The Spanish structure studio established by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, SelgasCano; American panorama architect Julie Bargmann; New York–primarily based structure studio LEVENBETTS, led by principals David Leven and Stella Betts; architectural historian and theorist Beatriz Colomina; and Polish visible artists Krzysztof Wodiczko are the 2024 Awards in Structure recipients, bestowed yearly by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The distinguished award, totaling $60,000 in prizes, celebrates rising and established architects and practices. This yr’s 5 recipients have been nominated by members of Arts and Letters, a New York–primarily based prestigious honor society whose 300 members “foster and maintain curiosity within the arts,” a press launch mentioned.
The ultimate recipient choice was led by Toshiko Mori, alongside the choice committee composed of Deborah Berke, Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam, Steven Holl, Michael Maltzan, Nader Tehrani, and Billie Tsien.
The Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, Arts and Letters’s flagship structure award first bestowed in 1955, awards a $20,000 prize to architects of any nationality honoring their contribution to structure as an artwork. The 4 different award recipients obtain a $10,000 prize recognizing work that “is characterised by a powerful private route” and “those that discover concepts in structure via any medium of expression.”
The winners of the 2023 Structure Award are as follows:
SelgasCano, the Spanish structure studio led by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, has accomplished initiatives together with buildings a design for London’s Greenwich Design District, playful coworking house Second House in Los Angeles, and the colourful 2015 Serpentine Pavilion. (Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize)
Julie Bargmann, a panorama architect, founding principal of D.I.R.T Studio, and Professor Emirita of Panorama Structure on the College of Virginia Faculty of Structure. (Arts and Letters Award for work characterised as having a powerful private route)
LEVENBETTS, a New York Metropolis–primarily based structure follow, led by principals David Leven and Stella Betts lately designed a pleated aluminum facade for the East Flatbush Library in Brooklyn and is engaged on an growth of the Queens Museum. (Arts and Letters Award for work characterised as having a powerful private route)
Beatriz Colomina, structure historian, theorist, and Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the Historical past of Structure and founding director of the Media and Modernity at Princeton College Faculty of Structure. (Arts and Letters Award for exploring concepts in structure via any medium of expression)
Krzysztof Wodiczko, a visible artist famend for large-scale video projections that contain the energetic participation of marginalized and estranged metropolis residents. (Arts and Letters Award for exploring concepts in structure via any medium of expression)
In 2023, the American Academy of Arts and Letters bestowed the Structure Award to architect and professor W.G Clark; architect and professor Sean Canty; founding principals of de Leon and Primmer Structure Workshop, Roberto de Leon and Ross Primmer; Amale Adraos and Dan Wooden of WORKac; and AN contributor, journalist and critic, Fred Bernstein.