Past Recipients

Year	Recipient	Links
2010	Gustavo Dudamel, conductor	View the Dudamel page with videos
2009	Bill Viola, video artist	MIT News Office article
2006	Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright/novelist (Tech Talk article)	MIT News Office article
2005	Santiago Calatrava, engineer/architect (Tech Talk photo)
2004	Libby Larsen, composer
2003	Vinie Burrows, activist/actress/writer
2001	Isaac Julien, filmmaker
2000	CORE Ensemble (Tech Talk Story)
1999	Diller + Scofidio, interdisciplinary art
1998	Junot Diaz, author
1997	Toni Dove, video artist
1996	Kenny Leon, theater director
1995	Jeff Wall, photographer (Tech Talk Story)
1994	Tan Dun, composer (Tech Talk story)
1993	Thomas Hanrahan & Victoria Meyers, architects
1992	Richard Preston, author
1991	Rebecca Purdum, artist
1990	Agnes Denes, artist	New York Times article 12/2/2012
1989	Ida Ely Rubin
1988	Yulla Lipchitz
1987	Award not presented
1986	Richard Leacock
1985	Harold E. Edgerton
1984	Ieoh Ming Pei
1983	Albert R. Gurney, Jr.
1982	Roy Lamson
1981	Henry Moore
1980	Luis A. Ferre
1979	Jerome B. Wiesner
1978	Catherine N. Stratton
1977	James R. Killian, Jr.
1976	Paul Tishman
1975	Klaus Liepmann
1974	Gyorgy Kepes