Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize reveals 2022 nominees and jury

This year’s cycle will consider works completed between January 2018 and June 2021 and coincides with the MCHAP Prize for Emerging Practice, which recognizes the superlative works in the Americas authored by firms operating in their first five to ten years of practice. Both will be the subject of special symposia and awards ceremonies at IIT’s landmark S.R. Crown Hall in the fall of 2022 and spring of 2023 respectively.

The list of nominees includes some of the most significant new buildings of the past few years with a strong diversity of location and names like Zaha Hadid Architects and Studio Gang pitted against much smaller projects and other superlative efforts such as Michael Maltzan's Winnipeg Art Gallery expansion and OMA's new Audrey Imas Pavilion in Hollywood. 

Jurists for this year’s prizes will consider nominees along newly-refined criteria that include a host of environmental and community-centric priorities. Denison personally noted that the thirty-five countries of the Americas include "a range of diverse, dynamic conditions that architecture must engage" as well as the "unique North–South axis that creates potential for urgently needed crosscultural learning at a moment of global change and crisis."

The prize is sponsored by the AIA, Kohler Co., and the Mies van der Rohe Society at Illinois Institute Technology (IIT). Past winning projects have included SANAA’s River Building at Grace Farms arts center in Connecticut and Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami. 

Click here for the complete list of this year’s nominated projects for both prizes.