AMES, Iowa — Mitchell Squire, a Morrill Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University, is one of five faculty members nationwide to receive Distinguished Professor recognition in the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s 2025 Architectural Education Awards.

The ACSA Distinguished Professor award highlights individuals who have had a positive, stimulating and nurturing influence upon students. Squire will be honored at the 113th ACSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans in March.

A highly acclaimed educator, architect and artist, Squire’s multidisciplinary achievements have gained local and national distinction, including two prior ACSA awards for new faculty teaching (2005) and creative achievement (2009) and the AIA Iowa Educator Award from the Iowa chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2023.

Squire joined the Iowa State faculty as an assistant professor of architecture in 2001. He was promoted to an associate professor with tenure in 2007 and professor in 2016. In 2023 he was named a Morrill Professor, a university distinction for senior faculty whose work demonstrates outstanding success in teaching and learning as reflected by a national or international reputation.

Over his 27-year career, Squire has broadened students’ perspectives and experiences beyond the traditional boundaries of the discipline with his innovative coursework, collaborations and creative activity. Through visiting professorships and artist residencies across the U.S., Squire has developed culturally and socially relevant projects that enhance students’ learning at the host institutions and at Iowa State.

He has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Bernard and Ann Spitzer School of Architecture at the City University of New York; BarberMcMurry Endowed Professor in the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee; twice Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; Visiting Professor at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan; and Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota.

He has held notable residencies at programs including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine; Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency in Michigan; and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada.

Squire’s work has been exhibited in such renowned locations as White Cube in London and is in the permanent collections of the Des Moines Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut. He has lectured widely in the U.S. and abroad. In 2019, he was commissioned to create “Multiple Black,” the 10th DART (Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority) art bus wrap.

Squire holds a bachelor of architecture and a master of architecture from Iowa State.

Contacts

Mitchell Squire, Morrill Professor, Department of Architecture, msquire@iastate.edu
Heather Sauer, Director of Strategic Communications, College of Design, hsauer@iastate.edu

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