2015 AIA Connecticut Design Awards and People’s Choice Awards
DESIGN AWARDS
BUILT AWARDS The program recognizes design excellence in various kinds of
built architectural projects and encourages the inclusion of sustainability in the design
of all built projects. Submissions may be a single building, a related group of
buildings, interior architecture, additions, restorations, or adaptive use projects.
Category 1: Residential Design
Eligibility: Single family residences and/or accessory buildings, new or
remodeled, or any addition. Projects previously submitted to the Alice Washburn
Awards Program may also be submitted to this program.
Category 2: Commercial, Institutional, Educational or Multi-family
Residential Design
Eligibility: Both public and private projects- single buildings, a related group of
buildings forming a single project, interior architecture, and additions/renovations.
Category 3: Preservation
Eligibility: Projects that address design issues related to adaptive use,
rehabilitation, reconstruction or pure restoration. Entries may fall into more than
one category but must be assigned by the entrant to one category only.
UNBUILT AWARDS Unbuilt architectural designs, for which there is no current intent
to build, of any project type, including purely theoretical, visionary projects, with or
without a client.
ARCHITECTURE: THE ENCOMPASSING ART AWARDS A special, inclusive award
that celebrates the multitude of design aspects that underpin the overall building
design. Eligibility includes but is not limited to designs for such details as hardware,
stairways or railings; graphics; lighting or fixtures; furniture; scholarly research or
urban planning analyses; or technical innovations. AIA member entrants in the Built
Design category are entitled to one free of charge submission of a design aspect
from each of their Built projects for this category.
Eligibility: Architects licensed and residing in Connecticut may submit projects
located anywhere; architects whose practice is located outside Connecticut may
submit projects whose site is located in Connecticut. Architectural interns and
students are eligible only for the Unbuilt and the Architecture: the Encompassing Art
categories. Credit must be given to all contributing architectural firms. AIA
membership is not required. The project, or submitted work, must have been
completed after June 30, 2008. “Completed” is defined as “substantial completion” in
accordance with standard AIA documents.
Format / Instructions: Instructions for the Design Awards submissions are
emailed to the designated contact person upon AIA Connecticut’s receipt of the
entry form. Submissions are electronic and in the form of a multi-paged PDF of
photos, drawings and descriptive data, with online project information and
photography release form.
Website Posting: For each submission, email to [email protected] one separate
image, JPEG @ 150 dpi, maximum of 800 x 750 pixels, with photo credit. Only
those submissions for which we receive the separate images and photography credits
will be included on the AIA Connecticut website.
SCHEDULE
Entry Deadline: July 27, 2015
Submission Deadlines:
People’s Choice: August 28, 2015; Email to [email protected]
Design Awards: September 10, 2015; Online submission completed
Voting Period for the People’s Choice at www.aiact.org: September 14-28, 2015
Jury Presentation & Awards Announcement: September 22, 2015
Presentation of Awards: December 7, 2015
JURORS
Peter Gisolfi, AIA, ASLA, Peter Gisolfi Associates, Architects and Landscape Architects,
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
Stephen Dayton, AIA, Thomas Phifer and Partners, New York, New York
Nancy Rogo Trainer, AIA, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ENTRY FORM AND FEES
Mail to AIA Connecticut, 370 James Street, Suite 402, New Haven CT 06513 or
fax to 203-562-5378. Provide credit card information or send one check, the total for
all entries in both programs, with the form. Please be sure to include your email
address.
Design Awards: Various categories have differing fees.
People’s Choice: Payment for entries should be combined with AIA Connecticut
Design Awards.
Questions? Contact Joanne Rees at [email protected] or Jan Harris at [email protected].
DESIGN AWARDS 2015 ENTRY FORM The entry form, accompanied by entry
fees for both Design Awards and People’s Choice Awards, must be returned to AIA
Connecticut, postmarked by July 27, 2015. Provide credit card information or send
one check, the total for all entries in both programs, with the form, and include your
email address below. AIA members are entitled to one free (nc) Architecture: the
Encompassing Art Award entry for each Built Design entry, which could be an
aspect of the built project submitted.
# of Entries
Built Design
Unbuilt Design
Encompassing Art
People’s Choice
AIA member:
Non-member:
AIA member:
Non-member:
AIA Assoc/student:
AIA member:
Non-member:
AIA Assoc/student:
AIA member(nc):
AIA member:
Non-member:
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PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS
The People’s Choice Awards Program allows the public the opportunity to vote at the
AIA Connecticut website for their favorite project in the following categories:
• The house where I’d most like to live.
• The space where I’d most like to study.
• The space where I’d most like to work.
• The place where I’d most like to play.
• The place that best creates a sense of peacefulness.
Eligibility: Firms may submit any project(s) to the People’s Choice Award program
that follows the same eligibility guidelines as the Design Awards. Projects submitted
to AIA Connecticut Design Awards may be submitted to the People’s Choice Awards
in the following format.
Format / Instructions: Each submission is comprised of a single project image,
JPEG @ 150 dpi, maximum of 800 x 750 pixels, and should be marked People’s
Choice Awards and emailed to [email protected]. The images should have no text
information, but supply, separately, category; your firm name and city/state; website
URL; brief project identification; and photography credit. Winning projects will be
posted at www.aiact.org and announced at the December 7 reception.
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❏ Check enclosed
❏ Credit card number:
Exp. Date
Security Code:
Print name on credit card
Account mailing address
Firm Name/Architect
Address
City
State
Zip
Contact person
Telephone
Email address (required)
AIA Chapter, if member
I agree to comply with all the rules of the 2015 AIA Connecticut Design Awards Program.
Signature:
AIA Connecticut, 370 James Street, Suite 402, New Haven, CT 06513; 203-865-2195; F: 203-562-5378; www.aiact.org