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Call for Entries: Closed Until 2025
The annual AIA Wisconsin Design Awards competition recognizes architects, building owners and contractors for excellence in architectural design and construction and represents the highest recognition given for excellence in architectural design by the state's professional society of architects.
The Design Awards Presentation will take place at the annual AIA Wisconsin Design Awards Gala, and a display of the winning projects will be featured. Winners will also receive coverage on the AIA Wisconsin website. Please plan to have a representative from the project team present to accept the award if chosen. The Architect, Owner and Contractor of each winning entry will each receive an award certificate.
Awards may be presented in the following categories:
Projects must have been designed by AIA Architect members of AIA Wisconsin, with construction completed by January 1 of the year the Design Awards take place. The design architect, who is the person primarily responsible for the authorship of the project’s design, must be an AIA Wisconsin architect member. All design team members and other consultants substantially contributing to the design of the project must be given credit as part of the submission. Projects previously submitted and not receiving an Honor Award or Merit Award are eligible for resubmission. For projects in which more than one architecture firm contributes to the design, all the architecture firms must be given appropriate credit as part of the submission.
The jury is comprised of distinguished architects from outside of Wisconsin. The projects are not judged in competition with each other, but rather by measuring the architect’s performance against each project’s potential. Thus, projects of ordinary program or modest budget can receive an award based on the architect’s skill in optimizing the design opportunity. AIA Wisconsin encourages the submittal of a broad range of projects from all members that highlight the great work being done throughout the state and country by AIA Wisconsin member architects.
