2025 Annual Conference: FUTURE UNFOLDING

NOMA is hosting its 2025 Annual Conference: Future Unfolding, taking place October 8–12, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri. Hosted by NOMA KC at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, this year’s event will gather more than 1,200 architects, designers, students, and industry partners for five days of learning, networking, and celebration focused on equity, innovation, and the transformative future of design.

Kansas City’s vibrant cultural history and thriving design community make it the ideal host for this year’s theme, Future Unfolding. Kansas City has more fountains than any city in the world—except Rome. With over 200 fountains and a rich jazz and barbecue legacy, KC is bursting with history, culture, and creative energy. It’s the perfect place to envision a future unfolding in the architecture, design and planning profession. Attendees can expect over 100 workshops, keynotes, student programming, career development opportunities, and networking events that spotlight diverse voices in design and reinforce NOMA’s mission of equity and justice in the built environment. Conference highlights include the welcome reception at Science City at Union Station, NOMA Awards programs featuring The Phil Freelon Professional Design Awards and NOMA Barbara J. Laurie Student Design Competition; Bros Arts Ball; and the annual Professionals versus Student basketball game.

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October 8-12, KC: Future Unfolding

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Things You Should Know About

Past winners of the Phil Freelon Professional Design Awards Competition

NOMA

Built Work

Pascale Sablan, NOMA, FAIA, LEED AP, CEO

Honor

Adjaye Associates

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Historic Preservation, Restoration & Renovation

Ronnie McGhee, NOMA, FAIA, LEED AP, NCARB, Architect of Record, Principal in Charge

Honor

R. McGhee & Associates

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Small Projects

Feifei Feng, NOMA, AIA, Architect of Record; Qiangru Hua – Collaborator, Architect

Honor

Moment X

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Built Work

Everardo Jefferson, NOMA, AIA and Sara Caples, NOMA, AIA, Architect of Record & Principal Design Architect

Citation: Louis Armstrong Center – Queens, NY (2023)

Caples Jefferson Architects

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Vision Work

Yu-Ngok Lo, NOMA, FAIA, Principal Design Architect

Citation: Mobile Housing Network, Macau and Hong Kong, China

YNL Architects

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Built Work

Eric Oskey, NOMA, FAIA, Principal Design Architect

Citation: Arrupe Hall at St. Joseph’s University (2021), Lower Merion Township, PA

Moto Designshop

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UnBuilt Work

Jeff Kenoff, FAIA, NCARB, Principal Design Architect, Gregory Mell, NOMA, AIA, Director, Georgina Lalli, NOMA, AIA, Senior Associate Principal

Honor

Kohn Pedersen Fox

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UnBuilt Work

Burt Pinnock, NOMA, FAIA, Principal Design Architect

Citation: The Shockoe Project, Richmond, VA

Baskervill

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Inspiration