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’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.
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
Robert Arthur A. King
FAIA
Rafael Pelli
FAIA, LEED AP
Jennifer Sage
FAIA, FAIA, LEED AP
Henry H. Smith-Miller
FAIA
2013
Carlos F. Brillembourg
FAIA
Carol Loewenson
FAIA, LEED AP
Richard Metsky
FAIA, LEED AP
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
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.
Burton L. Roslyn
FAIA
(deceased)
David M. Ziskind
FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD&C
2010
Christine J. Bodouva
FAIA, LEED AP
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.
Joan Krevlin
FAIA, LEED AP
Bernard A. Marson
FAIA
(deceased)
Anthony P. Schirripa
FAIA, IIDA
Walter Sedovic
FAIA, FAPT LEED
Yvonne Y. Szeto
FAIA, LEED AP
2009
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.
Annabelle M. Selldorf
FAIA
Sylvia J. Smith
FAIA, LEED
2008
Diana I. Agrest
FAIA, FAIA
Deborah Berke
FAIA, LEED AP
Gerard F.X. Geier II
FAIA, FIIDA, LEED AP
Nathan C. Hoyt
FAIA
(deceased)
Nathan C. Hoyt
FAIA
(deceased)
Richard W. Southwick
FAIA, LEED AP
2007
Frank J. Greene
FAIA
Object Two
D. Blakeslee Middleton
FAIA, LEED AP
Margaret S. Rietveld
FAIA
Adam Yarinsky
FAIA, LEED AP
2006
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.
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.
Jonathan ZACHARIAH McKown Jr.
FAIA
Jean P. Phifer
FAIA, LEED
David Piscuskas
FAIA, LEED AP
Abby P. Suckle
FAIA, LEED
Roberta D. Washington
FAIA
2005
Joan Blumenfeld
FAIA, IIDA
Peter David D. Cavaluzzi
FAIA
Stanley R. Stark
FAIA, LEED AP
2004
Patricia Lancaster-Brown FAIA
FAIA
Christopher G. Smith
FAIA
Mark E. Strauss
FAIA, AICP, LEED
2003
Carol Rusche Bentel
FAIA, PhD
Lance Jay Brown
FAIA, DPACSA
Wendy Evans Joseph
FAIA, LEED-AP
Daniel H. Nall
FAIA, PE, LEED AP
2002
Francois C. de Menil
FAIA
2001
Peter Pran
FAIA
(deceased)
2000
Norbert W. Young Jr.
FAIA
1999
Charles A. Platt
FAIA
(deceased)
Barbara E. Wilks
FAIA, FASLA
1998
Susan A. Chin
FAIA, Hon. ASLA
Susan Chin
FAIA, Hon. ASLA
1997
Steven M. Davis, FAIA
FAIA
1996
Theoharis L. David
FAIA, FAIA Emeritus
1995
1994
1993
Charles K. Hoyt
FAIA
(deceased)
L. Bradford Perkins Jr.
FAIA
Rafael Vinoly
FAIA
(deceased)
1992
Frederick A. Bland
FAIA, AICP
Ralph Steinglass
FAIA, DBIA, CDT
1991
Arthur May
FAIA
(deceased)
1990
1989
1988
William Pedersen
FAIA, FAAR
1987
1986
M. H. Goldfinger
FAIA Member Emeritus
(deceased)
Robert Kliment
FAIA
(deceased)
A. Eugene Kohn
FAIA
(deceased)
1985
Bruce S. Fowle
FAIA, LEED AP
Bartholomew Voorsanger
FAIA
1984
Stephen B. Jacobs
FAIA
(deceased)
Steven B. Jacobs
FAIA
(deceased)
Donald P. Ryder
FAIA
(deceased)
1983
J. Armand Burgun
FAIA, FACHA
David R. Castro-Blanco
FAIA
(deceased)
1981
1980
David L. Ginsberg
FAIA
(deceased)
1979
Lee H. Pomeroy
FAIA
(deceased)
1978
Herbert Oppenheimer
FAIA
(deceased)
1977
Mildred F. Schmertz
FAIA
(deceased)
1976
1975
1974
Araldo A. Cossutta
FAIA
(deceased)
1973
Robert F. Gatje
FAIA
(deceased)
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)
