The Harleston Parker Medal was established in 1921 by J. Harleston Parker to recognize “such architects as shall have, in the opinion of the Boston Society of Architects for any private citizen, association, corporation, or public authority, the most beautiful piece of architecture, building, monument or structure within the limits of the City of Boston or of the Metropolitan Parks District”.
Projects in the Greater Boston area built in the past 10 years by any architect anywhere in the world are eligible. This area includes Arlington, Belmont, Boston, Braintree, Brookline, Cambridge, Canton, Chelsea, Dedham, Dover, Everett, Hingham, Hull, Lynn, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Milton, Nahant, Needham, Newton, Quincy, Revere, Saugus, Somerville, Stoneham, Swampscott, Wakefield, Waltham, Watertown, Wellesley, Weston, Weymouth, Winchester, Winthrop and Woburn.
List of medal recipients YearArchitect BuildingLocation 1923 Coolidge and Shattuck Boston Lying-in Hospital Boston 1924 Parker, Thomas and Rice John Hancock Building Boston 1925 No award 1926 Maginnis & Walsh Science Building, Boston College Boston 1927 Ralph Harrington Doane Motor Mart Garage Boston 1928 No award 1929 No award 1930 Richard J. Shaw Immaculate Conception Convent Malden 1931 No award 1932 No award 1933 No award 1934 Perry, Shaw & Hepburn Alice Longfellow Hall, Radcliffe Cambridge 1935 No award 1936 Allen, Collens & Willis Newton City Hall Newton 1937 No award 1938 Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott Lowell House, Harvard Cambridge 1939 Cram & Ferguson Conventual Church of St. Mary and St. John Cambridge 1940 No award 1941 Richard J. Shaw Edward Hatch Memorial Music Shell Boston 1942 No award 1943 Perry, Shaw & Hepburn Houghton Library, Harvard University Cambridge 1944 No award 1945 No award 1946 Richard J. Shaw St. Clement's Church West Somerville 1947 No award 1948 No award 1949 Richmond & Goldberg Southern Brookline Community Center, Temple Emeth Brookline 1950 Cram & Ferguson John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., Berkeley St. Boston 1951 Brown, DeMars, Kennedy, Koch & Rapson 100 Memorial Drive apartment building Cambridge 1952 Arland A. Dirlam University Lutheran Church Cambridge 1953 Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott Allston Burr Lecture Hall, Harvard Cambridge 1954 Maginnis & Walsh & Kennedy Nazareth Child Care Center Boston 1955 Hugh Stubbins & Associates Country School Weston 1956 Richard J. Shaw Corpus Christi Church Auburndale 1957 Anderson Beckwith & Haible Boston Manufacturers Mutual and Mutual Boiler Machinery Co. Office Building Waltham 1958 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Karl Taylor Compton Laboratories, MIT Cambridge 1959 José Luis Sert Sert Residence at 64 Francis Street Cambridge 1960 Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott Quincy House, Harvard Cambridge 1961 The Architects Collaborative Academic Quadrangle, Brandeis Waltham 1962 No award 1963 No award 1964 Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) in association with Sert, Jackson & Gourley Carpenter Visual Arts Center, Harvard Cambridge 1965 I.M. Pei & Associates The Earth Sciences Building (The Green Center for Earth Sciences), MIT Cambridge 1966 Sert, Jackson & Gourley Peabody Terrace, Harvard Cambridge 1967 Sert Jackson and Associates Holyoke Center, Harvard Cambridge 1968 No award 1969 Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles in association with Campbell, Aldrich & Nulty and LeMessurier Associates Boston City Hall Boston 1970 Benjamin Thompson and Associates Design Research International Cambridge 1971 Edward Larrabee Barnes FAIA and Emery Roth and Sons, Associated Architects New England Merchants National Bank Building Boston 1972 The Architects Collaborative Children's Hospital Medical Center Boston 1973 Benjamin Thompson and Associates Monroe C. Gutman Library, Graduate School of Education, Harvard Cambridge 1974 Kallmann and McKinnell Boston Five Cents Savings Bank Boston 1975 I.M. Pei & Partners, in association with Araldo Cossutta, Architect Christian Science Center, Boston Boston 1976 Sert Jackson and Associates Harvard University Science Center Cambridge 1977 Benjamin Thompson and Associates Quincy Market Building, Faneuil Hall Marketplace Boston 1978 The Architects Collaborative