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Honor Award

The National Building Museum examines developments and promotes excellence in architecture, engineering, construction, planning, and design. In furtherance of that mission, the Museum instituted an annual Honor Award in 1986 to recognize individuals and organizations that have made important contributions to our nation's building heritage.

Recipients are intentionally selected from a wide variety of backgrounds to call attention to the many factors that determine the form and quality of our built world.

The list of honorees of this highly prestigious award demonstrates the scope of achievements recognized and the stature of the awardees. 

2008 The Associated General Contractors of America
2007 Related
2006 Clark Construction Group, LLC
2005 Forest City Enterprises
2004 General Services Administration
2003 Major League Baseball and The National Football League
2002 DuPont
2001 Michael D. Eisner and The Walt Disney Company
2000 Gerald D. Hines
1999 Harold W. McGraw, Jr., Harold McGraw III and The McGraw-Hill Companies 
1998 Stephen and Riley Bechtel and The Bechtel Group
1997 Community Builders of Washington, D.C.
1996 Cindy and Jay Pritzker  
1995 Lady Bird Johnson 
1994 James A. Johnson and Fannie Mae
1993 J. Carter Brown
1992 The Civic Leadership of Greater Pittsburgh
1991 The Rockefeller Family
1990 IBM Corporation
1989 Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
1988 James W. Rouse
1986 J. Irwin Miller 

The Honor Award gala is always an exceptional evening drawing more than 1,000 cultural, political, and building industry leaders and raising more than $1 million in support of the Museum. The funds raised by the Honor Award help support the Museum's acclaimed exhibitions and education programs that reach over 400,000 visitors annually, plus nearly 2 million visitors to our web site, who come to the Museum each year to learn more about the built environment—from architecture and engineering to planning and development.