Education Facility Design Award 2026

June 10, 2026

Explore the AIA Education Facility Design Award 2026 recipients—recognized as the best in today's learning spaces.

Education Facility Design Award
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Jason O'Rear

Recognizing excellence in education facility design

As education evolves, so does the architecture that supports it. The AIA Education Facility Design Award celebrates innovative projects across the learning continuum, from early childhood to higher education. These designs elevate learning environments and inspire communities.

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California College of the Arts Campus Expansion

In San Francisco, this adaptive reuse and expansion transforms an urban campus into a unified hub for creative education, integrating new and existing structures through flexible learning spaces, public engagement zones, and sustainable design strategies that support interdisciplinary collaboration and the arts.
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Contemplative Commons at the University of Virginia

A first-of-its-kind pan-university center in Charlottesville redefines student wellness by integrating immersive learning environments with biophilic design, creating a network of studios, courtyards, and gardens that foster resilience, connection, and community.
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Environmental Education Building

Set within a forested preserve in Auburn, this nature-based learning environment extends a network of trails into a mass timber classroom building, using passive design, local materials, and immersive indoor-outdoor spaces to foster environmental stewardship from an early age.
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Evergreen Charter School

Serving a historically underserved community in Hempstead, this mass timber school unites net-zero performance with community-centered design, creating a high-impact learning environment that supports student success, health, and broader neighborhood resilience.
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Greenhill School, Rosa O. Valdes STEM + Innovation Center

This Texas school provides classrooms, fabrication and robotics labs, and makerspaces, intermixed to foster cross-disciplinary teamwork and empower students to collaborate in new ways.
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Lindsay Boathouse

Situated along Toronto’s public waterfront, this timber boathouse reimagines athletic infrastructure through passive design and material efficiency, connecting rowing, community use, and ecological restoration while expanding access to a sensitive lakefront ecosystem.
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Lower School Campus of Westmark School

In Encino, this campus redefines inclusive education for neurodiverse learners by integrating research-driven spatial strategies with nature, creating flexible indoor-outdoor environments that support focus, movement, and student well-being.
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University of Houston RAD Center

On a Houston campus, the RAD Center transforms student life through mass timber construction and adaptive reuse, replacing a flood-prone dining hall with a light-filled hub for nourishment, gathering, and environmental stewardship rooted in material innovation.
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