LAI 2026 Award Winners

Ann Mikiko Bouslog Named 2026 LAI International Member of the Year

Lambda Alpha International has named Ann Mikiko Bouslog of the Aloha Chapter its 2026 International Member of the Year, recognizing nearly three decades of leadership, service, and commitment to strengthening LAI at both the chapter and international levels.

Since joining the Aloha Chapter in 1996, Bouslog has become one of its most enduring and active leaders. She served as Chapter Treasurer from 2005 to 2008 and Chapter President from 2009 to 2010 and has been a member of its Executive Committee for more than two decades. Throughout that time, colleagues credit her with bringing ideas, energy, professional knowledge, and an extensive community network to the chapter. She also played an instrumental role in efforts to expand and diversify its membership, contributing to a 35% increase in chapter rolls.

Bouslog’s service soon extended well beyond Hawaiʻi. As Asia-Pacific Regional Vice President from 2015 to 2019, she helped support chapters separated by enormous geographic distances and time zones, including serving as liaison to the Tokyo and Mumbai Chapters. She subsequently served as Regional Assistant Vice President for Western North America from 2019 through 2025, helping bring the Asia-Pacific and Western North American regions together and encouraging greater participation and exchange among LAI chapters.

She has also brought her experience and judgment to the International Awards Committee. Former Committee Chair Jim Fawcett described Bouslog as an important voice in its deliberations during her years of service to the Committee, whose insights and thoughtful consideration helped evaluate nominees representing the breadth of LAI’s international membership and the field of land economics.

That service is grounded in a distinguished professional career spanning real estate, development, economic analysis, and urban planning. Bouslog is Director of Real Estate & Land Economics at PBR HAWAII and previously held leadership positions with Forest City Hawaii and KPMG Hawaii. She also founded Mikiko Corporation, a real estate and economic advisory firm. Her work has contributed to significant land use decisions in Hawaiʻi, including affordable housing initiatives and assignments requiring her expertise before state and county agencies.

Bouslog’s involvement in LAI reflects the same commitment to community and collaboration that has characterized her professional career. Whether strengthening her home chapter, connecting members across regions, or contributing to LAI’s international work, she has consistently volunteered her knowledge, relationships, and time in service to the organization.

The 2026 International Member of the Year Award recognizes Bouslog’s exceptional dedication to Lambda Alpha International and the lasting contribution she has made to the Aloha Chapter and to LAI’s broader international community.

Josef Nathanson Named 2026 LAI International Journalist of the Year

Lambda Alpha International has named Josef “Joe” Nathanson of the Baltimore Chapter its 2026 International Journalist of the Year, recognizing a career devoted to understanding—and helping others understand—the forces that shape cities and regions.

For 25 years, Nathanson has written the monthly Regional Perspectives column for The Daily Record, Maryland’s business, legal, and government newspaper. His work has explored many of the defining issues facing the Baltimore region, including transportation, economic development, housing affordability, urban renewal, downtown revitalization, waterfront development, climate change, and regional cooperation.

What distinguishes Nathanson’s work is not simply the breadth of subjects he covers, but the perspective he brings to them. Drawing upon interviews with academics, policymakers, and practitioners, he examines local challenges in their broader historical and national context—often looking to the experiences of other cities and regions to illuminate the choices facing Baltimore.

That perspective reflects a career spent studying cities and how they work. Nathanson earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. His professional career included work for the City of Baltimore, the Baltimore Regional Planning Council, and the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, followed by more than two decades in private practice as Principal of Urban Information Associates.

Nathanson’s commitment to land economics also extends deeply into Lambda Alpha International. A founding member of the Baltimore Chapter in 1992, he later served as Chapter President and has held numerous leadership and service roles at both the chapter and international levels. Today, he serves as LAI International Historian.

In nominating Nathanson, the Baltimore Chapter cited his sustained contribution to greater understanding of the principles and practices of land economics. The Daily Record Editor Thomas Baden described him as an “honest broker” whose intellectual integrity has earned the trust of sources and readers alike.

The 2026 International Journalist Award honors Nathanson’s lifelong devotion to regional research, his ability to illuminate the evolving story of Greater Baltimore, and his distinguished contribution to public understanding of land economics.

William Chapman Named 2026 Richard T. Ely Distinguished Educator

Lambda Alpha International has named Dr. William “Bill” Chapman the 2026 recipient of the Richard T. Ely Distinguished Educator Award, honoring more than three decades of teaching, scholarship, mentorship, and service dedicated to understanding and preserving the built environment.

