Collaborative Achievement Award
The Collaborative Achievement Award recognizes the achievements of allied professionals and architect teams that have advanced the architectural profession.
For more information on opening and deadline dates, please see the AIA Awards FAQ.
Recognizing allied professional achievements
The field of architecture does not evolve solely through the work of architects. The Collaborative Achievement Award recognizes the achievements of allied professionals and architect teams which have advanced the architectural profession.
The Collaborative Achievement Awards recognize the excellence that results when architects work with those from outside the profession to improve the spaces where people live and work.
Shared dedication and distinguished achievement earn this award, whose past recipients have included the Post-Sandy Initiative and the National Building Museum.
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Below is high-level information about the program criteria to help you determine if you are a good fit for the Collaborative Achievement program. For full criteria and guidelines, please refer to the submission guide in the Resources tab.
Eligibility
Individuals or organizations responsible for an individual achievement or body of work that relates to or influences architecture.
Individual nominees may be living or dead at the time of submission.
Nomination
Any AIA member in good standing, AIA Components, and AIA Knowledge Communities may make nominations for the Collaborative Achievement Award.
Nominator responsibilities
If your nominator is an individual, they must affirm that neither they nor their firm employs unpaid intern architects, including working students (as defined in Section 11.0 of the AIA Rules of the Board).
Nominators are required to write a letter of support for the candidate that introduces the submission. Nominators also assist the candidate by acting as a point of contact for the reference writers and providing guidance as needed.
Recognition
Recognition for this program typically includes the following elements but may be subject to change. Recipients will receive additional information about this cycle’s recognition benefits with their selection notification.
- Promotional recognition in AIA communication channels.
- Invitation for the recipient or a recipient representative to attend selected Honors & Awards event celebrations, commonly held during the annual AIA Conference on Architecture & Design.
Schedule & fees
For more information on opening and deadline dates, please see AIA Awards FAQ.
- Notification to recipients: Late January 2025
- Public announcement: Early March 2025
Fee: There is no fee for this program.
2024 Jury
Yanitza Brongers-Marrero, FAIA, Chair, Moody Nolan, Columbus, Ohio
Imani Day, AIA, RVSN Studios, Detroit
Christopher Elcock, AIA, GWWO Architects, Baltimore
Petrina Gooch, Assoc. AIA, HED, Los Angeles
Rusty Smith, Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.
Contacting the jury
To protect the integrity of the awards process, active nominees are prohibited from contacting members of the Jury during the submission process. Communication with jurors, from the time of submittal to completion of the jury process, by the candidate or anyone acting on their behalf is cause for immediate disqualification.
Submission guide & forms
The 2024 Collaborative Achievement sample application contains the program's criteria, guidelines, and a preview of the fields you will be asked to complete on the submission site.
The DQ checklist includes potential criteria that can result in disqualification. Use it to cross-check your materials before you hit the submit button.
Previous submission examples
Reviewing previous submissions can be helpful as you prepare your materials. To request a copy of a submission not listed here, you can email our archivist.
2023 Parks for Downtown Dallas
Past winners
2022
AIA New York Unified Task Force City and State
University of Arkansas Community Design Center
Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Hon. AIA
Collaborative Achievement 2022
2021
2020
Robert Silman Structural Engineers
Global Design Initiative For Refugee Children
Collaborative Achievement 2020
2019
Collaborative Achievement 2019
2018
Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute funded by Enterprise Community Partners
Collaborative Achievement 2018
2017
The Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship
Collaborative Achievement 2017
2016
George Smart, North Carolina Modernist Houses
2015
The Lyceum Fellowship, Inc.
Transsolar KlimaEngineering
2014
ACE Mentor Program of America, Inc.
National Building Museum
Post-Sandy Initiative
Rick Smith
2013
DiscoverDesign.org, Chicago Architecture Foundation
DC Preservation League
Palm Springs Modern Committee
2012
cultureNOW
Rice Design Alliance
2011
Active Design Guidelines
Dallas Architecture Forum
Louis Poulsen Lighting Inc.
Peter Lindsay Schaudt
Walter J. Hood, Jr.
2010
Alaska Design Forum
The Architect’s Newspaper
Texas Architect
2009
Peter Aaron
The Architecture Handbook: A Student Guide to Understanding Buildings
Guy Nordenson
Metropolis Magazine
DOCOMOMO US
Berkeley Prize
2007
The Association for Preservation Technology International
Bryan Bell
Francis D.K. Ching
Directory of African American Architects
Office of the Chief Architect’s Design Excellence Program
Thomas S. Hines, PhD
Harvard Design Magazine
Public Architecture
Witold Rybczynski
2005
ArchVoices
Randall Arendt
John James
Barbara A. Nadel, FAIA
Schoolyards to Skylines
Chicago Architectural Foundation
2003
Kathyrn H. Anthony, PhD
Herve Descottes
Gilbert Gorski
Jayne Merkel
J. Irwin Miller, Hon. AIA
Joan Ockman
Martin Puryear
New York New Visions
The Robin Hood Foundation
2001
Vernon L. Mays, Jr.
John R. Stilgoe
2000
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Douglas Cooper
Dr. Christopher Jaffe
Donald Kaufman and Taffy Dahl
William Lam, Assoc. AIA
San Antonio Conservation Society
F. Michael Wong, PhD, FAIA, FRAIA, RIBA
1999
Howard Brandston
Jeff Goldberg
Ann E. Gray/Balcony Press
Blair Kamin
Ronald McKay
Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
Gianfranco Monacelli/Monacelli Press
New York Landmarks Conservancy
1998
Lian Hurst Mann, PhD, AIA
SOM Foundation
William Morgan, FAIA
1997
Architecture Resource Center
1996
Boston by Foot Inc.
William S. Donnell
Haley & Aldrich Inc.
Toshio Nakamura, Hon. FAIA
Joseph Passonneau, FAIA, ASCE
Preservation Society of Charleston
Earl Walls Associates
Paul Warchol Photography Inc.
1995
The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Architecture
ASAP (The American Society of Architectural Perspectivists)
Friends of Post Office Square
The University of Virginia, Curator and Architect for the Academical Village/The Rotunda
Albert Paley
UrbanArts, Inc.
Dr. Yoichi Ando
1994
Joseph H. Baum
Beth Dunlop
Mildred Friedman
Historic Savannah Foundation
Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission
Salvadori Educational Center on the Built Environment
Gordon H. Smith
The Stuart Collection
Sunset Magazine
Judith Turner
1993
ADPSR (Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility)
Michael Blackwood
The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico
Benjamin Forgey
The Gamble House
Philadelphia Zoological Society
The Princeton University Board of Trustees, Officers and the Office of Physical Planning
Jane Thompson
Sally B. Woodbridge
World Monuments Fund
1992
Siah Armajani
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Stephen Coyle
Milton Glaser
The Mayors' Institute on City Design
The Municipal Art Society of New York
John Julius Norwich
Ove Arup & Partners Consulting Engineers PC
Peter Vanderwarker
Peter Walker
1991
James Fraser Carpenter
Danish Design Centre
Foundation for Architecture, Philadelphia
The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Maguire Thomas Partners
Native American Architecture (Robert Easton and Peter Nabokov)
Princeton Architectural Press
Seaside, Florida
Allan Temko
Lebbeus Woods
1990
The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Corning Incorporated
Jackie Ferrara
Timothy Hursley
Marvin Mass
Mary Miss
Peter G. Rolland
Joseph Santeramo
Taos Pueblo
Emmet L. Wemple
*honored posthumously
For recipients prior to 1990, please contact the AIA Library and Archives at (202) 626 7496.
