page_title: Mónica Ponce de León
section_title: Honors and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Mónica Ponce de León / Honors and awards
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context_page_description: Mónica Ponce de León is an architect, educator, and Dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture. A National Design Award winner, Ponce de León is widely recognized as a pioneer in the application of robotic technology to building fabrication and architecture education. Her interdisciplinary practice, MPdL Studio, has offices in New York, NY, Boston, MA, Princeton, NJ and Ann Arbor, MI. Ponce de León previously served as Dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan and as Professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Prior to establishing her own practice MPdL Studio in 2011, she was the founding partner with Nader Tehrani in the award-winning firm Office dA.
context_section_description: Alongside Nader Tehrani , Ms. Ponce de León received both the Young Architects Award in 1997 and the Emerging Voices Award in 2003 from the Architectural League of New York. In 2002, she received an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters  and in 2008 she was named a United States Artist fellow.
  In 2007 Ponce de León received the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the first Hispanic architect to receive this honor.
  Her work has received numerous awards, including a dozen Progressive Architecture awards, the Harleston Parker Medal (2002), as well as citations from the American Institute of Architects, I.D. Magazine, and the Boston Society of Architects. In 2008, the Macallen Building was named one of the Top Ten Green Projects by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment.
  In 2016 Ponce de Leon was elected to the National Academy of Design.
caption: Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2015 at the Fleet Library
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