2022 Hsingming Fung, FAIA and Craig Hodgetts, FAIA

Hsingming Fung and Craig Hodgetts in 1984 founded HplusF design lab—an interdisciplinary group of architects, designers and inventors involved in urban design, cultural centers, and exhibition design. Their first project together, the Cookie Express, a drive through coffee shop, was awarded a citation from Progressive Architecture. Since then, their work has been honored by the Chrysler Design Award for a Solar Exhibition in Germany, the American Academy of Letters and Science, numerous AIA project awards, and the California Firm of the Year. Both are Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. In 1998 they were awarded the Gold Medal from AIA Los Angeles.

Hsinming Fung was the recipient of a Rome Prize and appointed by President Clinton as a Council Member of the National Endowment of the Arts. She has served as President of AIA Los Angeles and President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). She teaches at SCI-ARC, has served twice as the Eero Saarinen Chair at Yale and the Herbert Baumer Distinguished Professor at Ohio State. Currently.

Craig Hodgetts has created many landmark projects as well as celebrated case studies and exhibitions. He taught for many years at the UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and was a Founding Dean of the School of Design at the California Institute of the Arts. He has contributed essays and observations to the Los Angeles Times and Cosmopolitan, as well as signature books on science fiction icon Syd Mead and architect James Stirling. He has been granted patents for a mobile logistics center, a prefabricated classroom and an evacuated tube structure for the Hyperloop system.