Billie Tsien

Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City. Employment is recorded with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. Positions recorded include chairperson. Works named in the authority record are American Folk Art Museum and American Folk Art Museum Midtown Building. Work by Billie Tsien is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago. Distinctions recorded are Women in Architecture Forum & Awards.

Tod Williams (born 1943, Detroit, Michigan) received his undergraduate, MFA, and Master of Architecture degrees from Princeton University, after graduating from the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He is the father of model Rachel Williams and filmmaker Tod "Kip" Williams, both by his first wife, dancer Patricia Agnes Jones, whom he met while studying at Princeton. Williams is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and serves as a trustee of the Cranbrook Educational Community. He has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Academy, American Philosophical Society (2017), and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Billie Tsien (born 1949, Ithaca, New York) received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and her M. Arch. from UCLA. She has worked with Williams since 1977 and they have been in partnership since 1986. Tsien is currently President of the Architectural League of New York and Director of the Public Art Fund. She has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tsien was one of the recipients of the Visionary Woman Awards presented by Moore College of Art and Design in 2009. President Biden appointed her to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in 2021.

Williams and Tsien are the recipients of more than two dozen awards from the American Institute of Architects. They received a 2014 International Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects and the 2013 Firm of the Year Award from the American Institute of Architects. In 2013, each was awarded a National Medal of Arts from President Obama. They have received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Brunner Award, the New York City AIA Medal of Honor, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award, the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture, the Municipal Art Society’s Brendan Gill Prize, and the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. received Praemium Imperiale(2019)

• Photo — Name — Location — Inaugurated year — Source • — David Geffen Hall — New York, NY — 2024 • — Obama Presidential Center — Chicago, IL • Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment — Princeton University, Princeton, NJ — 2015 • — Tata Consultancy Services — Banyan Park, Mumbai, India — 2014 • LeFrak Center at Lakeside — Prospect Park, NY — 2013 • Savidge Library Addition — The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH — 2013 • Asia Society Hong Kong Centre — Admiralty, Hong Kong — 2012 • — Barnes Foundation — Philadelphia, PA — 2012 • — Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts — University of Chicago — 2012 • Kim & Tritton Residence Halls — Haverford College, Haverford, PA — 2012 • Center for the Advancement of Public Action — Bennington College, Bennington, VT — 2011 • David Rubinstein Atrium at Lincoln Center — New York, NY — 2009 • C.V. Starr East Asian Library — University of California, Berkeley, CA — 2008 • Skirkanich Hall for bioengineering — University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia — 2006 • Phoenix Art Museum — Phoenix, AZ — 2006, 1996 • The Robin Hood Foundation Library Initiative — various locations, New York, NY — 2004-5 • First Congregational United Church of Christ — Washington, DC — 2001 • — American Folk Art Museum — 45 and 47 West 53rd Street, New York, NY — 2001, demolished in 2014 • Mattin Center (student arts and activities center) — Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD — 2001 • Cranbrook Natatorium — Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills, MI — 1999 • Helen S. Cheels Aquatic Center — Emma Willard School, Troy, NY — 1998 • Long Island Residence — Wainscott, NY — 1998 • Hunter Science Center — Emma Willard School, Troy, NY — 1996 • — The Neurosciences Institute — The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA — 1995 • — Hereford College — University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA — 1992 • Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown Branch — New York, NY — 1988 • Feinberg Hall — Princeton University, Princeton, NJ — 1986

Recorded position is chairperson. She belonged to American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and United States Commission of Fine Arts. She worked at New York City.