2021 Jury
Barbara Bestor, FAIA
Bestor Architecture
Barbara Bestor, FAIA is the Principal and founder of Bestor Architecture. Raised in Cambridge, MA, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and a Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the Board of SCI-Arc, the Los Angeles Conservancy, and the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. Barbara has consistently pursued experimental architecture that engages the city through design, art, and urbanism. The architectural form is explored through experiments in spatial arrangements, graphics, and color. Her varied and progressive body of work connects with people on many levels, often outside the boundaries traditionally delineated for architecture. She believes that good design creates an engaged urban life and embraces the ‘strange beauty’ that enhances everyday life experience.
Vishaan Chakrabarti, FAIA
PAU
An architect, urbanist, and author, Chakrabarti designs and advocates for a sustainable and equitable urban future centered on human connectedness. He advances these goals as the founder and creative director of his own global architecture studio, PAU, where he leads complex design projects such as Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Expansion, Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery, Philadelphia’s Schuylkill Yards, Ford Motor Company’s Michigan Central Station project in Detroit’s Corktown, Princeton University’s new Hobson College, and a unique urban village in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Simultaneously Chakrabarti serves as the William W. Wurster Dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the highly acclaimed book, A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America. Chakrabarti also served under Mayor Bloomberg as the director of planning for Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11, successfully collaborating on efforts to save the High Line and rebuild the World Trade Center.
Annabelle Selldorf, FAIA
Selldorf Architects
Annabelle Selldorf is the Principal of Selldorf Architects, a 60-person architectural design practice that she founded in New York City in 1988. The firm has worked on public and private projects that range from museums and libraries to a recycling facility, and at scales from the construction of new buildings to the restoration of historic interiors and exhibition design. Clients include the Frick Collection, Hispanic Society Museum & Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Clark Art Institute, and Neue Galerie New York. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the Board of the Architectural League of New York, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the World Monuments Fund, the Chinati Foundation, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA
Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
Shim and her partner A. Howard Sutcliffe founded Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in Toronto, Canada in 1994. Their design practice explores the integration and interrelated scales of architecture, landscape, furniture and fittings. Shim-Sutcliffe have realized built work in Canada, the United States, Russia and Asia focusing on place-making. To date, Shim and Sutcliffe have received fifteen Governor General’s Medals and Awards for Architecture from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and an American Institute of Architects National Honor Award along with many other professional accolades for their built work.
Julie Snow, FAIA
Snow Kreilich Architects
Julie Snow leads a studio-based practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The studio's interest in pragmatic and critical programmatic reflection results in innovative designs that expand our understanding of architectural performance. Design strategies engage issues of how architecture performs within each project's, social, cultural and economic context. The practice has been recognized with numerous awards, including the AIA’s 2018 Architecture Firm Award, an honor that recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years. Julie Snow has held several visiting professor positions, as well as teaching at the University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture where she received the Ralph Rapson Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 2011 she was awarded the Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
