The Lawrence Israel Prize is awarded by the Interior Design Program of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York City. The prize was named for and endowed by the architect Lawrence J. Israel.
The prize was first awarded in 1998 and has been bestowed annually since "to an individual or firm whose ideas and work enrich FIT Interior Design students’ course of study". Every year the award winners are invited to give a public talk at FIT. FIT has recognized Johannes Knoops with a faculty award for "...refreshing the Lawrence Israel Prize Lecture".
Recipients 1998 – Charles Gwathmey 1999 – John F. Saladino 2000 – Margo Grant Walsh 2001 – Clodagh 2002 – Billie Tsien 2003 – Vicente Wolf 2004 – Bromley/Caldari 2005 – Adam D. Tihany 2006 – Jamie Drake 2007 – Lindy Roy 2008 – AvroKO 2009 – Gaetano Pesce 2010 – LTL 2011 – David Rockwell 2012 – Diller Scofidio + Renfro 2013 – Roman and Williams 2014 – LOT-EK 2015 – Tony Chi 2016 – SHoP Architects 2017 – Karim Rashid 2018 – Annabelle Selldorf 2019 – Alexandra Champalimaud 2023 - Joel Sandershttps://news.fitnyc.edu/event/lawrence-israel-prize-lecture-joel-sanders/
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