Congratulations to all of the winners in the 2025 Design Awards program, who were recognized during a ceremony and dinner in Sioux Falls on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Here are the honorees:
2025 HONOR AWARD
2025 YOUNG ARCHITECT AWARD
The juror panel for the 2025 AIA SD Design Awards was led by Co-Chairs Joshua Hemberger, AIA, LEED AP, and Leah Rudolphi, AIA, both of Substance Architecture. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries in the three award categories — Architecture - Large Project, Architecture - Small Project and a Rolling Category — Master Planning & Community Design.
2026 DESIGN AWARDS
Start planning now to participate in the 2026 AIA South Dakota Design Awards. The program is open to all AIA South Dakota architect members. Awards may be submitted as an individual AIA SD member or as a firm with a key project member (e.g. Architect of Record, Architect-in-Charge, Design Architect, etc.) as an AIA SD member.
The Design Awards submission window typically opens in July. The 2026 categories will be Architecture: Large Project, Architecture: Small Project, and the 2026 rolling category. Click here for more info on the 2026 Nominated Awards.
The juror panel for the 2024 AIA SD Design Awards was led by Tim Schroeder, FAIA, CDT, CXMP, LEED AP, President of Neumann Monson Architects. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries in the three award categories — Architecture - Large Project, Architecture - Small Project and a Rolling Category — Preservation & Adaptive Reuse.
The juror panel for the 2023 AIA SD Design Awards was led by Kate Schwennsen, FAIA, Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the School of Architecture, Clemson University. Also serving as jurors were Thomas Savory, FAIA, LEED AP, NCARB, a principal and higher education design director with McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture, and Jane Frederick, FAIA, LEED AP, a principal at Frederick + Frederick Architects who had served as the 96th president of the American Institute of Architects. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries in the three award categories — Architecture - Large Project, Architecture - Small Project and a Rolling Category — Best Moment.
The juror panel for the 2022 AIA SD Design Awards was led by Jeffrey Day, FAIA, founding principal of Actual Architecture Co., assembling a team of three to judge 19 South Dakota entries. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries in the three award categories — Architecture - Large Project, Architecture - Small Project and a Rolling Category — Master Planning & Community Design.
2021 HONOR AWARD goes to:
The juror for the 2020 AIA SD Design Awards was Matt Kreilich, FAIA, of Snow Kreilich, an AIA Firm of the Year honoree.