American Institute of Architects Bestows Highest 2020 Honors
The AIA has announced its top one-per-year awards, its Gold Medal and Firm Award, to be presented at its national conference in Los Angeles in May. 2020 AIA Gold Medal – Marlon Blackwell Established in 1907, the selection of Gold Medalists has necessarily shown considerable variation in the kind of architects so honored, especially in recent years. Last year, for instance the winner was Richard Rogers of London, one of five international medalist over the past 20 years. (Although he is English, Rogers did earn his master’s degree at Yale.) In recent years, the Institute has been playing diversity catch-up with its honors, awarding posthumous Golds to the first woman, Julia Morgan of San Francisco (1972-1957) in 2014 and first African-American, Paul Williams of Los Angeles (1894-1980) in 2017). Both had extensive, highly distinguished practices worthy of such an honor in their lifetimes. And in 2016 Robert Venturi and Denise …
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