Alabama NewsCenter — Auburn Rural Studio’s Andrew Freear awarded 2023 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture

By: Auburn University

Teacher, designer, builder and advocate Andrew Freear, Wiatt Professor and director of the Auburn University Rural Studio, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals — sponsored jointly by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit organization that owns and operates Monticello — are awarded each year. They recognize the achievements of those who embrace endeavors in which Jefferson — author of the Declaration of Independence, third U.S. president and founder of the University of Virginia — excelled and held in high regard. The architecture medal and its counterparts in law, citizen leadership and global innovation are UVA’s highest external honors.

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