2025
Brian H. Messana
FAIA
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Brian Messana is an internationally acclaimed architect who masterfully distills spaces into essential components, harnessing light, scale, and thoughtfully considered details to evoke emotion, enhance experiences, and create a distinct sense of place.
Joshua Ramus
FAIA
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Joshua Ramus advances architectural typologies by probing first principles and innovating building technologies. The resulting projects are so functionally specific to a client’s mission—and often so surprisingly adaptable—that they beget remarkable aesthetic experiences.
Suchitra M. Reddy
FAIA
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Suchi Reddy’s work amplifies the power of architecture through the manifesto “form follows feeling.” Her pioneering work at the intersection of architecture and neuroaesthetics champions the positive effect of design on community, equity, and agency.
2024
Hana Kassem
FAIA, NOMA, LEED, WELL AP
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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
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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.
2023
Gregg A. Pasquarelli
FAIA
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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.
2021
Paul Milana
FAIA
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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.
Hilary M. Sample
FAIA
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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.
2020
Brendan R. Coburn
FAIA
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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.
Scott K. Henson
FAIA
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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
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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
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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.
Vivian W. Lee
FAIA, LEED AP
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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
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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
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Scott Marble has worked to advance the discipline of architecture through his leadership in design innovation, architectural education and professional practice.
Joseph D. Tanney Jr.
FAIA
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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
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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
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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.
2019
Raya H. Ani
FAIA, LEED AP
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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
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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.
Stephen Cassell
FAIA
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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.
Melissa L. DelVecchio
FAIA
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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.
Nicholas P. Garrison
FAIA, OAQ, LEED AP
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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.
Lyn Rice
FAIA, LEED AP
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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.
Andrew Whalley
FAIA, RIBA, FRSA
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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.
2018
Alan R. Barlis
FAIA
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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.
Eric R. Bunge
FAIA
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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
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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
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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.
Katherine K. Chia
FAIA
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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
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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.
Craig E. Dykers
FAIA
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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
Pamela S. Jerome
FAIA
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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.
Bernhard M. Karpf
FAIA
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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
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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.
Brian J. Shea
FAIA
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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.
Mark A. Yoes
FAIA, LEED AP
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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
Gary P. Haney
FAIA, RIBA
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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.
Timothy J. Johnson
FAIA
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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
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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
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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
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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.
2016
Martin J. Finio
FAIA, LEED, NCARB
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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.
William S. Ryall Jr.
FAIA
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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.
Kimberly Sheppard
FAIA
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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
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Thoughtfully synthesizing each project’s unique conditions, James Slade’s architecture and interiors embody diverse client identities through form, materiality, color, graphics and texture.
Daniel E. Wood
FAIA, LEED AP
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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.
2014
Morris Adjmi
FAIA
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Morris Adjmi has led the movement to revitalize old industrial buildings and restore meaning and purpose to historic districts, by creating an architectural vocabulary that encompasses and reveals old and new.
Andrew D. Berman
FAIA
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Andrew Berman’s work capitalizes on the specific qualities of place, seeking creative opportunity in the desires, needs and constraints imposed by clients and context. His projects are evidence that necessity is a catalyst for design.
Rafael Pelli
FAIA, LEED AP
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Rafael Pelli is an innovator and pioneer in the field of sustainable design. His integrated design approach has led to important precedents in high-rise residential, public university and commercial buildings.
Jennifer Sage
FAIA, FAIA, LEED AP
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Jennifer Sage elevates design by expanding civic architecture to include small structures with neighborhood impact that engage form, materials and graphics using limited resources to respond to environmental challenges with inspired new buildings.
Henry H. Smith-Miller
FAIA
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Henry Smith-Miller built a practice celebrated for its innovative modern design, renowned at once for its vanguard use of new materials and technologies, yet also for its traditional attention to craft and detail.
2013
Richard Metsky
FAIA, LEED AP
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In 30 years of practice, Richard Metsky has developed a unique vision of American Urbanism, gracefully balancing historic preservation, contemporary building design and urban design in the revitalization of cities across the United States.
Peter Schubert
FAIA
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Rooted in the legacy of modernism, Peter Schubert reinvents traditional building typologies. By fusing a passion for urbanism with iconic architecture that integrates local culture, history, and context, he creates purposeful buildings and civic places.
Claire Weisz
FAIA
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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
Richard A. Cook
FAIA
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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.
Daniel J. Kaplan
FAIA
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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
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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
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Marion Weiss pursues an architecture that transcends disciplinary distinctions to capitalize on the powerful reciprocity between architecture, landscape, and urbanism.
2011
Steven M. Holl
FAIA
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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
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Audrey Matlock’s designs explore the creative potential of architectural systems, in combination with the specificity of a place and its history. Grounded in Modernism’s pursuit of innovation, her work explores new combinations of material, structural, and spatial relationships that eschew predictability and embrace inspirational and poetic experience.
Thomas M. Phifer
FAIA
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Thomas Phifer is internationally recognized for his technologically innovative modernist architecture, grounded in the thoughtful manipulation of natural light and air, and the masterful interweaving of built forms with the surrounding landscape.
2010
Michael F. Doyle
FAIA
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In his practice and career, Michael F. Doyle has honed his preservation, restoration, and design skills within the profession and in pro-bono work here and abroad and in service to the AIA.
Joan Krevlin
FAIA, LEED AP
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Joan Krevlin's design process seeks to find the meaning unique to each project. Her collaborative, content driven approach results in signature projects where architecture, narrative, and educational experience intertwine.
Sandro Marpillero
FAIA
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As urban designer and architect, Sandro transforms existing sites and buildings to create spaces that support and enrich social life and environmental health from the scale of the detail to that of its extended surroundings.
Yvonne Y. Szeto
FAIA, LEED AP
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Yvonne Szeto’s architecture is one of refined elegance and expressive form in the modernist tradition, and she has significantly advanced the goals of contemporary architecture through her concern for contextualism, the individual experience, and sustainability.
2009
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.
2005
Peter David Cavaluzzi
FAIA
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