AIA San Diego’s Robert Mosher Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor the American Institute of Architects, San Diego Chapter can bestow on its members. This award is granted in recognition of one or more of the following: a member’s significant body of work, local contributions to the Chapter, enduring contributions to the community in areas of design, service, volunteerism, or leadership.  The award is given in recognition of a career of dedicated commitment to the built environment.

The Young Architect of the Year Award is given to the individual who has shown exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession in an early stage of their professional career. 

The Legacy Award honors individuals who have made a lasting impact on the architectural history of San Diego. This recognition celebrates the contributions of both contemporary and historical figures whose work has shaped the built environment and inspired generations of architects and design professionals.

For more than five decades, Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA has shown us that architecture – and architects - can be a powerful force for positive change—shaping places that are beautiful, sustainable, inclusive, and deeply rooted in community.

Rob is not just a visionary architect, planner and community advocate. He is a champion of thoughtful civic and urban environments, who has consistently placed people at the heart of his work, From the San Diego Central Library and New Children’s Museum to libraries, community centers, housing, and transit projects, his award-winning work has enriched everyday life and become a source of community pride.

Equally important is his enduring commitment to listening, collaboration, and civic engagement, inspiring generations of architects and demonstrating how design can strengthen neighborhoods and bring people together.

His extraordinary body of work and decades of community service embody a remarkable legacy of design excellence, social responsibility, innovation, and unwavering dedication to the public good.

As a Principal at The Miller Hull Partnership, Heather works to bring purposeful placemaking, beauty, environmental stewardship and authentic sustainable practices to her project work, tracing these themes from a macro to micro scale through the design. She helps lead the Miller Hull San Diego Studio and has guided teams in completing award-winning public facing projects for the City of San Diego, at the UC San Diego and Scripps campuses and along the San Diego waterfront.

Outside of her role at Miller Hull, Heather is a tireless advocate for using design as a tool to offer solutions to issues such as climate, equity and resilience in the built environment. Through her volunteerism with AIA San Diego, she has been instrumental in igniting conversations around design governance and offering a collaborative approach to incorporating high-quality design into the

planning process in the City of San Diego, earning architects a seat at the table among City leaders.

Heather received her Masters of Architecture at the University of Washington where she was awarded the Kobe Fellowship to conduct research related to urbanism and placemaking in Japan and earned the prestigious Thesis Prize for her research and design work. Her project work locally has been recognized by AIA San Diego for design excellence and individually, Heather has been honored by several industry organizations for her emerging leadership.

Lloyd Ruocco—architect, designer, urbanist, advocate—was an influential force in San Diego for much of the twentieth century. As early as the 1940’s he was promoting and creating local mid-century modernism, designing climate-sensitive buildings that encouraged indoor-outdoor living. His office on Fifth Avenue in Hillcrest, the Design Center, became a nexus of contemporary architecture and design for San Diego. 

With a portfolio of over 100 projects, he was elevated to fellowship in the American Institute of Architects in 1974. Ruocco espoused a modernism that concerned not only architecture, but urbanism, interior design, graphics and the visual arts in general: an integrated approach to the built environment ahead of its time. And he was a public advocate, instrumental in the formation of groups such as the Allied Artists’ Council and C3, the Citizens Coordinate for Century 3. 

For his many valuable and varied contributions, Lloyd Ruocco is a most deserving recipient of the AIA San Diego Legacy Award.