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Awards, prizes, fellowships and funded research, by year.
2025
American Institute of Architects, College of Fellows
Kathy Velikov Elevated to the AIA College of Fellows
2023
Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)
ACADIA Society Award for Leadership
2024
National Science Foundation, Regional Innovation Engines program
NextHouse: Future Mass Customized Housing Sector
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, National Coastal Resilience Fund
Regional Stormwater: Nature-Based Solutions for Southeast Michigan
2020
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
TAD Research Contribution Award: Latitudo Borealis
2019
Guardian Industries, Taubman–Guardian Research Alliance
Design Ecologies of Glass
Urban Studies Foundation, Seminar Series Grant Program
Emerging Urbanisms in De-Industrializing Urban Regions
Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge, City of Jackson, Mississippi
Fertile Ground: Food Access, Health and the Arts
Ford Motor Company, Alliance Grant Program
Responsive Streets: Urban Design Prototypes
2018
Wanxiang Group Corporation, Hangzhou, China
InnovaCity: International Urban Design Competition Research and Development
Michigan Mellon Project
MappeD: Mapping the Egalitarian Metropolis
Taubman College, University of Michigan
Prototyping Tomorrow Grant: Breathing Territories
Belmont Forum / Urban Europe; US National Science Foundation
SUGI Food-Water-Energy Nexus Grant: M-NEX
2017
Azure magazine
AZ Awards, Social Good: Extraction
Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
CSLA National Award of Excellence: Extraction
New Mobility Design Prototypes: San Francisco, CA
2016
New Mobility Design Prototypes: Chicago, IL / Detroit, MI
Architect magazine, R+D Awards
R+D Awards, Honorable Mention: Infundibuliforms
2015
US DOT / NEXTRANS
Access-Enabling Architectures for Midwest Metros
US Environmental Protection Agency
IAQ and Sustainable Public School Design
2014
ACSA Faculty Design Award, Honorable Mention: Infra Eco Logi Urbanism
American Institute of Architects
AIA Upjohn Research Initiative: PneuSystems
Ford Motor Company, URP Grant
Ford URP Grant: Mapping Emerging Mobility Industry
Research on the City Grant: Protean Prototypes
2013
Accessibility-Based Mobility Technologies
Architizer A+ Awards
Architizer A+ Awards, Architecture + Sound: Jury Award and Popular Vote: Resonant Chamber
ACSA / Journal of Architectural Education
JAE Best Design as Scholarship Article Award: Thick Air
New Cartographies: Mapping Emerging Mobility Industry
Research Through Making Grant: PneuSpace
2012
ACSA Faculty Design Award: The Stratus Project
Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan
Small Projects Grant: Resonant Chamber
Small Projects Grant: The Pillow Case
University of Michigan (Rackham, OVPR, College of Engineering, Taubman College, SNRE)
Special Project Grant: Integrated Responsive Building Envelopes
2011
Eco-Structure magazine, Evergreen Awards
Eco-Structure Evergreen Award, Special Jury Award: North House
Canada Council for the Arts
Grant to Curators in Architecture: The Centennial Projects
Van Alen Institute, Projects in Public Architecture
Life at the Speed of Rail, Honorable Mention: Conduit Urbanism
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
RAIC Award of Excellence for Innovation in the Practice of Architecture: North House
Research Through Making Grant: Resonant Chamber
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Research/Creation Grant: The Stratus Project
Engineering Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS), University of Michigan
Strategic SEED Grant: The Cirrus Project
Guardian Industries Inc.
The Benefits of Glass
2010
Ontario Association of Architects
OAA Design Excellence Award: North House
R+D Award of Excellence: North House Responsive Envelope System
Research Through Making Grant: The Stratus Project
2009
Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture
RAIC Innovation in Architecture Award, Honorable Mention: Bluepoint Facade
Research/Creation Grant: Post Carbon Highway
Ontario Power Authority
Technology Development Fund Grant: North House
Twenty + Change
Twenty + Change 02: Emerging Canadian Design Practices
2008
Living Steel
Living Steel Extreme Housing Competition, Honorable Mention: Latitude Housing System
Practitioners in Architecture Grant: Matters of Concern
National Research Council of Canada
Prototypes Development Grant: North House
US Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Strategic Project Funding: North House
The Architectural League of New York
Young Architects Forum Award
2007
Arquine
9th Arquine Urban Design Competition, 3rd Place: Bridging Strata
2005
Canadian Architect
Canadian Architect Award of Excellence: S.W.A.M.P. House
2000
Toronto Society of Architects
Toronto Harbourfront Ideas Competition, 1st Place: Bridging II