2025 Edition

Design Awards 2025

Six winners across Single Family Residential, Unbuilt, COTE, and Interiors — presented May 15, 2025 at the Rancho Los Alamitos gala.

Announced May 15, 2025 · Rancho Los Alamitos

The 2025 Design Awards were presented May 15, 2025, at a gala held at Rancho Los Alamitos. The jury — Marlon Blackwell, FAIA; Michael Hsu, FAIA; Jonathan Moody, AIA; and Lauren Rottet, FAIA — reviewed entries across eight categories, with COTE recognition juried by Dave Intner, AIA. Six projects were honored.

2025 registration ran January 13 – March 10 ($195–$295 early bird, $295–$395 late), with final submissions due March 14.

2025 Honorees

Presidential Honoree Award

Michael Bohn, AIA

Studio One Eleven · Past President, AIA Long Beach / South Bay

A partner at Studio One Eleven and the chapter’s 2017 president — its longest-serving director — Bohn has spent over 30 years repairing communities through architecture, landscape, and urban design: 200 blocks of downtown Long Beach visioning, more than 3,500 units of housing, Southern California’s first parklets, and a run of office-to-housing conversions. Read the full profile →

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Community Design Advocate Award

D. J. Waldie

Cultural historian, memoirist, and translator

In books, essays, and online commentary, Waldie frames his suburban experience — often starting from his hometown of Lakewood — as a search for a sense of place. He is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir and Becoming Los Angeles; the New York Times has called his work “a gorgeous distillation of architectural and social history.” Read the full profile →

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