Honors and Awards



AIA HOUSING AWARDS

At Home with Architecture: The Best of Residential Design

These single- and multi-family housing projects offer design for people to shape their daily lives around.

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AIA/HUD SECRETARY’S AWARDS

Affordable Housing: Design for All

This year’s recipients demonstrate that public funds spent on quality design are dollars wisely invested.

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Design



SUSTAINABILITY Q&A

An Eco-Friendly House Divided: Lance Hosey, AIA, on What Sustainable Architecture Should Look Like

Your new building is net-zero everything and located on a dense urban site. But if it’s ugly, is it still sustainable? A book by Lance Hosey, AIA, says that when you’re talking about sustainability, aesthetics isn’t a dirty word.

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EMERGING DESIGN

Katherine Darnstadt, AIA: Trial by Public Interest Design

In the depths of the recession during an eight-month span, Katherine Darnstadt got licensed, promoted, married, laid off, and pregnant. That’s when she decided to start her own firm.

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NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE WEEK

Architecture is Awesome Photos

With the hashtag #archweek13, more than 1,400 Twitter and Instagram users entered the AIA’s social media photo contest during National Architecture Week last month.

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COMPONENT AWARDS

Simple Geometric Forms Prevail in Kansas City

A well-applied program in a simple, rational container never goes out of style.

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WEB EXTRA Clemson University Lee Hall College of Architecture; Thomas Phifer and Partners 2013 recipient of an AIA Honor Award for Architecture. Read more >

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2013 AIA CONVENTION Attend Awards Celebration, Enter Drawing to Win Trip to Menil Collection Come to the June 20th Honors and Awards Celebration and enter a drawing for one round-trip ticket to Houston to visit AIA Gold Medalist Renzo Piano’s masterpiece art museum, recipient of the 2013 AIA Twenty-five Year Award. Read more > Read the official contest rules > KEYNOTE SPEAKER ‘Architects Can Become the Developers of Their Own Future’ Cameron Sinclair, cofounder of Architecture for Humanity, offers a preview of his keynote speech at the 2013 AIA Convention. View video > Sign Up for Convention Text Message Alerts > Join These Pre-Convention Twitter Chats > Submit Your Presentations for the 2014 AIA National Convention by July 1 > Visit the AIA Convention Website >

AIA LEADERSHIP

Take Five
By Robert Ivy, FAIA

Choosing Architecture, Again

Some design inspiration, with AIA Continental Europe and AIA UK, brings us back to why we became architects.

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