The National Organization of Minority Architects announced the 2020 winners of its Phil Freelon Professional Design Awards in a ceremony during the organization’s virtual conference, which concluded on Sunday, Oct. 18. The decades-old award, which was renamed in 2019 in honor of the late architect and NOMA advocate Phil Freelon, recognizes projects that exhibit “outstanding architectural design work,” according to the award website. This year, NOMA recognized five different honor award winners across five different categories: vision, built work, historic preservation, unbuilt work, and small projects.
The jury for this year’s awards comprised Tonja Adair, AIA, of Splice Studios, Inc.; Nicole Hollant-Denis, AIA, of Aaris Design Studios; and Edward Douglas Dunson, II, AIA, architect and associate professor of architecture at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Here are the 2020 winners of the Phil Freelon Professional Design Awards:
Vision: Honor Award
Courtesy Perkins and Will
Autonomous Municipality of Toa Baja
Puerto Rico
Perkins and Will. Yanel de Angel, FAIA (principal)
Built Work: Honor Award
Brad Feinknopf
Columbus Metropolitan Library—Martin Luther King Branch
Columbus, Ohio
Moody Nolan. Curtis J. Moody, FAIA (architect of record/design architect)
Historic Preservation, Restoration & Renovation Category: Honor Award
Courtesy Studio Figure
Potters Craft Cider at Neve Hall
Charlottesville, Virg.
Studio Figure. Nicholas Brinen, AIA (architect of record)
Unbuilt Work: Honor Award
Courtesy AECOM Detroit
YMCA Flint
Flint, Mich.
AECOM Detroit. Pierre Roberson, AIA (principal design architect)
Small Projects: Honor Award
Alan Karchmer Photography / Courtesy SmithGroup
Society’s Cage
Washington, D.C.
SmithGroup. Dayton Schroeter, AIA (principal design architect)