2024 Americas Prize Winner:
Thaden School
EskewDumezRipple, Marlon Blackwell Architects, and Andropogon Associates
The Americas Prize
Awards Ceremony
Meet the Creative Voices Advancing Architecture, Today.
Event Co-chairs
Michelle Holland
Maria Smithburg
S.R. Crown Hall
College of Architecture
Illinois Institute of Technology
3360 South State Street
Chicago, Illinois 60616
5 May 2025
6:00 - 9:30pm
6:00pm
7:00pm
8:30pm
Reception
Presentation & Dinner
Prize Announcement
The Americas Prize 2025 Awards Ceremony
* MCHAP Board Member
Host Committee
Jennifer Andrade
and Sebastian Campos
Julia and Larry Antonatos
William Baker
Jane and Kevin Berg
Fred Bernstein
Leslie Bodenstein
Michelle Boone
Larry and Pat Booth
Lauren D.W. Tatar and Scott Borstein
Jackie and John Bucksbaum
Joseph Burns
Sol Camacho*
Valerie Carberry and Richard Wright
Juan Carlos Verme Giannoni*
Heiji Choy Black
John Corbett and Jim Dempsey
Dirk Denison* and David Salkin
Tom and Barbara Donnelley
Raj Echambadi
Michelle Edwards
Frank Flury and Colleen Humer
Gabriel Fontes de Faria
and Grant Gochnauer
Timur Galen* and Linda Genereux
Aron Gent and Betsy O'Brien
Jasclyn and Michael Glynn
Jake Goldberg
Helyn Goldenberg* and Michael Alper
Chandra Goldsmith-Gray
and Steven Gray
Eleanor Gorski
Megan Green and Josh Rogers
Sandra and Jack Guthman
William Hardin*
Ron Henderson
Sarah Herda and Kenneth Stewart
Brian and Jan Hieggelke
Rhona Hoffman
David and Jerrilyn Hoffmann
Michelle and Glenn Holland
Holly Hunt
Leonard Hyde*
Jordana Joseph and Glen Saltzberg
Philip Kafka*
Sondra and Tony Karman
Lisa Key
Sally and John Kovler
Reed Kroloff* and Casey Jones
Victoria Lautman
Gary Lee
Nancy Lerner and David Frej
Brad Lippitz and Jonathan “Yoni” Pizer
Lynn Lockwood and Barrett Murphy
Robin Loewenberg Tebbe
and Mark Tebbe
Christy MacLear
Kara Mann
Mimi McKay
Margaret McCurry
Martha and Rich Melman
R.J. Melman
Gary Metzner and Scott Johnson
Nada Milakovic and Michael Gray
Victor Mongin
Juan Gabriel Moreno
Jennifer Morgenstern
Victor and Faye Morgenstern
Robyn Morgenstern-Rosenblatt
Kathleen Nagle and Ralph Johnson
Kate Neisser
Susana Odriozola*
Dara Pizzuti and Richard Jolly
Linda Pollak*
Mickey Pomfrey
Sharon Prince*
Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert
Abby Pucker
Paul Rehder
Todd Ricketts and Sylvie Légère
Karla Robles
Rafael Robles
and Carlos Robles-Shanahan
David Rockwell*
Florencia Rodriguez and Pablo Gerson
James Rondeau and Igor DaCosta
Tom Rossiter
Chiara Santini
Marc and Maureen Schulman
Craig Schwitter*
Carrie Secrist and Bill Beach
Mark and Katherine Sexton
Joe and Jenny Shanahan
Tom Shapiro
Barbara and Rick Silverman
Maria Smithburg*
Jill Snyder
Mirja Spooner Haffner
James Stapleton
and Beth Shaughnessy
Marianne and Göran Strokirk
Irene Sunwoo
Jacqueline Terrebone
Cynthia Vranas Olsen and Keith Olsen
Bruce Watts
About MCHAP
Now in its 12th year, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) identifies, celebrates and shares new examples of built architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism from throughout the Americas that are making outstanding contributions to their communities and setting the highest standards for the profession.
MCHAP-winning projects are contemporary masterworks of all building types in urban, suburban and rural environments: universities, schools, libraries, community and cultural centers, collective and private housing, and infrastructure. Behind each project is a compelling, vibrant story of how individuals navigate economic, ecological, social and political realities to make architecture happen.
Since its founding, MCHAP's impact has grown steadily in teaching, research, student experience, and community engagement. MCHAP is now firmly established as the premiere continents-wide award for architecture in the Americas, and has joined a list of globally recognized architectural prizes. Since the prize was founded, MCHAP’s global network of more than 200 nominators from among the 35 countries in the Americas has identified more than 1,000 projects that demonstrate the potential of original and creative architecture.
We believe that MCHAP's powerful works of architecture can help us grasp and respond to dynamic shifts in our culture with the aim of improving quality of life. The prize demonstrates that outstanding architecture can make the world a better place.
MCHAP Director Dirk Denison talks about the importance of MCHAP
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, founded by the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago as a biennial award, illustrates the excellence demonstrated in built works of architecture of the 21st century in the Americas.
Split into two distinct prizes, MCHAP.emerge is awarded to an outstanding built work in the Americas by an emerging practice (10 years or younger) completed within the preceding two years.
See the past cycles here:
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