The Sarah Booth Conroy Prize has been awarded annually since 2016 for "reportorial or critical excellence in fostering a better public understanding of architecture and urbanism in Washington, DC." Named after Sarah Booth Conroy, the prize recognizes professional journalists and

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covering the greater Washington, DC region. Sarah Booth Conroy (1928 - 2009) wrote

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for the ''

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'' for more than 30 years. She was the inaugural recipient of the Washington Architectural Foundation's Glenn Brown Award, which recognizes "an individual who has improved the quality of life in DC and raised awareness of architecture and its benefits to society." Conroy wrote more than 2,800 articles for the Washington Post, focusing on the history of Washington, DC with a column called "Chronicles."

Past winners

2016

Kriston Capps, who won the inaugural Sarah Booth Conroy Prize in 2016, is a staff writer at ''

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'', a division of Atlantic Media, and a former senior editor of

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. Selected works: "Requiem for a Nightmare," CityLab, July 30, 2014 "Architect David Jameson knows D.C.'s buildings don't have to be ugly. Now he's trying to convince the rest of the world, too." Washington City Paper, February 14, 2014

2017

Amanda Kolson Hurley is a senior editor at CityLab and a former editor of Architect Magazine. She wrote a column called "Concrete Details" for Washington City Paper from 2015 to 2017. Selected works: "Why Painting the Union Station Metro Cheapens an Architectural Masterpiece" Washington City Paper, March 30, 2017 "Grayed Expectations: What's With All the Gray Houses?" Washington City Paper, December 23, 2017

2018

Lance Hosey Lance Hosey (September 11, 1964 - August 27, 2021) was an American architect. In 2020, he joined HMC Architects, a large California-based firm, as the design industry's first Chief Impact Officer. Previously, he was a principal, design director ...

was an architect and writer whose opinion columns appeared on Huffington Post from 2013 to 2017. Selected works: "Is Washington its own worst enemy for sustainable design?" Huffington Post, June 12, 2017 "The Space of Resistance" Huffington Post, December 29, 2016

2019

In 2019, AIA, DC honored two winners, Deborah K. Dietsch and Jonathan O'Connell, with the Sarah Booth Conroy Prize. Citing the important work of Dietsch for architectural criticism and O'Connell for his work on urbanism, this year's jury felt that they offered "two different perspectives of architectural writing ... and that both of these perspectives are important to Washington." Deborah Dietsch writes a column called Design Perspectives for the

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. She also writes for

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, and Home and Design Magazine, and is the former editor-in-chief of Architecture Magazine. Jonathan O'Connell has been a staff reporter for

since 2010, and covers urban development for the paper.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.aiadc.com/SarahBoothConroyPrize American journalism awards Awards established in 2016 2016 establishments in the United States American Institute of Architects