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Former MoMA Curator Barry Bergdoll Receives the 2025 Vincent Scully Prize

Antonia Piñeiro — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:30:00 +0000

The Vincent Scully Prize, established in 1999 by the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., recognizes exemplary practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design. Named after its first recipient, Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University and Visiting Professor at the University of Miami, the prize has been awarded to figures such as Theaster Gates, Jane Jacobs, Laurie Olin, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, and Mabel O. Wilson. The 2025 prize will go to Barry Bergdoll, art historian and former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Walter Hood Receives the 2024 Vincent Scully Prize for Landscape Design Excellence

Nour Fakharany — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 05:30:00 +0000

The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. has just announced Walter Hood as the 26th recipient of the prestigious Vincent Scully Prize. Walter Hood is a celebrated landscape designer working in public spaces and urban environments. Established in 1999, this award honors outstanding contributions in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design through practice, scholarship, or criticism. Hood now joins the ranks of past notable winners like Theaster Gates, Dolores Hayden, and Mabel O. Wilson.

Theaster Gates Receives the 2023 Vincent Scully Prize

Nour Fakharany — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 05:30:00 +0000

The National Building Museum announced that Theaster Gates will be the 25th recipient of the Vincent Scully Prize. Initiated in 1999, the award serves as a recognition of excellence in the fields of design, architecture, historic preservation, urban design, encompassing practice, and criticism. Theaster Gates is an artist internationally renowned for his interdisciplinary blend of social performance, urban regeneration, and cultural activations.

Urban Historian and Architect Dolores Hayden is Honored with the Vincent Scully Prize

Maria-Cristina Florian — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 06:30:00 +0000

The National Building Museum has announced that Dolores Hayden, professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University, is this year’s recipient of the Vincent Scully Prize. As an urban historian and architect, Dolores Hayden has focused throughout her career on the politics of place and the stereotypes of gender and race embedded in American-built environments. As the 24^th recipient of the Vincent Scully Prize, Dolores Hayden joins esteemed past recipients, including Mabel O. Wilson, Elizabeth Meyer, Robert Campbell, and Inga Saffron.

National Building Museum Honors Inga Saffron and Robert Campbell with Vincent Scully Prize

Eric Baldwin — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:40:00 +0000

The National Building Museum has announced critics Inga Saffron and Robert Campbell as the recipients of the 2018 Vincent Scully Prize. The award celebrates the pair's thoughtful, insightful, and clear journalistic observations and criticisms of the built environment. Both Pulitzer Prize winning journalists, the two are honored by the Museum for their ability to reveal how smart architecture criticism can raise the consciousness and expectations for the built environment.

National Building Museum Honors Charlie Rose with Vincent Scully Prize

Karissa Rosenfield — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The National Building Museum has announced Charlie Rose as the recipient of the 2014 Vincent Scully Prize. The American talk show host and journalist was honored for his exploration “good design, the growth of cities, and the shape of the urban form through his insightful and substantive conversations with leading thinkers of our day.”

High Line Co-Founders Awarded Vincent Scully Prize

Rory Stott — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The National Building Museum has awarded the 15th Vincent Scully Prize to Joshua David and Robert Hammond, the founders of the High Line in New York. In 1999 the pair formed the non-profit organisation Friends of the High Line; this award recognizing their efforts in transforming the abandoned structure is the latest accolade for the internationally celebrated project. David and Hammond were also awarded the Jane Jacobs Medal in 2010.

Architectural Criticism in the Age of Twitter / Paul Goldberger

Vanessa Quirk — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a saying that goes “Those who can’t do, teach.” But many could also claim: “Those who can’t do, critique.” Criticism, particularly Architecture Criticism, tends to get a bad rap for being subjective, impenetrable, and - ultimately - useless. But Paul Goldberger, a champion of the craft, would disagree.

A Short Break: The Story of Paul Goldberger

Karissa Rosenfield — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:00:59 +0000

National Building Museum and Metropolis Magazine contributor Andrew Caruso takes you “inside the design mind” of Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger.