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The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the jury for the 2023 Structural Engineering Fellowship. This year’s jury will be led by Alessandro Beghini (Senior Associate Principal at SOM, San Francisco) and will include Sigrid Adriaenssens (Director of the Form Finding Lab at Princeton University), Janet Echelman (Studio Echelman, Brookline, MA), Carlos Gonzalez (Division President, Western Region at Clark Construction Group, Irvine, CA), and Jenny Sabin (Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture and Associate Dean for Design at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; Principal of Jenny Sabin Studio; and Director of the Sabin Lab at Cornell AAP).

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the jury for the 2022 Robert L. Wesley Award. This year’s jury will be led by Robert L. Wesley (Retired Partner at SOM, Chicago) and will include Paola Aguirre (Founder of Borderless, Chicago), Jia Yi Gu (Director and Curator at MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood, CA), and Ojay Obinani (Associate Principal at SOM, New York City).

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the jury for the 2022 Research Prize. This year’s jury will be led by SOM Foundation Executive Director Iker Gil and will include Daniel A. Barber (Professor of Architecture and Environment in the Faculty of Design, Architecture, and Building at the University of Technology Sydney; Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Giovanna Borasi (Director and Chief Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal), Mario Gooden (Professor of Professional Practice and Codirector of the Global Africa Lab at Columbia GSAPP, New York City; Director of Mario Gooden Studio: Architecture + Design, New York City), and Sarah Herda (Director of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago).

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the jury for the 2022 European Research Prize. This year’s jury will be led by Iker Gil (Executive Director of the SOM Foundation, Chicago) and Kent Jackson (Partner at SOM, London; Secretary of the SOM Foundation, Chicago), and will include Ivan Blasi (Director of Prizes and Programmes at the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona), Mina Hasman (Sustainability Director at SOM, London), Aseem Inam (Professor and Chair in Urban Design at Cardiff University; Director of TRULAB: Laboratory for Designing Urban Transformation; 1999 CIAU Fellow), and Olga Subirós (Architect and Curator, Barcelona).

The Society of Architectural Historians is celebrating the stewardship of the Charnley-Persky House on Thursday, November 10 at the Arts Club of Chicago. The celebration marks 130 years since the building was completed and 50 years since it was designated as a Chicago Landmark. The SOM Foundation is among the honorees at the event, in recognition for the years the Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home served as its headquarters.