2024

Douglass Alligood

FAIA, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, NOMA

Object Two

Douglass Alligood turns great design ideas into great buildings. He leads the discovery of unique and refined technical solutions for large scale public projects nationwide and shares his passion and expertise with the next generation.

Gina L. Bocra

FAIA

Object Four

Gina Bocra is a pioneer in building sustainability at the local, regional and national level, making significant contributions through elevating codes, advising industry organizations, educating peers, and advancing building performance standards to combat climate change.

Erleen K. Hatfield

FAIA, PE, F.ASCE

Object Two

Combining an architect's sensibility with superior engineering proficiency, Erleen Hatfeld pushes design beyond expected limits. By applying pioneering technologies, devising technically complex structural solutions, and incorporating sustainable systems, she brings ambitious projects to life.

Nicole A. Hollant-Denis

FAIA, NOMA

Object Two

In response to historical inequities, Nicole Hollant-Denis intentionally manages an inclusive practice, nurturing and affirming the cultural identities of her staff, while inspiring them with the knowledge to develop projects that benefit their communities.

Hana Kassem

FAIA, NOMA, LEED, WELL AP

Object One

Hana Kassem’s architecture uplifts the human experience, uniting inclusivity and sustainability, to inspire common bonds. She skillfully modulates form, color, and materials to foster a profound sense of belonging to place, community, and nature.

Jeffrey A. Kenoff

FAIA

Object One

Through his work, lecturing, and academic involvement, Jeff Kenoff is transforming urban architecture through projects that redefine connectivity and public space with purposeful articulation of scale, materiality, and humanization from the ground to the sky.

Sameer Kumar

FAIA

Object Two

Sameer is a recognized expert of building enclosure design. Through the breadth of his practice and teaching focused on building performance and material innovation, he has profoundly influenced the profession of architecture.

Catherine S. Seavitt Nordenson

FAIA, ASLA

Object Six

Through groundbreaking publications, design research, and scholarship, Catherine Seavitt Nordenson has transformed the integral relationship of architecture, landscape architecture, and green infrastructure to advance climate adaptation, with a focus on the equitable public realm.

A. J. Tinson

FAIA

Object Two

Jim Tinson drives innovative thinking and design by leading diverse, interdisciplinary teams that elevate the architect as an integral strategic partner in creating transformative environments worldwide.

R. John Woelfling

FAIA, LEED AP, CPHT

Object Two

John Woelfling advances the design of sustainable affordable housing with innovations resulting in healthy, low carbon buildings that reinforce communities. His leadership in large-scale affordable housing sets a national model for addressing the housing crisis.

2023

Craig G. Copeland

FAIA

Object Two

Craig Copeland’s incorporation of artmaking and material research into impactful and inclusive architectural design has led to award-winning architecture and a body of lectures and workshop collaborations that have further elevated the practice of architecture.​

Neil C. Katz

FAIA

Object Two

Neil Katz specializes in computational design. He has pioneered its adoption in contemporary practice and has served as an ambassador for its application in architecture, through architectural projects, interdisciplinary collaborations, and teaching.

Varun Kohli

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Two

A fierce advocate for environmental and social sustainability, Varun Kohli creates and implements integrated design processes for significant projects globally. His meticulous approach purposefully dissolves the boundaries between built, human, and natural ecosystems.

Gregg A. Pasquarelli

FAIA

Object One

Gregg Pasquarelli is a visionary American architect who has committed himself to transforming the process of design and delivery in support of the highest ideals of architectural excellence.

Jeremy R. Shannon

FAIA, LEED AP BC+C

Object Four

Jeremy Shannon successfully developed a design path for more than a thousand public schools to become net zero carbon emission buildings; such projects are the culmination of aggressive climate stewardship throughout his professional practice.

2022

Victor F. Body-Lawson

FAIA

Object Two

Exemplifying collaborative practice applied to achieving equitable development, Victor Body-Lawson advocates for new approaches in communities lacking access to the dialogue architecture brings to urban investments, empowering clients, elevating affordable housing, and instilling pride.​ ​

Lori A. Brown

FAIA

Object Six

Through design research, writing, and advocacy, Lori A. Brown is transforming architecture into a more diverse discipline that responds to contemporary social and political conditions while raising awareness of women’s contributions to the built environment.

Michael T. Cetera

FAIA

Object Four

For over half a century of public service, Michael Cetera has significantly improved the lives of millions of people through his leadership in architecture, vital infrastructure, and open space in the global city of New York.

Jonathan J. Cohn

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Two

Jonathan Cohn conceives, plans, designs, and implements transformative public transportation and infrastructure. A national advocate for quality public places, his work elevates both transit users and associated communities, making cities more successful, resilient, and equitable. ​

Anne Holford-Smith

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Two

Anne Holford-Smith’s pioneering preservation approach combines design and research to reveal each building’s history and stories. Joining past and future, she creates the next chapters of essential, preeminent cultural assets, enhancing their urban contributions.​

Kimberly K. Yao

FAIA

Object Two

Kim Yao, FAIA leads an architectural practice grounded in the engagement of diverse voices and the establishment of shared values resulting in design excellence, creating a model for advocacy and mentorship.​

Stas Zakrzewski

FAIA

Object Two

Through practice, research, and advocacy, Stas Zakrzewski has pioneered high-performance architecture and modern design with his expertise in Passive House and Mass Timber, fostering a new breed of low-carbon, low-impact buildings. ​

2021

Illya Azaroff

FAIA

Object Five

Illya Azaroff, AIA, pioneers resilience planning initiatives with US and foreign governments, non-profit agencies, and local communities, demonstrating that public service, design, and community engagement can effectively address natural hazards, climate change, and disaster recovery.

Hilary Kinder Bertsch

FAIA

Object Two

Hilary Bertsch designs the public realm through mixed-use master plans, waterfronts, and urban campuses. Her work transforms and revitalizes urban sites around the country, creating vibrant new settings authentic to local context and history.

Jeffrey S. Dugan

FAIA

Object Two

Jeffrey Dugan’s innovative, precedent-setting transportation facilities advance and enrich the urban social infrastructure and the user experience. His projects and his advocacy have brought international attention to the profession’s leadership in transforming the public sphere.

