SAH Celebrates was formerly the SAH Awards Gala. This list includes people and organizations honored at both events.

2023    Ann M. Beha, FAIA RAIC, Founder, Ann Beha Architects (Annum Architects)
Susan Benjamin, Owner, Benjamin Historic Certifications
Fred Eychaner, Philanthropist & President, Alphawood Foundation
Elaine Harrington, Retired, SAIC and House Museum Curator
Kevin Harrington, Professor Emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology
Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Founder, Pulitzer Arts Foundation
2022    Stewardship of the Charnley-Persky House
Owners/Stewards:
The late Pauline Saliga, Executive Director Emerita, Charnley-Persky House Museum Foundation and Society of Architectural Historians
The late Seymour H. Persky
SOM Foundation Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism
Architects: 
Gunny Harboe, FAIA, Harboe Architects, P.C.
John Eifler, FAIA, Eifler & Associates Architects
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
John Vinci, FAIA, Vinci Hamp Architects
2021    Award for Excellence in Historic Rehabilitation (The Old Post Office, Chicago, IL)
Owner / Developer / Leasing / Management:
601w Companies
The Telos Group, LLC
JLL

Architect / Contractor / Consultant Team:
Gensler
BEAR Construction Company
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects
MacRostie Historic Advisors, LLC
McGuire Engineers
McGuire, Igleski & Associates, Inc.
Site Design Group, Ltd.
V3 Companies, Ltd.
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
WSP

City / State / Federal Agencies:
City of Chicago, Mayor’s Office
City of Chicago, Department of Planning and Development
City of Chicago, Commission on Chicago Landmarks
City of Chicago, Department of Buildings
State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), IL Department of Natural Resources
National Park Service, Technical Preservation Service 
2021    Michael Maltzan, FAIA, SAH Change Agent Award 
2020    no awards given 
2019    Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, Design Principal, Ross Barney Architects
Award for Excellence in Design, Leadership and Service 
2019    Stuart Cohen, FAIA, and Julie Hacker, FAIA, Partners, Stuart Cohen & Julie Hacker Architects
Award for Excellence in Design, Academics and Scholarship 
2019    Oswaldo Ortega, AIA, LEED, AP, Associate, Gensler
Pathfinder Award
2019    Diller Scofidio + Renfro, SAH Change Agent Award 
2018    Harry Hunderman, FAIA and Deborah Slaton, Senior Principal and Principal (respectively), Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
Award for Excellence in Preservation Advocacy and Stewardship of the Built Environment 
2018    Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA, Founder and Senior Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Dean Emeritus, Yale School of Architecture
Award for Excellence in Design, Academics and Scholarship
2018    Cynthia Weese, FAIA, Founding Partner, Weese Langley Weese; Dean Emerita, School of Architecture, Washington University
Award for Excellence in Design, Leadership and Service
2017    Ralph Johnson, FAIA, LEED AP, Global Design Director, Perkins + Will
Award for Excellence in Design, Planning, and Sustainability 
2017    Sharon Johnston, FAIA and Mark Lee, Founders and Principals, Johnston Marklee
Award for Excellence in Public Engagement with the Built Environment 
2017    Col. Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Ret), President and Founder, TAWANI Foundation
Award for Excellence in Architectural Stewardship 
2016    Richard H. Driehaus, Founder and Chairman, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
Award for Excellence in Architectural Stewardship 
2016    Sarah Herda, Director, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Award for Excellence in Public Engagement with the Built Environment 
2016    Peter Landon, FAIA, LEED AP, Founder and Principal, Landon Bone Baker Architects
Award for Excellence in Design, Planning and Sustainability 
2015    Paul Goldberger, Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair; Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture, The New School
Award for Excellence in Architectural Journalism 
2015    T. Gunny Harboe, FAIA, President, Harboe Architects, PC
Award for Excellence in Heritage Conservation 
2015    Richard Longstreth, Director of Historic Preservation and Professor of American Civilization, The George Washington University
Award for Excellence in Architectural Scholarship and Preservation Advocacy
2014    Wilbert Hasbrouck, FAIA, and Marilyn Hasbrouck, Founders, The Prairie School Review and Prairie Avenue Bookshop
Award for Excellence in Architectural Media  
2014    Robert Furhoff, Historic Paint Analyst and Restoration Consultant
Award for Excellence in Architectural Conservation 
2014    Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Board President
Award for Excellence in Conservation of the Natural Environment 
2014    Tim Samuelson, City of Chicago Cultural Historian
Award for Excellence in Stewardship of the Built Environment 
2014    Ben Weese, FAIA, Principal, Weese Langley Weese
Award for Excellence in Preservation Advocacy 
2013 
  Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Award for Excellence in Design, Planning, and Sustainability
2013    Blair Kamin, Architecture Critic, Chicago Tribune
Award for Excellence in Architectural Criticism
2013    Judith Paine McBrien, Director, Archimedia Workshop
Award for Excellence in Architectural Media 
2013    Zoë Ryan, Alison Fisher and Karen Kice, Department of Architecture and Design, Art Institute of Chicago
Award for Excellence in Architectural Stewardship 
2012    Geoffrey Baer, Producer and Program Host, WTTW in Chicago
Award for Excellence in Architectural Media 
2012    John Eifler, FAIA, Principal, Eifler & Associates Architects
Award for Excellence in Architectural Conservation 
2012   Philip J. Enquist, FAIA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Award for Excellence in Design, Planning, and Sustainability
2012    Gwendolyn Wright, Professor of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University; Host, PBS Series History Detectives
Award for Excellence in Architectural Media
2011    John Vinci, Vinci-Hamp Architects
2011    Mary Zimmerman, Playwright & Director, Lookingglass & Goodman Theatres
2011    Sophia Siskel, CEO, Chicago Botanic Garden
2010    Chicago Seven
Thomas H. Beeby, FAIA, HBRA
Stuart Cohen, FAIA, Stuart Cohen & Julie Hacker Architects 
Laurence O. Booth, AIA, Booth Hansen & Associates
Stanley Tigerman, FAIA, Tigerman-McCurry Architects Limited
Ben Weese, FAIA, Weese Langley Weese Architects Limited
James L. Nagle, FAIA, Nagle Hartray 
2010    Chicago Women in Architecture founders
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis, Lempp Kerbis Associates
Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, Ross Barney Architects
Cynthia Weese, FAIA, Weese Langley Weese Architects Limited
Nancy A. Abshire, AIA RIBA, SOM
Gunduz Dagdelen
Natalie de Blois
Jane M. Jacobsen
Laura Fisher 
2010    Carter Manny, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts 
2010    Seymour Persky, Parliament Enterprises