Twenty-five Year Award

The Twenty-five Year Award is an architecture prize awarded each year by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to "a building that has set a precedent for the last 25 to 35 years and continues to set standards of excellence for its architectural design and significance" and which was designed by an architect licensed in the United States.[1] The Twenty-five Year Award was first presented in 1969, and has been handed out every year from 1971 onward, with the exception of 2018. In 2023, the prize was awarded to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain by Gehry Partners.

Twenty-five Year Award
Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle
2022 award recipient, the Chapel of St. Ignatius (Seattle, Washington)
Awarded forLong-term excellence in American architecture
CountryUnited States
Presented byAmerican Institute of Architects
First awarded1969
Websiteaia.org

Five buildings in New York City have received the award, the most of any city. Washington, D.C., is second with three, while Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New Haven each have two. Only six buildings outside of the United States have received the award: two in London, England, and one each in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Barcelona, Spain; Bilbao, Spain; and Paris, France.

Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen designed or contributed to six buildings so honored, tied with the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Louis I. Kahn and Frank Lloyd Wright each have five buildings that have been honored that were designed or contributed to by them; Frank Lloyd Wright has 4, and there are three apiece by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Of the 53 projects that received this award through 2022, only three had women as contributing architects: the Eames House, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery.

Eligibility edit

The Twenty-five Year Award can be awarded to any type of architectural project and may be either a single structure or a group of structures that compose a larger whole.[1] Winners have included monuments, such as the Gateway Arch and Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and groupings of buildings, such as the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Most buildings nominated for this award are new structures but one winner, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, was a substantial renovation of warehouses into a festival marketplace.[2]

For a project to be eligible to win the Twenty-five Year Award, it must have been built between 25 and 35 years before the year of the award. It must also have been designed by "an architect licensed in the United States at the time of the project’s completion". This means that the award candidate can be anywhere in the world, but must have been designed by a licensed American architect, such as the Fundació Joan Miró in Spain.[1]

To be nominated the project must be in a "substantially completed form" as well as "in good condition". Potential candidates must not have been altered substantially since they were built. Change of use is allowed by the rules, but the "original intent" of the structure must still be intact.[1] These changes of use include reorganization of interior space. This was taken into account with the Price Tower, which when built was a mix of offices and apartments, but when awarded, had only one apartment remaining.[3] The award is presented at the AIA National Convention each year.[4]

Nomination procedure edit

"Any AIA member, group of members, component, or Knowledge Community" is allowed to nominate a project for the Twenty-five Year Award. A project may be nominated multiple times, as long as it still complies with the eligibility requirements. Nominees are judged by today's architectural standards in their function, execution, and creativity. The project and its site are judged together, with any changes in context taken into account.[1]

Award recipients edit

The "Year" column, which indicates when the building won the award, links to an article about the year's significant architectural events.

Year Building(s)
city
Image Architect(s)
1969 Rockefeller Center
New York City
  Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray
1971 Crow Island School
Winnetka, Illinois
  Perkins, Wheeler & Will; Eliel & Eero Saarinen
1972 Baldwin Hills Village
Los Angeles
  Reginald D. Johnson; Wilson, Merrill & Alexander; Clarence S. Stein
1973 Taliesin West
Paradise Valley, Arizona
  Frank Lloyd Wright
1974 Johnson and Son Administration Building
Racine, Wisconsin
  Frank Lloyd Wright
1975 Philip Johnson's Residence ("The Glass House")
New Canaan, Connecticut
  Philip Johnson
1976 860–880 North Lakeshore Drive Apartments
Chicago
  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1977 Christ Lutheran Church
Minneapolis
  Saarinen, Saarinen & Associates; Hills, Gilbertson & Hays
1978 Eames House
Pacific Palisades, California
  Charles and Ray Eames
1979 Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, Connecticut
  Louis I. Kahn
1980 Lever House
New York City
  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
1981 Farnsworth House
Plano, Illinois
  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1982 Equitable Savings and Loan Building
Portland, Oregon
  Pietro Belluschi
1983 Price Tower
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
  Frank Lloyd Wright
1984 Seagram Building
New York City
  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1985 General Motors Technical Center
Warren, Michigan
  Eero Saarinen and Associates with Smith, Hinchman & Grylls
1986 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York City
  Frank Lloyd Wright
1987 Bavinger House
Norman, Oklahoma
  Bruce Goff
1988 Washington Dulles International Airport Terminal Building
Chantilly, Virginia
  Eero Saarinen and Associates
1989 Vanna Venturi House
Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
  Robert Venturi
1990 Gateway Arch
St. Louis
  Eero Saarinen and Associates
1991 Sea Ranch Condominium One
The Sea Ranch, California
  Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker
1992 Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California
  Louis I. Kahn
1993 Deere & Company Administrative Center
Moline, Illinois
  Eero Saarinen and Associates
1994 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Deer Isle, Maine
Edward Larrabee Barnes
1995 Ford Foundation Headquarters
New York City
  Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates
1996 United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel
Colorado Springs
  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
1997 Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Exeter, New Hampshire
  Louis I. Kahn
1998 Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth
  Louis I. Kahn
1999 John Hancock Center
Chicago
  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
2000 The Smith House
Darien, Connecticut
Richard Meier & Partners
2001 Weyerhaeuser Headquarters
Federal Way, Washington
  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Fazlur Rahman Khan
2002 Fundació Joan Miró
Barcelona, Spain
  Sert Jackson and Associates
2003 Design Research Headquarters Building
Cambridge, Massachusetts
  BTA Architects (formerly known as Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Inc.)
2004 East Building, National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
  I.M. Pei & Partners, Architects
2005 Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, Connecticut
  Louis I. Kahn
2006 Thorncrown Chapel
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
  E. Fay Jones
2007 Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Washington, D.C.
  Maya Lin, designer; Cooper-Lecky Architects, architect of record
2008 The Atheneum
New Harmony, Indiana
  Richard Meier & Partners
2009 Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Boston
  Benjamin Thompson & Associates
2010 The Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
2011 John Hancock Tower
Boston
  I.M. Pei & Partners
2012 Gehry Residence
Santa Monica
  Gehry Partners LLP
2013 Menil Collection
Houston
  Renzo Piano Building Workshop LLP
2014 Washington Metro
Washington, D.C.
  Harry Weese
2015 Broadgate Exchange House
London
  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
2016 Monterey Bay Aquarium
Monterey, California
  EHDD
2017 Grand Louvre – Phase 1
Paris
  Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
2018 No award
2019 Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery

London

  Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates
2020 Conjunctive Points-The New City

Culver City, California

  Eric Owen Moss Architects
2021 Burton Barr Central Library

Phoenix

  Will Bruder
2022 Chapel of St. Ignatius

Seattle

  Steven Holl Architects
2023 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Bilbao, Spain

  Gehry Partners

See also edit

References edit

General

"Twenty Five Year Award Recipients". American Institute of Architects. Retrieved July 3, 2013.

Specific
  1. ^ a b c d e "Twenty-five Year Award". www.aia.org. American Institute of Architects. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  2. ^ Campbell, Robert. Two urban drawing cards are now in limbo. The Boston Globe. December 21, 2008. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
  3. ^ AIA honors Wright tower. Milwaukee Journal. May 8, 1983. p. 5. Retrieved July 1, 2011
  4. ^ John Hancock Tower in Boston selected to receive AIA Twenty-five Year Award. Archinnovations. January 19, 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2011

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