In 2025, the Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) recognized Artisan at Ruiz as the winner of the 2025 AIA-SA CRAN Award for a Multi-Family Structure. “Receiving the CRAN Award for an affordable housing project is a clear win for social justice through equitable housing,” notes Jim Bailey, AIA, Senior Principal. “It means that peers see our belief in public-spirited architecture as important and relevant to current socio-economic conditions.” The Artisan at Ruiz showcases our multi-dimensional understanding of what makes an urban core neighborhood tick – strong cultural roots, aspirational pride, and livability.

2023 Winner | AIA-SA CRAN (Custom Residential Architects Network) Award 
Multi-Family Structure Category SoJo Commons earned the 2023 CRAN Award, a top honor given each year by the Custom Residential Architects Nework and AIA-San Antonio to recognize the best residential buildings. What makes our project noteworthy is the combination of forward-thinking, contemporary architecture and its intentional engagement with a public realm created by its intervention. By fully developing our side of a traditionally non-residential street, we created the beginnings of an attractive urban residential neighborhood where none had previously existed.

Winner | 2025 AIA-SA Community Impact Award

What sets our design strategy apart? A multidisciplinary approach, bringing together experts in planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design to solve for innovation. Phase Two development of the San Antonio Humane Society campus offered a rich opportunity to build on earlier success, and to continue to innovate. Our master plan sites the Leeu Naylor Medical Building adjacent to the Adoption Center. The buildings are connected by an interior corridor of landscaped courtyards along the gently sloping landform, a key characteristic of campus circulation.