Congratulations Quinn Evans for being named the 2024 winner of the AIA Architecture Firm Award!
Quinn Evans is the 2024 winner of the AIA Architecture Firm Award. The firm was among the first firms to demonstrate that sustainable design can and must be incorporated into existing and historic buildings, and it continues to advance preservation as a method of social empowerment.
Per the AIA:
Operating at the intersection of stewardship and inclusion, Quinn Evans has a four-decade-long history of redefining preservation as it has restored hundreds of the country’s cherished buildings and sites. While the firm’s deep commitment to this important aspect of the profession is unrivaled, it continues to transform the discipline to address our most pressing modern challenges: climate change and social inequity. Quinn Evans was among the first firms to demonstrate that sustainable design can and must be incorporated into existing and historic buildings, and it continues to advance preservation as a method of social empowerment.
The firm was founded in 1984 by its trailblazing namesakes, Michael Quinn, FAIA, and David Evans, FAIA, whose design philosophy is steeped in the scholarship of technical preservation, creativity, and an eager embrace of adaptive reuse. Much of the firm’s early work was focused on Main Street programs throughout the U.S. through which the founders quickly understood the impact of preservation on the communities they were serving.
Quinn Evans’ reputation for preservation, design excellence, and expertise in the revitalization of significant places quickly swelled, leading to long-term work on national icons such as the Michigan State Capitol and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Nearby, on the National Mall, the firm’s more recent work has shaped a high-performance environment for the celebrated National Air and Space Museum, where each year Gyo Obata’s 1976 masterpiece welcomes millions of visitors. Phase 2 of that project is expected to be completed in 2025.
“As a long-standing and prominent member of the preservation community, Quinn Evans understands the puzzle of preservation as few others do,” wrote Elizabeth McClure Hallas, AIA, 2023 chair of the AIA Historic Resources Committee Advisory Group, in a letter nominating Quinn Evans for the Architecture Firm Award. “They embrace complexity through a collaborative spirit, integrated design, and innovation to consistently deliver excellence. Their role as thought leaders and advocates ripples across the profession with broad impacts and positive change on the built environment, communities, and the profession.”
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