2022 HONOR AWARD WINNER: JUXTAPOSITION, SHELIA DAVIES ARCHITECTURE | PHOTO CREDIT: JONATHAN HILLYER
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Lynn Robinson
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Deadline
The Call for Entries for the 2024 awards program is now closed.
All entries must be the work of a Registered Georgia Architect who lives or does work in Georgia.
Submissions for the Student Project Award must be a current student or recent 2023 graduate, from an accredited Georgia architecture degree program The competition is open to architectural projects of all classifications and sizes. Location of projects is not restricted.
Any works submitted for consideration must have been completed and occupied between Jan 1, 2018, and Dec 31, 2023. Projects that received a previous AIA Georgia Design Award are not eligible. Built projects that have previously been awarded in the unbuilt category are encouraged to enter.
Deadline: February 23, 2023 at 6:00 P.M.
All submissions will be reviewed by a common jury of distinguished guests connected to all facets of the design profession. As projects are subject to diverse contexts, programs, budgets, and restraints, each entry is judged for the success with which the project has met its individual requirements.
We encourage submissions that exhibit a strong definition of design excellence. Submissions may be exemplary in their typology, technical advancement, innovation, economy, sustainability, as well as other achievements.
Entry Fee: $185 for AIA Members, $250 for not-yet members
Early Bird Special: $150 for AIA Members, $200 for not-yet members (Register by January 26, 2023, before 6 PM)
Student Projects: $25 (no early bird special)
Kevin M. Holland FAIA, NOMAC
HMC Architects | Sacramento, California
Kevin is an award-winning architect with more than 28 years of experience working in higher education, healthcare, and civic planning, design, and project management, and firm operations spanning nearly every project type.
Sarah A Schuler, AIA
VPS Architecture | Indianapolis, Indiana
Since 2010, Sarah A. Schuler has been leading VPS Architecture as President. She holds degrees from Ball State University and studied at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
Shawna Meyer, AIA
Atelier May | Miami, Florida
Shawna has worked at award-winning practices in Minneapolis and Boston. In 2018, Shawna was named a Grist 50 Fixer and has co-authored essays exploring the relationship between infrastructure and architecture.
View the 2022 winners and the 2018-2021 awardees here >
2021
Battery Backus | Daniel E. Snyder Architect, P. C.
David T. Howard Middle School | SSOE | Stevens & Wilkinson
Holly Hill | Robert M. Cain, Architecture
Kilcor Corporate Headquarters | SVX Architects LLC
Kumbh Mela | Vatsal Patel, Savannah College of Art and Design
Optimist Hall | Perkins&Will
Piedmont Wellness Center | Perkins&Will
Pier on Twelve-Mile Bayou | Robert M. Cain, Architect
Plant Riverside District | Sottile & Sottile, Civic Architecture & Urban Design
Price Gilbert/Crosland Tower Library Renewal | bnim
Sandbox School of Amager Commons | James Jung, Savannah College of Art and Design
StationSoccer – A different kind of Transit Oriented Development | HKS Inc.
Terminale Dell’Isola | Mateo Mantilla, Savannah College of Art and Design
The Hub at Peachtree Center | Beck Architecture Georgia
The Kayak Center | Sanket Gunjal
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design | Lord Aeck Sargent & the Miller Hull Partnership
The Portal | Sanjana Sanjay Vadhavkar, Savannah College of Art and Design
Tybee Island Marine Science Center | Sottile & Sottile, Civic Architecture & Urban Design
Waters College of Health Professions at Georgia Southern University | The S/L/A/M Collaborative
Woodruff Arts Center: Coca-Cola Stage at the Alliance Theatre | Trahan Architects
Entry Categories
You can review the 2024 submission guidelines and tips on the Call for Entries.
- Built Project (over and under 5,000 SF):
Built projects are divided into two entry categories and provides a catch-all opportunity for projects that demonstrate design achievement in architecture regardless of budget, style, or type with gross square footage over or under 5,000 square feet. - Unbuilt Project:
The Unbuilt Project category celebrates the best in yet-to-be-built and speculative/theoretical design. Projects in this category are judged on their innovation, ability to overcome stated design challenges, and overall design excellence. - Renovation/Restoration/Adaptive-Reuse (over and under $1 million):
The Renovation/Restoration/Adaptive-Reuse category honors masterful renovation, preservation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, adaptive-reuse and restoration projects with two gross cost levels of entry, over and under $1 million.
- Interior Architecture:
The Interior Architecture category celebrates spectacular interior spaces that demonstrate design achievement, including a sense of place and purpose, ecology and environmental sustainability, and history. - Residential/Housing (over and under $1 million):
Residential projects are honored with a category that celebrates the best in single-family, multi-family, and mixed-use residential design– showing the world how beauty, safety, sustainability, and comfort can come together. This category has two levels of entry for projects over and under $1 Million in gross cost. - Student Project:
Student Project awardees exhibit design excellence in student work including research, installations, conceptual projects, or competitions. The applicant must be a current student or recent 2020 graduate, from an accredited Georgia architecture degree program.