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The AIA Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) invites you
to submit projects representing state-of-the-art early childhood
learning environments, K-12 schools, innovative learning centers,
and two-year community and technical colleges.
Introduction
The CAE Design Awards is an Internet-based marketplace of ideas.
Through this forum the committee will disseminate quality ideas on
educational facility planning and design to clients, architects,
and the public. As we rethink and reshape what we do as architects,
we must evaluate and measure our successes, and have an arena in
which to test ideas. This awards program is an opportunity to
engage in critical evaluation and experimentation, not as an end in
itself, but always in the context of our clients and their
needs.
The CAE Design Awards seek to identify, honor, and disseminate the
projects and ideas that exhibit innovation and excellence
through:
- The enhancement of the client's educational program through the
thoughtful planning and design of facilities
- The integration of function and aesthetics in designs that also
respect the surrounding community and context
- A planning/design process that is educational, collaborative,
and builds the capacity of the school and its community to support
its students
This program has two primary areas of focus: the project area
and the forum of ideas.
1. The project area will focus on how
individual projects further the client's mission, goals, and
educational program. In this area, the entire story will be told
with respect to how each submitted project is conceived, planned,
designed, built, inhabited, and evaluated.
This area will portray quality within both the process and the
product. The best processes exhibit authentic collaboration between
the design team, the client, and the community as they work
together to fulfill the client's goals. These are projects that
show exemplary care in serving the client and ensuring a quality
built environment, both functionally and aesthetically.
2. The forum of ideas will be a place for
experimentation, a planting bed for thoughts to nurture and grow.
The process of conceiving, planning, designing, and building is a
path of discovery, and the forum of ideas will be sufficiently
flexible to respond to the imagination of the participants. This
area will not necessarily showcase entire projects, but rather
select elements from projects.
Eligibility of Projects
All entries must meet the following requirements:
- Educational facilities that are eligible for consideration
include domestic and international early childhood learning
environments (including Head Start); public, private, and parochial
elementary, middle/junior high, and high schools; alternative
schools (i.e., charter schools, magnet schools,
vocational/technical schools, and at-risk schools); innovative
learning centers (i.e., museum schools, environmental learning
centers, and high-tech learning environments); two-year technical
and community colleges; schools of higher education; and corporate
or other specialized training centers. Non-traditional
learning environments may include community centers, museums,
libraries, etc.
- Projects may include new construction, additions, and
renovations/modernizations.
- Master plans, including multiple sites and/or multiple phases,
will be considered.
- Submissions of commissioned and completed research projects are
encouraged; however, hypothetical projects are NOT eligible.
- Entries are limited to projects that have been completed since
January 1, 2002. If the project has not yet been built, it must be
completed through design development, with the owner's approval, to
proceed with construction documents before September 1, 2008.
- Individual designers, educational planners, academics, and
nonprofits other than architects are eligible to submit in the
Unique Learning Environment category and are highly encouraged to
participate. In all other categories, only projects designed by
architects licensed in North America are eligible.
- Projects will not be accepted from firms affiliated with a jury
member.
- Required fields in online submission
process
- Project Information descriptions and word
counts
Awards, Citations, and Special Recognition
Awards of Excellence will be given to registered architect(s) whose
project(s) represent exemplary practice in all three of the
following areas of educational facility design:
1. Enhancing the client's educational
program
2. Design that integrates functional needs and
aesthetic considerations while respecting the surrounding community
and context.
3. The planning and design process
Awards of Merit may be given to other registered architects for
superior quality projects.
Citations will call attention to outstanding features of individual
projects.
No minimum or maximum number of awards has been established. The
number of awards given will be at the sole discretion of the jury,
based on the number of projects it deems to represent exemplary
practice.
It is understood that individual projects may be exemplary in some
but not all of the jury's areas of focus. Categorical awards may be
given for each of the following: early childhood learning centers,
elementary schools, middle/junior high schools, high schools,
alternative schools, innovative learning centers, two-year
community and technical colleges, and specialized training
centers.
Unique Learning Environment Category Qualifications
This category is open to academics, nonprofits, or individuals
whose aim is to design or generate new thinking in learning
environments, but who are not architects and are not in the
for-profit sector. There will be no registration fee for entrants
into this category. A special award may be given at the discretion
of the jury to a person or group who submits commissioned and
completed research projects that have made a significant
contribution to the uniqueness and effectiveness of learning
through the physical environment. Academics who have credentials or
businesses outside of academia should apply through the other
categories.
National Recognition and Publication
This design awards program will offer AIA members, architects
licensed in North America, and designers and educational planners
an opportunity to be nationally recognized. Their work will be
displayed through a variety of vehicles, reaching an audience of
school boards, private and public school administrators, facilities
managers, and other client groups around the country and the
world.
Design awards will be presented at the CAE conference in 2009 (date
TBA). For each award of excellence, commemorative plaques will be
presented to the winning firm and its client. For each merit and
citation award, certificates of recognition (suitable for framing)
will be provided to each firm and its client.
Jury-selected projects will be showcased on the CAE homepage, www.aia.org/cae.
Postings will include the architect's statement, general project
information, and a limited number of images as selected by the AIA.
. Projects may also be featured in issues of KnowledgeNET, the
monthly AIA Knowledge Community newsletter.
Award winners may also be featured in a number of upcoming
publications, presentations, or conferences, or included in other
CAE-sponsored media presentations.
As part of AIA's expanding knowledge agenda, applicants agree that
by submitting they will, if selected participate in a case study
process that will document the project and include it in the AIA
Case Study resource for reference by other architects, owners and
designers. If asked to participate in this process, the submitting
firm should plan on approximately 20 hours of documentation effort
to collect the necessary information to AIA.
Past Winners
2005
2006
2007
2008
The 2009 Educational Facilities Jury
To ensure the quality of the program, a nationally recognized jury
representing both design and educational professionals will review
entries. They will have sole discretion in selecting entries that
best represent exemplary practice in educational facilities. All
awards or other special recognition will be awarded at their
discretion. All decisions are final.
Timeline
Submission deadline - December 5, 2008
Jury Review - January 2009
Awards presentation - April 2009
Submission Fees
AIA Member: $500
Non-member: $600
Click here
to register and submit your project!
Guide to Completing the Submission
DO NOT IDENTIFY THE FIRM NAME, CITY OR OWNER FOR THE PROJECT ON ANY
IMAGE
- General project information form
- Qualitative project data form
- Site plans
- Floor plans
- Photographs/Sketches
- For all images, please submit in .jpg format with a resolution
of at least 150dpi, and title each descriptively enough to serve as
a caption. Also, please create a PDF containing thumbnails of
all images submitted (with captions). This PDF MUST be
uploaded for your project to be eligible.
- For additions, renovations, and modernizations place
before and after plans and images on facing pages for easy
comparison by jurors
- A signed photo release form, scanned and uploaded
in PDF form.
Questions
If you have any questions regarding the submissions procedure,
please call Shaw Hubbard at (202) 626-7455.
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