecture at Drury University and Director of the collaborative design practice Iterative Studio. He has been on the K-Rob Competition Committee for nine years and a frequent moderator of the awards event. Previously, he was Assistant Director for the School of Architecture at UTA where he taught for 12 years following three at Texas Tech.

Teaching is his passion. He teaches design studio and classes on theory, drawing, and making. For him, it’s cultivating a series of experiences that help students realize their authentic potential to impact the built world. As an educator he emphasizes quality instruction and curricular innovation to imbue students with skills and confidence to advance architecture.

Josh approaches everything as a design project. He works across mediums including writing, drawing, and building, all which he considers acts of architecture that mediate between people and places.

2025

Bradley P. Bell

Gregory S. Ibañez, FAIA

Ursula Emery McClure, FAAR, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, NCIDQ

 

2024

Dana Cupkova

Michael Ford AIA, NOMA, NCARB

Petra Kempf, PhD.

Samuel Ringman

 

2023

Fernando Andrade, AIA

Kate Aoki, AIA

César A. Lopez

Michael Malone, FAIA

 

2022

Jennifer Bonner

Carrie Norman

Melissa Shin

 

2021

Chris Cornelius

Sarah Reyes / Daniel Driensky

Moon Hoon

 

2020

Frank Jacobus

Anna Puigjaner

Neyran Turan

 

2019

Alejandro Borges

Christoph a. Kumpusch

Elena Manferdini

Anna Neimark

 

2018

Maya Alam

Ada Tolla

Michael Young

 

2017

Moh'd Bilbeisi

Petra Kempf

Jimenez Lai

Steven Quevedo

 

2016

Gabe Esquivel

Gill Gorski

Dwayne Oyler

 

2015

John Maruszczak

Warwick Melrose

Michael Rojkind

 

2014

Frank Ching

Thomas Series

Cliff Welch

 

2013

Alexander Hogrefe

Perry Kulper

Stephen Martiniere

 

2012

Carlo Aiello

Michael Malone

Jeff Mottle

 

2011

Kevin Sloan

Julie Snow

Alexander Walter

 

2010

Gary Cunningham

Namanand Henderson

Dan Wood

 

2008

Orhan Ayyuce

Christopher Genik, AIA

Mike Wells

 

2007

Jett Butler

Anton Garcia-Abril Ruiz

John Jourden

 

2006

Randy Brown, FAIA

Patricia Meadows

Mason White

 

2005

Javier Arbana-Homar

Kit Hall

Paul Lewis

 

2004

Neil Denari

Joseph Kosinski

Emily Summers

 

2003

Diana Cheatam

Ginny Herzog

Hanni Rashid

 

2002

Damon Bakun

Wes Jones, AIA

Chris Yessons, Ph.D.

 

2001

Kimberly Holden

Steven Nash

Mohammed Saleh Udden

 

2000

Daryl Duit

David Fox

Steve Lawrence

 

1999

Richard Keeting, FAIA

Joyce Rosner

Martha Rowlett

 

1997

Val Glitsch, FAIA

John Maruszczak

Lawrence Speck, FAIA

 

1996

John Blood

Jeffrey Hildner

David Sines

 

1995

Frank Constantino

John Desmond, FAIA

Sam Ringman

 

1994

Richard Ferrier, FAIA

Syd Mead

Paul Stevenson Oles

 

1993

Neil Denari

Elizabeth Dey

Matthew Morris

 

1992

Bart Forbes

Richard Harshaw Clark

Debra Natalos

 

1990

Natalye Appel, AIA

Thomas Schaller, AIA

Harwood Smith, FAIA

 

1989

Alan Balfour

Frank Constantino

Richard Ferrier, AIA

 

1988

Brian McCall

Lyle Novinski

Jorge Pardo, AIA

 

1987

Robert Evans, AIA

Martin Growald, AIA

Elizabeth Sasser

 

1986

Judith Hawn Urrutia

Dick Mitchell

Peter Waldman, AIA

 

1985

Robert LeMond, AIA

Richard Oliver

Paul Stevenson Oles, AIA

 

1984

Michael E. Doyle, AIA

Herschel Fisher, FAIA

Bon-Hui Uy

 

1983

Gerald Allen, AIA

Carlos Diniz

Peter Wolf

 

1982

Jim Arp

Paul Deeley, AIA

George Villalva, Jr., AIA

 

1978

Richard Ferrier, FAIA

 

1975

Richard Ferrier, FAIA

 

1974

Jean DuBoze

Ed Mok

Gerald Tackett