Dana Cupkova

Dana Cupkova is a Co-founder and a Design Director of EPIPHYTE Lab, an interdisciplinary architectural design and research collaborative that was recognized in 2018 as the ‘Next Progressives’ design practice by ARCHITECT Magazine. She holds an Associate Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture, where she serves as a Graduate Chair for the Master of Science in Sustainable Design. Engaging environmental ethics, Dana's design work is situated at the intersection of built environment and ecology, focused on materiality, embodied energy, and advanced manufacturing frameworks, with a particular interest in thermodynamics, and material waste streams. Dana is a member of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), a recipient of the 2019 ACADIA Teaching Award of Excellence, the 2022 ACSA Creative Achievement Award, and a 2022-23 Fulbright US Scholar.

Michael Ford AIA, NOMA, NCARB

Michael Ford, an award-winning architect and educator, is originally from Highland Park, Michigan, and now based in Dallas, Texas. Ford is making waves in the design world with his pioneering program, The Hip Hop Architecture Camp, which uses Hip Hop culture to introduce underrepresented youth to architecture and design. This unique approach to diversifying the design professions has earned Ford national acclaim, with features in media outlets such as Oprah Winfrey Network's Super Soul Sunday, The TODAY Show, Rolling Stone Magazine, Architect Magazine, and Interior Design Magazine.

As a sought-after speaker, Ford has keynoted national conferences around the world, including the American Institutes of Architects National Conference on Architecture, American Planning Association's National Planning Conference, NeoCon, Interior Design Show Toronto, and his TEDx talk, "Hip Hop as Modernism's Post Occupancy Report."

Ford is the Founding Principal of BrandNu Design Studio, a full-service architecture and design studio based in Dallas, Texas. Ford’s studio is leading the design of notable projects such as The Universal Hip Hop Museum in The Bronx and the Black Inventor's Hall of Fame in Newark, New Jersey.

Ford has received numerous accolades for his contributions to the field, including the 2022 Wisconsin Young Architect of the Year and the Spirit of Detroit Award. However, he is most proud of Mike Ford Day, a day dedicated to him at Cass Technical High School in Detroit because of his commitment to youth.

At the heart of it all, Ford is a devoted husband and father to his sons, the late MJ3 and Mason.

Petra Kempf, PhD.

Petra Kempf, PhD. is an architect, urban designer, and professor of architecture at Washington University in St Louis. Her creative practice and research speculate on how the assemblage of collective living has been influenced by urbanization.

Prior to pursuing an academic career, Kempf worked for the Department of City Planning in New York City, the Project for Public Space, and Richard Meier and Partners. She has taught at Cornell University, Columbia University, Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons School of Design, and the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. She has lectured throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, and her drawings have been exhibited at venues such as Architecture Venice Biennale and Chicago Biennale, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pink Comma Gallery in Boston, and Roca Gallery in London, among other galleries and academic institutions in the United States and Europe. She is author of You are the City – Observation, Organization and Transformation of Urban Settings (2009) and (K)ein Ort Nirgends – Der Transitraum im urbanen Netzwerk (2010).

Apart from her research work, she continually explores the concept of line drawings as agents to communicate the creation of place - a process where lines are being drawn, to only be redrawn, to record a journey through space to construct place.

Samuel Ringman

Samuel Ringman is a registered architect and architectural illustrator practicing in Dallas for forty-one years. An internationally recognized artist, he has received numerous awards in ASAI’s Architecture in Perspective competitions, KRob, and others, and has been featured in publications such as “Architectural Rendering”, “The Art of Architectural Drawing”, and the upcoming KRob 50th anniversary book.

Working in a variety of media and techniques, he provides illustration services for an international base of architects, interior designers, and developers. While emphasizing the illustrator’s role as part of the design team, he provides clients with a wide range of options, from loose sketches to finely detailed renderings, and produces images that are both representative and evocative. He is presently producing the illustrations for the upcoming “A Field Guide to American Buildings”.

Joshua M. Nason

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.

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