Past Fellowship Award Recipients

2025

PENNY HERSCOVITCH
Practice Architecture Mid-Career Fellowship
“Los Angeles Learning Resilient Design Strategies From Japan”
Co-Owner, PadLab
Associate Professor, Spatial Experience Design, Art Center College of Design

NEHALI DOSHI
KFA Architecture Mid-Career Fellowship
“Re-Contextualizing Wildfires Through Stories”
Landscape and Ecological Designer, SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC

2024

ERIN KASIMOW
2024 Mid-Career Fellowship Winner
“Perfection/Redaction: A study in architectural photography and documentation through the ‘female gaze’”
Principal, EEK Studio
Adjunct Associate Professor, USC School of Architecture

IRIS MINNA KIM
2024 Mid-Career Fellowship Winner
“Exploring Identity, Culture, and Diasporic Experiences: A Storytelling Project on Koreatown, Los Angeles”
Second-generation Korean American designer, Los Angeles
Principal, Studio in()ir

2023

ISMAELLY PEÑA
2023 Mid-Career Fellowship Winner
“Mapping Resistance: The Fight for Cultural Preservation in Highland Park”
Architectural Designer, Researcher, Educator
Employed at Practice Architecture
Educator at Woodbury University School of Architecture

2022

MELISSA ANDERSON
2022 Mid-Career Fellowship Winner
“The Use of 3D Printing in Housing and Micro-Housing”
Architect, Chet Architecture
Founder, Studio Serpentine
studio-serpentine.com

2021

ANNA-NEIMARK
2021 Mid-Career Fellowship Winner
“Rude Forms Among Us”
Founding Co-Principal of First Office
Design Faculty, Southern California Institute of Architecture

2020

ASHLEY MARGO
2020 Mid-Career Fellowship
“Los Angeles by Color”
Multimedia Designer and Art Director
ashleymargo.com

2019

KRISTY BALLIET + KELLY BAIR
2019 Mid-Career Fellowship
Research on “The Unstable Image”
Architects
bairballiet.com

2018

CLAIRE LATANE
2018 Mid-Career Fellowship
”Connecting High School Environments to Mental Health and Wellbeing”Landscape Architect
www.clairelatane.com

2017

AUDREY SATO
2017 Mid-Career Fellowship
”LA Architects Podcast”
Architect
xx-la.com
audreysato.com

2016

KATHERINE HARVEY
JANICA LEY BAKER
2016 Mid-Career Fellowship
”1200 Play Yards: A Patchwork of Potential”
Architects