Housing Award 2026
Explore the AIA Housing Award 2026 recipients—recognized as the best in home and housing design across five categories.
Lara Swimmer
Recognizing the best in home design
The AIA Housing Award exemplifies the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource.
Albina One
Anchoring Portland’s Albina neighborhood, this catalytic development advances the nation’s largest restorative justice redevelopment effort, delivering 94 affordable homes that center belonging, cultural identity, and community life through vibrant design and shared spaces.
Beach Green Dunes III
Set along the Rockaway coastline in Queens, this all-affordable, intergenerational Passive House community redefines coastal resilience, integrating geothermal and solar systems, flood-adaptive design, and a transit-oriented public plaza to create a new model for equitable, climate-ready urban living.
Betty Greene Apartments
Rising in Boston’s Jackson Square, this 100% affordable Passive House community sets a new standard for performance and dignity, combining high-efficiency design with thoughtfully designed communal spaces to foster connection and resilience.
Bozeman Cohousing
Bozeman Cohousing is the first net-zero energy cohousing community in the United States and Montana’s first cohousing development, exemplifying how thoughtful, inclusive design can merge sustainability, affordability, and social resilience within a replicable development model.
Isla Intersections Supportive Housing & Paseo
Along a major corridor in Los Angeles, this supportive housing community weaves residential buildings with a landscaped public paseo, integrating social services, shared outdoor spaces, and pedestrian connectivity to foster stability, well-being, and neighborhood engagement.
OFFbeat
Tucked within Austin’s Mary Street Historic District, this inventive transformation of a 1930s cottage pairs preservation with a bold, nature-connected addition, demonstrating how adaptive reuse can celebrate history while creating a highly personal, climate-responsive home.
Palm Springs Homeless Navigation Center
In the California desert, this campus-like community reimagines transitional housing by combining adaptive reuse and modular construction to deliver dignified shelter, integrated services, and vibrant public spaces that support pathways to stability.
Pine Flat
Reached by a former stagecoach road in the hills northeast of Healdsburg, this off-grid home reclaims the remnants of a house lost to the 2019 Kincade Fire, transforming surviving concrete foundations into a wildfire-resilient, low-impact dwelling that quietly aligns with the ridgeline and the site’s mining-era history.
Spoonbill Ranch
Set within a working ranch landscape in coastal Texas, this climate-responsive residence integrates passive design, durable materials, and land stewardship strategies to support agricultural life while fostering a resilient, low-impact connection between architecture and ecology.
UC San Diego Theatre District Living & Learning Neighborhood
On a coastal site in La Jolla, this mixed-use student housing community transforms a former parking lot into a vibrant residential district, integrating landscape, wellness-focused design, and academic life to foster connection, belonging, and student success.
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