AIA’s Most Honored Architects for 2022
Back in 1907, the American Institute of Architects began awarding its Gold Medal to architects of worldwide distinction – many of them from the outset based in other countries. It wasn’t until 2014 that they awarded the Gold to a woman, posthumously to Julia Morgan, who practiced in California early in the 1900s. The first – so far only – Black architect to win the Gold, Paul Revere Williams, whose practice flourished in the 1930s through the 1960s, was also awarded a posthumous Gold in 2017. In 1962 AIA instituted the Firm Award, belatedly acknowledging that architecture is not an art accomplished by individuals alone. The prestige of this honor was intended to equal that of the Gold, but that equality has taken decades to be achieved, perhaps reaching it now. Meanwhile, in 2016 AIA belatedly agreed that the Gold need not go invariably to an individual, but could be …
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