2023 Alumni Achievement Award recipient, Gordon Gill, Architectural Science ’87

A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and founding partner of award-winning Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture, Gordon is one of the world’s foremost exponents of performance-based architecture. With projects ranging from the world’s tallest buildings to sustainable communities, Gordon’s work is driven by his philosophy that there is a purposeful relationship between formal design and performance, and that there is a language of performance, which is the basis of his practice: form follows performance. Prior to founding Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture in 2006, Gordon was an Associate Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and a Director of Design for VOA Associates.