Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum recently announced the 2023 National Design Awards winners, recognizing design innovation and impact in 10 categories. Kongjian Yu has been awarded the National Design Award for Landscape Architecture.
Now in their 24th year, the National Design Awards bring national recognition to how design enriches everyday life. Award recipients are selected by a multidisciplinary jury of practitioners, educators and leaders from various design fields. The winners will be honored at an Awards celebration on Thursday, October 5, at Cooper Hewitt.
This full list of this year’s National Design Award recipients are:
- Seymour Chwast, Design Visionary
- Biocement Tiles by Biomason, Climate Action
- Beatriz Lozano, Emerging Designer
- nARCHITECTS, Architecture
- Arem Duplessis, Communication Design
- Clement Mok, Digital Design
- Naeem Khan, Fashion Design
- The Archers, Interior Design
- Kongjian Yu, Landscape Architecture
- Atlason, Product Design
“This year’s National Design Award winners are a highly diverse group—from a handcraft-focused fashion designer to one of the early pioneers of digital design—but they share many common traits: a highly rigorous process to their discipline, a truly collaborative approach and putting people front and center in their practice,” said Dung Ngo, chair of the National Design Awards jury. “These are design core values worth celebrating.”
