On March 25, we gathered virtually to celebrate the 2021 Architectural Education Award winners. At the virtual celebration, we toast the winners and heard from Kathryn Anthony, 2021 Topaz Laureate. To end the session, conference attendees had the opportunity to join an awards open house to mingle with the award winners.
2021 TOPAZ LAUREATE: Kathryn H. Anthony, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
For more than four decades, ACSA Distinguished Professor Kathryn Anthony, PhD, has been one of the profession’s most prominent guiding forces, long urging architects and the public to embrace the importance of designing spaces for people and designing for diversity. Having influenced a long list of distinguished architects and educators around the world, Anthony is widely recognized for placing diversity, inclusion, and social justice at the forefront of her pedagogy.
“In a time where the Black Lives Matter movement is challenging us to act with agency and thoughtfulness, with respect and responsiveness, her profound work underscores the importance of social justice in all fields, especially ours,” Frances Bronet, president of the Pratt Institute, wrote in support of Anthony’s nomination. “She built on a legacy of architecture to make more vital and engaging public places that reflect the diversity of the American people.”
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