Lifetime Achievement Award
2025 - Rebecca Lewis, FAIA, FACHA, CID
2024 – Francis Pitts, FAIA, FACHA
2023 – Karl Sonnenberg, AIA, ACHA
2022 – Mardelle Shepley, FAIA, FACHA
2021 – Not awarded
2020 – Not awarded
2019 – David Allison, FAIA, FACHA
2018 – Phil Tobey, FAIA, FACHA
2017 – John Pangrazio, FAIA, FACHA
2016 – James R. Diaz, FAIA, FACHA
2015 – H. Ralph Hawkins, FAIA, FACHA
2014 – Frank S. Zilm, D.Arch., FAIA, FACHA
2013 – E. Todd Wheeler, FAIA, posthumous
2012 – James O. Jonassen, FAIA, FACHA, RAIC
2011 – Morris A. Stein, FAIA, FACHA
2010 – D. Kirk Hamilton, FAIA, FACHA / Joseph G. Sprague, FAIA, FACHA
2009 – Eberhard Zeidler, OC, O.Ont., Dipl.Ing., LL.D., D.Eng., D.Arch., FRAIC, RCA, OAA, MAIBC, OAQ, Hon. FAIA
2008 – Derek Parker, FAIA, FACHA, RIBA
2007 – Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA, FACHA, FHFI
2006 – Martin H. Cohen, FAIA, FACHA
2005 – Wilbur “Tib” Tusler, FAIA, FACHA
2004 – Armand Burgun, FAIA, FACHA
2003 – Rex Allen, FAIA, Hon. FACHA
Congratulations to Rebecca Lewis – 2025 ACHA Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
The American College of Healthcare Architects’ (ACHA) Lifetime Achievement Award (LAA) is the highest honor that the ACHA can bestow on an architect. The award is conferred by the ACHA in recognition of a significant body of work of influence on the theory and practice of healthcare architecture.
Eligibility
Any architect (living, retired or deceased no longer than 5 years from the submission deadline), who has positively influenced the outcome, delivery or environment of healthcare is eligible to receive the ACHA Lifetime Achievement Award (LAA). For the purpose of the award eligibility, “architect” means architect who is registered or licensed in their country of practice.
Nominations as outlined in the criteria linked above should be submitted to info@healtharchitects.org by July 7.
Nomination deadline: July 7