2019 AIANY Design Awards

AIA New York’s annual Design Awards program recognizes outstanding architectural design by AIA New York members, New York City-based architects in any location, and work in New York City by architects around the globe. The purpose of the awards program is to honor the architects, clients, and consultants who work together to achieve design excellence.

Jury

Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, Hon. ASLA
Design Principal, Ross Barney Architects

Fabrizio Barozzi
Partner, Barozzi/Veiga

Craig Barton
Architect, Educator, and Author

Billie Faircloth, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Partner, KieranTimberlake

Alessandro Munge
Principal, Studio Munge

Garth Rockcastle, FAIA
Founding Principal, MSR Design

Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA
Principal, Shim-Sutcliffe

Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, Hon. ASLA

Design Principal, Ross Barney Architects

Carol Ross Barney has been in the vanguard of civic design since founding Ross Barney Architects in 1981. With a career that spans over 40 years, Barney has made significant contributions to the built environment, the profession, and architectural education. As an architect, urbanist, mentor, and educator, she has relentlessly advocated that excellent design is a right, not a privilege. Her body of work, almost exclusively in the public realm, represents this ethos and occupies a unique place within the panorama of contemporary architecture.

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Fabrizio Barozzi

Partner, Barozzi/Veiga

Fabrizio Barozzi, born in 1976 in Rovereto, Italy, studied architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and completed his studies at the School of Architecture of Seville and at L’Ecole d’Architecture Paris La Villette. In 2004 together, with Alberto Veiga he founded Barozzi/Veiga in Barcelona. Throughout his career, Barozzi has maintained a balance between his professional work and his academic involvement. Barozzi has served as professor at the International University of Catalonia at the University of Girona, the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently teaching. Barozzi/Veiga has received several prestigious distinctions, including the Mies van der Rohe Award and the RIBA Award for International Excellence.

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Craig Barton

Architect, Educator, and Author

Craig Evan Barton is an accomplished architect, educator, and author.

Barton is the author of the editor of the anthology Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Architecture and Race and has contributed to a range of anthologies, including the City of Memory, Row: Trajectories Through the Shotgun House, and Writing Urbanism. His work has been included in a wide range of exhibitions, including an installation at Project Rowhouse in Houston, TX and The Dresser Trunk Project.

He has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations and currently serves as a trustee of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and as a member of the board of the Design Museum of Chicago.

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Billie Faircloth, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Partner, KieranTimberlake

Billie Faircloth is a practicing architect, educator, and Partner at KieranTimberlake, where she leads transdisciplinary research, design, and problem-solving processes across fields including environmental management, chemical physics, materials science, and architecture. She fosters collaboration between trades, academies, and industries to define a relevant problem-solving boundary for the built environment. Faircloth has published and lectured internationally on themes including research methods for trans-disciplinary and trans-scalar design practices; the production of new knowledge on materials, climate, and thermodynamic phenomena; and the history of plastics in architecture.

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Alessandro Munge

Principal, Studio Munge

Born into a world of design, Alessandro Munge quickly transcended his teenage sketches to become one of North America’s most sought-after designers. With an innovative point of view earning him Contract Magazine’s Designer of the Year Award and Interior Design’s Hospitality Design Leader, Munge approaches every project with a deep understanding of practicalities, artistic expression, and human connectivity. Strengthening his ties to top-tier hospitality brands and clients, Munge continues to establish himself as a multidisciplinary visionary through architecture, landscaping, and product design. His boundless passion for art, culture, and travel his team of over fifty to sculpt distinctive, signature spaces that reflect the essence and vibrancy of their inhabitants.

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Garth Rockcastle, FAIA

Founding Principal, MSR Design

Garth Rockcastle, FAIA, is founding principal of MSR Design and the leader of the firm’s Maryland branch office. He has led many of MSR Design’s distinguished and award-winning projects over the firm’s 38-year history. Throughout his career, he has also taught as professor of architecture at two leading academic institutions: at the University of Minnesota, where he also served as Head of Architecture, and at Maryland University, where he served as Dean of Architecture.

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Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA

Principal, Shim-Sutcliffe

Brigitte Shim along with her partner, A. Howard Sutcliffe, are both principals in the design firm Shim-Sutcliffe Architects. Shim-Sutcliffe’s built work explores the integration and interrelated scales of architecture, landscape, furniture, and fittings. To date, Shim and Sutcliffe have received fourteen Governor General’s Medals and Awards for Architecture from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and an AIA National Honor Award, along with many other professional accolades, for their built work.

Shim is also a Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto and has been an invited visitor at Yale, Harvard, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Auckland University, and others.

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