Awardees
Awardees
This Louis I Kahn Memorial Award + Talk was established to honor the memory of one of Philadelphia’s most influential architects. It brings to Philadelphia world-renowned architects who present their work and give a rare insight into their design process.
Sir Adjaye is the principal and founder of Adjaye Associates. Born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, his broadly ranging influences, ingenious use of materials, and sculptural ability have established him as an architect with an artist’s sensibility and vision. His largest project to date, the $540 million Smithsonian Institute National Museum of African American History and Culture, opened on the National Mall in Washington DC in fall of 2016 and was named Cultural Event of the Year by the New York Times. In 2017, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of the year by TIME magazine.
Jeanne Gang, FAIA, is the founding principal of Studio Gang, an architecture and urbanism practice based in Chicago and New York. Gang works across scales and typologies to test how design can strengthen relationships between individuals, communities, and environments. Her interdisciplinary and research-driven approach has produced projects from multi-acre urban parks to super-tall towers. A recipient of the 2013 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, Jeanne was named the 2016 Architect of the Year by the Architectural Review. Her work with Studio Gang has been honored and exhibited widely, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, MoMA, Chicago Architecture Biennial, and Miami Art Basel.. She has most recently taught at Columbia, Rice, and the GSD, where her...
Bjarke Ingels started BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) in 2005 after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working at OMA in Rotterdam. Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke has developed a reputation for designing buildings that are as programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious. Bjarke has received numerous awards and honors, including the Danish Crown Prince’s Culture Prize in 2011, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004, and the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009. Alongside his architectural practice, Bjarke taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, and Rice University and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen.
Lord Norman Foster, graduated from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961 and won a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, where he was a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and gained a Master’s Degree in Architecture. In 1963 he co-founded Team 4 and in 1967 he established Foster Associates, now known as Foster + Partners. Founded in London, it is now a worldwide practice, with project offices in more than twenty countries. Over the past four decades the company has been responsible for a strikingly wide range of work, from urban masterplans, public infrastructure, airports, civic and cultural buildings, offices and workplaces to private houses and product design. Since its inception, the practice has received 470 awards and citations for excellence and...
Steven Holl, winner of the 2012 AIA Gold Medal, established Steven Holl Architects in New York City in 1976 is well regarded for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design. Holl's most well-known projects include Simmons Hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2003), the Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri (2007), and the Linked Hybrid mixed-use complex in Beijing, China (2009).
A Graduate of Stanford University, Ted Flato, FAIA started his career in the office of O'Neil Ford where he met David Lake. Since founding Lake|Flato in 1984, Ted has received wide acclaim both nationally and internationally for his straight-forward regional designs that leverage each unique site and connect people to the natural environment. By Employing sustainable strategies to a wide variety of building types and scales, Ted seeks to conserve energy and natural resources while creating healthy built environments. His firm and its work have been recognized with 43 national design awards, four AIA Top Ten Green Awards, AIA's National Firm Award in 2004 and in 2009, the Texas Medal of the Arts.
