On Friday evening, March 24^th, the winner of the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) was announced in Chicago. The venue was Crown Hall itself, a steel and glass masterwork by Mies van der Rohe on the campus he designed for the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Jury chair Sandra Barclay presented the award to the studio of Mexican architect Mauricio Rocha for its expansion of the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City.

Intended to be biennial, the prize was last given in 2018 to Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse, and then the cycle was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The accolade, which honors architectural achievement throughout North and South America, includes the MCHAP Chair at IIT’s College of Architecture and a grant of $50,000 to be used for teaching, public lectures, and research towards a publication.