Professor June Williamson, Spitzer School's director of Graduate Architecture, and her co-author Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones are winners of the 2025 Seaside Prize.
has bestowed the 2025 Seaside Prize upon T九色视频鈥檚 architect and Professor and her writing and research partner Professor . Williamson is director of Graduate Architecture at the . Dunham-Jones is director of the master鈥檚 in urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The Seaside Institute鈥檚 award attests to the tremendous impact the duo have had on the built environment via their books and teachings. Co-authors of the groundbreaking 鈥淩etrofitting Suburbia鈥 series of books, for over 20 years they have documented and advocated for successful redevelopment, reinhabitation, and regreening of dead shopping malls, aging office parks and other parking-lot-dominated real estate into more resilient, just, and community-serving places.
Their first book 鈥,鈥 won the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for best architecture and planning book of the year.
The sequel, 鈥,鈥 won a Great Places Book Award from the Environmental Design Research Association.
Williamson is also the author of 鈥溾 which contextualizes and documents an innovative urban design ideas competition for re-envisioning suburban areas of Long Island.
Williamson and Dunham-Jones continue to inspire architects, planners, urban designers, developers, and community leaders to retrofit aging, underperforming suburban properties to address urgent challenges, disrupt automobile dependence, improve public health, support an aging society, leverage social capital for equity, compete for jobs, and add water and energy resilience. Their work has been widely featured, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, PBS, and TED. Williamson also serves on the board of directors of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
The Seaside Prize is an annual award presented by the Seaside Institute to individuals who have made significant contributions to the fields of architecture, urban planning, and community development. The recipients are selected based on their exceptional achievements, commitment to design excellence, and their positive impact on communities around the world.
Williamson and Dunham-Jones receive their award February 8, 2025, from Seaside, Florida, founder , amidst a weekend of festivities beginning Feb. 7, 2025. The Seaside Institute was founded in 1982 as a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the ideas of community, education, and design. Its roots lay in the iconic town of Seaside, Florida, birthplace of new urbanism, and serves as a collaborative hub for architects, urban planners, and community leaders.
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