2020 Louis Auchincloss Prize

On November 19th, we were pleased to present Toshiko Mori with the 2020 Louis Auchincloss Prize and celebrate her architectural contributions to New York City's cultural, art, and educational centers.

Award presentation by Joan Davidson followed by Toshiko in conversation with Paola Antonelli providing amazing insight into Toshiko’s breathtaking work.

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ABOUT TOSHIKO MORI 

Toshiko Mori, FAIA is the founding principal of Toshiko Mori Architect PLLC, and the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), where she served as chair of the Department of Architecture from 2002 to 2008. She was inducted to the Academy of Arts and Letters in 2020 and has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016. 

Mori’s recent awards and honors include the Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Society Gold Medal in 2016; Architectural Record’s Women in Design Leader Award in 2019; and the AIA / ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education in 2019. Nikkei Business recently listed Mori as one of 50 Japanese People Changing the World, and Newsweek Japan listed her as one of 100 Japanese People the World Respects. Her project “Thread: Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center” was awarded the AIA 2017 Institute Honor Award for Architecture and was one of the winners of the inaugural FIBRA Award for Contemporary Plant Fiber-based Architecture in 2019. This year, she published two new monographs, one with a+u magazine for their February 2020 issue and another with ArchiTangle titled “Toshiko Mori Architect: Observations.” In May, her project “Fass School and Teachers’ Residence” was featured by The Guardian as one of the world’s top 10 new architecture projects.

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ABOUT THE LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS PRIZE

The Louis Auchincloss Prize is presented to writers and artists whose work is inspired by and enhances the five boroughs of New York City. Disciplines include literature, architecture, art, music, playwriting, and photography. The Prize honors Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) for his many years of service to the Museum of the City of New York as well as for his literary contributions that established him as one of the leading American novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Louis Auchincloss accepted the first Prize himself in 2007.

Distinguished Past Louis Auchincloss Prize Recipients
Robert A.M. Stern ● Jason Robert Brown ● Gloria Steinem ● Whoopi Goldberg ● Michiko Kakutani ● Tony Kushner ● Wynton Marsalis ● Philip Glass ● Stephen Sondheim ● Lynne Meadow ● Elliott Erwitt ● Pete Hamill ● Sheldon Harnick ● Ada Louise Huxtable ● Louis Auchincloss

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Chair of the Louis Auchincloss Prize
Tracey Pontarelli

Benefactors
Elizabeth Graziolo/Yellow House Architects  ●  Newton P.S. and Polly Merrill  ●  Mitsui Fudosan America  ●  Tracey and Ken Pontarelli  ●  Mary Ann and Bruno A. Quinson  ●  Heather and William Vrattos

Sponsors
Betsy and Ed Cohen  ●  Todd DeGarmo/STUDIOS Architecture  ●  Ronay and Richard L. Menschel  ●  Daryl Brown Uber and Bruce Uber

Patrons
Patricia and John R. Heller  ●  Patrick Whetzle/IA Construction Management

Supporters
Martin J. McLaughlin  ●  Edward Miller  ●  Jane B. and Ralph A. O'Connell  ●  Sharon Prince/Grace Farms Foundation  ●  Valerie and John W. Rowe  ●  Nicholas Fox Weber/The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

Friends
Donald Albrecht  ●  Anthony Alofsin  ●  Elizabeth Borden  ●  Lynne Brown  ●  James Carpenter  ●  Christina R. Davis  ● Tracy Ehrlich and Andrew Auchincloss. ●  Rosalie Genevro  ●  Kathleen Benson Haskins  ●  Elisa Holland  ●   Kristin Joyce-Guy  ●  Linda Just  ●  Thomas Krizmanic  ●  Brenda Levin  ●  Margo Levine  ●  Tracy Pennoyer and John W. Auchincloss  ●  Mary Ping  ●  Elisif and Timothy Quinson  ●  Bernard Stahl  ●  Philip Snyder. ●  Madelyn Wils

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For more information, please contact:

• Jackie Zirman, Director of Special Events, jzirman@mcny.org
• Samantha Fleck, Associate Director of Special Events, sfleck@mcny.org