James Britton Memorial Awards were established in 1982 by James “Jack” Britton Jr. in memory of his father, a 1925 graduate of the School and long-time architect in the Syracuse community. He stayed heavily involved with the school after graduation, serving as a juror on student critiques for many years.
The first Britton Memorial Award was given in 1983 to recognize the best final projects by graduate and undergraduate students in the professional degree programs. Every year since, three thesis projects have been chosen by a jury made up of faculty and visiting practitioners.
Awards are given at Convocation to graduate and undergraduate students in their final year for producing the best thesis or directed research projects. Each award consists of a bronze medal bearing the recipient’s name and date of the award and a certificate, as well as a financial prize of $2,000.
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YEAR |
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH |
DIRECTED RESEARCH |
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH |
| 2024 |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
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YEAR |
ADVISORY BOARD |
FACULTY |
JURY |
| 2023 |
Justin DiFabritis |
Valeria Otero López |
Chenhao Leo Luo |
| 2022 |
Dara H. Jin |
Alba Ivania Rivera |
Kristabel Chung |
| 2021 |
Krystol Austin |
Hanzhang Lai |
Luke Miller |
| 2020 |
Elena Echarri Myers |
Anna Korneeva |
Camila Andino |
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YEAR |
BEST THESIS PRIZE |
FACULTY PRIZE |
JURY PRIZE |
| 2019 |
David Bullard |
Ahnaf Chowdhury |
Furui Sun |
| 2018 |
Yen Hsi Tung Yuchi Kuo |
Nathaniel Banks Yidian Liu |
Andrea Dominguez Shaguni Gupta |
| 2017 |
Ana Hernandez Derbez Domenica Velasco |
Vivek Njanappilly | Cherif Farid |
| 2016 |
Jessica Ordaz-Garcia Stephanie Tager |
Fang Fan | Alyssa Goraieb |
| YEAR |
BEST THESIS |
OUTSTANDING THESIS |
OUTSTANDING THESIS |
| 2015 | Steven O’Hara | Joshua Graham | Rebecca Soja |
| 2014 | Jesse Ganes | Ashley Marshall | Yuxiang Luo |
| 2013 | Patrick Ruggiero, Jr. | Kristopher Menos | Maria Saavedra |
| 2012 | W. Andrew Weigand | Valerie Herrera | Dylan Forester |
| 2011 | Gabriel Jewell-Vitale | Timothy Gale | Jeffrey Kamuda |
| 2010 | Kyle Weeks | Ryan Kowalczyk | Nicole Laughlin |
| 2009 | Beth Mosenthal | Paul Miller | Elizabeth Quick |
| 2008 | Eric Wilson | Christine McMahon | Sophia Tang |
| 2007 | Robert Daurio | Dale Lunan | David Turturo |
| 2006 | Leonardo Perez | Bruce Molino | Emily Wiles |
| 2005 | Christopher Hayner | Naomi Susman | Katherine Hogan |
| 2004 | Linnea Stuart |
Michael Prattico John Lacy |
Wesley Schwartz Zhe Wang |
| 2003 | Timothy Lock | Wei Zhao | Paul Ferrari |
| 2002 | Alice Carey | Ashraf Osman | Jesse Nicholson |
| 2001 | Trevor Lavoie | Audra Manzano | Joel Kline |
| 2000 | Samantha Whitney | Richard Nisa | William Hoisington |
| 1999 | Yanel DeAngel | Ryan Dillon | Gonazlo X. Diez |
| 1998 | Thomas Zoli | Catarina Ferreira | Kerri Ferrara |
| 1997 | Benjamin Pell | Matthew Burgermaster | Liz Melendez |
| 1996 | Christopher Pizzi | William Truitt | Kang Chang |
| 1995 | Salvatore Canciello | Andrew Thurlow | Lea Ciavarra |
| 1994 | Hans J. Graf | Amornrit Pukdeedamrongrit | Rajeev Thakker |
| 1993 | Robert Finger | Nina Ebbighausen | Lawrence Wright, Jr. |
| 1992 | Kevin Sloan | Timothy deNoble | Richard Lucas |
| 1991 | Maria Polar | Angel Cocera | John Munford |
| 1990 | Gerard Damiani | Scott A. Erdy | Aaron Bentley |
| 1989 | Charles M. Breau | Alejandro Ceppi | Timothy Cohen |
| 1988 | Jill Brunstead | Erik Hoffman | Thomas Kinslow |
| 1987 | Victoria Ashley | Lilian Berindoague | Jon Eric Moss |
| 1986 | Alice Raucher | Joseph Mahota | Margaret Griffin |
| 1985 | Amy Coburn | Angeline Ho | Christopher Ruck |
| 1984 | John Berger | Peter Gross | Jeanne Stoney |
| 1983 | Mike Siegel | Martin Dermady | Wyatt Nelson |