Chapman is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Architecture, where he has influenced generations of students since arriving in Hawaiʻi in 1993. From 2018 through 2025, he also served as Interim Dean of the School of Architecture.

At the center of Chapman’s career is the idea that preservation is not simply about protecting buildings, but about understanding the cultural, historical, and community values embodied in places. Through teaching, field schools, documentation workshops, public lectures, and professional service, he has helped students connect preservation theory with the practical stewardship of historic buildings, landscapes, and cultural resources.

His influence extends well beyond Hawaiʻi. Educated at Columbia University, where he earned a master’s degree in Historic Preservation, and Oxford University, where he received his doctorate in Anthropology, Chapman has worked extensively throughout Asia and the Pacific. A four-time Fulbright scholar, he has lectured at universities across Southeast Asia and has shared his expertise with organizations including UNESCO and the National Park Service.

Chapman is also a prolific scholar whose work has examined architectural conservation and historic places around the world. His publications include Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice and Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia: A Traveler’s Guide through History, Ruins, and Landscapes, along with writings on historic sites ranging from Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park to the Wright Brothers National Memorial.

His contributions have earned recognition both within and beyond academia, including the Frank Haines Award for lifetime achievement in historic preservation and a University of Hawaiʻi teaching award. He has also shared his expertise through numerous community and professional organizations and through service on the Hawaiʻi Historic Places Review Board.

Perhaps Chapman’s greatest legacy, however, can be seen in the students who have carried his teaching into professional practice. As Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation Executive Director Kiersten Faulkner observed in supporting his nomination, his former students can be found throughout Hawaiʻi’s preservation community, applying the knowledge and interdisciplinary perspective developed under his guidance.

The Richard T. Ely Distinguished Educator Award recognizes Chapman’s exceptional lifetime contribution to historic preservation education and the generations of architects, planners, and preservationists he has inspired to understand the past as an essential part of shaping the future.

Honolulu Transit-Oriented Development Programs Receive 2026 LAI International Skyline Award

Lambda Alpha International has selected the City & County of Honolulu and the State of Hawaiʻi Transit-Oriented Development Programs as the recipient of the 2026 International Skyline Award, recognizing an ambitious, long-term effort to leverage Honolulu’s Skyline rail investment to create more connected, vibrant, and sustainable communities.

Skyline is more than a transportation project. Along its corridor, the City and State are coordinating land use, housing, infrastructure, public investment, and transportation planning around a shared vision for how Honolulu will grow. The goal is to create compact, mixed-use neighborhoods where residents can live, work, and connect within easy reach of rail, bus service, and other modes of transportation.

The City & County of Honolulu has been laying the groundwork for that transformation since 2007. Extensive engagement with residents, businesses, landowners, public agencies, and neighborhood organizations has shaped nine Neighborhood Transit-Oriented Development Plans covering stations along the corridor. Adopted by the City Council, the plans guide infrastructure investment, land use regulation, affordable housing policies, development incentives, street improvements, and public spaces.

Implementation is already visible. The City has invested more than $1.5 billion in wastewater, water, drainage, and parks while advancing station access, complete streets, bicycle facilities, and transit connections. New mixed-use development along the corridor is adding market-rate, workforce, and affordable housing together with commercial and public spaces. Projects such as Sky Ala Moana, Azure Ala Moana, and The Park on Keeaumoku demonstrate how private development is beginning to translate the broader TOD vision into new places to live, work, shop, and gather.

The State’s role is equally important, with more than 2,000 acres of state lands located within the Skyline rail corridor. Through its Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development and State Strategic Plan for TOD, Hawaiʻi coordinates agency investments and works with the City to unlock opportunities for housing, mixed-use development, public facilities, and infrastructure.

That collaboration is especially evident in areas such as Iwilei-Kapālama, where extensive City and State land ownership creates an opportunity to coordinate infrastructure, housing, transportation, and climate resilience at a district scale. Similar planning and investment efforts are underway elsewhere along the corridor as Honolulu continues the long-term work of turning transit access into community development.

The 2026 International Skyline Award, presented jointly to Hawaiʻi Governor Josh Green and Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi, recognizes not simply a rail line or an individual development, but a shared approach to city-building. Through sustained public leadership, community participation, and public-private investment, Honolulu is using transit-oriented development to shape a more connected and resilient island future for generations to come.