Annual Design Awards

> 2024 Design Awards Gala on Thursday 2/6/2025

This year's event will be held at Altadena Town & Country Club. Come see the winning projects and teams!  

Want to be a sponsor for this important annual event? Email cleon@aiapf.org.

> Thank you to our submitting architects and teams, and our 2024 jurors!

Sarah Lorenzen, AIA, is principal at TOLO Architecture and an architecture professor at Cal Poly Pomona (where she was chair from 2012-2016). Sarah has practiced architecture for more than 25 years, working on a variety of building types including residential, institutional, and arts-related projects. Sarah grew up in Mexico City and moved to the U.S. to attend college. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) at Smith College and at the Atlanta College of Art, and has two Master of Architecture degrees, the first from Georgia Tech and a second from Sci-Arc. From 2007-2020 Sarah was director of the Neutra VDL House overseeing the restoration of this National Landmark and developing cultural and arts programming. Sarah has served on the boards of AIA|LA and its nonprofit arm, ACLA. In 2023, she received AIA|LA's Citizen Architect Award and in 2015 she was recognized with AIA|LA’s Educator of the Year Award. 

Darin Johnstone, AIA, is an award-winning Los Angeles-based architect and educator. With 26 years of experience in the field of architecture and 24 years spent educating young architects, Johnstone offers a unique perspective at the nexus between practice and academia. Johnstone founded DJA in 2004 to engage architecture as an experimental, overarching discipline. Today, he provides design direction, review, and leadership across all phases of the firm’s projects as it accepts a wide range of design challenges across the spectrum of architecture, urban planning, landscape design, interior design, furniture design and site-specific installation.

Since 2002, Johnstone has been a member of SCI-Arc faculty. From 2010 to 2016, he created and directed Design Immersion Days (DID)—SCI-Arc’s introduction to design program for high school students—which was widely recognized, winning multiple awards and grants. He also led a collaboration between SCI-Arc and Habitat for Humanity from 2015 through 2016, resulting in the design and construction of the multi-award winning IVRV house.

Hsinming Fung, AIA, has been Principal and Co-Founder of Hodgetts + Fung since 1984, a studio with expertise in the design of unique places for learning, cultural events, and civic functions. H+F’s approach is multifaceted, embracing visitor experience, technology, and iconic presence in a disciplined process, resulting in a bold, uncompromising architecture. The firm’s award-winning projects include the design of the renovated Hollywood Bowl, Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center, CalArts’ Wild Beast Pavilion, Jesuit High School Chapel, and Nashville’s new Ascend Amphitheater. Current projects include the renovation of Culver City’s historic Robert Frost Auditorium and a West Hollywood mixed-use development. H+F was awarded the AIA Gold Medal and the AIA CC Firm of the Year Award.

Fung has taught at Yale, Ohio State, and Cal Poly Pomona. She is a Past President of both AIA Los Angeles and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. She was appointed by Bill Clinton as a Council Member of the National Endowment for the Arts, and has served as a national peer for General Services Administration.

Thank you to our 2024 special event sponsors!

Want to sponsor this important annual event? Email cleon@aiapf.org.