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2024
Design Awards
The Jury
Roberto de Leon, FAIA
Gordon Gill, FAIA
Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano
de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Louisville, Kentucky
Chicago
Monterrey, Mexico
Roberto de Leon, FAIA, is partner and cofounder
Gordon Gill, FAIA, is a founding partner of AS+GG
Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano is an emeritus
of DPAW, a collaborative design studio focusing
and one of the world’s foremost exponents of per-
professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Her areas
on cultural, civic, and nonprofit public projects.
formance-based architecture. He has led numer-
of expertise include history, theory, and cultural
His work is recognized for contextual sensitivity,
ous landmark projects that have pursued energy
studies in architecture, as well as sustainable
innovation in material applications, and holis-
independence by harnessing the power of natural
architecture and urban design. Arredondo holds a
tic integration of sustainable strategies rooted
forces on site and striking a balance with their
bachelor’s degree in architecture from Tecnológico
in regional specificity, and his research explores
environmental contexts. These include the world’s
de Monterrey, a master’s in landscape architecture
relationships between local and global building
first net zero-energy skyscraper, Pearl River Tower
from Texas A&M University, and both a master’s in
traditions at a range of scales and environments.
in Guangzhou, China; the world’s first large-scale
urban design and a PhD in architectural history and
De Leon received a 2010 Design Vanguard award
positive energy building, Masdar Headquarters;
theory from Oxford Brookes University in England.
from Architectural Record, 2011 Emerging Voices
Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, which upon comple-
She was the first female president of the Monter-
award from the Architectural League of New York,
tion will be the world’s tallest building; and Al Wasl
rey chapter of the Mexican National Academy of
and 2023 Architecture Award from the American
Plaza, whose domed steel trellis served as the
Architecture and in 2010 was named academic
Academy of Arts and Letters.
centerpiece of Expo Dubai 2020.
emeritus, the organization’s highest distinction.
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