David Grierson has received the inaugural Cosanti Foundation Alumni Award during a presentation ceremony held at Arcosanti, in Arizona on the 18th March 2023. More than 8,000 Cosanti Foundation alumni from across the world were invited to submit nominations for selection by the Foundation’s Board of Directors. The award recognizes an alumnus who has made significant contributions to their chosen profession, demonstrating excellence and leadership over a period of more than ten years, and who has enhanced the philosophy of arcology (architecture + ecology) in theoretical and practical contributions to their field during that time. Founded in 1965, the mission of the Cosanti Foundation is “to inspire a reimagined urbanism that builds resilient and equitable communities sustainably integrated with the natural world”.