Stephen Verderber, a professor jointly appointed to the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, has received the 2025 Career Award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA).

The award is given by the international organization for design professions in recognition of a career of sustained and significant contributions to environment design research, practice, or teaching.

Verderber is the director of the Centre for Design + Health Innovation at Daniels. A registered architect and co-founder of the U.S.-based firm R-2ARCH, his practice centres on design therapeutics and health. He also contributed pro bono community service work in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.

Verderber is the author of ten books, including Architecture and Health Equity in an imperiled World (John Hopkins University Press, 2025). He was previously named a Distinguished Professor by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

"A well-deserved recognition by EDRA of Stephen's contributions to environmental design and health equity," said Robert Levit, acting dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. "His scholarship and practice is helping drive forward innovation and progress at the intersection of architecture and public health."