The Soane Honors
Thank you for making the 2024 Soane Honors a great success. On October 22, the Soane Foundation honored two outstanding figures who embody the Soanean spirit:
Hamish Bowles is internationally recognized as one of the most respected authorities on fashion and design. He is both Creative Director at Large at The World of Interiors and Global Editor at Large for Vogue magazine, overseeing all features and covering both contemporary and historic style and culture. Hamish has an extensive private collection of historic haute couture, and has acted as creative consultant and curator for a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions including “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth,” “Balenciaga: Spanish Master,” and, most lately “India in Fashion: The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination” in 2023.
Jeanne Gang, FAIA, FRIBA, is the founding partner of international architecture and urban design practice at Studio Gang. Known for a distinctive design approach that expands beyond architecture’s conventional boundaries, she creates striking places that strengthen connections between people, their communities, and nature. Her diverse portfolioacross the Americas and Europe includes the Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History; the University of Chicago’s new hub for scholarship and cultural exchange in Paris; a new United States Embassy in Brazil; and an expansion of the Clinton Presidential Center. A MacArthur Fellow and a Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Jeanne has been named one of TIME Magazine’s most influential people in the world.
Based in New York City, the Foundation supports Sir John Soane’s Museum in London and offers a rich and growing array of lectures, travel opportunities, and fellowships for young scholars to study the Museum and its collections.
We are most grateful for your friendship and generosity.
Every year the Soane Foundation celebrates Sir John Soane’s singular contributions as an architect and educator by bestowing The Soane Honors on present-day innovators, leaders, and visionaries in the fields of architecture, design, urban planning, preservation, and philanthropy at a celebratory gala dinner in an architecturally significant venue in New York City. Honors proceeds benefit Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation and ultimately the Soane Museum in London.
2024
Hamish Bowles – Design Journalism
Jeanne Gang – Architecture
2023
Madison Cox – Landscape Design
Scott Pask – Scenic Design
2022
Wolf Burchard – The Metropolitan Museum
Luke Ives Pontifell – Thornwillow Press
2021
Frederick A. Bland – Beyer Blinder Belle, Landmarks Preservation Commission
Miguel Flores-Vianna, photographer and writer
2019
Thierry Despont – The Office of Thierry Despont
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
2018
Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer – Roman and Williams
Hall of Architecture – Carnegie Museum of Art
2017
David Chipperfield – David Chipperfield Architects
Amy Meyers – Yale Center for British Art
2016
Thomas Phifer – Thomas Phifer and Partners
Michael Bierut – Pentagram
2015
Annabelle Selldorf – Selldorf Architects
Charles Jencks
Thomas Heatherwick – Heatherwick Studio
2014
David Adjaye – Adjaye Associates
Phyllis Lambert – Founder, Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA)
2013
Norman Foster, Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM – Foster and Partners
The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Partnership with Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University and The Museum of Modern Art
2012
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) with Architects and Designers Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro
Michael Bruno, Founder of 1stdibs
2011
Allan Greenberg – Allan Greenberg Architects
A salute on the 20th Anniversary to the Founders of the Soane Foundation in the United States, past Board and Advisors
2010
A. Eugene Kohn – Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects (KPF)
Susan Weber – Founder and Director of the Bard Graduate Center
Yale University Press accepted by John Donatich
2009
Jaquelin T. Robertson – Cooper Robertson Architects
Charles Miers and David Morton – Rizzoli International Publications
2008
Robert A. M. Stern – Robert A. M. Stern Architects (RAMSA)
The Monacelli Press accepted by Gianfranco Monacelli
2007
Richard H. Driehaus
David Macaulay, author and illustrator
