Friday, November 14, 2025
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Spring Studios,
50 Varick Street
View the invitation
Honorary Co-Chairs
Frederick Bland
Erin Rulli
Robert A. M. Stern
Deborah Berke
Albert Laboz
Program ads and tickets are no longer available.
You may still make a tax-deductible donation in honor of Morris Adjmi.
For more than 20 years, the Historic Districts Council has honored a New Yorker who has significantly contributed to the celebration and preservation of our beloved New York City. This year, HDC is delighted to present Morris Adjmi, FAIA, with the 2025 Landmarks Lion Award at our fall gala. You are invited to help celebrate Morris by becoming a member of the Landmarks Lion Benefit Committee.
Morris Adjmi is well known for bringing a fresh approach to contextual architecture and adaptive reuse in the city’s historic neighborhoods. In 1997, he established his eponymous firm, Morris Adjmi Architects (MA), in New York City after a 13-year collaboration with Aldo Rossi and has spent the past three decades refining a design approach that bridges history with modernity and tradition with innovation. Drawing inspiration from the ideas and historical forces that gave form to the city around us, his work reflects a wide range of design interventions in historic districts. It underscores HDC’s conviction that good design keeps neighborhoods alive and vibrant, and that preservation plays a vital role in addressing the city’s housing crisis.
The firm has had a significant impact on New York City’s built fabric, having designed more than 60 buildings to date—over 40 of which were approved by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission—underscoring Adjmi’s ability to create architecture that honors evolving historic contexts. Notable projects include the Scholastic Building in the SoHo Cast-Iron Historic District (in collaboration with Aldo Rossi); the Theory Building, the first new structure approved in the Gansevoort Market Historic District; the adaptive reuse of a historic warehouse as the iconic Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn; and the recently approved 277 Canal Street, featured in HDC’s 2025 housing report; to name a few.
Adjmi is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and holds a Master of Architecture from Tulane University, which honored him in 2023 with the Angela O’Byrne Alumni Award. He has taught at Columbia University and the University of Houston, and lectures widely on historic and contemporary architecture, including his own work and that of his mentor and collaborator, Aldo Rossi. He is the author and editor of several books on Rossi, as well as his firm’s monograph, A Grid and A Conversation: Morris Adjmi Architects.
Your support in joining the Benefit Committee will truly celebrate Morris’s remarkable contributions to New York City and beyond. Joining the committee will also ensure that the Historic Districts Council is able to continue its valuable work with more than 500 communities and neighborhoods to preserve, protect, and celebrate New York’s historic places.
It will be a great pleasure to see you at the 2025 Landmarks Lion gala this fall. All of us at HDC thank you for your support.
CHAMPION
Morris Adjmi Architects
AMBASSADOR
Françoise Astorg Bollack
Spring Studios
BENEFACTOR
Franny Eberhart
Jenkins Architecture
Orin Wilf / LAW Foundation
Higgins Quasebarth & Partners
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Tishman Realty
PATRON
Thornton Tomasetti
Walter B. Melvin Architects
Thomas A. Fenniman, Architect
Hiller, P.C.
SPONSOR
A. Ottavino Corp./Kate Ottavino
John M. Bacon
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
The Brooklyn Studio
The Wythe Hotel
FRIEND
Lisa Ackerman
Penelope Bareau
Joan Berkowitz Architectural Conservation
Brook Berlind
Frederick Bland
Peter Bray
New York Landmarks Conservancy
Hal Bromm and Don Meris
George Calderaro
Kelly Carroll
Charu Chaudhry
Chris Coburn
COOKFOX Architects
Kerri Culhane
Nora De Broder
Gregory G. Dietrich, GDP
Andrew S. Dolkart
Dan Donovan
Doreen Gallo
David Goldfarb
Law Offices of Alison Greenberg, LLC
Laura Heim Architect PLLC
Victoria Hofmo
Susan S. Hopper
Kyle Johnson & Carol Clark
Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects
Robert Kornfeld Jr.
Michael Kramer / South Street Seaport Coalition, Inc.
April Krishnan
United American Land
Jeremy Lechtzin
Brenda Levin
Christopher W. London
Lorna Nowvé
Sherida E. Paulsen
Jean and Sudhakar Prabhu
Li/Saltzman Architects
Jon Schippers
BKSK Architects
Susan Tunick, Friends of Terra Cotta
ReThink NYC
Jeremy Woodoff
Lloyd Zuckerberg
Special thanks to Spring Studios for their support.