2024 AIA Illinois Honor Awards
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The AIA Illinois Honor Awards recognize people and projects epitomizing the contributions of the architecture profession, the transformative power of design, and the dedication of individuals to service and excellence. All award winners have positively impacted citizens throughout the state of Illinois by helping create communities in which people are drawn to live and work, and to live healthier and happier.
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2024 AIA Illinois Design Awards
2024 AIA Illinois Service Awards​
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2024 Design Awards Jury
Tim Schroeder, FAIA, CDT, CXMP, LEED AP
President, Neumann Monson Architects
As President of Neumann Monson Architects, Tim strives to maintain a graceful balance between compassion and excellence. Introduced to the firm as a summer intern in 1991, Tim joined full-time after graduating from Iowa State in 1994. He became principal in 2000 and soon earned the firm’s first AIA recognitions and some of the first LEED certifications in the state, culminating with a 2008 AIA Young Architect Award.
As a leader, Tim focuses on constantly evolving Neumann Monson toward meaning and purpose. In 2020, he facilitated the firm’s Just Label, a third-party certification that measures organizational equity, diversity, inclusion, employee benefits, health and well-being, and community stewardship. Tim’s guidance has helped Neumann Monson emerge as a leader in design and environmental stewardship, client and employee experience, and local community engagement. He was awarded the AIA Iowa Medal of Honor for his contributions to Iowa Architecture in 2020. For his contributions to practice management, he was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2023.
Vikki Lew, AIA
AIA International

Vikki is a Hong Kong native and California-licensed architect. Her diverse portfolio ranges from tall building, aviation, to healthcare projects, in Asia and in the U.S., with sustainability as common threads regardless of building types. She had worked at Foster + Partners, Atkins, and Meinhardt Facade. An architect dedicated to combat climate change, she is currently founding chair of the Committee on the Environment at AIA Hong Kong. She also founded the Young Architects Group at both AIA Hong Kong and AIA Shanghai, and was the inaugural co-chair of China Design Excellence Awards at the latter. She served as the first international editor at YAF Connection Journal and has been an Architect Licensing Advisor over the years. Besides involvement at the AIA, she is a WELL Concept Advisor with International Well Building Institute, as well as sustainability mentor at Engineers Without Borders - Hong Hong. Vikki is recipient of AIA Upjohn Research Initiative, AIA College of Fellows Emerging Professionals Component Grant, and AIA-AAH Herman Miller Healthcare Award. She holds Bachelor of Architecture from University of Oregon and Master of Liberal Arts in Sustainability from Harvard.
Mariko Masuoka, FAIA, LEED AP
Partner, Pelli Clarke & Partners
Mariko Masuoka has been the partner-in-charge for academic projects, large-scale civic projects, commercial mixed-use developments, and master plans. She leads most of Pelli Clarke & Partners’ academic and commercial life science projects.
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Currently she is leading the design for the Cancer Center Research and Innovation Building at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Leinweber Computer Science and Engineering Building at the University of Michigan. She recently completed the newly opened Pelotonia Research Center at The Ohio State University, as well as Yale Science Building, Yale PSEB, and a master plan for Yale University.