Recognition and press — Dan Stine, AIA
09 · Recognition and press

Awards, press, and industry features

Autodesk and Chaos have invited him to their offices in Asia and Europe. He has been quoted in ARCHITECT, AIA Architect, the Star Tribune, and Wired, and AIA San Antonio gave him its 2024 Trailblazer Award.

2024AIA San Antonio Trailblazer
BILT Europe top-ten speaker
4Customer stories: NVIDIA, Autodesk, Dell, Zoom
2027Topaz Medallion nominee

Awards and press

Awards · Features · Customer stories
Receiving the 2024 AIA San Antonio Trailblazer Award with Gold Medalists David Lake and Ted Flato
Receiving the 2024 AIA San Antonio Trailblazer Award, flanked by David Lake, FAIA, and Ted Flato, FAIA, both AIA Gold Medalists.
Awards and honors
AIA San Antonio — Trailblazer People Award, 2024 ACEC Minnesota — Honor Award, MEP Productivity Pack, 2020 Autodesk Expert Elite, 2020; “Social Butterfly” Award, 2020 BILT Europe — Top Ten Speaker, Aarhus 2017 and Ljubljana 2018 NVIDIA, Autodesk, Dell, and Zoom, customer stories featuring his work Nominated, 2027 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education Lake Superior College — Student of the Year, 1992
In the press
ArchDaily, featured interview on Lake Flato's design research ARCHITECT, quoted on virtual reality in practice; on open-source software for architects AIA Architect, quoted on the return to the office Star Tribune, profiled: “Virtual reality brings architect's blueprints to life” Architectural Record, continuing-education webinar host, 2025 Autodesk Redshift, energy-analysis tools; Autodesk University interview on next-gen energy analysis Wired, cited

Customer stories and invitations

Featured by the industry
NVIDIA · 2023
Streaming VR at Lake Flato
How the firm put clients inside the model without a workstation in the room, using Innoactive on NVIDIA infrastructure.
Autodesk · 2021
Adaptive reuse and embodied carbon
Autodesk customer story on a Lake Flato adaptive-reuse project and the firm's carbon work.
Zoom · 2024
Zoomtopia
Lake Flato's hybrid practice, presented at Zoom's annual conference; Dell has also featured the firm's design-technology work.
Chaos · 2024
Invited to headquarters
After years of commissioned Enscape articles, an invitation to the company's European headquarters.
Autodesk · 2022
A week in Shanghai
Invited to Autodesk's Shanghai office as part of the Community Voices program, and to the feedback community that shapes Revit and Insight.
ArchDaily · 2021
Featured interview
On design research and technology at Lake Flato; four bylined articles followed, one translated into Italian.

In their words

Colleagues, clients, and software makers

“Of the millions of people who use Revit, Dan truly is in the 1% of the 1%. The breadth and depth of his knowledge, spanning integrated multidisciplinary design to nascent areas like energy and lighting analysis, as well as his hand in shaping the very development of Revit and tools like Autodesk Insight, is truly exceptional.”

Ian Molloy · Senior Product Line Manager, Autodesk

“Frequently, I find those in a BIM specialist role are enamored with technology itself, rather than what it can enable. Dan instead focuses on what technology can do to deliver better projects. His willingness to share knowledge far exceeds anyone we've interacted with in the role of BIM manager.”

Roderick Bates · Principal, KieranTimberlake

“We can count on Dan to provide actionable and thoughtful feedback throughout the development lifecycle, from participating in our research, to early beta testing, to using it in production and sharing his experiences at our user conference.”

Harlan Brumm · Senior Product Line Manager, Autodesk

“Authoring a resource like this was unfamiliar territory for me, and Dan expertly guided our collective team in an efficient process for pulling it together.”

Heather Holdridge, LEED Fellow · Partner and Director of Design Performance, Lake Flato, on the Climate Action Business Playbook

“I have been impressed by his systems thinking, inclusive community-building, humble leadership, and tenacity. Dan always has the time to share what he knows and propel us all.”

Michelle Amt, FAIA · 2024 Chair, AIA Committee on the Environment

“I know of no one whose contributions to architectural education are broader, more durable, or more generously shared than Dan Stine's.”

Abimbola O. Asojo, Ph.D. · Dean, School of Architecture + Planning, Morgan State University