Grace Farms Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2014-2015 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) was awarded to Grace Farms, designed by the Pritzker-winning architecture firm SANAA. The award – a biennial prize that acknowledges the best built works of architecture in the Americas, created by Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets – was presented at the 2016 MCHAP Symposium and Award Dinner at S. R. Crown Hall in Chicago, the home of IIT Architecture.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, founders of SANAA, were recognized with the MCHAP Award, named the MCHAP Chair at IIT Architecture Chicago for the upcoming academic year, and granted $50,000 in funding toward research and publication.
Image Credit: Kazuyo Sejima and Sharon Prince by Andrew Bruah