Chrysler Design Award


The Chrysler Design Awards celebrate the achievements of individuals in innovative works of architecture and design which significantly influenced modern American culture.
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.

List of Awardees

2002

  • Red Burns
  • Mildred 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
  • 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