Keeping with its yearly tradition of recognizing America’s finest architects, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected Mithun as the AIA Architecture Firm Award winner for 2023. The prize celebrates firms producing top-notch architecture for at least ten years. The Architecture Firm Award is the highest prize bestowed by the AIA on a noteworthy architectural firm. Mithun has constantly won praise for its harmony of lovely design, enthusiastic embrace of environmental leadership, and adherence to the social system.
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“The integrated design firm, an early supporter of the AIA 2030 Commitment, has led the industry in sustainable design approaches for more than seven decades. Mithun remains devoted to addressing today’s key challenges,” according to an AIA news statement announcing the Architecture Firm Award.
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How Did Mithun’s Methodology Lead to Architecture Firm Award?
The Seattle-based firm, which includes offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, with a workforce of 180 people, was founded in 1949 by the renowned architect and instructor Omer Mithun, a Norwegian immigrant to the United States.
Mithun’s firm incorporated Omer Mithun’s vision for sustainable discipline and enduring social impact that masterfully embraces emerging technologies and creates a solid mentorship culture. For doing so, Mithun thoughtfully coordinates three essential objectives of a successful modern architecture practice: aesthetic design, a passionate embrace of creating a sustainable future, and commitment to society.
Louisiana Children’s Museum at City Park ©Mithun.com
About Mithun’s contributions to the industry, an AIA press release stated:
“With projects like 2060 Folsom, a San Francisco affordable housing complex that is net-zero carbon certified, and Chatham University’s net-positive 30-acre campus extension, Mithun has positioned itself as a leader in the industry. At the Louisiana Children’s Museum in New Orleans, a revolutionary design integrates indoor and outdoor educational opportunities that adopt literacy, early childhood research, and environmental education. This commitment to advancing research is one of the firm’s most valuable contributions”.
Chatham University Eden Hall Campus
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Edward Mazria, the 2021 AIA Gold Medal winner, wrote in support of the firm’s nomination for the Architecture Firm Award, “Mithun is not pretentious. They’ve built a firm and nurtured a group of defined, highly competent, and developing specialists. These experts are just effectively doing the work so that they can share their dreams and ambitions and, more importantly, their outcomes.” These qualifications make them a perfect example of outstanding leaders in our field and the larger sustainable construction community.
This year’s announcement follows Carol Ross Barney of Chicago’s Ross Barney Architects receiving the 2023 AIA Gold Award, the highest AIA recognition for an individual architect.
Sources:
- https://mithun.com/
- https://www.archpaper.com/2022/12/mithun-wins-2023-aia-architecture-firm-award/
- https://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/aia-awards/mithun-wins-aia-2023-architecture-firm-award_o
