The AIA Architecture Firm Award is the top honor a firm can receive from the AIA, in recognition of "a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years." Prior winners have included LMN Architects (2016), Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (2013), Gensler (2000), Perkins & Will (1999), and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1962).
↑ Rene Cazenave Apartments
In particular, the AIA highlighted work done by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects (LMSA) that addresses underserved populations and embraces universal design, including LMSA's Plaza Apartments in San Francisco (the city's first permanent housing for the formerly homeless, designed with Paulett Taggart Architects) and their Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, a community center in honor of the Independent Living / Disabled Rights Movement.
↑ Ed Roberts Campus
↑ Plaza Apartments
Since formed by principals William Leddy, FAIA, Marsha Maytum, FAIA, and Richard Stacy, FAIA, in 1983, LMSA has produced a rich variety of institutional and educational projects in the Bay Area and Northern California. According to the AIA, their work "advances issues of social consciousness and environmental responsibility", and includes clients the National Resources Defense Council, the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, the Climateworks Foundation, as well as multiple universities.
↑ Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
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