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Tadao Ando to receive the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award

2022-09-06T08:00:00-04:00

Prolific, self-taught, and Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando has been announced today as the recipient of the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement award. The recognition is presented by the Créateurs Design Awards, a program that highlights extraordinary work in architecture, interior design, product design, photography, journalism, and curation.

Previously on Archinect: New photos of Tadao Ando's Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection makeover. (Image courtesy Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection. © Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, NeM / Niney et Marca Architectes, Agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier. Photo by Patrick Tourneboeuf. Artist: Urs Fischer.)

“France has a cultural legacy of pursuing ideas beyond the boundary of an era. Revolutionary projects such as the Eiffel Tower and the Centre Pompidou came to fruition in Paris, redefining the city’s historical context,” Ando said in response to winning the award. “Coresidence of the genius loci, the essence of a pl...

Mecanoo's Francine Houben is the ABB LEAF Awards 2020/21 Lifetime Achievement honoree

2021-10-19T12:54:00-04:00

Mecanoo founder Francine Houben has been honored with a prestigious ABB LEAF Lifetime Achievement Award during a ceremony at London’s stylish Nobu Hotel last Thursday.

The honor is in recognition of the architect’s tremendous cultural output, which has included recent projects at the New York Public Library and University of Cambridge, in addition to works such as and the Montevideo in Rotterdam (2005) and the Library of Birmingham (2013) that have set the firm apart with an innovative combination of different practice areas united by a philosophy of “People, Place, and Purpose.”

"I am a specialist in things I haven't done before," Houben told Archinect in a 2017 interview. "I always search for the balance between analysis and intuition."

Related on Archinect: The Proust Questionnaire: Francine Houben

Houben’s career began at a time when only 10 to 15% of her university peers were women. She began practicing in 1984 after completing her studies at TU Delft the same year. From there, ...

AIA's Robert Ivy is announced this year's winner of the Mortimer M. Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award

2021-10-07T16:10:00-04:00

AIA Executive Vice President and CEO Robert Ivy, FAIA, has been given the Mortimer M. Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Institute of Building Science in recognition of the architect’s “lifetime of dedication to mission and goals of the organization” which focuses on the ensuring community health and safety through promoting technical advancements in building science.

Ivy has been instrumental in his decade-long tenure as the head of the largest professional organization of architects in the US, overseeing, amongst some missteps, its transition into the digital age as well as the restructuring of its board of directors and expansion to a record number of 95,000 members.

Ivy has also served as Editor-in-chief of McGraw-Hill’s Architectural Record and was a practicing architect for many years in his hometown of Columbus, Mississippi, where he still maintains a home.

“Robert’s work over the course of his career has elevated the entire profession of architecture,” Laki...