2023 AIANY Design Awards: Intro and Jury

John Lewis Elementary School, Washington, DC, Perkins Eastman DC. Photography: Joseph Romeo.

AIA New York’s annual Design Awards program recognizes outstanding architectural design by the Chapter’s members, New York City-based architects who worked in any location, and architects from around the world whose projects were in NYC. The Awards feature Honor, Merit, and Citation recipients in the categories of Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design.

The 2023 winners are celebrated with this year’s Honor Awards recipients at an Honors and Awards Luncheon, and with an exhibition of the winners at the Center for Architecture, May 4–September 2.

The Jury

An international panel of esteemed practitioners reviewed 180 submissions by 119 firms to arrive at this year’s 18 Design Awards recipients. Jury members discussed their award selections in a symposium on January 9, from which their comments have been excerpted on the following pages.

Ronnie Belizaire, FIIDA, Vice President, JLL
Gia Biagi, Commissioner, Chicago Department of Transportation
Angela Brooks, Managing Principal, FAIA, Brooks + Scarpa
Nondita Correa Mehrotra, Principal, RMA Architects; Director, Charles Correa Foundation
Ashley Rao, AIA, LEED AP, CPHC, Associate Principal, Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Five women standing together in a gallery an facing the camera

Angela Brooks, Managing Principal, FAIA, Brooks + Scarpa; Ronnie Belizaire, FIIDA, Vice President, JLL; Nondita Correa Mehrotra, Principal, RMA Architects; Director, Charles Correa Foundation; Ashley Rao, AIA, LEED AP, CPHC, Associate Principal, Leers Weinzapfel Associates; Gia Biagi, Commissioner, Chicago Department of Transportation. Photography: Asya Gorovits.