New York–based honor society the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced this week the 2023 recipients of its annual architecture awards program, which first commenced in 1955 with the bestowal of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize to Gordon Bunshaft. In the decades since, the program has grown beyond the flagship Brunner Prize—a $20,000 award presented to an architect of any nationality who has made a “significant contribution to architecture as an art”—to also include four Arts and Letters Awards. This quartet of $10,000 cash prizes are awarded by the Academy to American architects creating works “characterized by a strong personal direction” and to Americans who “explore ideas in architecture through any medium of expression.”  

Three (sometimes two) awards are presented in the first category while one (sometimes two) is presented in the latter category as is the case with the just-revealed 2023 iteration. This year’s winning architects are: