Laureate of the 2013 AIA Gold Medal: Thom Mayne (Photo: Reiner Zettl)
The American Institute of Architects today selected Thom Mayne to be honored with the 2013 AIA Gold Medal, the organization’s highest honor that an individual can receive.
— bustler.net
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Why does this industry awards the same people over and over? There certainly must be others who can also inspire and deserve recognition. This is so corporate.
I sometimes suspect lining up these awards has to do with pr engagements like AIA convention appearances and talks to the industry.
It is hard not to agree with above statement by lsl.
As much as I have no doubt Thom has the goods, I would prefer these awards be used to highlight new areas of matters architects can inspire. As an architect, he already got the "highest" honor few years ago from the Pritzker.
I congratulate Thom Mayne (and his team) but I am critical of AIA for not using the award for more progressive and innovative means.
Third hand raised in support of The Annual Archinect <strike>Prize</strike> <strike>Medal</strike> Chrown.
Notwithstanding my support of the above, I also say congratulations to Mayne for a well-deserved Gold Medal. His work continues to be amazing, fresh, and exploratory.
Edit: Damn, can't remember how to format text since the relaunch. You get the idea.
love the idea of the archinect award - anyone else think we could realistically raise about 25k to give out as award money (i actually do)? what would we be recognizing? how would we generate some pr for the sponsors?
I agree, Gregory. Archinect, do you need to assign a task force to this? Have you been working on it already and need additional help? Or should we start it in the Forums, like we did the Grosse Point Library project? Maybe a discussion on what the parameters of the award would be?
Love this idea. The concept of a more meaningful architecture award has been something that has interested me for a long time, and it's great to hear you guys are interested in getting involved. Let's continue this conversation in a private thread.
I'd be interested to hear what constituted an award that celebrated a more "progressive and innovative" architecture, and why the AIA Gold medal recipients' work was not as progressive and innovative. It seems there are so many differing architectural worlds that people inhabit, and why it seems even though we all work in the same field, it feels like we speak foreign languages to each other.
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Why does this industry awards the same people over and over? There certainly must be others who can also inspire and deserve recognition. This is so corporate.
I sometimes suspect lining up these awards has to do with pr engagements like AIA convention appearances and talks to the industry.
It is hard not to agree with above statement by lsl.
As much as I have no doubt Thom has the goods, I would prefer these awards be used to highlight new areas of matters architects can inspire. As an architect, he already got the "highest" honor few years ago from the Pritzker.
I congratulate Thom Mayne (and his team) but I am critical of AIA for not using the award for more progressive and innovative means.
archinect could give out awards! but would anyone care or listen? could be a cool experiment...
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I second that proposition. It could definitely work if architect makes it look and sound sophisticated.
Third hand raised in support of The Annual Archinect <strike>Prize</strike> <strike>Medal</strike> Chrown.
Notwithstanding my support of the above, I also say congratulations to Mayne for a well-deserved Gold Medal. His work continues to be amazing, fresh, and exploratory.
Edit: Damn, can't remember how to format text since the relaunch. You get the idea.
The architectural establishment has spoken,bla bla bla...
love the idea of the archinect award - anyone else think we could realistically raise about 25k to give out as award money (i actually do)? what would we be recognizing? how would we generate some pr for the sponsors?
i'm in.
I agree, Gregory. Archinect, do you need to assign a task force to this? Have you been working on it already and need additional help? Or should we start it in the Forums, like we did the Grosse Point Library project? Maybe a discussion on what the parameters of the award would be?
Love this idea. The concept of a more meaningful architecture award has been something that has interested me for a long time, and it's great to hear you guys are interested in getting involved. Let's continue this conversation in a private thread.
I'd be interested to hear what constituted an award that celebrated a more "progressive and innovative" architecture, and why the AIA Gold medal recipients' work was not as progressive and innovative. It seems there are so many differing architectural worlds that people inhabit, and why it seems even though we all work in the same field, it feels like we speak foreign languages to each other.
I want to get in on the discussion! Also @Paul how do you start a private thread? I figured that functionality of forum was lost in upgrade to 3.0....
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