Arthur Ross Award winner Hugh Petter (Architecture)

Arthur Ross Award winners Courtney Coleman & Bill Brockschmidt (Interior Design)

Arthur Ross Award winner Craig Bergmann (Landscape)

Arthur Ross Award winner Hank Silver (Artisanship & Craftsmanship)

Peg Breen, representing Arthur Ross Award winner The New York Landmarks Conservancy, accompanied by Lloyd P. Zuckerberg, Board Chair of the Conservancy

Arthur Ross Award winner Clive Aslet (Board of Directors Honor)

The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Celebrates the 2025 Annual Arthur Ross Awards

By ICAA

May 20, 2025

On Monday, May 12th, 2025, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) welcomed guests to celebrate the lifetime achievements of the winners of the 44th Annual Arthur Ross Awards. The ceremony, held for the first time at Cipriani 42nd Street, drew a record number of 550 attendees and raised nearly $1 million, which will support the ICAA’s educational programs, including continuing education courses, university workshops, architectural intensives, and more. Honored during the ceremony were Hugh Petter (Architecture), Brockschmidt & Coleman (Interior Design), Hank Silver (Artisanship & Craftsmanship), Craig Bergmann Landscape Design (Landscape), the New York Landmarks Conservancy (Stewardship), and Clive Aslet (Board of Directors Honor).

ICAA President Peter Lyden, Arthur Ross Award winners Hugh Petter, Clive Aslet, Hank Silver, Courtney Coleman, Bill Brockschmidt, and Craig Bergmann, and ICAA Board Chair and Arthur Ross Awards Co-Chair Melissa DelVecchio

Attendees at the sold-out ceremony celebrated the lifetime achievements of this year’s winners, whose work encompasses houses, civic buildings, and new communities guided by the language of classical architecture, exquisite interiors that artfully integrate the traditional and inventive, extraordinary hand-hewn woodwork integral to the restored Notre Dame Cathedral, landscapes that respond sensitively and beautifully to the architecture of the site, the preservation of New York City’s architectural and cultural treasures, and an accomplished career as one of the principle chroniclers of classical and traditional architecture, old and new. Following introductory remarks from ICAA Board Member and event Co-Chair Bunny Williams, the awards were jointly presented by ICAA Board Chair Melissa DelVecchio and ICAA Board Member Andrew Cogar.

During the evening, the ICAA also recognized two winners of the Awards for Emerging Excellence in the Classical Tradition, who were in attendance: Kate Chambers, winner of the Architect’s Prize For Excellence in Architecture, and Leyla Alekperova, the winner of the Maker’s Prize for Excellence in Craftsmanship. Douglas Clark, the winner of the Bunny Mellon Prize for Excellence in Garden Design was recognized on May 16th at the ICAA Bunny Mellon Garden Symposium in Nashville. The Awards, a suite of prizes that recognizes exceptional talent exhibited by young professionals in architecture, landscape, and craftsmanship, are supported by the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation, and the Architect’s Prize is given in collaboration with The King’s Foundation and INTBAU.

The 2025 Arthur Ross Award winners were selected by a jury chaired by Andrew Cogar and including Elizabeth Graziolo, Siobhan Kelly, James McCrery, Donald Powers, Adrian Taylor, and Thomas Woltz. The event Co-Chairs of this year’s Arthur Ross Awards are Andrew Cogar, Melissa DelVecchio, and Bunny Williams.

Distinguished guests included Janet C. Ross, Ankie Barnes, John Berson, Chesie Breen, Dara Caponigro, Bill Curtis, Michael Diaz-Griffith, Johnny S. Donadic, Pieter Estersohn, Guillaume Féau, Valentin Goux, Adam Hargis, Michael Imber, Thammanoune Kannalikham, Thomas Kligerman, John LaPolla, Alison Levasseur, Sarah Magness, Timothy Marks, Charles Miers, John B. Murray, Peter Pennoyer, Benjamin Prosky, John F.W. Rogers, Rachel Roy, Brian Sawyer, Gil Schafer, Michael Simon, Andrew Skurman, Eric J. Smith, Steven W. Spandle, Jacqueline Terrebonne, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Woltz, Douglas C. Wright, and Lloyd Zuckerberg.

ICAA Board Members in attendance included Lucia Benton, Andrew Cogar, Melissa DelVecchio, Stan Dixon, Barbara Eberlein, Mark Ferguson, John Flower, Steven Gambrel, Jared Goss, Elizabeth Graziolo, Kathryn Herman, Edmund Hollander, Anne Lazar, Philip Liederbach, Thomas Lloyd, Anne Mann, Lyn Muse, Mark Pledger, David Rau, Suzanne Santry, Peter Talty, Adrian Taylor, Suzanne Tucker, Bunny Williams, and Russell Windham.

The 2025 Arthur Ross Awards were made possible thanks to the generosity of Luminary Sponsors John F.W. Rogers and S. Donadic Inc. Construction Management, along with Benefactor Sponsors John B. Murray Architect, Livingston Builders, Inc., Steven W. Spandle Architect, LLC, Tischler und Sohn USA Ltd., and Zepsa Industries Inc.

The Awards were also supported by Patrons Bulley & Andrews, Curtis & Windham Architects, DMG Architectural Specialists, Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, Hart Howerton, Highline Construction Group, Hollander Design | Landscape Architects, the ICAA Chicago-Midwest Chapter, the ICAA Florida Chapter, the ICAA Southeast Chapter, Mayfair Construction, Peter Pennoyer Architects, Reilly Architectural, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Janet C. Ross, Schafer Buccellato Architects, Sea-Dar Construction, Studio Magness, Thomas Lloyd, Tucker & Marks Inc., Waterworks, Xhema of New York, and Yellow House Architects PLLC.