Laura L. Ettelman-Gunter

FAIA

Object Two

Laura Ettelman’s record of accomplishments testifies to her hands-on leadership in coordinating large-scale architecture and engineering teams, while integrating technology to advance major domestic and international infrastructure projects impacting the lives of people around the world.

Karen Fairbanks

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Two

Karen Fairbanks shapes vibrant and equitable built environments through her designs for civic, educational and community-based organizations and her leadership in the transformative education of future architects and activists.

Bryan Langlands

FAIA

Object Two

Bryan’s leadership in forward-focused thinking, knowledge sharing and consensus building elevates the national discourse on the architecture practice of healthcare environments by advancing the delivery of care, guiding top-tier medical institutions, and influencing regulatory change.

Paul Milana

FAIA

Object One

Leveraging long-term relationships, Paul Milana advances the role of urban design across scales through rigorous understanding of place, history, and human potential by designing sustainable, model communities, buildings, and landscapes of enduring value.

Pascale M. Sablan

FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP

Object Five

2021 Whitney M. Young Jr. Award

Hilary M. Sample

FAIA

Object One

Hilary Sample is an architect, writer, and educator, who through designing skillful forms in buildings and creative, defining books, synthesizes professional practice with architectural academia in a realized award winning, playful diverse body of work.

James Sanders

FAIA

Object Two

An internationally recognized architect, author, and filmmaker, James Sanders, AIA has interpreted and expanded appreciation of global cities through books, documentary films, and exhibitions, while enhancing the urban landscape through his own design projects.

Fernando A. Villa

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Two

In his dedication to elevating standards for the affordable and supportive housing Fernando Villa has brought aesthetic achievement and environmentally sustainable design to mission-driven projects empowering residents and challenging the stigma of this building typology

David Wallance

FAIA, LEED AP BD+C

Object Two

David Wallance’s advancement of facade technology has enabled the realization of award-winning architecture, and his innovative next-generation system of modular architecture provides essential tools for solving the problem of affordable and equitable housing.

2020

Alexandra A. Barker

FAIA

Object Two

Alexandra Barker’s pioneering approach to architectural education, evidenced by the integrative curriculum and multi-disciplinary pedagogical strategies she has developed, anticipates new directions in practice, making transformative contributions to the future of the profession.

James R. Braddock

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Two

Jim has elevated the design of laboratories and other complex spaces. His work is recognized for synthesizing technical requirements with human needs and aspirations, and for creating state-of-the-art laboratories that are a joy to use.

Madeline Burke-Vigeland

FAIA, 2020 AIA Fellow

Object Two

Madeline Burke-Vigeland's development of innovative collaborative processes to enhance outcomes has resulted in an advancement of architectural standards and the execution of internationally recognized educational and cultural projects.

Brendan R. Coburn

FAIA

Object One

Artfully weaving contemporary design with historic fabric for over two decades, Brendan has demonstrated that reuse of America’s 19th century buildings is a model for a thriving practice and continued stewardship of the built environment.

Susannah C. Drake

FAIA, FASLA

Object Two

Susannah Drake is at the forefront of interdisciplinary design and advocacy. Leadership of professional and community organizations, award-winning research-based practice, groundbreaking exhibitions, publications and teaching typify her activist role in addressing climate change through design.

Scott K. Henson

FAIA

Object One

Scott Henson advances the field of preservation, elevating traditional building practices to globally conscious, sustainable design. Henson’s crafted approach embodies building stewardship and advocates adaptive reuse to the profession.

Scott K. Henson

FAIA

Object One

Scott Henson advances the field of preservation, elevating traditional building practices to globally conscious, sustainable design. Henson’s crafted approach embodies building stewardship and advocates adaptive reuse to the profession.

Stephan W. Jaklitsch

FAIA

Object One

Stephan Jaklitsch’s projects are explorations into the widely applicable potential of architectural design. The excellence of his work and his influence on the public-professional dialogue have expanded the significance of architecture and of the profession.

Andrew B. Knox

FAIA

Object Five

Andrew Knox has focused his practice on elevating the lives of the societally disadvantaged through innovative humanistic design. Knox's completed projects advanced the discussion and achievements of societally committed architecture.

Erik G. L’Heureux

FAIA, Singapore Registered Architect

Object Two

Erik L’Heureux integrates design education and academic leadership to creative practice, championing novel design strategies for hot, wet and dense cities of the equator, and the warming world.

Vivian W. Lee

FAIA, LEED AP

Object One

Vivian Lee designs meticulously crafted buildings that—through environmental calibration, technological innovation, and a keen understanding of local context and socio-cultural differences—promote an architecture predicated on sustainability, equity, and beauty.

Sara Lopergolo

FAIA

Object One

For nearly three decades, Sara Lopergolo has created elegant design solutions for cultural, residential and commercial projects that transcend the practical and elevate quality of life all while cultivating a collaborative and engaging work environment.

Scott Marble

FAIA

Object One

Scott Marble has worked to advance the discipline of architecture through his leadership in design innovation, architectural education and professional practice.

Porie Saikia

FAIA, FCIOB

Object Four

Porie Saikia has demonstrated exemplary leadership by driving design excellence in civic architecture and championing innovative project delivery to enhance the built environment experience, benefiting millions in the New York region and the world.

Barbara E. Spandorf

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Four

Barbara Spandorf champions architectural practice through her leadership in creating award-winning facilities in the public realm. Skillfully working with diverse stakeholders, she advocates and realizes inspiring civic projects that advance institutional missions and transform communities.

Joseph D. Tanney Jr.

FAIA

Object One

A leader in prefabricated design, Joseph Tanney AIA creates nationally-recognized, award-winning homes with his distinctive design methodology, THE MODERN MODULAR. His impact has been transformative, broadening the understanding of prefab among the profession and public.

Jay Valgora

FAIA, APA, LEED AP

Object One

Jay Valgora founded and leads an internationally recognized practice, STUDIO V. His influential designs in architecture, urban design and preservation transform urban edges and reconnect communities, while engaging history and context in innovative ways.

Robert C. Whitlock

FAIA

Object One

Robert Whitlock redefines the skyscraper by balancing formal expression with purposeful consideration for how supertall buildings shape the urban skyline while dynamically engaging with the street below.

