UPenn honors SANAA and Charlotte 2040 as part of Stuart Weitzman School of Design Awards

The 2024 edition of the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design’s Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture will honor SANAA for a globe-spanning portfolio of designs that "deftly bridge culture and nature, minimalism and maximalism, vernacular and monumental" in the words of Weitzman dean Fritz Steiner. 

Joining SANAA’s founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa is the city of Charlotte, North Carolina’s Future 2040 plan, which won the 2024 Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning.

This year, the Weitzman School also selected two students about to enter their final year of study to receive two $50,000 scholarships for the upcoming academic year. The recipient of the 2024 Kanter Tritsch Prize in Energy and Architectural Innovation was Ariel Koltun-Fromm (MArch’25) and the recipient of the 2024 Witte-Sakamoto Family Prize in City and Regional Planning is Elam Boockvar-Klein (MCP’25). 

Rossana Hu, the school's Miller Professor and chair of architecture and co-founder of Neri&Hu Design, chaired each jury for both 2024 architecture awards.