The Spanish architecture studio established by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, SelgasCano; American landscape architect Julie Bargmann; New York–based architecture studio LEVENBETTS, led by principals David Leven and Stella Betts; architectural historian and theorist Beatriz Colomina; and Polish visual artists Krzysztof Wodiczko are the 2024 Awards in Architecture recipients, bestowed annually by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The prestigious award, totaling $60,000 in prizes, celebrates emerging and established architects and practices. This year’s five recipients were nominated by members of Arts and Letters, a New York–based prestigious honor society whose 300 members “foster and sustain interest in the arts,” a press release said.
The final recipient selection was led by Toshiko Mori, alongside the selection 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 architecture award first bestowed in 1955, awards a $20,000 prize to architects of any nationality honoring their contribution to architecture as an art. The four other award recipients receive a $10,000 prize recognizing work that “is characterized by a strong personal direction” and “those who explore ideas in architecture through any medium of expression.”
The winners of the 2023 Architecture Award are as follows:
SelgasCano, the Spanish architecture studio led by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, has completed projects including buildings a design for London’s Greenwich Design District, playful coworking space Second Home in Los Angeles, and the colorful 2015 Serpentine Pavilion. (Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize)
Julie Bargmann, a landscape architect, founding principal of D.I.R.T Studio, and Professor Emirita of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. (Arts and Letters Award for work characterized as having a strong personal direction)
LEVENBETTS, a New York City–based architecture practice, led by principals David Leven and Stella Betts recently designed a pleated aluminum facade for the East Flatbush Library in Brooklyn and is working on an expansion of the Queens Museum. (Arts and Letters Award for work characterized as having a strong personal direction)
Beatriz Colomina, architecture historian, theorist, and Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture and founding director of the Media and Modernity at Princeton University School of Architecture. (Arts and Letters Award for exploring ideas in architecture through any medium of expression)
Krzysztof Wodiczko, a visual artist renowned for large-scale video projections that involve the active participation of marginalized and estranged city residents. (Arts and Letters Award for exploring ideas in architecture through any medium of expression)
In 2023, the American Academy of Arts and Letters bestowed the Architecture Award to architect and professor W.G Clark; architect and professor Sean Canty; founding principals of de Leon and Primmer Architecture Workshop, Roberto de Leon and Ross Primmer; Amale Adraos and Dan Wood of WORKac; and AN contributor, journalist and critic, Fred Bernstein.
