Oct 16, 2025
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Volume 75, Issue 4 - The Awards Issue
Awards 2025
AIA Fort Worth Student Design Awards
At its annual awards ceremony on March 1, AIA Fort Worth recognized the recipients of its 2024 Student Design Awards. Jurors for the program—Audrey Maxwell, AIA, of Malone, Maxwell, Dennehy Architects; Marshall Strawn, AIA, of Bennett Partners; and Ashleigh Hood, Assoc. AIA, of Quorum Architects—reviewed the entries and selected two projects for Honor Awards and a $500 scholarship, and two projects for Merit Awards.
HONOR AWARDS
Urban Detour
Molly Lin, Darnell Zamora
University of Houston
Cloud Forest Research Station
Beatrice Lum
University of Texas at Austin
MERIT AWARDS
Brickborne
Vittorio Covarrubias and Aly Noorani
University of Houston
Third Ward Community
Zulema Ayon, Olivia Blas, Olivia Salinas, and James Strang
University of Houston
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