2026 Soane Honors
Celebrating
Thom Browne & Baltimore Museum of Art
Monday, October 26, 2026
The 2026 Soane Honors celebrates the spirit and legacy of Sir John Soane with our annual gala on Monday, October 26. Each year, the Soane Honors celebrates individuals and organizations that, like Soane himself, dare to challenge convention, spark imagination, and shape our cultural landscape with brilliance and grace. Learn more about this year’s honorees below, and join us as we celebrate Soane and them this fall.
This year, we are honored to recognize Thom Browne for innovative vision in fashion design and the Baltimore Museum of Art for excellence in exhibitions and collections stewardship.
Thom Browne is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of the luxury fashion brand Thom Browne, internationally acclaimed for transforming the modern silhouette by questioning traditional proportions and reimagining a distinctly American sensibility rooted in tailoring. He is being honored as a visionary steeped in the history of fashion design.
The Baltimore Museum of Art was designed by the preeminent American classical architect John Russell Pope and is anchored by its renowned Cone Collection of Modern Art. Under the leadership of Asma Naeem, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director, the BMA is being honored for its pioneering role in balancing institutional legacy with a bold and forward-looking artistic vision.
The Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation, based in New York City, has supported Sir John Soane’s legacy and his remarkable house museum in London for more than thirty years. The Foundation offers a rich and growing array of lectures, travel opportunities, and fellowships for emerging scholars to study the Museum and its collections.
We invite you to join us in celebration of the enduring vision of Sir John Soane, and look forward to raising a glass together on October 26 at The Metropolitan Club of New York.
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.
2025
Peter Pennoyer – Architect
Thonas Struth – Artist
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
