Meet the Jury of the 2026 Record Awards
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The editors of Architectural Record are proud to announce the jury of the second iteration of the Record Awards, an annual program recognizing the year’s best built and unbuilt projects as well as honoring leading and emerging voices in the profession.
Each of the four 2026 Record Award jurors—Florian Idenburg, Hana Kassem, Nat Oppenheimer, and Miriam Peterson—come to the proverbial table with a broad range of expertise, including the design of academic, science and research facilities; cultural and institutional spaces; historic preservation and renovation, and more. Joining these four jury members will be RECORD editor in chief Josephine Minutillo.
Awardees—16 in total and selected by the jury—will be announced at the Record Innovation Conference on November 4 in New York City and featured in the November 2026 issue of the magazine. Entry to the competition is now closed. You can view the 2025 winners of the awards program here.
More information on each juror can be found below.
Florian Idenburg is an internationally renowned Dutch architect with over two decades of professional experience. After learning the ropes in Amsterdam and Tokyo, he founded SO–IL in 2008 together with Jing Liu. He has a particularly strong background in institutional spaces, leading the office on projects including Kukje Gallery, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, and Amant in Brooklyn. Idenburg has a sharp intuition for the orchestration of form, material, and light, and enjoys developing projects to a level where those elements become places for people to experience and use. He combines a hands-on approach with a theoretical drive, sharing this creative spirit with clients, collaborators, and students. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, Columbia, and Princeton University and is currently a Professor of Practice at Cornell University. In 2010, Idenburg received the Charlotte Köhler Prize from the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund. He is a registered architect in the Netherlands and an international associate of the American Institute of Architects.
Hana Kassem is a principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) with more than 30 years of experience leading academic and commercial projects in the United States and internationally. She is recognized for her innovative work on academic, science, and research facilities, including Columbia University’s Vagelos Innovation Laboratories, the University of Michigan Center for Innovation, and CUNY’s AIA Award–winning Advanced Science Research Center. She lectures and writes widely on human-centric and place-based design across scales and typologies, examining the reciprocal effect of environments and people. Kassem is president-elect of the New York chapter of the AIA, serves on the Board of Trustees of Storefront for Art and Architecture, and is an adjunct professor at the Cooper Union.
Nat Oppenheimer joined global engineering firm TYLin in 1988 and has extensive experience in the areas of new construction, renovation, sustainable engineering, and historic preservation, as principal in charge of much of the firm’s institutional, private residential, and educational work. He leads TYLin’s Buildings Sector, a 210-person group focused on the structural engineering design of all types of buildings. Oppenheimer is a board member of the Architectural League of New York, currently serving as its president. Since 2013, he has been an active participant of the Industry Advisory Group for the US Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations. Since 2016, Oppenheimer has been a member of the Van Alen Institute International Council. He also teaches at Princeton School of Architecture and Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Miriam Peterson is a founding partner of Peterson Rich Office (PRO), a 2018 Design Vanguard firm. Born and raised in New York City, Peterson draws inspiration from this rich urban context and brings an inquisitive and research‑driven approach to each project, advocating for an expanded role for design at the intersection of architecture, economics, and policy. In May 2026, the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled PRO’s design for the new Condé M. Nast Galleries. The galleries serve as the new home for the Costume Institute’s annual spring exhibition. PRO also designed the galleries’ inaugural show, Costume Art. PRO’s collaboration with the Met reflects the studio’s broader role across New York’s cultural landscape, including at the Brooklyn Museum, where the firm is designing new permanent galleries for its renowned Arts of Africa collection. Through an ongoing multiyear partnership that started in 2014, PRO works with the New York City Housing Authority on inclusive community design initiatives. Peterson received a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University.
