Lifetime Achievement Award

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California Awards Committee
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2025 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient : Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA

Described by peers as a visionary practitioner who blends artistry with a commitment to social responsibility, Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA, utilizes architecture as a catalyst of change to shape and enrich the complex, urban landscape of the contemporary city. His career reflects what it means to be an architect in California today.

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2025 Lifetime Achievement Award : Steven Ehrlich, FAIA

First known for initiating Multicultural Modernism®, which he evolved while working, traveling, and teaching architecture in North and West Africa, Steven Ehrlich, FAIA, went on to build an award-winning practice over the course of fifty years, generously mentoring partners and multiple generations of architects, both within and well beyond his firm.

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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.

Past Recipients

2024
Thom Mayne, FAIA

2021
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

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