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Honor Award
Bestowed at the Museum’s annual Gala since 1986, the Honor Award recognizes individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to our built heritage. Recipients are leaders who have defined our culture, developed our communities, and crafted our built environment. Individually, they have advanced our building arts and sciences. Collectively, their legacy is profound.
As Autodesk approaches more than four decades of groundbreaking innovation, the National Building Museum is proud to honor them with the 2026 Honor Award, celebrating their transformative impact on the way the world is designed and made. Since its founding, Autodesk has empowered architects, engineers, designers, builders, manufacturers, and artists with digital tools that bring bold ideas to life—advancing work that has shaped cities, strengthened communities, and elevated our shared aspirations for the future.
Through its Design & Make Platform, Autodesk has enabled some of the most technically ambitious projects of our time; projects that prioritize sustainability, cultural impact, and iconic design. By connecting data, design, and delivery across the project lifecycle, Autodesk has become an essential catalyst for innovation across architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment.
Past Honor Award Recipients
Vincent Scully Prize
The Vincent Scully Prize, established in 1999, is named for the esteemed professor who inspired so many across the building disciplines. Scully was the Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Miami. For more than four decades, his teaching and scholarship profoundly influenced prominent architects, urban planners, and others.
The Prize recognizes excellence in practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design. The nomination and selection process for each year’s recipient resides within the Prize jury. The Museum participates in deliberations and may submit candidates, but it does not vote on finalists.
2025 Vincent Scully Prize
The National Building Museum is proud to recognize Barry Bergdoll, as the twenty-seventh recipient of the Museum’s annual Vincent Scully Prize.
Past Recipients
Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction
The prize, named after the founder of Turner Construction Company, recognizes an invention, an innovative methodology, and/or exceptional leadership by an individual or team of individuals in construction technology including construction techniques, innovations and practices, project management, and engineering design. The Turner Construction Company established an endowment in 2001 to support the Prize, which carries a cash award of $25,000.