Archinect - News 2024-11-21T14:29:00-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150015811/aric-chen-of-m-receives-top-design-curator-award-at-the-inaugural-design-prize-in-milan Aric Chen of M+ receives top Design Curator Award at the inaugural Design Prize in Milan Anastasia Tokmakova 2017-07-03T15:59:00-04:00 >2017-07-05T13:46:03-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2a/2ai6gvz4iuqpgyf0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Launched this year, The Design Prize is an annual awards program, organised by the media outlets designboom and Abitare under the auspices of the City of Milan.<br></p> <p>Aric Chen, a lead curator for Design and Architecture at one of the world's largest&nbsp;visual art museum, <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/299821/m" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">M+</a> in <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/37093/hong-kong" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hong Kong</a>&nbsp;has been named the winner in the Design Curator and Design Critic category.&nbsp;Since joining M+ in 2012, Chen has led the museum&rsquo;s efforts in building its design and architecture collection, which currently includes approximately 3,000 works out of a total of more than 6,000. <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/76048999/herzog-de-meuron-tfp-farrells-win-m-at-west-kowloon-cultural-district" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The museum building</a>, designed by <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/577/herzog-de-meuron" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Herzog &amp; de Meuron</a>, is scheduled to open in 2019.&nbsp;</p>