Trey Trahan is 2021 Laureate for The American Prize for Architecture

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 -- Trahan Architects announced its founder and CEO, Victor F. ‘Trey’ Trahan, III, FAIA, has been selected 2021 Laureate for The American Prize for Architecture by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

The Chicago Athenaeum additionally recognised two Trahan Architects projects for American Architecture Awards—the Ochsner Center for Innovation and the New England Mixed-Use Development, according to a statement.

“Kindness and compassion are exactly what best exemplify the works of Victor F. ‘Trey’ Trahan, III, FAIA,” said architecture critic and museum president/CEO of The Chicago Athenaeum, Christian Narkiewicz-Laine.

“Over the past three decades, Trahan’s buildings have demonstrated a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment that have produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and to the built environment through the art of architecture.”

The Award, organised jointly by two public institutions, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, honours American architects, and other global architects practising on multiple continents, whose body of architectural work, over time, exemplifies superior design and humanist ideals.

The American Prize for Architecture pays tribute to the spirit of the founder of modernism, Louis Sullivan, and the subsequent generations of Chicago practitioners such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel H. Burnham and Holabird & Root.

“To be selected as the 2021 Laureate for the American Prize for Architecture by the Chicago Athenaeum’s International Advisory Committee and for two of our projects to be awarded The American Prize for Architecture is an honour,” said Trahan.

“These awards exemplify our ethos and commitment to rootedness, artistry, materiality and our responsibility to designing for spatial equity.”

Trahan Architects was founded by Trahan on the belief that the mindful design of everyday spaces can elevate the human experience.

It is a multi-disciplinary firm ranked the number one design firm by Architect 50, the annual ranking by Architect Magazine, the official publication of American Institute of Architects, which topped the list by building “dramatic, sumptuous and well-detailed projects.”

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