Stephen Yablon

FAIA

Object Two

Stephen Yablon has had a national impact in the design of community healthcare facilities, as well as other projects for the underserved, by bringing design excellence and refinement to these often overlooked facilities.

2019

Raya H. Ani

FAIA, LEED AP

Object One

RAYA ANI is a visionary architect and urban designer whose work traverses disciplines to create meaningful experiences for society. Ranked among the most powerful architects in the Middle East, Raya advocates for sustainability and empowerment.

Kai-Uwe L. Bergmann

FAIA

Object One

From Apprentice to Architect, Kai-Uwe’s path through the profession seeks to build bridges between concept and craft and the cultures and cities these ideas take root within.

Joseph N. Brancato

FAIA, NCARB

Object Two

Joseph Brancato’s innovative training and mentoring programs, his master plans and built work, and his pioneering approach to practice have advanced the roles of the architect and the Institute as agents of change globally.

Stephen Cassell

FAIA

Object One

Stephen Cassell grounds his work firmly in research. With deep attunement to client mission, intellectual rigor, and material sensuality, he carefully crafts architecture to provide enduring beauty with a broader sense of purpose.

Jared DellaValle

FAIA

Object Two

Jared Della Valle is expanding the role of the architect through innovation of practice. He has designed and developed acclaimed work by leading a renaissance of entrepreneurship in the profession to improve the built environment

Melissa L. DelVecchio

FAIA

Object One

Melissa DelVecchio has demonstrated to the profession and influential clients that the principles of Classicism and Modernism can be dynamic conversational partners producing expressive buildings that give places identity and meaning.

Bruce D. Eisenberg

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Four

Bruce Eisenberg has spent his career transforming public sector architecture by raising design standards for housing, buildings and parks. His work enhances design quality by skillfully combining sustainability with thoughtful preservation.

Nicholas P. Garrison

FAIA, OAQ, LEED AP

Object One

Nicholas Garrison’s innovative architecture is a collaboration among the built, the natural, and human experience. Eschewing conventions of style and typology, his work is elegant and timeless, superbly designed and humanistic in its intent.

John P. Gering

FAIA

Object Two

John Gering pioneered the integration of design with advanced technologies in high performance communications environments. Through his leadership at HLW and partnerships with his peers, he has imparted his knowledge to architects worldwide.

Sandra McKee

FAIA

Object Five

Sandra pursues the architect’s potential to create a better built environment. She combines this goal with practical, hands-on approaches, bringing positive change by leading, encouraging and motivating her community to contribute in shaping their city.

Julia F. Monk

FAIA, IIDA, LEED AP

Object Two

International hoteliers recognize Julia Monk as an industry pioneer. She created a global brand known equally for its award-winning expertise in architecture and interior design. Today she continues to challenge the hospitality design status quo.

Lyn Rice

FAIA, LEED AP

Object One

Lyn Rice engages the public with memorable buildings that approach normative architectural issues unconventionally. Rice brings a resourceful civic-mindedness to a range of cultural projects, inventively mining practical constraint to generate unexpected design solutions.

Mary Elizabeth Rusz

FAIA

Object Four

As Public Architect and Urban Designer, Mary Elizabeth Rusz is a leader in community regeneration, design innovation and conservation. Her neighborhood strategies, thoughtful interventions, and design excellence “make life better” for the communities she serves.

Joel A. Sanders

FAIA

Object Two

Through teaching, writing and practice, Joel Sanders has pioneered the examination of the relationship between architecture, gender and embodied experience, producing design research projects committed to the creation of inclusive spaces that meet the needs of people of different ages, genders and disabilities.

Dennis W. Wedlick

FAIA

Object Two

Dennis Wedlick has refined the custom single-family home practice as a creative laboratory for eco-friendly design. Through his designs, writings, and advocacy, he disseminates the attributes of sustainability and builds coalitions to use green architecture for the greater good.

Andrew Whalley

FAIA, RIBA, FRSA

Object One

Andrew Whalley’s design vision and leadership have given rise to a portfolio of award-winning projects that elicit joy, foster unique experiences and impart a lasting, forward-thinking impression on people, places and institutions around the world.

Richard C. Yancey

FAIA, LEED-AP

Object Four

Extending his passion for designing sustainably crafted architecture, Richard Yancey has created a pioneering international center of excellence dedicated to building energy efficiency, addressing one of the biggest challenges of our time.

2018

Joseph J. Aliotta

FAIA, FAIA, LEED AP

Object Three

Through exemplary leadership, service, and advocacy, Joe Aliotta empowers emerging young professionals, advances the profession through mentorship, and builds connections with broader industry associations ─ resulting in greater growth, visibility, and effectiveness of the profession.

Jay D. Bargmann

FAIA

Object Two

Jay Bargmann has pioneered the integration of the practical and the visionary, employing innovative management processes to achieve the highest standards of design, function, and construction, and realize award-winning architecture that serves the public realm.

Alan R. Barlis

FAIA

Object One

For over 20 years, Alan Barlis has been at the forefront of Passive House design. His work has been built upon a deep-seeded belief that high-performance principles can and must be accomplished without compromise to the architecture – regardless of a project’s style, scale, or budget. That belief has driven his nationally-recognized designs as well as his professional and academic advocacy.

Denise M. Berger

FAIA

Object Four

Denise Berger’s leadership and advocacy resulted in the highest standards of design excellence for transportation and infrastructure projects. Her innovative policies and programs produced groundbreaking outcomes, elevating the stature of architecture in the public realm.

Andrew Bernheimer

FAIA, NCARB

Andrew Bernheimer has expanded the impact of design education and professional practice through teaching and studio-based research, enriching human experience within the personal space of dwellings and the collective spaces of social housing.

Eric R. Bunge

FAIA

Object One

Eric Bunge designs inventive environments for an expanded public life. As an architect and educator, he connects architecture with public space, innovation with context, and people with a changing world.

Mary C. Burnham

FAIA

Object One

Mary Burnham’s humanist approach to architecture conveys the power of design—at all scales—to positively impact people’s lives. Her work expresses those values through a nuanced synthesis of placemaking, form, luminosity and materiality.

Pablo Castro

FAIA

Object One

Pablo Castro is recognized for his thoughtful pursuit of architecture as a cultural project with a broad social agenda. His deep commitment and constant search for an architecture of positive design contribution, aspiring to become an unobtrusive background to the lives of people, is disseminated via recognized notable work, lectures and exhibitions worldwide.

