The BSA today announced nine distinguished jurors for the 2025 BSA Design Awards. Five will review Built Design & Small Firms submissions, and the remaining four will review Unbuilt Planning & Design submissions. Representing diverse perspectives and geographic backgrounds from across the United States, these professionals will carefully evaluate entries in all categories to determine the winners and levels of recognition.

The Built Design & Small Firms Jury consists of:

• Whitney Johnson, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP BD+C, Project Architect at EOA Architects
• Alice Kimm, FAIA, co-founder of John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK)
• Ann Lui, AIA, founding principal of Future Firm
• Christiana Moss, FAIA, founding principal of Studio Ma
• Brandon Pace, FAIA, founding partner of Sanders Pace Architecture

The Unbuilt Planning & Design Firms Jury consists of:

• Mark L. Gardner, AIA, principal at Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects (J/GA)
• Chana Haouzi, AIA, founder of Architecture for Public Benefit
• Nate Imai, founding-partner of Studio Imai Conway
• Leyuan Li, design principal of Office for Roundtable

Professional Biographies of the 2025 Built Design & Small Firms Jury

Whitney Johnson, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP BD+C is a Project Architect at EOA Architects in Nashville, where her work spans from historic preservation to community-centered design. Whitney holds a Master of Integrated Design and Construction and a Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University. In 2023, she became the 7th licensed African American female architect in the state of Tennessee. Whitney is a member of Nashville’s Emerging Leaders 2024 cohort and is an active voice in professional leadership. She currently serves as Vice President of NOMAnash, the Nashville Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects, and previously served on the AIA Middle Tennessee Board of Directors and Advocacy Committee. In addition, she is involved with the Urban Land Institute’s Nashville District Council and its Pathways to Inclusion program. A former Adjunct Professor in Auburn University’s Environmental Design program, Whitney is dedicated to mentorship, advocacy, and expanding opportunities for the next generation of architects.

Alice Kimm, FAIA co-founded John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) in Los Angeles in 1996. JFAK’s work spans educational, institutional, and commercial typologies as well as housing, civic environments, and installations. Alice holds a B.A. in Economics from Cornell, an M.Arch from Harvard, and is a former Fulbright Scholar. A longtime educator, she directed Undergraduate Architecture at USC from 2010-2014. Alice was named a 2004 Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York along with John Friedman, and elevated to the AIA’s College of Fellows in 2010. In 2020, Alice with John and a group of collaborators formed Open Source Homelessness Initiative (OSHI), a nonprofit organization that uses centralized information, resources, and inspiration to accelerate innovations in eradicating homelessness. Alice and John were recently named the recipients of the 2025 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal.

Ann Lui, AIA is a founding principal of Future Firm, a Chicago-based architecture and design research practice and an assistant professor of practice at the University of Michigan. Future Firm designs spaces for changemakers, with a focus on serving nonprofits, community-led developers, and arts and culture organizations. Future Firm was awarded the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize in 2021 and has been exhibited at the Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Storefront for Art & Architecture, and the Chicago Architecture Center. Notable clients include South Side Community Art Center, Revolution Workshop, the Art Institute of Chicago, Nike, and Mobile Makers Chicago.

Lui’s scholarly work explores the intersection of professional practice and social justice, including exploring access to design services, equitable enforcement of building code, and coauthorship of the built environment. Ann has held teaching positions at multiple universities including as Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University. She was co-curator of Dimensions of Citizenship, the 2018 U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. She coedited Public Space? Lost and Found (MIT/SA+P Press, 2015) and Log 53, “Coauthoring” (2022). Her current research explores building code as a pathway towards justice, including the recently published “Toward an Office of the Public Architect” (Log 48) and “Building Code as Battleground” (Harvard Design Magazine, 2024).

She was a member of Crain Chicago Business’s “40 Under 40” in 2018 and is currently a member of the Steering Committee for the Metropolitan Planning Council’s Zoning and Land Use assessment and a member of the Advisory Committee for the State of Illinois Asian American and Pacific Islander Business Collective (IAAPIBC). She holds a master of science in architectural studies in History, Theory and Criticism from MIT and a bachelor of architecture from Cornell University, where she was awarded the Charles Goodwin Sands Medal and the Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial Medal.

