Today, we announce the 2014 winners of the A+ Awards, which reminds me of a video we made more than a year ago introducing the Architizer A+ Awards to the world. It was sparked by one simple observation: looking solely at the numbers, there existed a wild inequality in the architecture world: Film has the Oscars: 24 Winners Music has the Grammys: 81 Winners Online has the Webbys: 141 Winners Architecture has the Pritzker: 1 Winner One of these things is not like the others, and it didn’t make much sense to us, so we created this: Here is another number: 90%. That is how much time the average American spends indoors according to the EPA. That means that the average American spends 90% of their time surrounded by architecture. And another number: $3 million. That is the average amount of economic value a single architect controls in one year. Compare that to $400,000 for the average lawyer or doctor, and you start to understand that architects aren’t just designing the spaces to love, or maybe hate, we are controlling a huge piece of the economy. How can an industry that controls so much money, and designs the places where ...
Today, we announce the 2014 winners of the A+ Awards, which reminds me of a video we made more than a year ago introducing the Architizer A+ Awards to the world. It was sparked by one simple observation: looking solely at the numbers, there existed a wild inequality in the architecture world: Film has the Oscars: 24 Winners Music has the Grammys: 81 Winners Online has the Webbys: 141 Winners Architecture has the Pritzker: 1 Winner One of these things is not like the others, and it didn’t make much sense to us, so we created this: Here is another number: 90%. That is how much time the average American spends indoors according to the EPA. That means that the average American spends 90% of their time surrounded by architecture. And another number: $3 million. That is the average amount of economic value a single architect controls in one year. Compare that to $400,000 for the average lawyer or doctor, and you start to understand that architects aren’t just designing the spaces to love, or maybe hate, we are controlling a huge piece of the economy. How can an industry that controls so much money, and designs the places where ...