Vishaan P. Chakrabarti

FAIA

Object Four

Dedicated to advancing architecture for the public, enhancing community and creating neighborhoods, Vishaan Chakrabarti has spent his career focused on the enduring public metropolis, the design of its shared spaces, buildings and infrastructures.

Katherine K. Chia

FAIA

Object One

Katherine Chia’s bold, compelling designs pair the solidity and tactile quality of materials with the immateriality of light, form with flow, simplicity with eloquence, to create architecture that enhances and enlarges the collective human experience.

Christopher B. Cooper

FAIA, LEED AP

Object One

Chris Cooper works at the intersection of architecture and art. Embracing color, light, texture, and landscape, he creates abstracted and emotive environments that engage both users and the public realm.

Joseph Coppola

FAIA

Object Two

Joseph Coppola’s grasp of architectural history, his design vision, and his dedication to serving the public realm have resulted in a precedent-setting advance in the art and science of the adaptive reuse of historic buildings.

Craig E. Dykers

FAIA

Object One

Craig Edward Dykers is internationally recognized for the development of architecture and landscape design with a singular and timeless response to the interactions of human nature and the natural world. The unique aesthetic of this approach has shown that everything from the smallest to the largest scale can promote social diversity and environmental responsibility that positively impacts cities, habitats, and people

Rocco Giannetti

FAIA, LEED AP ID+C, NCARB

Object Two

Rocco Giannetti has spearheaded the transformation of the workplace, integrating wellness, productivity, and sustainability. His precedent-setting work consistently promotes the value of design excellence and advances the importance of interior architecture.

Joann SUE Gonchar

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Two

Through her work as a journalist, Joann Gonchar provides architects with critical information, insight, and inspiration. Her articles, which clearly communicate complex design and technical innovations, promote best practices in sustainability, structures, materials, and preservation.

F. Eric Goshow

FAIA, LEED AP BD+C

Object Three

Eric Goshow’s approach to leadership in the AIA and in his practice places great emphasis on the power of collaboration and teamwork to achieve hard-to-reach goals that benefit the profession of architecture and society.

Laura Heim

FAIA, LEED AP BD+C

Object Two

Laura Heim advances restoration standards in historic neighborhoods by sensitively inserting contemporary programs and design into older buildings, transforming and extending the relevance of historic fabric, resulting in restored sustainable communities.

Pamela S. Jerome

FAIA

Object One

Pamela Jerome is an innovative leader in the application of theory and doctrine on the preservation of significant structures in the US and worldwide. Her award winning projects, volunteer work, publications, and training have an international impact.

Leonard S. Kady

FAIA

Object Three

Influential leader, connector, and educator, Leonard Kady advocates for AIA Small Firms. He impacts the practice of architecture to expand the definition of “Small” through meaningful contributions to the profession, the Institute, and society.

Bernhard M. Karpf

FAIA

Object One

Bernhard Karpf has advanced a distinguished body of modern architecture at Richard Meier & Partners, distinctive for its order and composition, natural light, meticulous assembly, and site transformation.

David M. Leven

FAIA

Object One

Architect and educator, David Leven’s precisely detailed buildings, actualize the progressive principles of openness, light and abstraction while challenging expectations of program and type.

Ismael Leyva

FAIA

Object Two

Ismael Leyva’s dynamic work has elevated the design of residential projects in New York City, aligning singularly innovative and contextually responsive solutions with real-world challenges of difficult sites, market demands, financial constraints, and entrenched regulations.

Brian J. Shea

FAIA

Object One

Brian Shea has advanced the art and practice of urban design in the United States. His approach combines a rigorous method of physical analysis with creatively integrative design solutions to guide the responsible growth of American cities, communities, and campuses.

Lloyd A. Sigal

FAIA

Object Two

Lloyd Sigalhas elevated the profession and educated the next generation of architects through leadership on exceptionally complex, award-winning projects driven by innovation and collaboration, as well dramatic building transformations, that have reshaped global practice.

David C. West

FAIA

Object Two

David West has played a seminal role in the advancement of housing design and the highrise, apartment building typology in New York City, establishing national and international models for urban housing.

Paul L. Whalen

FAIA

Object Two

Through his planning projects, buildings, lectures, and writings, Paul Whalen shows how the lessons of American urbanism, from traditional towns to high-density Manhattan, can guide 21st century community-making at all scales at home and internationally.

Graham S. Wyatt

FAIA

Object Two

Graham Wyatt advances the profession by demonstrating the power of architecture to further the art and science of education while strengthening the unique campus identities of the academic institutions he serves.

Mark A. Yoes

FAIA, LEED AP

Object One

Mark Yoes pioneered the integration of architecture and infrastructure for the public realm. His architectural designs have set a national standard by infusing New York’s built environment with civic dignity.

2017

Ann Marie Baranowski

FAIA, FAIA, LEED AP

Object Two

Ann Marie Baranowski strategically integrates art and architecture into original built works of enduring value and advocates for culture as vital to the public realm.

Patrick J. Burke III

FAIA

Object Four

An experienced and dedicated leader in the design and construction industry, Patrick Burke has spent decades overseeing the planning, design, and construction of large-scale, technically complex biomedical research facilities and other high-technology buildings. In his 15 year tenure leading planning, architecture, and construction at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), Burke has successfully delivered more than 2,000 projects with gross project budgets in excess of $900 million.

John Cetra

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Two

Over a 35-year career and since co-founding his own firm in 1987, John Cetra has assembled and led a design practice dedicated to the transformation of urban multifamily housing and residential architecture.

William H. Cunningham

FAIA

Object Four

Bill Cunningham, as its first Campus Architect, has used design excellence to transform Weill Cornell Medicine's campus into the embodiment of the highest standards of medical education, research, and practice with national and global influence.

Robert D. Eisenstat

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Four

Robert Eisenstat's leadership and advocacy have resulted int he highest standards of design excellence for transportation and infrastructure projects. His wide-reaching and consequential efforts have raised the stature of the architect in the public realm.

Thomas L. Grassi

FAIA

Object Four

Thomas Grassi devoted his career to being a manager for transformative regional transportation projects, a leader rebuilding Lower Manhattan and Word Trade Center transportation infrastructure, and an ambassador sharing the story of architecture's healing power.