Christiana Moss, FAIA is an ecologically focused, climate-driven architect working at the intersection of the natural and built environment from her beloved desert home of Phoenix, Arizona. Her firm, Studio Ma, founded in 2003 with fellow Cornell graduate, Christopher Alt, has been nationally and internationally recognized for its sensitive, tech-adaptive, and regeneratively inspired approach to complex projects including embassies, nearly-net-zero buildings, and museums. Her uniquely innovative approach sees all architecture as fundamentally part of a larger ecological system, and her work frames sustainability through the lenses of water, heat, history, and human experience. Significant projects include a student life master plan for the University of California, Berkeley; a New Embassy Compound in Praia, Cabo Verde; a regenerative research facility for Arizona State University; Scottsdale’s storied Museum of the West; and multiple campus projects around the United States. From her earliest projects working with Phoenix’s four-thousand-year-old water canals to her most recent work which uses state-of-the-art technology mixed with ancient architectural principles to reduce heat and increase environmental regeneration, Moss has sought to design the built environment to restore balance, equity, and joy to the world.

Brandon Pace, FAIA is a founding partner of Sanders Pace Architecture, started in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2002 with partner John Sanders. With work that is extensively researched and thoughtfully executed, Brandon has become a critical voice for a region and context often overlooked. In an era of increasing globalization, Brandon approaches architecture with a local mindset, identifying and expanding upon those cultural, physical, and social characteristics and circumstances that define a place and make it unique. By identifying opportunities within these constraints Brandon has established a foundation and framework for a design process that has led his projects to more than 100 local, regional, and national AIA design awards and publication in books and magazines throughout the world.
Brandon holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Tennessee. He is an active critic and lecturer at colleges of architecture and design across the United States and is currently serving as a visiting faculty member at the University of Cincinnati. Brandon has also become a resource to other AIA chapters across the country through invited lectures and jury service for multiple design awards programs. In recognition of his design work and contribution to the profession, Brandon was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2019 and was the co-recipient of the AIA East Tennessee Gold Medal in 2024 with partner John Sanders.

Professional Biographies of the 2025 Unbuilt Planning & Design Jury

Mark L. Gardner, AIA is a principal at Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects (J/GA) in New York City, J/GA is an award-winning design practice and studio that works across scales from product design to interiors to buildings. Mark works to best understand the role of design as a social practice. Mark is a 2026 President-Elect of the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter (AIANY) and member Exhibition Committee and Past Co-Chair and current member of the AIANY Diversity & Inclusion Committee, which he helped to restart with Venesa Alicea in 2012. He is a Past President and Advocacy Chair for nycobaNOMA, the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects. Mark is the Associate Professor of Architectural Practice and Society at the School of the Constructed Environments, Parsons School of Design at the New School. He was Director of the M.Arch Program from 2017-2021. He served on the Van Alen Institute’s Board of Trustees, the Board of Advisors for the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, and the Board of Youth Design Center (YDC) in Brownsville Brooklyn. Mark currently serves on the Board of the Let Freedom Ring Foundation in Williamsburg, Va and the Advisory Board of the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS).

Chana Haouzi, AIA is an architect, educator, and fierce advocate that good design can and should be for everyone. She is the founder of Architecture for Public Benefit, a mission-driven practice serving nonprofits and community organizations. Under Chana’s leadership, the firm has received the AIA Chicago Foundation’s Roberta Feldman Architecture for Social Justice Award and multiple AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards. Its work has been exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Center, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Boston Society for Architecture. Chana teaches at the University of Chicago, where her courses focus on socially engaged design and the role of architecture in shaping civic life. She is President of the Association for Community Design, a board member of the Chicago Architectural Club, and Associate Curator of the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. She holds a Master of Architecture II from Harvard University and a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from McGill University. She was awarded the 2020 Rose Fellowship with the City of Boston and the AIA Young Architects Award in 2022.

Nate Imai is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of San Francisco. His architectural and urban design research focuses on issues of land ownership, urban development, and the public realm. He is a founding-partner of Studio Imai Conway, a design firm that explores urban and community structure through computation and construction. Imai holds a Master’s in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a BA in Architectural Studies from UCLA. He has previously taught at Texas Tech University, the University of Tennessee, Woodbury University, and Harvard University. Professionally, he has worked at Michael Maltzan Architecture, Höweler + Yoon, Kevin Daly Architects, and Imai Keller Moore Architects.

Leyuan Li is the design principal of Office for Roundtable and an assistant professor at the University of Colorado. His creative work has been supported by the Art Omi Fellowship and the Macdowell Fellowship. Recent projects have been featured on various design platforms, such as ArchDaily, Designboom, PLOT, and The Architect’s Newspaper, as well as been included in national and international venues, such as the São Paulo International Architecture Biennale, the Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen, and the History Colorado Center in Denver. In 2025, Office for Roundtable was awarded an Honorable Mention in AN’s Best of Practice Awards in the Architect (New Firm) - Southwest category.