Architects In The American Academy of Arts and Letters

March 22, 2023

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Architects In The American Academy of Arts and Letters

Are you familiar with the American Academy of Arts and Letters? It was founded in 1898 as an honor society of the country’s leading architects, artists, composers, and writers. The Academy’s 300 members are elected for life and pay no dues. They are divided into departments of Architecture, Art, Literature, and Music. Only Academicians may nominate and elect new members.

The current vice presidents for Architecture are ​​Annabelle Selldorf and ​Billie Tsien. 

The past and current Architect members and their year elected, include: 

David Adler, 1882-1949 Architecture 1946
Chester Aldrich, 1871-1940 Architecture 1937
Henry Bacon, 1866-1924 Architecture 1913
Edward Larrabee Barnes, 1915-2004 Architecture 1991
Pietro Belluschi, 1899-1994 Architecture 1955
Deborah Berke Architecture 2022
Marlon Blackwell Architecture 2021
Charles Borie, 1871-1943 Architecture 1937
Arthur Jr. Brown, 1874-1957 Architecture 1940
Arnold W. Brunner, 1857-1925 Architecture 1913
Gordon Bunshaft, 1909-1990 Architecture 1960
Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1846-1912 Architecture 1906
John M. Carrere, 1858-1911 Architecture 1908
Gilmore D. Clarke, 1892-1982 Architecture 1937
Henry N. Cobb, 1926-2020 Architecture 1980
James Corner Architecture 2021
Ralph Adams Cram, 1863-1942 Architecture 1915
Paul Philippe Cret, 1876-1945 Architecture 1936
Frank Miles Day, 1861-1918 Architecture 1908
William Adams Delano, 1874-1960 Architecture 1931
Elizabeth Diller Architecture 2012
John M. Donaldson, 1854-1941 Architecture 1910
Charles Eames, 1907-1978 Architecture 1977
Peter Eisenman Architecture 2001
Thomas Harlan Ellett, 1880-1951 Architecture 1943
Aymar II Embury, 1880-1966 Architecture 1946
Kenneth Frampton Architecture 2012
James Ingo Freed, 1930-2005 Architecture 1994
R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895-1983 Architecture 1963
Frank Gehry Architecture 1987
Cass Gilbert, 1859-1934 Architecture 1906
Romaldo Giurgola, 1920-2016 Architecture 1977
Bertram G. Goodhue, 1869-1924 Architecture 1915
Michael Graves, 1934-2015 Architecture 1991
Walter Griffin, 1861-1935 Architecture 1923
Walter Gropius, 1883-1969 Architecture 1962
Eric Gugler, 1889-1974 Architecture 1942
Kathryn Gustafson Architecture 2021
Charles Gwathmey, 1938-2009 Architecture 1976
Henry J. Hardenbergh, 1847-1918 Architecture 1908
Hugh Hardy, 1932-2017 Architecture 1993
Wallace K. Harrison, 1895-1981 Architecture 1960
Thomas Hastings, 1860-1929 Architecture 1906
Steven Holl Architecture 2000
Walter Hood Architecture 2021
John Galen Howard, 1864-1931 Architecture 1908
John Mead Howells, 1868-1959 Architecture 1911
John M. Johansen, 1916-2012 Architecture 1979
Philip Johnson, 1906-2005 Architecture 1963
Louis I. Kahn, 1901-1974 Architecture 1964
William Mitchell Kendall, 1856-1941 Architecture 1914
Daniel Urban Kiley, 1912-2004 Architecture 1996
Bancel LaFarge, 1866-1938 Architecture 1898
William F. Lamb, 1883-1952 Architecture 1950
Harrie T. Lindeberg, 1880-1959 Architecture 1948
Thom Mayne Architecture 2010
Charles Follen McKim, 1847-1909 Architecture 1898
William Rutherford Mead, 1846-1928 Architecture 1908
Richard Meier Architecture 1983
Ivan Mestrovic, 1883-1962 Architecture 1956
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1886-1969 Architecture 1961
Toshiko Mori Architecture 2020
Richard J. Neutra, 1892-1970 Architecture 1964
Laurie Olin Architecture 2005
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. , 1870-1957 Architecture 1918
Robert Swain Peabody, 1845-1917 Architecture 1908
I. M. Pei, 1917-2019 Architecture 1963
Cesar Pelli, 1926-2019 Architecture 1982
Thomas Phifer Architecture 2022
Charles Adams Platt, 1861-1933 Architecture 1908
James Stewart Polshek, 1930-2022 Architecture 2005
Irving Kane Pond, 1857-1939 Architecture 1912
John Russell Pope, 1874-1937 Architecture 1916
George Brown Post, 1838-1913 Architecture 1908
Michael Rapuano, 1904-1975 Architecture 1959
Kevin Roche, 1922-2019 Architecture 1970
Paul Rudolph, 1918-1997 Architecture 1971
Eero Saarinen, 1910-1961 Architecture 1954
Annabelle Selldorf Architecture 2017
Jose Luis Sert, 1902-1983 Architecture 1966
Henry R. Shepley, 1887-1962 Architecture 1939
Louis A Simon, 1867-1958 Architecture 1941
James Kellum Smith, 1893-1961 Architecture 1948
Robert A. M. Stern Architecture 2011
Edward Durrell Stone, 1902-1978 Architecture 1958
Egerton Swartwout, 1870-1943 Architecture 1940
Nader Tehrani Architecture 2021
S. Breck P. Trowbridge, 1862-1925 Architecture 1915
Billie Tsien Architecture 2007
Michael Van Valkenburgh Architecture 2022
Robert Venturi, 1925-2018 Architecture 1990
Ralph Walker, 1889-1973 Architecture 1949
Charles Howard Walker, 1857-1936 Architecture 1928
Whitney Warren, 1864-1943 Architecture 1908
Stanford White, 1853-1906 Architecture 1906
Tod Williams Architecture 2009
Mabel O. Wilson Architecture 2022
Minoru Yamasaki, 1916-1986 Architecture 1982
Meejin Yoon Architecture 2021
Clarence C. Zantzinger, 1872-1954 Architecture 1952

Current Honorary International members in the Architecture category include Balkrishna Doshi of India, elected in 2021, Rafael Moneo of Spain, elected in 2013 and Shelia O’Donnell of Ireland, elected in 2019. 

Learn more about the Academy HERE. 

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