Twenty-five Year Award
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The Twenty-five Year Award is an architectural prize awarded each year by the American Institute of Architects to "a building that has set a precedent for the last 25 to 35 years and continues to set
The 2026 award recipient, the Philip Merrill Environmental Center (Annapolis, Maryland)
GE Building by David Shankbone
Crow Island School
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectur
Twenty-five Year Award
…Eero Saarinen designed or contributed to six buildings so honored, tied with the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Louis I. Kahn and Frank Lloyd Wright each have five buildings that have been honored that were designed or contributed to by them; Frank Lloyd Wright has 4, and there are three apiece by…
Wright in 1954
Wright's home in Oak Park, Illinois (1889)
The Walter Gale House in Oak Park, Illinois (1893). While a Queen Anne in style, it features window bands and a cantilevered porch roof, which hint at Wright's developing aesthetics.
William H. Winslow House in River Forest, Illinois (1893)