League Prize winner

Dan Spiegel of SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop

SAW’s Low/Rise House. Credit: Bruce Damonte

The League Prize is an annual competition that has been organized by The Architectural League since 1981. Open to designers ten years or less out of school, it draws entrants from around North America.

Dan Spiegel of SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop received a 2018 award.

Dan Spiegel received a BA in public policy from Stanford University and an MArch degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He is a lecturer in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Spiegel founded SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop in 2011 with Megumi Aihara. Operating at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urban design, the firm brings an experiential approach to its projects.

Recent projects include:

Try-On Truck, a transformable mobile store.
Harvey Milk Plaza, a competition entry for a memorial and transit hub in San Francisco.

He was the recipient of a 2017 AIA San Francisco Award for Architecture, as well as a young architects’ honorable mention from the Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards.