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:
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