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Special Awards Categories & Eligibility
Architecture Firm Award
Every year, AIA Pennsylvania recognizes one firm whose passion and practice have produced notable architecture for at least a decade. Deserving firms will have demonstrated excellence in design and leadership through any combination of the following criteria: the breadth and/or depth of their portfolio, a healthy firm culture, influence on the practice of architecture, exemplary outcomes for clients and/or society.
ELIGIBILITY: Firms with at least one AIA Pennsylvania principal owner that have been in operation for ten (10) years. Current AIA Pennsylvania Board Members’ firms are ineligible.
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS: Firms may entirely self-nominate if they fit all eligibility criteria. The primary nominator named should be a principal owner of the firm that maintains AIA membership.
Medal of Distinction
The Medal of Distinction is the highest award bestowed by AIA Pennsylvania upon a living AIA Pennsylvania member. The recipient shall have made contributions to architecture that transcend local boundaries and have been of benefit to the profession and citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
ELIGIBILITY: AIA Pennsylvania members. Current AIA Pennsylvania Board Members are ineligible.
Social Impact Award
Formerly the Impact Designer Award
The Social Impact Award recognizes a wide range of design disciplines held together by a common goal to design and create a better world through innovative, scalable, and measurable solutions. Impact design is rooted in the core belief that design can be used to create positive social, environmental, and economic change, and focuses on actively measuring impact to inform and direct the design process.
ELIGIBILITY: AIA Pennsylvania members, architecture firms with at least one AIA Pennsylvania principal owner, or allied organizations with employees ineligible for AIA Pennsylvania membership.
Young Architect Award
Formerly the Emerging Professional Award
The Young Architect Award seeks to recognize the exceptional achievements and future promise of a licensed architect and to promote their continuing development. The applicant’s contribution to the profession can be through one or more of the following: design excellence, leadership in practice, leadership in education, or service to the profession or society.
ELIGIBILITY: Registered architect members of AIA Pennsylvania whose date of initial licensure is less than 10 years ago, as of the date of the submission deadline.
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS: A letter of recommendation endorsed by the primary nominator (AIA PA member) or another AIA PA member.
Emerging Professional Award
Formerly the Associate Award
The Emerging Professional Award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, creativity, and significant contributions to their communities, the architecture profession, and the AIA.
ELIGIBILITY: AIA Pennsylvania Associate members who have completed their academic studies up to the point of licensure or up to 10 years after completion of their academic studies
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS: A formal letter of recommendation should be endorsed by the primary nominator (AIA PA member) or another AIA PA member.
Raymond J. Sinagra Allied Trades Award
The Allied Trades Award, renamed in 2019 in honor of Raymond J. Sinagra’s collaborative, whatever-it-takes spirit and dedication to the AEC community, is presented for contributions to the built environment by a contractor, developer, civil engineer, or other allied professional. The award honors those professionals who bring architects’ work into reality and who uphold the tenets of design, sustainability and collaboration.
ELIGIBILITY: Non-member allied professionals and firms/companies/organizations including AIA PA allied members and preferred partners.
Contribution to the Profession by a Non-Architect Award
The Contribution to the Profession by a Non-Architect Award honors individuals, corporations, associations, or other groups who do not practice architecture. Recipients will be cited for their direct contributions to the profession such as a building program, a public works project, publications, theoretical or applied research in zoning, urban design, interiors, planning, energy conservation, preservation, restoration transportation, industrial design, artistic endeavors, or other significant disciplines which have had a strong influence on the field of architecture.
ELIGIBILITY: Non-member professionals and firms/companies/organizations.
Government Award
The Government Award is given in recognition of significant contributions to, or particular support of, the profession and business of Architecture and/or the built environment. Anyone working in state or local government such as legislators, department secretaries, township officials, etc. are eligible for the award as an individual or specified group.
ELIGIBILITY: Individual or specified group working in state or local government, such as a legislator, state, or township official, etc.
50 Year Timeless Architecture Award
The 50 Year Timeless Architecture Award recognizes a building that has endured the test of time and still resonates with the design community and the public.
ELIGIBILITY: Buildings must be at least fifty (50) years old established from the date of completion to the date of the submission deadline and be located in the State of Pennsylvania.