Thayer Medal laying on blueprints

Thayer Medalists

For over a century, the Thayer Medal has recognized KU Department of Architecture graduates who achieved the highest standards of excellence in architectural design over the course of an academic career. Named for philanthropist Sallie Casey Thayer (1856 – 1925), the Thayer Medal has been granted continuously since its establishment in 1919. 


Recipients by Decade:  

2024 Elizabeth Fraka

2023 Dakoda Ash

2022 Nikola Braynov

2021 Autumn Olsen

2020 Schuyler Clogston

2019 Gretchen Kelly

2018 Pennie Liu

2017 Culin Thompson

2016 Griffis Austin 

2015 Jiayu Ma

2014 Henry Lennon

2013 Bernard Vilza

2012 Ryan Otterson

2011 Otto Broeder

2010 Kristen Steinhoff

2009 Katherine Hamilton

2008 Emily Moisan

2007 Matthew Keys, Lincoln Lewis

2006 Arjun Bhat

2005 Gregory Zielinsky

2004 Nicole Hipp

2003 Camila Querasian

2002 Andrew Moddrell

2001 Nicholas Gilliland

2000 Patrick Gleason

1999 Micah Hanson

1998 James Pastine

1997 Michael Longfellow

1996 Lori Henke

1995 Jose Fernandez

1994 Eric Zabilka

1993 Jennifer Lubin

1992 Bane Gaiser

1991 Timothy Vaughn

1990 Leen-How Soh

1989 Marc Trudeau

1988 Douglas Barraza

1987 Michael Larkin

1986 Daniel Sabatini, Paul Wuennenberg

1985 Paul Pannier

1984 Kathy Webb

1983 Jack Hawkins

1982 Todd Achelpohl

1981 Larry Wente

1980 Bryan Gross

1979 Arthur Andersson

1978 Jeffrey DeGasperi

1977 Richard Matthews

1976 John Guenther

1975 Richard Stuber

1974 Marshall Russell, Robert Smith

1973 Roger Kraft, Thomas Williams

1972 Kent Spreckelmeyer

1971 Shigeru Mori

1969 John Kelly

1968 Raymond Naughton

1967 Donald Morris

1966 Timothy McGinty

1965 Alan Schlicting

1964 Julian Ominski

1963 Gary Ultican

1962 David Suttle

1961 Monty Robson

1960 Walter Teter

1959 John Greer

1958 David Runyan

1957 Horst Engel

1956 Leon Williams

1955 Phillip Greene

1954 Robert Asbury

1953 David Bell

1952 William Hayward

1951 Milton Blunt

1949 Donald Palmer

1948 Lon Heuer, Jack Bradley, Jr.

1947 Paul McConnell

1946 Robert Cowling, Wilson Wilson

1943 Frank Godding

1942 Conrad Curtis

1941 Lucille Bryant

1940 Richard Good

1939 John Morley

1938 Thomas Geraughty

1937 John Regier

1936 Margaret Wheeler, Rob Bittman

1935 Curtis Besinger

1934 Beck Thorton

1933 Howard Johnson, Hugh Hiatt

1932 John Brollin

1931 Maurice McManos, L.C. Cavitt, Jr.

1930 Donald Hatch

1929 Ruth Stevens

1928 Wilson Kinney

1927 Edward Meisner

1926 Benjamin McCrary

1925 Leon Holman

1924 Gilbert Geery, William Cunningham

1923 Raymond Coolidge

1922 Ora Nicholson, Arthur Harris

1921 Elizabeth Evans (Rivard)

1920 Homer Neville, J. Benson