Gary P. Haney

FAIA, RIBA

Object One

Gary Haney uses breakthrough technologies, sustainable strategies, and innovative structural geometries as the inspiration for iconic architectural forms. His pioneering buildings fuse bold engineering concepts and expressive materials to elevate user experiences and transform cities.

Kevin Hom

FAIA

Object Two

As Dean, Kevin Hom has re-invented the architecture program at CUNY's School of Technology and Design, developing a dynamic, sustainability-focused and technology-based model for preparing disadvantaged students to enter and bring diversity to the profession.

Timothy J. Johnson

FAIA

Object One

Timothy Johnson has transformed urban environments worldwide by designing buildings that blur the line between public and private, thereby uniting clients with their communities, landmarking their respective cities and invigorating entire neighborhoods.

Paul M. Lewis

FAIA

Object One

Architect, professor, speaker and author Paul Lewis has bridged the worlds of practice and academia producing award-winning architecture, interiors, books and conceptual projects. His acclaimed built works synthesize design excellence and tectonic innovation.

Daniel Libeskind

FAIA

Object One

Daniel Libeskind believes that buildings contribute to the greater cultural context in which they are built. Committed to expanding the scope of architecture reflects his profound interest and involvement in philosophy, art, literature, and music.

L. Reynolds Logan Jr.

FAIA

Object One

Renny Logan has advanced a distinguished body of modern architecture at Richard Meier & Partners, distinctive for its order and composition, natural light, meticulous assembly, and site transformation.

Elisabeth Martin

FAIA

Object Two

Elisabeth Martin's leadership and advocacy for public libraries is a catalyst for transformative change. Through practice, her passion has fueled discourse, inspired solutions, influenced national models, and demonstrated the power of design in the public realm.

Daria F. Pizzetta

FAIA

Object Two

Daria Pizzetta has had a leading role in shaping the evolution of library design nationally, as well as the discourse about the design of major public buildings and arts institutions.

Michael E. Plottel

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Four

Michael Plottel has dedicated his 25+-year career to advancing the practice and theory of public architecture by focusing on the design and construction of socially relevant projects with the result of rebuilding cities, strengthening institutions, enhancing public spaces, and ultimately serving the everyday needs of the citizen.

Carolyn Jane Smith

FAIA, IIDA

Object Two

As a highly regarded leader of practice, projects, and education, Jane Smith has pioneered the integration of pragmatism and imagination, of design and the business of design, advancing the strength and influence of the profession.

Kalavati A. Somvanshi

FAIA

Object Two

Kalavati Somvanshi is a leader who leverages foresight and experience by creating learning opportunities for the fellow architects, consultants and subcontractors. Her efforts enhance design excellence, technical expertise for teams facilitating the practice of architecture.

Howard L. Zimmerman

FAIA

Object Two

A respected leader and expert int he preservation and restoration of building facades, Howard Zimmerman has raised awareness and advanced the standards of this specialty, transforming the safety and aesthetics of the urban experience.

2016

Charles M. Besjak

FAIA

Object Two

An architect and structural engineer, Charles Besjak practices and promotes a bold and innovative integration of these disciplines, resulting in a body of work—projects, research, and lectures—that has profoundly influenced the profession.

Donald R. Blair

FAIA

Object Two

Donald Blair advances healthcare design by integrating extensive expertise in medical planning and design with strategic fiscal analysis to create financially sustainable architecture that expands the capacity for scientific research and delivers improved patient care.

Margaret O. Castillo

FAIA, LEED AP

Object Three

Through her component leadership, Margaret Castillo has promoted the Institute’s goals of sustainable design and environmental responsibility by expanding public outreach, advocating for reform in Government, and advancing professional education in sustainable and resilient design.

Nicole M. Dosso

FAIA, LEED BD+C, WELL AP

Object Two

An exceptional leader, Nicole Dosso is a gifted practitioner of the technical craft of architecture, an expert in the technical challenges of designing tall buildings on complex urban sites, and a mentor to women practitioners.

Martin J. Finio

FAIA, LEED, NCARB

Object One

Martin Finio combines an embrace of constraints with a keen attention to light, material, detail, and construction. His work displays a consistent elegance, invention, and restraint, bringing meaning to place and elevating life’s daily rituals.

Alexander P. Lamis

FAIA

Object Two

Through his work designing major public and academic libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions, Alexander Lamis has madea significant contribution to the understanding of our national heritage while making an investment in the future of American cities.

Victor Alexander Mirontschuk

FAIA

Object Two

A pioneer in and influential advocate for higher density housing, Victor Mirontschuk combines planning and architecture to design environments that promote social interaction and create community. His innovations have established new standards across the country.

Jeffrey A. Murphy

FAIA

Object Two

Jeffrey Murphy’s architecture fosters social engagement, fortifies community and dramatically broadens the impact and influence of his institutional clients.

Ann M. Rolland

FAIA, LEED

Object Two

Ann Rolland creates transformative educational and institutional facilities. By forging collaborative processes and connections, she generates opportunities that advance mission-driven program and design.

William S. Ryall Jr.

FAIA

Object One

William Ryall’s work reflects an organic unity of sustainability, environmental stewardship, utility, and aesthetics. Unhampered by the limitations of rigid and externally imposed rules, he deploys the principles underlying LEED and the objectives of Passive House to create a new paradigm for architecture.

Michael M. Samuelian

FAIA, AICP

Object Two

Michael Samuelian has planned and managed the design of tens of millions of square feet of New York City, focusing on innovative mixed-use centers, enhanced public spaces, and excellence and diversity in design.

Kimberly Sheppard

FAIA

Object One

Throughout thirty years of design innovation, leadership, and preservation endeavors, Kimberly Sheppard combines light and space with exacting materiality to conceive sculptural environments which engage and enhance the lives of the end user.

James J. Slade Jr.

FAIA, LEED AP

Object One

Thoughtfully synthesizing each project’s unique conditions, James Slade’s architecture and interiors embody diverse client identities through form, materiality, color, graphics and texture.

Allen Swerdlowe

FAIA

Object Five

Allen Swerdlowe spent his career combining political participation, professional expertise and passion to work pro-bono with communities, municipalities and private developers to elevate the quality of their projects and public space for the public good.

