Designer Cailin Shannon has been named the winner of the Award for Emerging Excellence in the Classical Tradition. Now in its second year, the Award is a collaboration between the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA), The Prince’s Foundation (PF), and the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU). Open to applicants from around the world, the Award aims to shine a light on exceptional talent exhibited by one young professional in classical and traditional architecture, landscape and interior design, building crafts, urban design and planning, and the allied arts.

Shannon graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture in 2008, where she was Valedictorian. As a Fulbright Program Student Researcher, she studied “Cultural Conservation in Traditional Hindu Housing Design” in Delhi and Ahmedabad, India. Shannon has worked for Opticos Design Inc. – an urban design, architecture, and planning firm – in Berkeley, CA since 2010 and currently is a Lead Designer there. She is also pursuing a Master of Science in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, where her thesis is entitled “Rethinking the Nature of Architecture: Ecological Context in Aesthetic Experience.”

 “I am truly honored and humbled to receive this award. Engagement with beautiful, historic, place-making traditions is an indispensable resource for forming better built environments today, whether seeking to repair urban sprawl or to live more enjoyably and sustainably with our natural world,” said Shannon, who was selected by an international jury. “I am proud to help advance the ongoing tradition in creating meaningful places for human living.”