2025 Forge Prize Jury
The Forge Prize Jury consists of world-renowned architecture professionals with decades of experience in practice, research, design, teaching, and publishing.
Emily Baker
University of Arkansas Associate Professor Emily Baker is an inventor, fabricator, architect, and previous Forge Prize winner--and now, she’ll be one of three jurors for the 2025 Forge Prize!
You may recognize her 2024 Forge Prize-winning design: a landmark trailhead that showcases her Spin-Valence system, a revolutionary steel space frame that’s both beautiful and functional.
Baker’s winning concept has gone even further than the Forge Prize. A sculptural Spin-Valence piece is in the permanent collection of Cranbrook Art Museum, and her collaboration with mathematician Edmund Harriss, Curvahedra, is permanently installed on the campus of the University of Arkansas.
Baker has focused on self-structuring material systems and experimentation in her creative practice, research, and teaching.
In addition to the AISC Early Career Faculty Award and Forge Prize, Baker has received an ACSA Design Build Award for the Audi-Fab design/build studio sequence, which also received an AIA Design Merit award.
She’s currently collaborating with researchers from MIT, UVA and Princeton University on novel structural and construction systems, Zip-Form and Spin-Valence.
Baker holds degrees in architecture from University of Arkansas and Cranbrook Academy of Art. She teaches studios, structures, and fabrication at the University of Arkansas, and she previously taught at the American University of Sharjah and Tulane University.