Pictured: 2024 Louis Lundgren Award for Service recipient Ananth Shankar, AIA Emeritus.
The Louis Lundgren Award for Service recognizes an individual AIA Minnesota member for his or her outstanding contributions in the area of community and professional service. Through their work as citizen architects, recipients of the award are regarded by their peers for their prolonged and effective volunteer activism.
The submission window for the 2024 Louis Lundgren Award for Service is closed. The next submission window will open in early June 2025.
Eligibility
Any member of AIA Minnesota who graduated from a NAAB-accredited program no later than 2017 and whose membership is in good standing at the time of nomination is eligible. Emeritus members are eligible.
All AIA Minnesota award programs will now require a declaration that candidates for awards are in compliance with the AIA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Nominators will need to certify that candidates comply to the best of their knowledge. This is part of our commitment to ensuring that recipients of AIA Minnesota awards comport to the highest standards of character and professionalism, and is in compliance with requirements for AIA national awards.
2024 Louis Lundgren Award for Service Jury
Scott Schlotthauer, AIA, Chair
Amy Carroll, AIA, NOMA
Mohammed Lawal, FAIA, NOMA
Rosemary McMonigal, FAIA
Thea Rozenberg, AIA
Criteria
Areas to be considered when evaluating nominees include:
- Dedication to advancing the values of AIA (Authenticity, Equity, Collaboration, Integrity) at local, regional and/or national levels;
- Engaging institutional and community leaders on issues impacting the profession; and
- Fostering public dialogue about the value of architecture and design within society.
The nominator submits online a brief statement addressing why this candidate should be considered for this award and is able to submit additional documentation that supports the candidate’s volunteerism, including a list of references (names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses) of witnesses to volunteer efforts, exhibits showing accomplishments of volunteer efforts, publications or articles addressing those accomplishments, and/or any other items supporting the quality of the candidate’s volunteer efforts.
2024 Louis Lundgren Award
Ananth Shankar, AIA Emeritus
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Louis Lundgren Award Recipients
1994 Louis Lundgren, AIA
1995 Thomas H. Sopoci, AIA
1996 Ronald Krank, AIA
1997 Charles D. Liddy, FAIA
1998 William E. Rust, AIA
1999 Eldon Morrison, AIA
2000 None
2001 Charles Huntley, AIA
2003 Dennis Grebner, FAIA
2003 Elizabeth Thompson, AIA
2005 Richard T. Faricy, AIA
2006 Keith Sjoquist, AIA
2007 Vicki Hooper, AIA
2008 Michael Schrock, AIA
2008 John W. Cuningham, FAIA
2009 Charles E. Sullivan, AIA
2010 None
2011 Doug Westby, AIA
2012 Douglas D. Pierce, AIA
2013 Paul Mellblom, AIA
2014 None
2015 Phillip Glenn Koski, AIA
2016 David L. Andersen, AIA
2017 Theodore R. Lentz, AIA
2018 John Dwyer, AIA
2019 Rosemary McMonigal, FAIA
2020 Kermit Duncan, AIA
2021 Sara Rothholz Weiner, AIA
2022 Alissa D. Luepke Pier, AIA
2023 None
2024 Ananth Shankar, AIA Emeritus