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.
Eric 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’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 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 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 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 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 Newman, AIA, has created and led a practice that has advanced the quality of museum architecture through tailored planning and purposeful design.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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
Object One
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
Object One
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.
Nestor Bottino
FAIA
Object Two
Nestor Bottino advances the art of building by creating rich, innovative, cultural architecture and advances, with his fellow professionals and university students, the science of the practice through national advocacy for architecture of cultural importance.
Deborah Gans
FAIA
Object Two
Deborah Gans has invigorated socially responsible practice in the profession. Through writing, design research and inventive public advocacy, she has set a new standard for how we, as designers, confront emerging global problems.
Fanny T. Gong
FAIA
Object Two
Fanny is an exceptional leader in the architectural profession, well-respected for her unique design management of large-scale complex academic and global financial projects and for advancing the professional development of young architects.
Robert Arthur A. King
FAIA
Object Five
A consummate advocate for the preservation of turn-of-the-century, Robert Arthur King, AIA captivates students, clients, and the public alike, helping them truly "see" the artisanship in their surroundings through his camera's telephoto lens.
Rafael Pelli
FAIA, LEED AP
Object One
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.
Peter M. Pennoyer
FAIA
Object Two
Peter Pennoyer reaches a national audience through his practice, research, writing, and lecturing as a passionate advocate for the vital relevance of classicism to architectural practice today.
Jennifer Sage
FAIA, FAIA, LEED AP
Object One
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
Object One
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.
Jonathan N. Stark
FAIA
Object Two
Jonathan Stark’s expertise in creating complex institutional facilities that are exceptionally well-planned, culturally sensitive, and user-friendly has significantly advanced his clients’ missions, social commitments, and civic responsibilities in the United States and abroad.
2013
Heidi L. Blau
FAIA, LEED
Object Two
With teaching and learning as her principles and a passion for architecture that enables both, Heidi Blau has realized exceptional educational and cultural projects whose design excellence is matched by their transformative power.
Raymond C. Bordwell
FAIA
Object Two
As an architect, planner and author, Raymond C. Bordwell has set the standard for innovation in K–12 facility design, transforming learning environments for children around the world.
Carlos F. Brillembourg
FAIA
Object Two
An architect and intellectual activist whose public service, built work and writings in the USA and Venezuela articulate the contingencies between art and architecture to promote a culture that is life-affirming and transformative for all.
Susan A. Chin
FAIA
Object Four
Through her personal commitment to conservation and advancement of the standard of public awareness and education, Susan A. Chin has transformed the design of zoos, aquariums and field sites internationally.
Judith DiMaio
FAIA
Object Two
DiMaio is an architect, educator and influential design strategist. Her research-based design approach has repositioned history as an active trans-historical component in the design process, expanding the repertoire of architectural strategies for students and professionals.
Kenneth D. Levien
FAIA
Object Five
Kenneth Levien’s project management method combines his training in and passion for architecture with his business acumen to create equilibrium among the owner, architect, and builder, enabling exceptional projects for the non-profit community.
Carol Loewenson
FAIA, LEED AP
Object Two
Carol Loewenson has achieved a new paradigm of sustainability through unique efforts to modernize, adapt and reuse outdated and unloved civic and campus buildings with visionary programming, elemental architectural appreciation, and exceptional design team leadership.
Richard Metsky
FAIA, LEED AP
Object One
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.
Margaret E. Newman
FAIA
Object Four
Margaret Newman has provided leadership to revitalize New York City’s public realm. By emphasizing design excellence, prioritizing comprehensive planning, introducing emerging technologies, and facilitating inter-agency collaboration, she has shaped a new direction for streetscape design.
Terrence E. O’Neal
FAIA
Object Three
Terrence O’Neal is an agent of change making significant contributions through Institute and community leadership, leading to a transformed perception of the architect in the eyes of the public.
Peter Schubert
FAIA
Object One
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
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
Object Two
Stan Allen is an architect, educator and design thinker. His research-based design practice and published writings have advanced the state of knowledge in architecture and urban design through the integration of landscape, ecology and infrastructure.
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
Object One
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.
Henry Myerberg
FAIA
Object Two
Henry Myerberg reinvents libraries for the 21st Century. As architect and advocate, his libraries enliven diverse communities while the collaborations he orchestrates galvanize librarians, educators, architects, and designers.
Michael A. Nieminen
FAIA
Object Two
Dedicated to a process-driven practice model, Michael A. Nieminen has been a leader in advancing an architectural practice that deploys innovative analytical programming and planning techniques to bolster client engagement and education.
Thomas M. Phifer
FAIA
Object One
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.
Burton L. Roslyn
FAIA
Object Three
(deceased)
Burt Roslyn’s foremost accomplishment has been as advocate for and practitioner in what are the new Project Delivery Models: Integrated Project Delivery and Architect led Design Build.
David M. Ziskind
FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD&C
2010
Christine J. Bodouva
FAIA, LEED AP
Object Two
Christine Bodouva has made notable contributions to advance the science and art of planning, designing, and building of architectural quality, technically innovative, highly functional, and sustainable Airport Terminals with the Architect as the team prime.
Michael F. Doyle
FAIA
Object One
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.
Donald Fram
FAIA
Object Four
Donald Fram is the Port Authority of NY & NJ's steward for design excellence and sustainable design, instituting policies and programs that enhance public environments in some of the world's busiest aviation and transportation facilities.
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
Object Four
(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
Object Four
Stephanie Gelb, a public architect, pivotally transforms the urban landscape by bringing the innovation of the design world to the public realm. Her early initiatives are now mainstream and part of our national urban legacy.
S. A. Klatskin
FAIA
Object Three
Alex Klatskin’s leadership of NAIOP and the American Architectural Foundation and his commitment to architectural education reflect his unique developer-architect perspective. His contributions enhance commercial real estate’s vitality and increase opportunities for practitioners and students.
Joan Krevlin
FAIA, LEED AP
Object One
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
Object One
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.
Bernard A. Marson
FAIA
Object Five
(deceased)
Bernard Marson was the key initiator of the 1970’s transformation of New York City’s SOHO from a derelict sweatshop district into an artist’s loft community, ultimately growing into ‘cast-iron historic district' status.
Bogdan Z. Pestka
FAIA
Object Four
Through leadership, design excellence, innovative foresight and promotion of sustainable design principles, Bogdan Pestka has raised the quality of design and defined the next generation of public buildings throughout the City of New York.
James S. Russell
FAIA
Object Two
Through his work as a journalist, James S. Russell provides essential knowledge to professionals on design, technical and practice issues. For general-interest publications, he has enhanced public understanding and appreciation of architecture.
Anthony P. Schirripa
FAIA, IIDA
Object Two
Builder of two exceptional architecture practices, Tony Schirripa uses his considerable practice skills to galvanize, energize, and improve organizations and people. His ability to unite design professionals, builders, and government is remarkable.
Walter Sedovic
FAIA, FAPT LEED
Object Two
Walter Sedovic — early advocate for sustainable preservation — has pioneered new approaches and standards for restoring buildings, communities, the environment and infrastructure. His principles resonate through his designs, craftsman training programs and cultural interaction.
Yvonne Y. Szeto
FAIA, LEED AP
Object One
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.
