Michael D. Eisner and the Walt Disney Company

Honor Award

April 5, 2001  

The National Building Museum presented its prestigious 2001 Honor Award to Michael D. Eisner and The Walt Disney Company. Mr. Eisner, chairman of Disney since 1984 and widely celebrated as one of the nation's most passionate patrons of architecture, accepted the Award before an audience of hundreds of cultural, corporate, and political leaders, as well as many internationally renowned architects and designers. The award recognized Michael D. Eisner's and The Walt Disney Company's unique impact on international culture through innovative architecture and planning projects commissioned from some of the world's most significant designers. The festive black-tie gala was held on Thursday, April 5, 2001 in the Museum's Great Hall.

Renowned architects Frank Gehry and Robert A.M. Stern, along with leading American real estate developer and past Honor Award recipient Gerald D. Hines, served as chairs of the Leadership Committee for the 2001 Honor Award dinner. Co-chairs included prominent architects David M. Childs, M. Arthur Gensler Jr., Michael Graves, Graham Gund, Hugh Hardy, A. Eugene Kohn, Cesar Pelli, Jaquelin T. Robertson, and David M. Schwarz, as well as distinguished design and construction industry leaders Joseph E. Brown, Douglas Durst, Peter Forster, Richard M. Rosan, and Norbert W. Young, Jr.