Chrysler Design Award Explained

The Chrysler Design Awards celebrate the achievements of individuals in innovative works of architecture and design which significantly influenced modern American culture.^{[1] [2]} Chrysler's awards started in 1993 to recognize six designers based in the United States with a trophy and $10,000 cash prize. After 10 years in 2003 Chrysler corporation decided to end its Chrysler Design Awards program.^[3]

List of Awardees

2002

• Red Burns
• Mildred (Mickey) Friedman
• Steve Jobs
• Phyllis Lambert
• Murray Moss
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan

2001

• Kathryn Gustafson
• Susan Kare
• Thom Mayne
• Daniel Rozin
• Stefan Sagmeister
• Studio Works

2000

• Will Bruder
• James Corner
• David M. Kelley
• Ted Muehling
• Gary Panter
• Paula Scher

1999

• Pablo Ferro
• Peter Girardi
• John Maeda
• Karim Rashid
• Jesse Reiser/Nanako Umemoto
• Gael Towey

1998

• Erik Adigard/Patricia McShane
• April Greiman
• Steven Holl
• Mars Pathfinder Team
• Bruce Mau
• Tod Williams/Billie Tsien

1997

• Diller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller/Ricardo Scofidio
• Edward Fella
• Chuck Hoberman
• Lisa Krohn
• Burt Rutan
• Allan Wexler

1996

• Matthew Carter
• Niels Diffrient
• Craig Hodgetts/Hsin-Ming Fung
• Tibor Kalman
• Matt Scogin/Merrill Elam
• Richard Saul Wurman

1995

• Frank O. Gehry
• Robert M. Greenberg
• Ralf Hotchkiss
• ReVerb (Somi Kim, Whitney Lowe, Lisa Nugent, Susan Parr, Lorraine Wild)
• James Wines
• Philip Zimmermann

1994

• Muriel Cooper
• Zuzana Licko/Rudy VanderLans
• Katherine McCoy/Michael McCoy
• Achva Benzinberg
• John H. Todd/Nancy Jack Todd
• Lebbeus Woods
• Carl Green

1993

• Apple Industrial Design Group
• Cross Colours
• John Hejduk
• Ellen Lupton/J. Abbott Miller
• Paul MacCready
• Gaetano Pesce

Notes and References

1. Tom Parrett (editor) Decade of Desgn 2002-1993: Chrysler Design Awards Publisher: The Magazine Works, 264 pages, First Edition, Jan 1, 2002
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20120419061247/http://www.chrysler.com/design/design_influences/design_awards/ Chrysler Design Awards
3. Bradford McKee Chrysler Design Awards Dropped After 10 Years June 5, 2003 The New York Times