top of page

2020 Design Awards

2020 Design Awards.jpg
Top of page
2021_da_logo.jpg
2021_da_logo.jpg
AIA2021DA_Letter Flyer_1.jpg

AIA Rochester's Design Awards is an ongoing program that encourages excellence in architectural design, makes the public more aware of our built environment, and honors owners, designers, and construction teams of successful projects.

 

Before being declared “essential” last year, Rochester’s architectural community knew that the important task of building our communities could not come to a standstill. It is in tribute to your spirit of perseverance that we adopted this year’s theme, “Keep Calm and Design On.”

 

Our 2021 event will be broadcast as a live, online show available to the public on June 11.

Show goes live

7:00 p.m.

June 11, 2021

Virtual Happy Hour

begins at 6:30 p.m.

June 11, 2021

Sponsor by June 4

to guarantee

mention in show

2021PeoplesChoice_NO_letters.jpg

2021 People's Choice Award

Voting is live for AIA Rochester's second People's Choice contest!

 

In conjunction with our annual Design Excellence Awards,  AIA Rochester is asking the public to weigh in on their favorite 2021 contending project by our local architects.

 

Each vote costs $1. Voting is unlimited and for a good cause. 

 

100% of proceeds will benefit Open Door Mission.

​

​

  • We will broadcast our Awards show live on June 11, 2021. We hope to host an in-person event in conjunction with our show if at all possible - stay tuned for details in late spring.

​​

  • Our Design Awards program has resumed its spring submission deadline/late spring Gala schedule from previous years, with plenty of advance notice to start planning your submissions and project photographs. Please see our full proposed schedule.

​

  • As in previous years, we will notify the winners in late April, but will not reveal which award your project has won until the actual Awards show. This will allow you to reach out to your clients and project teams in advance of the Gala. Interviews with the architects and possibly with clients will be conducted with our videography team in Rochester during the last week of April and the first week of May; please be aware of this possible time commitment upon registration.

​

  • We are reaching out to potential sponsors at this time based on an assumption of presenting a virtual show at minimum. Future sponsorship opportunities may present themselves as the Gala draws closer.  Please contact Linda Hewitt at lbhewitt@aiaroc.org for more information about sponsoring our Design Awards.

​

  • Finally, a note about categories: We ask that you select one category for each project at registration. Only one category per project will be considered. Due to the size of our competition, AIA Rochester does not award Design Awards per category.  The categorization is intended to assist the outside jury with their review. The categories are also intended to align with AIA New York State's Design Award process to allow your submission to be used separately at the state level as well.

​

More information will be added as it becomes available. Thank you in advance for your participation, and good luck!

​

​

AIA Rochester is pleased to announce the 2021 Design Awards program! 

Design Awards Schedule

February 1, 2021

Registration due

April 1, 2021

Project submissions due

mid April 2021

Jury convenes

late April 2021

Winners contacted

last week in April/

first week in May

Interviews with winners

videotaped

June 11, 2021

Design Awards Gala

IMG_1854.JPG

Call for Entries

Last year’s circumstances were unprecedented, but we are proud to have presented our annual awards in a new format. Like all of you, the Design Awards committee faced a new set of rules and roadblocks and adapted the process to meet our goals. Before being declared “essential”, Rochester’s architectural community knew that the important task of building our communities could not come to a standstill. It is in tribute to your spirit of perseverance that we adopted this year’s theme, “Keep Calm and Design On.”

​

Download the Call for Entries.

​

Keep Calm Logo-01.png

Categories

The entrant must specify one category for each project submission.

Due to the size of our competition, AIA Rochester does not award Design Awards per category.  The categorization is intended to assist the outside jury with their review only.

 

Residential:

___Single Family Detached, less than 2,500 square feet

___Single Family Detached, 2,500 square feet and over

___Multi Family, Multiple Dwellings

 

___Institutional

 

Commercial/Industrial:

___Small Projects, less than 5,000 square feet

___Large Projects, greater than 5,000 square feet

 

___Urban Planning/Design

 

___Adaptive Reuse/Historic Preservation

 

___Interiors

 

Unbuilt:

___Commissioned architectural design work by practicing emerging architects licensed 10 years or less, not yet built –or-

___Complete commissioned architectural design work, not yet built or completed by all other architects

 

___International

 

___Pro Bono Projects:  A project for which those licensed architect(s) involved received no financial compensation

 

___Sole Practitioner:  Projects submitted from firms having only one architect, and no other professional staff.

​

Categories

AIA Framework for Design Excellence

As we are less than a decade away from the AIA 2030 Commitment, AIA Rochester continues to include a focus on sustainability in our annual Design Awards this year and into the future.  Please choose a minimum of three of the ten measures of the AIA’s Framework for Design Excellence and explain how your project addresses these.

​

The ten measures in the Framework are:

1. Design for Integration: What is the big idea behind this project and how did sustainability inform the design concept?

2. Design for Equitable Communities: How does this project contribute to creating a walkable, human-scaled community inside and outside the property lines?

3. Design for Ecology: In what ways does the design respond to the ecology of its place?

4. Design for Water: How does the project relate to the regional watershed?

5. Design for Economy: How does the project efficiently meet the program and design challenges and provide “more with less”?

6. Design for Energy: Is the project energy-efficient and sustainable while improving building performance, function, comfort, and enjoyment?

7. Design for Wellness: How does the design promote the health of the occupants? 

8. Design for Resources: How did the design team optimize the amount and makeup of material used on the project?

9. Design for Change: Is the building resilient, and able to easily accommodate other uses in 50-100 years?

10. Design for Discovery: What lessons for better design have been learned through the process of project design, construction, and occupancy, and how have these been incorporated in subsequent projects?

  • Grey LinkedIn Icon
  • Grey Facebook Icon
  • Grey Twitter Icon
  • Grey Instagram Icon
bottom of page