Meet Our Judges for the 2020 Dwell Design Awards

The 2020 Dwell Design Awards honor the most outstanding work featured by Dwell and submitted by our readers this year. Along with community picks chosen by you, winners will be named by an acclaimed panel of judges whose work represents the cutting edge of architecture, interior design, industrial design, and hospitality design.

We’re thrilled to announce the judges who will be identifying the most inspiring projects from a tumultuous year.

Jerome Byron

Los Angeles–based designer and architect Jerome Byron heads studio J BYRON H, whose purview ranges from furniture and interior environments to buildings. Byron draws inspiration from cultural pressures, material conditions, and the junction of old and new methods of construction—it’s an exploratory approach that yields playful, unexpected forms that disrupt our expectations of spaces and objects.

With a Master of Architecture from Harvard and a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt, Jerome has spent the last 15 years working in Los Angeles, New York, and Berlin with many notable offices including Francis Kéré, Barkow Leibinger, SOM, and Tacklebox NY.

Hilton Carter

Designer, author, and artist Hilton Carter started his journey to plant parenthood with a fiddle-leaf fig named Frank. What started as a practical matter—using plants instead of traditional window treatments—has blossomed into a masterful practice in plant styling, exemplified by his jungle-like residence in Baltimore, Maryland. The "plant doctor" now has a weekly series with Apartment Therapy and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, HGTV, and Buzzfeed. Carter’s latest book, Wild Interiors: Beautiful Plants in Beautiful Spaces, was released this past April, and he shares his knowledge of plant care to a loyal following on Instagram (@hiltoncarter).

Ryan Chetiyawardana