The Design Awards recognize design excellence of built and unbuilt work in Connecticut or in other locations by Connecticut-based firms.
2025 Registration Opens: June 9
Early Bird Registration Deadline: June 27
Final Registration & Submission Deadline: August 22
René Clawson, AIA,LEED AP
Clawson Architects
Maplewood, NJ
Elizabeth Cox, AIA,LEED AP
HOK
Boston, MA
Christian Dean, AIA
Christian Dean Architects
Minneapolis, MN
Commercial, Institutional, Educational, or Multi-Family Residential Design
Both public and private projects. Can be single buildings or a related group of buildings forming a single project, renovations, and additions. Two categories of awards will be considered in this category:
Historic Preservation & Adaptive Re-Use
Buildings 50 years or older, both public and private projects. Can be single buildings or a related group of buildings forming a single project, renovations, restorations, and additions that thoughtfully preserve, restore, or adapt existing structures for contemporary use.
Interior Architecture
Projects of any interior scope that may be new construction, renovation, preservation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, or restoration.
Residential Design
Single family residences, additions, and accessory buildings (new or remodeled). Projects previously submitted to the Alice Washburn Awards program may also be submitted to this category.
Planning: Community, Campus, Town and Urban
Projects that include more than a single structure and engage the private and public realms of the built environment. Two categories of awards will be considered in this category:
Small Firm Design
Architecture: The Encompassing Art
Includes but is not limited to: designs for such details as hardware, stairways, railings, graphics, lighting or fixtures, furniture, scholarly research, environmental or energy research, urban planning analyses, or technical innovations.
Unbuilt Design
Unbuilt architectural designs, for which there is no current intent to build, of any project type, including purely theoretical or visionary projects, with or without a client.
Connecticut-Licensed Architects: Architects who are licensed and reside in Connecticut may submit projects located anywhere.
Out-of-State Architects: Architects whose primary practice is located outside of Connecticut may submit only those projects that are located within Connecticut.
Interns and Students: Architectural interns and students are eligible to submit only in the Unbuilt and Architecture: The Encompassing Art categories.
Project Completion: Submitted projects must have been completed within the past five (5) years. “Completed” is defined as achieving Substantial Completion per standard AIA contract definitions.
Category Selection: Each project must be entered into a single category. However, the same project may be submitted in additional categories as separate entries.
Each category is a separate submission. The submission form will require the following items:
Do not include any identifying firm information in any part of your submission. This includes file names because they are visible to jurors. Submissions with identifying information will automatically be disqualified.
The Design Award jury consists of peers who are located outside the state of Connecticut.
Jurors will take into consideration and acknowledge:
AIA Connecticut Members
Early Bird Rates Available Through June 27
Entries submitted after June 27 will incur an additional fee of $100 per entry.
Member of another AIA component
Early Bird Rates Available Through June 27
Entries submitted after June 27 will incur an additional fee of $100 per entry.
Non-Member Registered Architect:
Early Bird Rates Available Through June 27
Entries submitted after June 27 will incur an additional fee of $100 per entry.