The 2018 award for “demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career” was awarded to Nikole Bouchard, assistant professor in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture announced the winners of its annual architectural education awards in January. ACSA members will honor Bouchard and fellow awardees at the association’s 107th annual conference in Pittsburgh March 28-30. She is the fourth professor at UW-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture & Urban Planning to earn this recognition.
Additionally, Bouchard has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony (2015), an artist in residence at Baer Art Center in Hofsós, Iceland (2015), and was awarded the Steedman Travel Fellowship Prize from Washington University – an award that took Bouchard to 14 countries and 87 cities worldwide in 2009.
“Amazing things can happen when we step outside of our comfort zones,” said Bouchard. “This is one of my favorite things about teaching and practicing design. This might mean making physical models with materials and methods we’ve never worked with, using digital technologies we’ve never touched or chatting with a stranger on the street during a site visit.”
Education: Princeton University, School of Architecture; Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art & Planning
Company:
School of Architecture & Urban Planning
2131 E. Hartford Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53211
