The Minnesota Recipients of 2021 AIA National Awards and Recognition

By Chris Hudson | November 11, 2021

Images 1–2: Walker Art Center expansion by HGA, winner of an AIA Architecture Award. Photos by Paul Crosby. Images 3–4: Minnehaha Academy Upper School reconconstruction by Cuningham, winner of an AIA Education Facility Design Award. Photos by Gaffer Photography. Image 5: MSR Design’s Dagmara Larsen, AIA, and Leo A Daly’s Daniel Yudchitz, AIA, recipients of 2021 AIA Young Architects Awards. Image 6: HGA’s Nancy Blankfard, FAIA, LSE Architects’ Mohammed Lawal, FAIA, MSR Design’s Paul Mellblom, FAIA, and Alchemy’s Geoffrey Warner, FAIA, all recently elevated to the AIA College of Fellows. Images 7–8: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s MIT.nano by HGA, winner of a COTE Top Ten award. Photos by Anton Grassl.

SPOTLIGHT

This past year, six Minnesota architects and two building projects designed by Minnesota architecture firms received national honors from the American Institute of Architects. The following accolades continue Minnesota architects’ and architecture firms’ strong performance in AIA National awards and recognition programs:

In addition to these honors, the Boston office of HGA received an AIA COTE Top Ten honor for its design of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s high-performance MIT.nano facility in Cambridge.

 
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