Josiah Quincy Community School Boston 1979 Charles G. Hilgenhurst Associates East Cambridge Savings Bank Cambridge 1980 I.M. Pei & Partners Dreyfus Laboratory, MIT Cambridge 1981 The Stubbins Associates Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Boston 1982 Kallmann McKinnell & Wood American Academy of Arts and Sciences Cambridge 1983 I.M. Pei & Partners John Hancock Tower Boston 1984 No award 1985 Graham Gund Architects Church Court Condominiums Boston 1986 No award 1987 Perry Dean Rogers & Partners Wellesley College Science Center Wellesley 1988 Koetter, Kim & Associates Codex World Headquarters Canton 1989 Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Hynes Convention Center Boston 1990 Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Shad Hall, Harvard Business School Allston 1991 Frank O. Gehry & Associates with Schwartz/Silver Architects 360 Newbury Street Boston 1992 SOM, Parsons Brinkerhoff Quade & Douglas, The Halvorson Company, Ellenzweig Associates, and LeMessurier Consultants The Park and Garage at Post Office Square Boston 1993 Schwartz/Silver Architects Rotch Library, MIT Cambridge 1994 Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Hauser Hall, Harvard Law School Cambridge 1995 No award 1996 Leers Weinzapfel Associates in association with Chisholm Washington Architects George Robert White Youth Development Center Boston 1997 Stanley Saitowitz New England Holocaust Memorial Boston 1998 No award 1999 Shared Award: Graham Gund Architects; TAMS/Gannet Fleming/URS/Wallace Floyd Design Group/Stull and Lee The Lincoln School, Brookline; Vent Building #7 at Logan Airport Brookline; Boston 2000 Jose Rafael Moneo, Arquitecto and Payette Associates Davis Art Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College Wellesley 2001 Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott Boston Public Library renovation of the original McKim Mead & White building Boston 2002 Office dA in association with SmartArchitecture Northeastern University Multi-Faith Spiritual Center Boston 2003 Machado and Silvetti Associates Boston Public Library, Honan-Allston Branch Allston 2004 Steven Holl Architects with Perry Dean Rogers Partners Simmons Hall, MIT Cambridge 2005 William Rawn Associates Northeastern University's College of Computer and Information Science & Residence Boston 2006 Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects Wang Campus Center, Wellesley College Wellesley 2007 Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Perry Dean Rogers Partners Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Boston 2008 Behnisch, Behnisch + Partner with Next Phase Studio Genzyme Center Cambridge 2009 Anmahian Winton Architects Community Rowing, Inc. Brighton 2010 William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. with Ann Beha Architects Cambridge Public Library Cambridge 2011 Kyu Sung Woo Architects 10 Akron Street at Memorial Drive Cambridge 2012 Maki and Associates with Leers Weinzapfel Associates MIT Media Lab Cambridge 2013 Jonathan Levi Architects, Lead Design Architect/Architect of Record with Burt Hill Architects (now Stantec), Associated Architect Roger E. Wellington Elementary School Belmont 2014 Foster + Partners with CBT Architects The Art of the Americas Wing - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston 2015 Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Stantec Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Addition Boston 2016 Mecanoo Architecten with Sasaki Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building Boston 2017 William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. Boston Public Library, Johnson Building Transformation Boston2018 PayetteInterdisciplinary Science and Engineering ComplexBoston 2019 Hopkins Architects with Bruner/Cott The Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, Harvard University Cambridge2020 Jonathan Levi Architects Dearborn STEM Academy Boston2021 Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Payette Harvard Art Museums Renovation and Expansion, Harvard University Cambridge2022 Studio Echelman As If It Were Already Here Boston2023 William Rawn Associates Berklee Tower, Berklee College of Music Boston2024 Utile, Inc. Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library Roxbury
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