The Awards recognize the achievements and contributions of architects, painters, sculptors, artisans, interior designers, landscape designers, educators, publishers, patrons, and others dedicated to preserving and advancing the classical tradition.
NEW YORK, NY, March 19, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) announces the winners of the 2026 Arthur Ross Awards for Excellence in the Classical Tradition. This year's winners—an illustrious roster of architects, designers, artisans, stewards, and educators—are Voith & Mactavish Architects, Thierry Goux, Craig & Company, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, The Frick Collection, and Alejandro García Hermida.
In a ceremony to be held on Monday, May 11th at Cipriani 42nd Street, the following will be honored, by category:
ARCHITECTURE | Voith & Mactavish Architects, Philadelphia, PA, US
Daniela Holt Voith and Cameron Mactavish founded Voith & Mactavish Architects LLP in 1988, based on their shared passion for architecture that expresses innovation in the context of tradition. They have stayed true to this vision by designing environments that support contemporary uses and carefully respond to the cultural and physical contexts of each site. The firm is guided by its core values of tradition, context, innovation, craftsmanship, sustainability, and beauty.
Voith & Mactavish Architects earned renown early on for their residential work, before shifting their primary focus to educational projects. VMA's work aims to create spaces in which students learn, live, and play during the formative years that shape their understanding of the world. The firm looks for effective ways to innovate, designing buildings that are useful, beautiful, and flexible enough for unpredictable futures.
VMA is currently led by Daniela Holt Voith, Founding Partner & Director of Design and four partners: John Cluver, Director of Preservation, Sennah Loftus, Director of Interior Design, Robert Douglass, Sustainability Program Director, and Scott O'Barr, Director of Residential Design. Offices in Philadelphia and New York City house studios in architecture, planning, preservation and interiors. The award-winning team of over 40 members is JUST and WBENC-certified and operates with care for social and environmental concerns.
ARTISANSHIP & CRAFTSMANSHIP | Thierry Goux, RINCK, Paris, France
For more than thirty years, Thierry Goux has led RINCK, a renowned firm that has elevated French craftsmanship and decorative arts. His exacting vision led him to bring together boiserie and interior design workshops, furniture and bronze workshops, and design offices under one roof, recalling Paris' legendary ensembliers décorateurs (turnkey interior-design experts).
Recognized for his work by the most demanding clients, Thierry Goux has contributed to major projects for distinguished locations around the world. His strengths rest on extensive expertise in traditional arts and crafts techniques combined with a keen interest in contemporary design.
RINCK, now approaching its second century of operations, unites many skills specific to French decorative arts, upholding a legacy that is continually enriched and passed from one generation to the next. Traditional yet innovative, RINCK's work combines the nobility of handcraftsmanship and the perfection of age-old techniques with digital precision and new practices born of technological advancement. Dedicated to creating exceptional pieces, the talented men and women of RINCK transform materials into something greater than themselves and bring interiors to life.
INTERIOR DESIGN | Craig & Company, Chicago, IL, US
Joan Craig is the principal of Craig & Company, an acclaimed architecture and design firm with studios in New York and Chicago. Founded in 2018, the practice evolved from Joan's lifelong inquiry into the intersection of architecture, interiors and the decorative arts.
Guided by a love for the design process and a belief that "curiosity, exploration and literacy are how we develop memorable buildings and spaces," Joan and her team create timeless, inspired, and comfortable spaces that reflect each unique client. Recent projects include the restoration of a Chicago landmark, the design of a private New York restaurant, interiors for a resort in the Dominican Republic, and a master plan for a three-generation family compound in New Hampshire.
After studying art and architectural history at Wesleyan University and working at Sotheby's in New York, Joan received her Master of Architecture from Princeton University. She began her architectural career at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Buttrick, White & Burtis before co-founding the architecture and design firm Lichten Craig. Joan now divides her time between Craig & Company's New York and Chicago offices and travels extensively for projects and inspiration.
The firm has been recognized with Acanthus, Arete, and McKim, Mead & White awards from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and is frequently featured in publications such as Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, The New York Times, and Luxe, which honored the firm with its National Award for Interior Design in 2018.
LANDSCAPE | Hoerr Schaudt, Chicago, IL, US
Hoerr Schaudt is a national landscape architecture firm co-founded in Chicago in 2008 by Douglas Hoerr and the late Peter Schaudt. The firm has a team of more than 80 staff, with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Richmond.
Known for its horticentric design approach to residential, commercial, and civic projects, the firm is led by founder and senior partner Doug Hoerr, FASLA. Doug is a 2026 recipient of the Garden Club of America's Elvira Broome Doolan Medal, recognizing innovative work in landscape architecture with an emphasis on city planning and civic improvement. He leads the firm along with partners Carroll Conway, John Evans, Nick Fobes, and Simon Prunty. Through its award-winning private gardens and regenerative public parks, Hoerr Schaudt has shaped the field of landscape architecture.
After decades of practice, Doug Hoerr still finds that a perfect day is one spent in the field. Raised on a farm in Milford, IN, Hoerr's instinct for working with the land was shaped early. He earned his degree in Landscape Architecture from Purdue University and then honed his design sensibility in England, where he immersed himself in centuries-old garden traditions. Hoerr's groundbreaking design along Chicago's Michigan Avenue became a defining example of how horticulture can bring wonder to the urban experience.
