Whether for young offices developing their own design language, or for established firms refining a sensibility or investigating new ideas, the successful residence is: home to client, showcase for design excellence.
Celebrating these projects are the AIA|LA Residential Architecture Awards (RAAs). This inclusive awards program invites work at all scales from firms of all sizes. Projects remain in the category they were submitted in and are compared to work of like scale.
RAAs showcase residential design by any AIA or Assoc. AIA member.
Registration Opens / Thursday, January 10
Registration Closes* / Tuesday, February 12 *Extended Until 2.21.19*
Submissions Due / Monday, March 11
Jury Day / Thursday, March 21
Awards Ceremony / Tuesday, April 30
Winning Projects Announced / Wednesday, May 1
You may submit any number of built projects for the AIA|LA RAAs.
Architects and associates may submit their own residence.
An entry will be eligible even though the submitting architect is not the sole author, providing the submitting architect credits all other participants who substantially contributed to the design of the project.
Projects by any 2019 AIA|LA RAA jury member (or that jury member's firm, regardless of location) are not eligible.
Projects must have been completed no earlier than January 1, 2015.
In order to submit, registration fees must be in receipt by the chapter office no later than Tuesday, February 12, 2019.
Detailed submittal requirements, including specifications for entry materials and template, will be sent to all entrants after registration closes.
All entries must include:
+A "blind" project presentation for jury review.
+A concealed ID form with project credits.
+A high-resolution project image, a selection of which may be used during the AIA|LA Residential Architecture Awards Ceremony and/or for publication and publicity.
All submissions will be due March 11, 2019.
Single-Family Residential (SFR): projects intended for single-family habitation.
- SFR Small: Up to 2,500 Sq. Ft.
- SFR Medium: Up to 5,000 Sq. Ft.
- SFR Large: 5,000 Sq. Ft. +
Adaptive Re-Use/Renovation/Historic Preservation (ARHP): residential projects that are designed in consideration of existing built conditions.
Retirement (R): residential complex designed for senior/assisted living
Affordable Housing (AH): projects defined as affordable housing by the US federal government.
*NEW* Additions and Accessory Dwelling Units (AD): Projects that add to, expand, or extend an existing residential building. Additional dwelling unit can be detached, or attached, to the primary structure. Can also be a repurposed existing space within a primary residence.
Multi-Unit Residential (MUR): projects intended for habitation by multiple tenants, including (but not limited to) condos, apartment buildings, co-ops, affordable housing, public housing, townhouses, duplexes, and/or small-lot projects.
- MUR Small: Up to 20 Units
- MUR Medium: Up to 50 Units
- MUR Large: 50 Units +