Douglas A. Tilden

FAIA

Object Two

Combining design, managerial, and political leadership, Doug has improved the lives of millions worldwide by creating a legacy of railtransit mega-projects that exceeds aesthetic and operational considerations to achieve unique expressions of culture and place.

Gregory T. Waugh

FAIA

Object Two

A proven technical leader, Gregory Waugh has acquired a specialized skillset in the documentation and execution of complex architectural projects. Gregory displays great ingenuity at implementing technical innovations with expertise in integrated project delivery.

Don Weinreich

FAIA

Object Two

Don Weinreich believes professional practice offers boundless opportunities for creativity. Making superior buildings, creating a vibrant firm culture, optimizing computation in practice and working to mitigate the worldwide refugee crisis are his passions.

Daniel E. Wood

FAIA, LEED AP

Object One

Dan Wood is an architect with a deep commitment to sustainability and programmatic innovation. Recognized as being among the most innovative architects working in this area today, his projects have received nine AIA awards in the last seven years and his office WORKac was selected as the 2015 AIA New York State Firm of the Year.

2015

Matthew Baird

FAIA

Matthew Baird’s internationally recognized work embodies his passionate search for a timeless Architecture that creates beauty, compelling form, and cultural significance through his studied pursuit of a language of materiality and its optimized tectonic expression.

Robert W. Goodwin

FAIA, LEED AP

In over 25 years of practice, Rob Goodwin has created a compelling body of work, spanning a broad range of types and scales, unified by the desire to create a unique expression for each project.

Beth E. Greenberg

FAIA

Beth Greenberg is a passionate urbanist who creates dynamic architecture transforming the civic realm. Her expertise in the public process and users’ spatial experience guides her leadership of complex projects, engaging communities and revitalizing neighborhoods.

Gary E. Handel

FAIA

Gary Handel has pioneered the design of hybrid residential buildings that measurably revitalize underutilized neighborhoods in historic city centers with a rigorous emphasis on civic space and a discerning interpretation of local materiality and scale.

Laurie D. Kerr

FAIA, LEED AP

A pioneer in energy efficiency and urban sustainability, translating her innovative, data-driven policies for New York City into a replicable model now being utilized by ten American cities.

Carl F. Krebs

FAIA

Carl Krebs creates places that foster community and identity by connecting people to the cultural context and history that are bound into sites and physical settings.

Judith M. Kunoff

FAIA

Judith Kunoff is responsible for all architectural work undertaken in MTA New York City Transit; this work includes 21st century subway expansion projects, reconstruction of major existing station complexes, ADA alterations, historic restorations, new support facilities and the design and construction of related urban design elements.

Scott D. Newman

FAIA

Scott Newman, AIA, has created and led a practice that has advanced the quality of museum architecture through tailored planning and purposeful design.

George Ranalli

FAIA

George Ranalli is an educational leader who facilitates a mutually beneficial collaboration between the academy and the profession. Mr. Ranalli’s architecture is based upon a design ethos that translates architectural history into a contemporary idiom.

Jeffrey L. Raven

FAIA

Jeffrey Raven is a recognized leader in sustainable and resilient urban design whose innovative research is applied through his professional practice and disseminated throughout the profession, academia, government and allied disciplines.

David S. Rockwell

FAIA

David Rockwell explores theater as public performance and a narrative medium to design experience-rich environments. By merging theater and architecture, Rockwell uses the built form to imagine new worlds, tell stories, and engage with others.

David S. Rockwell

FAIA

David Rockwell explores theater as public performance and a narrative medium to design experience-rich environments. By merging theater and architecture, Rockwell uses the built form to imagine new worlds, tell stories, and engage with others.

Joan S. Saba

FAIA

An architect devoted to healthcare, Joan Saba is leading a transformation within the healthcare industry: by proving the value of the built environment in high-performance care, she improves health and healing through innovative, inspiring design.

Gabriel Smith

FAIA

Architect, craftsman, educator, Gabriel Smith’s endeavors converge in spirited modernist buildings. His hands-on work reveals the extraordinary in the ‘ordinary’ by carefully weaving elemental materials with site, space, and light.

Stephen A. Weinryb

FAIA

Stephen Weinryb is a leader with unique talents and experience in the execution of complex projects. His focus has been to ensure technical innovation in code development, constructability, and the execution of multifaceted design elements.

Elissa F. Winzelberg

FAIA, FAIA, LEED AP, CPHD

Elissa Winzelberg has elevated the quality of Supportive Housing in New York City and beyond, effectively combating homelessness by advancing an innovative housing model that promotes design excellence and sustainability.

2014

Morris Adjmi

FAIA

Andrew D. Berman

FAIA

Nestor Bottino

FAIA

Nestor Bottino

FAIA

Deborah Gans

FAIA

Fanny T. Gong

FAIA

Robert Arthur A. King

FAIA

Rafael Pelli

FAIA, LEED AP

Peter M. Pennoyer

FAIA

Jennifer Sage

FAIA, FAIA, LEED AP

Henry H. Smith-Miller

FAIA

Jonathan N. Stark

FAIA

2013

Israel M. Berger

FAIA

Heidi L. Blau

FAIA, LEED

Raymond C. Bordwell

FAIA

Carlos F. Brillembourg

FAIA

Susan A. Chin

FAIA

Judith DiMaio

FAIA

Kenneth D. Levien

FAIA

Carol Loewenson

FAIA, LEED AP

Richard Metsky

FAIA, LEED AP

Margaret E. Newman

FAIA

Terrence E. O’Neal

FAIA

Peter Schubert

FAIA

Claire Weisz

FAIA

Object One

Claire Weisz has elevated design in the public realm by creating works that are architecturally significant and have enduring social value. She has made apparent the power of design to both regenerate and innovate.

2012

Timothy Allanbrook

FAIA

Object Two

Tim Allanbrook has directed the restoration of numerous nationally known landmarks with meticulous attention to detail, often at a grand scale. He promulgates technologically advanced techniques while sharing his knowledge through lectures, teaching and tours.

Kevin L. Bone

FAIA

Object Two

Kevin Bone’s work as an educator focuses on sustainable design. Informed by three decades of architectural practice, ecological research, and public service, he has inspired a generation of students to address environmental issues through architecture.

