This award, recognizing architectural design of enduring significance, is conferred on a project that has stood the test of time for 25 to 35 years. The project must have been designed by an architect licensed in the United States at the time of the project's completion. AIA members, AIA components, and knowledge communities are urged to submit projects completed between 1974 and 1984 that have contributed meaningfully to American life and architecture. Past 25 Year Award recipients.

Submissions

2009 Honor Awards and Twenty-five Year Award Call for Entries

Institute Honor Awards Walk Through

Eligibility

• Any AIA member, group of members, component, or Knowledge Community may nominate a project for the Twenty-five Year Award.
• The award is open to architectural projects of all classifications and may be one building or a related group of buildings forming a single project.
• The project may be located either in the United States or abroad, must have been completed between 1974 and 1984, and must have been designed by an architect licensed in the United States at the time of the project’s completion.
• The project must be standing in a substantially completed form and in good condition.
• The project should still carry out the original program. Change of use is permitted when it has not basically altered original intent.
• The project must have excellence in function—in the distinguished execution of its original program and in the creative aspects of its statement by today's standards. Building and site together should be examined. Any alteration to the immediate context shall be taken into consideration. 
•Nominations previously submitted may be resubmitted provided they still meet the stipulated date of substantial completion of the original project. 

Jury

David Lake, FAIA, San Antonio (Chair)
Lake | Flato Architects

Carlton Brown, New York City 
Full Spectrum of New York

Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA, Los Angeles 
Lehrer Architects 

James J. Malanaphy, III, AIA, Juneau, AK
University of Alaska Southeast 

Paul Mankins, FAIA, Des Moines 
Substance Architecture Interiors Design

Anna McCorvey, Washington DC 
AIAS Director, Northeast Quad

Anne Schopf, FAIA, Seattle 
Mahlum Architects

Suman Sorg, FAIA, Washington DC 
Sorg and Associates, P.C.

Denise Thompson, Assoc. AIA, Philadelphia 
Francis Cauffman

Contact:
Elizabeth Henry
202-626-7563
ehenry@aia.org
1735 New York Avenue, NW
Washington DC

Sponsoring Organization:
The American Institute of Architects