Twenty-five years ago, Tian Feng, FAIA, joined San Francisco Bay Area Transit District (BART) as the District Architect and began a journey implementing his vision while elevating the architect’s role envisioning and shepherding transportation projects nationally. Ultimately Tian’s work at BART and for the transit industry has influenced BART’s transformation from a machine-centric people mover to a human-centered service provider and community builder.
Paul Woolford, FAIA, has elevated architecture as both a cultural force and a public trust grounded in the belief that design excellence must be paired with social purpose. Beyond practice, Paul has shaped civic discourse through decades of public service—advising cities, serving on boards and commissions, and championing the role of architects in shaping equitable, resilient communities.
Presented to an individual or group in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the improvement of the built environment and to the aims and goals of the profession of architecture in California.
2025
Steven Ehrlich, FAIA
Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA
2024
Thom Mayne, FAIA
2023
Barton Phelps, FAIA
2021
Charles Eley, FAIA
2017
Beverly Willis, FAIA
2017
Betsey Doughtery, FAIA
2017
Brian Doughtery, FAIA
2016
Arthur Gensler, Jr., FAIA
2015
Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA
2014
Thomas Butt, FAIA
2013
John E. “Jack” MacAllister, FAIA
2010
Michael J. Stanton, FAIA
2009
Louis Naidorf, FAIA
2008
Peter Dodge, FAIA
2007
Hal Sadler, FAIA
2006
Ronald A. Altoon, FAIA
2005
John Field, FAIA
2004
Daniel Dworsky, FAIA
2004
Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA
2003
Raymond Kappe, FAIA
2003
Vernon DeMars, FAIA
2002
Edward L. Oremen, FAIA
2001
Chester A. Widom, FAIA
2001
Julius Shulman, Hon AIA
2000
George Bissell, FAIA
1999
Ki Suh Park, FAIA
1997
David Gebhard, Ph.D., Hon AIA
1996
Lawrence Segrue, FAIA
1995
Robert B. Marquis, FAIA (posthumously)
1994
Betsey O. Dougherty, FAIA
1993
Robert Kennard, FAIA
1993
William B. Reiner, AlA
1992
Donald C. Axon, FAIA
1992
Homer Delawie, FAIA
1991
Robert Odermatt, FAIA
1989
Harry Jacobs, FAIA
1988
Harry Hallenbeck, FAIA
1987
Birge M. Clark, FAIA
1986
Paul R. Neel, FAIA
1985
Whitson W. Cox, FAIA
1984
Donald L. Hardison, FAIA
1983
Harry W. Harmon, FAIA
1982
Clarence J. Paderewski, FAIA
1981
William Pereira, AlA
1977
A. Quincy Jones Jr., FAIA
1975
Julius Schulrnan
1974
Charles and Ray Eames
1973
Fred E. Hummel, FAIA
1972
William Matson Roth
1971
Alfred E. Heller
1970
Ansel Adams
1969
Melvin B. Lane
1968
Mrs. Esther McCoy
1967
Gordon H. Winton, Jr.
1965
Mrs. Helen Reynolds
1964
Dean William Wilson Wurster
1963
William Stephen Allen, FAIA
1962
Charles Luckman, AlA
1962
Frank Hope, AlA
1962
John Hirten
1961
Charles D. Gibson
1961
Harold L. Zellerbach
1961
Mrs. Valley M. Knudsen
1961
William Mooser Sr., FAIA
1960
Lee B. Kline, AlA
1960
M. Justin Herman
1960
Ulysses Floyd Rible, FAIA
1960
William T. Sesnon, Jr.
1959
John D. Entenza
1959
L.F. Richards
1959
L.W. Lane
1958
John C. Austin, FAIA
1958
William Glenn Balch, AlA
1957
Donald Beach Kirby
1957
Earl T. Heitschmidt, FAIA
1957
John Lyon Reid, FAIA
1957
Joseph Echler
1956
Adrian Jennings Wilson, AlA
1956
Andrew T. Hass, FAIA
1956
Charles Eugene Fry, AlA
1956
Frank Veach Mayo, FAIA
1956
Henry Lyman Wright, FAIA
1956
John Leon Rex, FAIA
1956
John S. Bolles, AlA
1956
Malcolm Dames Reynolds, FAIA
1956
Vincent Palmer, AlA
1956
William Koblik, AlA