Mary A. Burke

FAIA, IIDA

Object Three

Mary Burke seeks to further the reach of design, integrating the practice of architecture with interior architecture and championing the power of collaboration in achieving transformative design.

Richard A. Cook

FAIA

Object One

Richard Cook is a passionate, internationally influential pioneer in the evolving field of sustainable design. Driven by concepts of biophilia, his built work engages the senses and expresses beautiful, modernist responses to context and place.

Umberto Dindo

FAIA, FAIA

Object Five

With his entrepreneurial advocacy for innovative design and urbanism, Umberto Dindo has elevated the architect’s role in society by energizing his community, colleagues, and the AIA through exhibitions, symposia, teaching and spirited community service.

Daniel J. Kaplan

FAIA

Object One

Dan applies his passion for urbanism and sustainability equally to buildings and cities; he creates engaging new models for imaginative, livable, and lasting environments that animate the civic realm.

Jonathan J. Marvel

FAIA

Object One

Jonathan Marvel imbues public architecture with depth and meaning, forging constraints of sustainability, site, and security into bold forms and dynamic spaces, expanding the language and capacity of architecture in the public realm.

Marion Weiss

FAIA

Object One

Marion Weiss pursues an architecture that transcends disciplinary distinctions to capitalize on the powerful reciprocity between architecture, landscape, and urbanism.

2011

Stanley T. Allen

FAIA

Steven M. Holl

FAIA

Object One

Holl and his firm, Steven Holl Architects, have completed projects that tackle the urban-scale planning and development conundrums that define success in the built environment. He’s able to work with diverse clients to get projects executed, all while being a tenured professor at Columbia University. His explorations have served as an inspiration to his colleagues.

Audrey A. Matlock

FAIA

Audrey A. Matlock

FAIA

Henry Myerberg

FAIA

Michael A. Nieminen

FAIA

Michael A. Nieminen

FAIA

Thomas M. Phifer

FAIA

Burton L. Roslyn

FAIA

(deceased)

David M. Ziskind

FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD&C

2010

Christine J. Bodouva

FAIA, LEED AP

Michael F. Doyle

FAIA

Donald Fram

FAIA

Lia Gartner

FAIA, LEED AP

Lia Gartner’s leadership of vast departments and projects, advancement of her fellow architects, and commitment to design excellence have elevated public architecture and the role of the profession. She has devoted her career to fostering the design and realization of outstanding architecture for the public good. In so doing, she has transformed the role and responsibilities of public architects in New York City.

Lia Gartner

FAIA, LEED AP

(deceased)

Lia Gartner’s leadership of vast departments and projects, advancement of her fellow architects, and commitment to design excellence have elevated public architecture and the role of the profession. She has devoted her career to fostering the design and realization of outstanding architecture for the public good. In so doing, she has transformed the role and responsibilities of public architects in New York City.

Stephanie Gelb

FAIA

Stephen Johnson

FAIA

S. A. Klatskin

FAIA

Joan Krevlin

FAIA, LEED AP

Sandro Marpillero

FAIA

Bernard A. Marson

FAIA

(deceased)

Bogdan Z. Pestka

FAIA

James S. Russell

FAIA

Anthony P. Schirripa

FAIA, IIDA

Walter Sedovic

FAIA, FAPT LEED

Yvonne Y. Szeto

FAIA, LEED AP

2009

Kenneth H. Drucker

FAIA

Kenneth H. Drucker

FAIA

Robert Belmont Freeman Jr.

FAIA

Christopher K. Grabe

FAIA, LEED AP

John P. Grady

FAIA

Object One

(deceased)

John Grady has played a seminal role in defining exhibition design. His design approach, emphasizing the integration of architectural structure with interpretive content, has influenced a field that was largely unexplored when his career began.

Robert A. Heintges

FAIA

Frank M. Lupo

FAIA, LEED

Joanna M. Pestka

FAIA

Annabelle M. Selldorf

FAIA

Sylvia J. Smith

FAIA, LEED

2008

Diana I. Agrest

FAIA, FAIA

Stephen A. Apking

FAIA

Ian Bader

FAIA

Deborah Berke

FAIA, LEED AP

Louise M. Braverman

FAIA, FAIA

Hillary A. Brown

FAIA

David J. Burney

FAIA

Gerard F.X. Geier II

FAIA, FIIDA, LEED AP

Nathan C. Hoyt

FAIA

(deceased)

Nathan C. Hoyt

FAIA

(deceased)

Sudhir Jambhekar

FAIA

Robert M. Rogers

FAIA

Richard W. Southwick

FAIA, LEED AP

William H. Stein

FAIA

Bernard Tschumi

FAIA

2007

Mustafa K. Abadan

FAIA

Roger F. Duffy Jr.

FAIA

Frank J. Greene

FAIA

Object Two

D. Blakeslee Middleton

FAIA, LEED AP

Margaret S. Rietveld

FAIA

Calvin Tsao

FAIA

Adam Yarinsky

FAIA, LEED AP

2006

Mario Gandelsonas

FAIA

Mark E. Ginsberg

FAIA, LEED AP

Mark Ginsberg, FAIA, leads his colleagues on issues of planning, urban design, affordable housing, zoning and building codes, moving the architectural profession into a position of esteem and influence.

Lisa Gould

FAIA

Robin Guenther

FAIA

Emma E. Macari

FAIA

Object Four

The highest ranking architect in an American university, staunch mentor to women architects, Emma E. Macari, FAIA, has greatly improved three major public universities, raised the standards of higher-education institutions, and inspired design professionals to create consequential architecture.

Michael A. Manfredi

FAIA

Michael A. Manfredi

FAIA

Peter P. Marino

FAIA

Jonathan ZACHARIAH McKown Jr.

