The Board of Directors Awards celebrate individuals whose work and leadership have made a lasting impact on architecture, the profession, and the communities we serve.
Join us at our 2025 Design Awards Gala on May 15 when we celebrate these outstanding individuals!
Bob Murrin, FAIA
Principal, AC Martin
Over a 45-year career at AC Martin, Bob led the firm’s Education Planning and Design Studio, designing innovative, award-winning educational facilities across California, including major projects at USC and CSU campuses.
Michael Bohn, AIA
Partner, Studio One Eleven · Past President, AIA LB/SB
A licensed architect with over 30 years of experience, Michael focuses on repairing communities through architecture, landscape, and urban design — from the visioning of 200 blocks of downtown Long Beach to street-scale interventions across a dozen cities.
D. J. Waldie
Cultural Historian, Memoirist, and Translator
Author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir and Becoming Los Angeles, Waldie frames his suburban experience as a search for a sense of place, writing widely on suburbanization and its cultural effects in Southern California and the nation.