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2025 AIASC DESIGN AWARDS JURY
Brandon Pace, FAIA - Jury Chair
Co-founder & Principal, Sanders Pace Architecture in Knoxville, TN
Brandon Pace is a founding partner of Sanders Pace Architecture, started in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2002 with partner John Sanders. With work that is extensively researched and thoughtfully executed, Brandon has become a critical voice for a region and context often overlooked. In an era of increasing globalization,
Brandon approaches architecture with a local mindset, identifying and expanding upon those cultural, physical, and social characteristics and circumstances that define a place and make it unique. By identifying opportunities within these constraints Brandon has established a foundation and framework for a design process that has led his projects to more than 100 local, regional, and national AIA design awards and publication in books and magazines throughout the world.
Brandon holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Tennessee where he has served as an Adjunct Lecturer and invited critic. He is also an active critic and lecturer at colleges of architecture and design across the United States and has. become a resource to other AIA chapters across the country through invited lectures and as jury chair for multiple local and state AIA design awards programs. In recognition of his design work and contribution to the profession, Brandon was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2019 and was the co-recipient of the AIA East Tennessee Gold Medal in 2024 with partner John Sanders.
Catty Dan Zhang, University of Tennessee COAD
Catty Dan Zhang is an associate professor of architecture at University of Tennessee Knoxville and the founder of Temporary Office—an award-winning design practice exploring architecture and digital technology through the production of multimedia exhibitions, objects, drawings, animations, installations, building proposals, and writings. With over fifteen years of experience in architectural practice in the US and Asia, Zhang’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at UC Berkeley, Florida Atlantic, 'T' Space, London Design Festival, Carnegie Museum of Arts, A+D Museum, Harvard GSD, and so on. She was a finalist of the Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize in 2018 and 2021, and is the author of the most recent volume in the Pamphlet Architecture series titled “Active Atmospheres: On Instruments and Protocols for Medium Hybrids and Architectural Voids” (Steven Myron Holl Foundation, 2023).
Jacob Davis, AIA, Archimania
Jacob Davis, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Associate with archimania, utilizes a thoughtful design process that seeks to demonstrate an authentic response to program and context. His efforts have pushed projects to challenge conventional standards and consider new design potentials. Within each project, he has a passion for translating conceptual ideas into built detail, and integrating design and sustainability as a means to provide a healthier and more resilient future. Since 2015, Jacob has led the firm’s participation in the AIA 2030 Commitment - a framework to help firms evaluate the impact of project design on energy efficiency. He continues to push archimania’s use of building performance modeling on the front end of design, with life cycle assessment through the design development, and post-occupancy energy monitoring leading to the firm’s realization of two dual Zero Energy and Zero Carbon certified projects by ILFI - the first two in the world to achieve dual certification.
Sheila Dial-Barton, AIA, EOA Architects
Sheila Dial Barton AIA, LEED AP is a Principal with EOA Architects in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1991, this regional design firm is known for its innovative approach to architectural practice, called humanizing design. EOA’s focus on sustainable and environmental design includes Nashville’s first LEED-Gold high-rise, The Pinnacle at Symphony Place, along with multiple LEED/sustainable projects throughout the Southeast including the $160M Tennessee State Museum. EOA’s current work includes the new Nissan Stadium, War Memorial and Legislative Plaza Building Renovations, and a new 16-gate concourse at the Nashville International Airport (BNA).
First, studying Interior Design at the Art Institute of Atlanta, Sheila later received her Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Tennessee in 1997 and studied urban planning through UT’s foreign exchange program in Krakow, Poland.
Sheila is a member of the ULI (Urban Land Institute), former Chair of Mission Advancement, and current Chair of ULI Nashville’s 1005 members. She is an alum of Leadership Nashville, Class of 2023, and has been involved with numerous professional and community organizations including past President of the AIA Middle Tennessee Board of Directors, the Interior Design Advisory Board at O’More College of Design, the Metro Public Arts Committee and former Chair of The DISTRICT.
Cameron Bolin, AIA, Sanders Pace Architecture (Knoxville)
Cameron Bolin, AIA is a Project Manager at Sanders Pace Architecture. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management at East Tennessee State University and holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design where he regularly serves as an invited studio critic and juror. In addition to his efforts towards equitable progress of downtown neighborhoods like his own, his interests and research champions a particular focus in advocacy for aspirational environmental and community-based design in the Southeast and beyond. Outside of practice, Cameron is the 2025 President of AIA East Tennessee, is the Chair of the AIA East Tennessee Committee on the Environment (COTE) and serves as an appointed board member of the City of Knoxville’s Downtown and Infill Housing Overlay Design Review Board.
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