Hoerr Schaudt has earned more than two dozen major honors in the past five years, including the 2023 Palladio Award, ICAA Bulfinch awards, multiple ASLA awards, Interior Design's Best of Year, and LUXE RED awards, among others. The firm's work has been featured in Architectural Digest, ELLE Décor, Garden & Gun, House Beautiful, Landscape Architecture Magazine, LUXE Interiors + Design, Mansion Global, Traditional Building, VERANDA, and Wallpaper*.
STEWARDSHIP | The Frick Collection, New York, NY, US
For ninety years, visitors from around the world have been deeply moved by the beauty and refinement of The Frick Collection. Founded by industrialist and collector Henry Clay Frick, the museum presents masterworks of European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century in Frick's former Fifth Avenue home—one of New York City's last great Gilded Age mansions. Its renowned collection has more than doubled in size since the institution opened to the public in 1935. The adjoining Frick Art Research Library, established in 1920 by Frick's daughter, Helen Clay Frick, is a leading art history research center that serves students, scholars, and the public free of charge.
To ensure the continued quality of the Frick experience, from 2021–25 the institution undertook a comprehensive renovation and enhancement. The project was designed by Selldorf Architects, which is internationally recognized for renovations and additions that honor a building's original character. Selldorf partnered with executive architect Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, one of the country's leading firms for historic preservation.
Carried out with care and sensitivity, the project aimed to better serve twenty-first-century audiences and made more of the 1914 Carrère and Hastings mansion accessible to the public, including former domestic spaces on the second floor. Critical infrastructural updates now allow the Frick to provide the highest standards of care and display for its collections, while the addition of new amenities and improved accessibility ensures an unparalleled experience for its visitors.
EDUCATION | Alejandro García Hermida, Madrid, Spain
Alejandro García Hermida is a founder and the Executive Director of the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation, which seeks to foster and promote the study, protection, teaching, dissemination and preservation of the traditional building, architecture and urbanism characteristic of the various regions of the world.
Alejandro's initiatives include the Spanish Network of Traditional Building Masters, which now serves as a model for similar programs in other countries; the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism; the Building Arts Awards and Apprenticeship Grants; the Iberian Traditional Architecture Summer Schools; numerous educational programs in Spain, North Africa and the Middle East; and a continuous flow of exhibitions, conferences, workshops and publications.
He is a Professor of the Practice at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and has lectured and taught in many other architecture programs and universities, including Notre Dame, Yale, Miami, Colorado, Liverpool, Alfonso X el Sabio, Polytechnic of Milano, Santo Tomas of Manila, NED in Karachi, SPA Delhi, and the Catholic of Cuenca. His work addresses the connection between traditional architectural design and the preservation of the knowledge that has historically enabled the creation of beautiful and durable towns and places across the world. Through his efforts, Alejandro emphasizes how traditional architecture serves as a repository of wisdom on the unique relationship between human beings and their environment in the diverse regions of the world.
-----------------
The 2026 Arthur Ross Award winners were selected by a jury that included Andrew Cogar (Chair), Lucia Benton, Courtney Coleman, Toland Grinnell, Kathryn Herman, George Knight, and Scott J. Sottile. The event Co-Chairs of this year's Arthur Ross Awards are Andrew Cogar and Bunny Williams.
Established in 1982 by Arthur Ross and Henry Hope Reed, the Awards recognize the achievements and contributions of architects, painters, sculptors, artisans, interior designers, landscape designers, educators, publishers, patrons, and others dedicated to preserving and advancing the classical tradition.
ICAA President Peter Lyden remarked, "This year's Arthur Ross Award winners demonstrate the vitality of classical and traditional architecture, art, and design. They represent not only the preservation of the past, but point the way forward towards a future built environment that is dignified, human, and beautiful. Significantly, this year the jury focused on accessibility and highlighting projects in the civic and public realms, where they can be enjoyed by all. This collection of superlative architects, designers, craftspeople, and educators have made a lasting positive impression on the world."
The 2026 Arthur Ross Awards celebration at Cipriani 42nd Street on May 11th will commence with cocktails at 6 PM. The Awards dinner and ceremony will follow at 7 PM, with an after party at 9 PM. The dress code for the event is black tie.
About the ICAA
The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art's (ICAA) mission is to advance the appreciation and practice of the principles of traditional architecture and its allied arts by engaging educators, professionals, students, and enthusiasts. The ICAA is headquartered in New York City with regional Chapters across the United States. It offers a wide array of programs that are designed to promote the appreciation and practice of classical and traditional design, including classes, travel, lectures, and conferences. It publishes an academic journal called the Classicist, an acclaimed book series called the Classical America Series in Art and Architecture, and an original documentary film series, Design in Mind. The ICAA's Arthur Ross Award annually recognizes and celebrates excellence in the classical tradition internationally. To learn more about the ICAA, please visit https://www.classicist.org
---
Press release service and press release distribution provided by https://www.24-7pressrelease.com
