Urban and Innovative Schools: The Cultural and Social Role of Educational Architecture

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:

• A planning/design process that is educational, collaborative, and builds the capacity of the school and its community to support its students
• 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

Winners

• Crosswinds Arts and Science Middle School
• Diamond Ranch High School
• Hostetter Center for the Arts
• Packer Collegiate Institute
• Pueblo Academy

Jury Members
To ensure the quality of the program, a nationally recognized jury representing both design and educational professionals reviewed entries. They had sole discretion in selecting entries that best represent exemplary practice in educational facilities. All awards or other special recognition were awarded at their discretion. All decisions are final.

• Dr. Daniel L. Duke, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Educational Design, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. (see www.tjced.org ).
• Julie Eizenberg, principal, KoningEizenberg Architecture, Santa Monica , Calif. (see www.kearch.com)
• James LaPosta Jr., AIA, design principal and CEO, Jeter, Cook & Jepson Architects, Inc.
• George Metzger, principal, HMFH Architects, Cambridge , Mass.
• Cheri Hendricks, former design and construction manager with the Edmonds School District, Lynnwood, Wash.; principal of Broadview Associates, Ltd.; and AIA CAE advisory group member

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