Submitter Support Office Hours | 2024 Honor Awards

New to submitting? Have limited capacity? Want direct support with the Common App for Design Excellence (for applicable BUILT submissions)?

Join the UW Integrated Design Lab and members of the Honor Awards Committee online for Submitter Support Office Hours on Thursday, September 5, 12:00-1:00pm PT.

Get started on your submission! Download the 2024 Call for Submissions + Guidelines and the 2024 Common App for Design Excellence, and visit the 2024 Honor Awards page for more info about submitting.

SUBMITTER SUPPORT OFFICE HOURS

Thursday, September 5 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM PT | Online

Additionally, the Integrated Design Lab is available by email until September 23 at 5:00pm PT. E-mail Teresa Moroseos (teresafm@uw.edu) with the subject line “AIA Seattle Common App.”

ABOUT THE COMMON APP FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE

Now in its fifth year, AIA Seattle is implementing an updated 2024 Common App for Design Excellence with changes to the Energy, Carbon, and Water measures. All applicable BUILT submitters are required to complete the Common App to the best of their ability. To qualify for the Energy in Design Award, the submitted project must meet the 2030 Challenge criteria or better. The Common App raises awareness of the Framework for Design Excellence and is a revolutionary opportunity to move toward design that supports climate action. Use thePerformance Statement to describe how sustainable design strategies elevate design excellence and the impact of your project!

Special thanks to the UW Integrated Design Lab and sponsor BetterBricks for their partnership on the Energy in Design Award.

DESIGNING A VIBRANT FUTURE

Every year, jurors praise submissions that clearly communicate the project story. What concepts and considerations drove the design? How did the design team creatively address the project parameters and client goals? What benefit or impact does the project create for its occupants and for the larger context? Ultimately, what makes this an award-winning project? We encourage submitters to use the project narrative, captions, and the inclusion of process work as opportunities to graphically tell a design story. Submit to start a dialogue with the jury.  

JURY CONSIDERATIONS

In addition to the jury’s own criteria, the AIA Seattle community has identified four considerations for the submission review process:

• Inspiration | How does the project manifest its stated intent–in form and function–revealing innovation in both thought and practice?
• Problem-solving | How does the project creatively address challenges inherent in its site, budget, program, materials, collaboration, and context? What are the organizing principles informing design?
• Environmental Sensitivity | How does the project exhibit serious intent to minimize negative environmental impact and enhance its relationship to the environment?
• Social Impact | How does the project engage the community in which it is situated? How does it help promote a vibrant, equitable, and just community?

We invite submitters to carefully consider how the jury will interpret one or more of these jury considerations in connection to the project’s design story.

QUESTIONS?

Please refer to the FAQs page before contacting the team with any additional questions.

Questions about Submitting? Contact Senior Programs Manager, Zoe Guckenheimer

Questions about attending the Live Event? Contact Senior Programs Coordinator, Andrea Aguilera

Sponsorship Questions? Contact Development Manager, Zee Mars

THANK YOU TO OUR 2024 HONOR AWARDS SPONSORS