Membership
Join The World Around Circles in 2026 and be part of a unique global network of likeminded individuals! Circle members receive year-round invitations to private screenings, VIP parties, openings and studio visits. Explore our recent programs and events below.
Friends Circle $250/year
For architecture, design and culture enthusiasts who want to learn more, support The World Around and be part of our community.
Benefits:
- Support free access to world-class architecture and design
- Complimentary reserved seating at In Focus: Transformation
- Complimentary reserved seating at The World Around Summit 2026 at MoMA
- Access to early-bird tickets for Annual Dinner 2026
- Exclusive limited-edition tote bag and partner gifts
- Invitations to private studio visits and networking events throughout 2026
- "TWA Dispatches" newsletter subscription
- Name and biography featured on The World Around website (optional)
- Tax-deductible donation
Supporter Circle $1,000/year
For individuals and firms committed to architecture and culture who can provide significant support and engage directly with our community and global networks.
Benefits:
- Support free access to world-class architecture and design
- Complimentary reserved seating for two at In Focus: Transformation
- Complimentary reserved seating for two at The World Around Summit 2026 at MoMA
- Access to The World Around In Focus: Transformation After Party
- Access to The World Around Summit 2026 After Party
- Access to early-bird tickets for Annual Dinner 2026
- Exclusive limited-edition tote bag and partner gifts
- Invitations to private studio visits and networking events throughout 2026
- "TWA Dispatches" newsletter subscription
- Name and biography featured on The World Around website (optional)
- Invitations to private events with The World Around's partners and board members
- Tax-deductible donation
Summit Circle $5,000+
For individuals, offices and brands who can directly fund the keystone event in The World Around's calendar, our annual summit, gaining access to our community, networks, partners and board.
Benefits:
- Directly underwrite The World Around’s Annual Summit 2026, joining as a key patron of global architecture and design discourse
- Priority seating for four at The World Around Summit 2026
- Access for four to The World Around Summit 2026 After Party
- Half or full page advert in The World Around Summit 2026 program
- One year of complimentary reserved seating at all The World Around programs throughout 2026
- One year of complimentary reserved seating at all Young Climate Prize programs and events throughout 2026
- Invitations to private studio visits and networking events throughout the year
- Invitations to private events with The World Around's partners and board members
- Opportunity to host studio visits for Circles Members
- Logo and name recognition across TWA’s digital channels, website, newsletter and Summit stage acknowledgments
- Tax-deductible donation
Climate Circle
The Climate Circle is an invitation to support The World Around’s most impactful mentorship and award program, the Young Climate Prize. Now in its third cycle, your $10,000 annual contribution directly sustains this initiative, supporting logistics, training, air travel for 25 under 25. By supporting us you are empowering immediate, local and scalable solutions to the climate crisis led by the people experiencing it first hand. As a member, you will have opportunities to meet with members of the cohort directly and learn more about their groundbreaking ideas, while joining an international community of supporters, curators, and partners passionate to advancing architecture and design as a tool for planetary resilience.
Chairman’s Circle
The Chairman’s Circle is The World Around’s most exclusive patrons group, reserved for a small circle of visionary supporters at the highest annual level. This invite-only community travels with us to remarkable destinations—Paris, Venice, and Marfa among them—for private studio visits, landmark tours, and unforgettable dinners. As part of this group, members enjoy rare access to extraordinary people and places, sharing experiences that can only be found within The World Around’s closest circle. Please write to Beatrice Galilee at director@theworldaround.org to learn more.
“The World Around’s mission to connect diverse voices and ideas in response to global challenges is essential to shaping a more inclusive and resilient built environment. At WXY, we see design as a tool for uncovering opportunities that bring communities together and drive lasting change. We’re proud to be part of a convening that amplifies these critical conversations, recognizing that equitable spaces are never created in isolation, but through dialogue that bridges disciplines, geographies, and lived experiences.”
