AIA Education Honor Awards

The ACSA and the AIA are pleased to announce the second issue of a new joint publication including the ACSA/AIA Topaz Medallion, ACSA awards programs, the AIA Education Honor Awards and others.

AIA Education Honor Awards 2008

Educators are dealing with priorities in education and practice through innovative programs that have potential to benefit or change practice. This year the AIA Educator/Practitioner Network (EPN) is proud to recognize six courses that address critical issues of the profession. Sustainability, collaboration, social issues and public engagement, and global practice are addressed in coursework the jury characterized as forward thinking and inspirational. One program took on the challenge of change in the curriculum to better respond to these challenges.

Award recipients are from The Pennsylvania State University, University of Minnesota, University of Virginia, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, Auburn University, and The University of Tennessee Knoxville. Read more

AIA Education Honor Award 2007

In 2007, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) awarded three teams for excellence in course development and architectural teaching. Recipients include: The ecoMOD Project, University of Virginia; SCI-TECH I-IV, Iowa State University; and Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas: Lifestyles and Ecologies, University of Arkansas + Washington University in St Louis. “All of the Award winners took on something new, were innovative models of architectural education, and used technology to facilitate their process,” said jury members. The awards were officially announced during the ACSA Awards Ceremony at its annual meeting in Philadelphia and awards were presented to the 2007 recipients in May during the AIA National Convention in San Antonio. This year, award winners will be recognized in an ACSA/AIA awards print publication. Read more

AIA Honors Models of Excellence in Architecture Education (2006)

The AIA would like to congratulate the 2006 AIA Education Honor Award recipients from The Catholic University of America, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of Arkansas for their outstanding achievements in digital design/fabrication, beginning design, and community-based design education. “Each award winner represents a standard for their respective subject that all schools should aspire to,” said Jury Chair David W. Hinson, AIA. “This is what the AIA Education Honor Award is all about—recognizing excellence and helping us all to understand how this standard can be reached by educators across the country.”

The AIA 2005 Education Honor Awards

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the recipients of the 2005 AIA Education Honor Awards for excellence in course development and architectural teaching during the ACSA Awards Ceremony at its annual meeting in Chicago in March.  Finding the Social in Big Box Retail, a collaborative design studio at the University of Arkansas, and (drawing [machines) drawing], part of an introductory course at Auburn University, were both selected by a jury as exceptional models of instructional and educational excellence in classroom, studio, community-based service learning, or laboratory work. In addition, the jury selected two submissions to receive honorable mentions: Cal Poly Downtown Community Design Studio for Affordable Housing, a course taught by Alice Alison Mueller at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and Urban Acupuncture: Neighborhood Design Build Studio, a course taught by Steve Badanes and Damon Smith for the University of Washington Department of Architecture received Honorable Mentions.

The AIA 2004 Education Honor Awards

Award-winning courses have covered a broad range of topics from architectural design and professional practice to history, theory, criticism, and urban form. The 2004 award-winning courses illustrate the breadth of courses recognized.

AIA Education Honor Awards: 1988 - 2008

The AIA Education Honor Awards recognize the achievements of outstanding teaching faculty and promote models of excellence.  See a chronology of all previous winners in the history of the program.