ARCHITECT magazine's 71st Annual Progressive Architecture Awards recognize unbuilt projects that demonstrate design excellence and innovation in housing, healthcare facilities, cultural spaces, and more. Judging is now underway with a jury of three esteemed judges.
The first judge is Carlo Caccavale, Hon. AIA, executive director of AIA Los Angeles and Architecture for Communities Los Angeles. Born in Rome, Caccavale pursued his academic journey in languages and communications at Università La Sapienza. With a deep interest in media, he later moved to New York to study television production, a path that eventually led him to Milan, where he worked in TV production.
However, Caccavale’s passion for architecture and design drew him to Los Angeles, where he has spent the past 21 years with AIA Los Angeles. He currently serves as executive director for the chapter and its educational nonprofit spinoff, Architecture for Communities Los Angeles, where he is committed to fostering a vibrant community focused on the transformative power of architecture and design.
Joining him is Jason Pugh, NOMAC, AIA, AICP, LEED AP, a licensed architect, certified planner, and principal at Gensler, where he serves as the Global Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. As a firm-wide leader based in Chicago, Pugh promotes Gensler’s commitment to its Strategies to Build a Just and Inclusive Future while addressing the low representation, disparities, and unique challenges minority practitioners face across the building design industry. He is passionate about developing underserved communities and the next generation of designers, architects, planners, and activists. He leads projects that engage the community at large, shepherding them from community-based comprehensive plans through full construction, and is driven by the belief that one project can change a community, and if we change enough communities, we can change the world.
Pugh also served as the 2021-2022 National President of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and currently sits on Chicago’s Executive Board for the Architecture, Construction, and Engineering (ACE) Mentor Program.
Rounding out the trio is architect Julie Snow, FAIA, NOMA, who leads a studio-based practice in Minneapolis, where an interest in pragmatic and critical programmatic reflection results in innovative designs that expand our understanding of architectural performance, and design strategies engage issues of how architecture performs within each project's, social, cultural and economic context. The practice has been recognized with numerous awards, including the AIA’s 2018 Architecture Firm Award, an honor that recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years.
Snow has held several visiting professor positions, as well as teaching at the University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, where she received the Ralph Rapson Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 2011 she was awarded the Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Together, these distinguished professionals will evaluate a new class of unbuilt designs that reinforce the critical role architects play in making our communities more vibrant. Winners will be announced in September.
Read here about the winners of the 2023 Progressive Architecture Awards.