FAQs
THANK YOU TO OUR 2025 & 2026 CIRCLES MEMBERS:
CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE 2026
Adam Flatto / Georgetown Company
Amanda Burden
Curry Stone Foundation
Elizabeth Diller / Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Jill Brienza
Joan Davidson
John Haskell / Atla Capital
Mariam Issoufou / Mariam Issoufou Architects
Peter Dillon
Vishaan Chakrabarti / Practice for Architecture and Urbanism: PAU
Wendy Fisher
CLIMATE CIRCLE 2026
Audemars Piguet
Brian Butterfield / WHY Museum
Brunswick Group
Debra Lehman / Lehman Smith Design Foundation
MillerKnoll Foundation
Peter Guggenheimer
SUMMIT CIRCLE 2025
Claire Weisz / WXY
Michelle Roelofs
KPF - Kohn Pedersen Fox
BENEFACTOR CIRCLE 2026
Unifor
Andrew Klemmer / Paratus Group
Anne-Sophie Hall
Arup
Bruce Ratner
Claire Weisz
Daniel Brodsky
Deidrea Miller
Fisher & Paykel
Friedman Benda
Joan MacKeith / Rockwell Group
John Alschuler / Therme Group US LLC
Justin Beal
Kathryn McElroy
Martina Frigerio / Molteni&C
Michelle Roelofs
MillerKnoll
kurimanzutto
Parley for the Oceans
Rachel Rose & Ian Cheng
Rockwell Group
Romenesa Foundation
Sara Meltzer
Stephen Reidy
Studio Loutsis
Susan Sellers / 2x4
To My Ships
Vivian Zelter
William & Ellen Taubman
SUPPORTER CIRCLE 2026
Abigail Miranker
Adam Rolston / INC Architecture & Design
Adriana Gelves
Anastasiya Siro
Andrew Heid / NO ARCHITECTURE, PLLC
Angelica Baccon
Avani Parikh / Avani Parikh Architecture PC
Barbara Flynn
Beatriz Colomina
Ben Rawlingson Plant
Bettina Zerza
Beverly Willis Architecture
Billy Clark Creative Management
Chee Pearlman / TED Conferences
Chris Abbate
David Dunne
Diana Darling
Dixon Lu / MAD Architects
Elise Jaffe & Jeffrey Brown
Elizabeth Roberts
Emily Marant
Everett Hollander
Forth Bagley / KPF - Kohn Pedersen Fox
Helen Aboah
Hunter Braithwaite / Cultural Counsel
Jace Schinderman
Jaffer Kolb
Jennifer Olshin / Friedman Benda
Jesper Eriksen
Jessica Merritt
Jing Liu / SO–IL
Joe Solway
Kathleen Leever
Katie Swenson / Mass Group
Laurie Beckelman
Louise Braverman / Louise Braverman Architect
Louise Neri
Mark Wigley
Marian Goodman Gallery
Marilyn Hernandez
Maye Tamma / Rē
Mazzola Lindstrom LLP
Meara Daly
Meryl Meltzer
Michaella Solar-March
Michelle Perr
Molly Heintz
Monika McLennan
Nat Oppenheimer
Nelson Daly
New Affiliates Architecture
Novità Communications
Pernilla Ohrstedt / Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio
Rose Lord
SO - IL
SHoP Architects
Stephanie Bigelow-Ennis
TenBerke
Terrence Schroeder
The McElroy Family
Tom Fernández
Wendy Lindstrom
FRIENDS CIRCLE 2026
Alice Gray Stites
Anne Rieselbach
Blue Medium
Carolyn Dailey
Caterina Fake
Cathleen McGuigan
Charles O’Byrne
Claudia Glasser
David van der Leer
Eleanor Propp
Emanuela Frattini Magnusson
Felix Burrichter
Gonzalo Herrero Delicado
Germane Barnes
Honora Shea
Irene Sunwoo
Jayden Ali
Joe Versace Jr.
John Patrick
Jonathan Santos
Karen Wong
Koray Duman
Kyle Thurman
Laura Krey
Linda Pollak
Victoria Rogers
Lisa Switkin
Lori Camilleri
Lucia Galeano
Mae-Ling Lokko
Rebecca Lee
Sarah Duzyk
Susan O Surface
Vivian Tsen