The list of past winners of the AIA Gold Medal is a who’s who of some of the world’s greatest modern architects, from Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto to Frank Gehry and Tadao Ando.
But can you name a single building designed by the 2021 Gold Medalist, Edward Mazria? Probably not. That’s because Mazria is being honored for contributions to the built environment that are more urgent and profound today than innovations in form or space-making: he is helping to save the planet.
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