FAIA

Jean P. Phifer

FAIA, LEED

David Piscuskas

FAIA, LEED AP

Raymond Plumey

FAIA

Abby P. Suckle

FAIA, LEED

James von Klemperer

FAIA

Roberta D. Washington

FAIA

2005

Joan Blumenfeld

FAIA, IIDA

Santiago Calatrava

FAIA

Peter David D. Cavaluzzi

FAIA

Alexander Gorlin

FAIA

Toshiko Mori

FAIA

Juergen Riehm

FAIA

Stanley R. Stark

FAIA, LEED AP

2004

James R. Biber

FAIA

Michael Gabellini

FAIA

Carl Galioto

FAIA

Patricia Lancaster-Brown FAIA

FAIA

Jill N. Lerner

FAIA

Aaron B. Schwarz

FAIA

Christopher G. Smith

FAIA

Mark E. Strauss

FAIA, AICP, LEED

2003

Carol Rusche Bentel

FAIA, PhD

Lance Jay Brown

FAIA, DPACSA

Ted J. Gottesdiener

FAIA

Wendy Evans Joseph

FAIA, LEED-AP

Daniel H. Nall

FAIA, PE, LEED AP

Sherida E. Paulsen

FAIA

Susan T. Rodriguez

FAIA

Lee H. Skolnick II

FAIA

2002

Ross S. Anderson

FAIA

Francois C. de Menil

FAIA

Leevi Kiil

FAIA

Theodore H. Prudon

FAIA

Todd H. Schliemann

FAIA

2001

Page A. Cowley

FAIA

Alan M. M. Hantman

FAIA

Peter Krasnow

FAIA

Peter Pran

FAIA

(deceased)

William C. Shopsin

FAIA

John B. Tarantino

FAIA

Linda Yowell

FAIA, NCARB

2000

Rick Bell

FAIA

Michael D. Flynn

FAIA

Conrad L. Levenson

FAIA

Lee F. Mindel

FAIA

Barbara A. Nadel

FAIA

Norbert W. Young Jr.

FAIA

1999

Robert I. Davidson

FAIA

James McCullar

FAIA

George H. Miller

FAIA

Charles A. Platt

FAIA

(deceased)

Barbara E. Wilks

FAIA, FASLA

1998

Susan A. Chin

FAIA, Hon. ASLA

Susan Chin

FAIA, Hon. ASLA

Mary-Jean Eastman

FAIA

John M. Ellis

FAIA

John M. Ellis

FAIA

Richard J. Gluckman

FAIA

Edward I. Mills

FAIA

Ken Ricci

FAIA

Ronnette Riley

FAIA

Marilyn J. Taylor

FAIA

Marilyn J. Taylor

FAIA

1997

Steven M. Davis, FAIA

FAIA

Michael M. Fieldman

FAIA

Nic Goldsmith

FAIA, LEED

Timothy Hartung

FAIA

Reginald D. Hough

FAIA

Frances P. Huppert

FAIA

Richard M. Olcott

FAIA

Samuel G. White

FAIA

1996

Randolph R. Croxton

FAIA

Theoharis L. David

FAIA, FAIA Emeritus

Theodore Hammer

FAIA

1995

David W. Beer

FAIA

Byron Bell

FAIA

Jan Keane

FAIA

Alan Melting

FAIA

1994

Michael Adlerstein

FAIA

Joseph L. Fleischer

FAIA

Warren W. Gran

FAIA

William C. Louie

FAIA

Joshua J. Pan

FAIA

Paul Willen

FAIA

Steven Winter

FAIA

1993

David P. Helpern

FAIA

Charles K. Hoyt

FAIA

(deceased)

J. Arvid Klein

FAIA

L. Bradford Perkins Jr.

FAIA

Rafael Vinoly

FAIA

(deceased)

1992

Frederick A. Bland

FAIA, AICP

Ralph Steinglass

FAIA, DBIA, CDT

Tod C. Williams

FAIA

1991

Carmi M. Bee

FAIA

Paul Broches

FAIA

R. L. Cioppa

FAIA

Steven M. Goldberg

FAIA

Arthur May

FAIA

(deceased)

Robert H. Siegel

FAIA

1990

Adrienne G. Bresnan

FAIA

Joseph P. Bresnan

FAIA

Michael Kwartler

FAIA

1989

Sheldon D. Wander

FAIA

John H. Winkler

FAIA

1988

Stanton Eckstut

FAIA

William Pedersen

FAIA, FAAR

1987

Richard S. Hayden

FAIA

Kenneth H. Walker

FAIA

1986

Barry Benepe

FAIA

Alexander Cooper

FAIA

M. H. Goldfinger

FAIA Member Emeritus

(deceased)

Frances Halsband

FAIA

Frances Halsband

FAIA

Robert Kliment

FAIA

(deceased)

A. Eugene Kohn

FAIA

(deceased)

Theodore Liebman

FAIA

Paul Segal

FAIA

Kellogg H. Wong

FAIA

1985

David M. Childs

FAIA

Bruce S. Fowle

FAIA, LEED AP

Carl Meinhardt

FAIA

Barbara Neski

FAIA

Carl Stein

FAIA

Bartholomew Voorsanger

FAIA

1984

Stephen B. Jacobs

FAIA

(deceased)

Steven B. Jacobs

FAIA

(deceased)

Rolf H. Ohlhausen

FAIA

Donald P. Ryder

FAIA

(deceased)

Robert A. Stern

FAIA

1983

J. Armand Burgun

FAIA, FACHA

David R. Castro-Blanco

FAIA

(deceased)

Laurie M. Maurer

FAIA

1981

Peter D. Eisenman

FAIA

Malcolm Holzman

FAIA

1980

David L. Ginsberg

FAIA

(deceased)

Tician Papachristou

FAIA

Gerrard S. Pook

FAIA

1979

John H. Beyer

FAIA, AICP

Lee H. Pomeroy

FAIA

(deceased)

1978

Richard Dattner

FAIA

Herbert Oppenheimer

FAIA

(deceased)

1977

John H. Burgee

FAIA

Lo-Yi Chan

FAIA

John Morris Dixon

FAIA

Jeh V. Johnson

FAIA

Mildred F. Schmertz

FAIA

(deceased)

1976

Richard A. Meier

FAIA

1975

Peter Samton

FAIA

1974

Araldo A. Cossutta

FAIA

(deceased)

1973

Robert F. Gatje

FAIA

(deceased)

James S. Polshek

FAIA

1972

Henry N. Cobb

FAIA

(deceased)

William J. Conklin

FAIA

(deceased)

1971

Gillet Lefferts Jr.

FAIA

(deceased)

1967

Robert Geddes

FAIA

(deceased)

1964

I. M. Pei

FAIA

(deceased)

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