The Soane Honors
Thank you for your support of the Soane Honors on October 26, 2023. This year was an incredible success for Sir John Soane’s Museum as the Soane Foundation honored two outstanding figures who embody the Soanean spirit:
Madison Cox is an internationally acclaimed garden designer who has created hundreds of acres of private gardens around the world. He is celebrated both as a designer and as an author and lecturer. Mr. Cox is currently the president of the Fondation Pierre Berge-Yves Saint Laurent, Paris and the Fondation Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech.
Scott Pask is an American scenic and costume designer. A veteran of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Opera, he has won three Tony Awards for his work on The Pillowman, The Coast of Utopia, and The Book of Mormon. Mr. Pask received two Tony Award nominations this year for his scenic designs of Some Like it Hot and Shucked.
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.
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
