Common App Office Hours w/ the UW Integrated Design Lab
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 Common App Office Hours on Thursday, September 7, 12:00-2:00pm PT.
Download the 2023 Call for Submissions + Guidelines and the 2023 Common App for Design Excellence, and visit the 2023 Honor Awards page for more info about submitting.
COMMON APP OFFICE HOURS w/ THE UW INTEGRATED DESIGN LAB
Thursday, September 7 | 12:00 – 2:00 PM PT | Online
Additionally, the Integrated Design Lab is available by email until September 26 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 fourth year, AIA Seattle is implementing an updated 2023 Common App for Design Excellence for use in the Energy in Design Award evaluation. 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 for all applicable BUILT submissions to move toward design that supports climate action. Use the Performance 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.
REDEFINE DESIGN
Every year, jurors praise submissions that reveal the story behind the marketing images. What concepts and considerations drove the design? How did the design team creatively address the project parameters and client goals? Did the true design intent materialize in the project? What is the project’s benefit or impact? 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 enhance the community in which it is situated? How does it help promote a vibrant and equitable 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?
Questions about Submitting? Contact AIA Seattle Programs Manager, Zoe Guckenheimer.
Questions about the Live Event? Contact AIA Seattle Senior Programs Coordinator, Andrea Aguilera.
Sponsorship Questions? Contact AIA Seattle Executive Director, Melissa K. Neher.
THANK YOU TO OUR 2023 HONOR AWARDS SPONSORS
Interior Tech | BetterBricks | Arup | Cairncross & Hempelmann | Coughlin Porter Lundeen | Fsi Engineers GLY | Hargis Engineers, Inc. | Inform Interiors | KPFF Consulting Engineers | Lane Powell | Magnusson Klemencic Associates | Malsam Tsang Structural Engineering | Pella Windows & Doors of Western Washington | Quantum Consulting Engineers | Sazan | Schultz Miller | Swenson Say Fagét | Gray | citizenM Pioneer Square | Fremont Brewing
