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Chair: Nathan Knutson, AIA
Staff Liaisons: Chris Hudson hudson@aia-mn.org and Stephanie Pelzer pelzer@aia-mn.org
Meeting Date: This committee meets at noon at the AIA office on the 2nd Thursday of the month
This year the AIA Minnesota Awards Committee is changing our name to the Committee on Design. Our group believes this small change will serve to inspire us to have a bigger impact on how the value of what architects do is perceived by the larger community. Equally important we believe we can add to the already rich tradition of the dialogue on design we’ve achieved with events like the Lake Superior Design Retreat and Summer Design Series and their role of inspiring our members. In addition to the traditional responsibilities of the Awards Committee, in 2007, the AIA Minnesota Committee on Design will assist the National Committee on Design in organizing the 2007 Committee on Design Conference occurring in the fall. 2007 is the AIA 150, an especially good moment in time to showcase what a great place the Twin Cities is to a national audience.
The committee continues to lead the AIA Minnesota Awards Program, ensuring the selection of award winners is made on the basis of exemplary design, sensitivity to human and functional needs, and sensitivity to the built environment. Submissions are judged either by the committee or a panel of chosen jurors outside of the committee.
2008 Awards Schedule
Award Forms and Information
Photo Gallery of the 2007 Awards Celebration
Photo Gallery of the 2006 Awards Celebration
All AIA Minnesota Honor Award Winners (PDF, 12 pages)
AIA Minnesota Awards
As a professional organization, AIA Minnesota provides an opportunity for Minnesota architects to be evaluated among their peers, gain recognition for their work, and promote exemplary design through this Award Program. The Program begins with the Young Architects Award in June and culminates with the announcement of Honor Award winners at the AIA Minnesota State Convention. The Awards Program comes to a close with an Awards Celebration to recognize the winners.
Award categories include: Young Architects, 25-Year, Honor, Special, Louis Lundgren, Gold Medal and Firm Awards. Each award competition occurs annually unless otherwise noted.
The Awards Committee Honor Award Jurors for 2008, good examples of the diversity in practice that the awards committee seeks, were:
Merrill Elam, FAIA, of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects (Atlanta, Georgia)
Bruce Fowle, FAIA, FXFowle Architects (New York City)
Sebastian Schmaling, AIA, Johnsen Schmaling Architects (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Firms or individuals known for their sustainable practices or projects are part of the diversity the committee seeks as this is a critical part of our professional practices, much like preservation, interiors, etc.
2008 Awards Schedule:
Young Architects Award:
Submissions were due May 2008
Judging June, 2008
25-Year Award:
Submissions were due July 18, 2008
Judging July, 2008
Special Award:
Submissions due September 12 (extended from August 1), 2008
Judging August 14, 2008
Louis Lundgren Award:
Nominations due September 26, 2008
Judging October 9, 2008
Honor Award:
Submissions due October 24, 2008
Judging Thursday, November 13, 2008
Firm Award and Gold Medal Award:
Gold Medal nominations were due in April 2008. If you have a firm to nominate for 2009, please contact Beverly Hauschild-Baron.
AWARD FORMS AND INFORMATION
Young Architects Award
Dates:
Nominations next received in May 2009.
2008 Young Architects Award Nomination Form (pdf)
2008 Young Architects Award Criteria (pdf)
2008 Young Architects Award Form (pdf)
This award, modeled after the national AIA's Young Architects Award program, is given to individuals who, in an early stage of their architectural career, have shown exceptional leadership in service to the profession, the community, design, planning, and/or education. Those eligible include members of the AIA Minnesota who have been licensed to practice architecture less than 10 years are eligible to be nominated. (The term "young architect" has no reference to the age of nominee.) Winners of the Minnesota award are reviewed by the AIA Minnesota Board of Directors and considered for nomination for the national award program.
Nancy Blankfard, AIA (HGA), John Dwyer, AIA (Shelter Architecture), Matt Kreilich, AIA (Julie Snow Architects), and Michael Schellin, AIA (Kodet Architectural Group) received the 2008 AIA Minnesota Young Architects Award. Read the 2008 Young Architects Award Press Release (pdf).
Paul Buum, AIA, received the 2007 AIA Minnesota Young Architects Award. Read the 2007 Young Architects Award Press Release (pdf).
Paul Whitenack, AIA, received the 2006 AIA Minnesota Young Architects Award. Read the 2006 Young Architects Award Press Release (pdf).
25-Year Award
Dates:
Entries next received in July 2009.
2008 25-Year Entry Form (pdf)
2008 25-Year Final Submittal Instructions (pdf)
The 25-Year Award recognizes completed building projects, including individual buildings or groups of buildings, completed at least 25 but not more than 50 years ago. The projects must have been designed by firms with architects registered and practicing professionally in Minnesota.
The Breck Chapel of the Holy Spirit in Golden Valley, MN, designed by John Cuningham, FAIA, and John Quiter, AIA, of Cuningham Group Architecture, is the recipient of the 2008 AIA Minnesota 25-Year Award. Read the 2008 25-Year Award Press Release (pdf).
The Colonial Church of Edina has won AIA Minnesota’s prestigious 25-Year Award for 2007. Richard F. Hammel, FAIA, of Minneapolis firm Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc, and his team designed the Colonial Church of Edina in the late 1970s. Read the 2007 25-Year Award Press Release (pdf).
Special Award
Dates:
Nominations next received in September 2008
2008 Special Award Nomination Form (pdf)
The Special Award is an award category that has become an increasingly important part of the Awards Program. There is a strong need to encourage, stimulate and recognize exceptional contributions of individuals and organizations improving the quality of our physical environment.
Year 2006 winners of the Special Award include: Shane Coen, Coen + Partners; Metropolitan Council, for the Hiawatha Line Light-Rail stations; Andrzej Piotrowski, Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota; The Assembly of Architects, for fostering and promoting architecture and design; Robert Michaud, P.E., Michaud Cooley Erickson; and Tom Schwab, M.A. Mortenson Company.
View the 2006 Special Award Press Release (pdf).
Louis Lundgren Award
Dates:
Nominations next received in September 2008
2008 Louis Lundgren Award Form (pdf)
AIA Minnesota seeks to encourage, stimulate and recognize exceptional individual volunteerism. Volunteering is a member's purest means of giving something back to the profession and community. The individual should exemplify unfailing commitment to the goals of AIA Minnesota, foster the advancement of the Institute at a national or regional level, and be a leader to the public. Any member of AIA Minnesota may nominate candidates providing the candidate is a member of AIA Minnesota for a period of not less than ten years and a member in good standing at the time of nomination. Emeritus members and self-nominations are eligible. Richard Faricy, FAIA, was the 2005 Louis Lundgren Award recipient and Keith Sjoquist, AIA, Sjoquist Architects, was the 2006 Louis Lundgren Award recipient.
View the 2006 AIA Minnesota Louis Lundgren Award Press
Release (pdf).
View the 2005 AIA Minnesota Louis Lundgren Award Press
Release (pdf).
Honor Award
Dates:
Submissions due Friday, October 24, 2008
Judging on Thursday, November 13, 2008
2008 Honor Award Form (pdf)
2008 Honor Award Final Submittal Instructions (pdf)
2008 Instructions to Jury (pdf)
The jury recruited for this competition has national and international credibility, giving the award-winning architects and the public an idea of the caliber of work created by Minnesota architects and how they rate on a worldwide scale.
View the 2007 Honor and Divine Detail Award Press Release (pdf)
View the 2006 Honor and Divine Detail Award Press Release (pdf)
View the 2005 Honor and Divine Detail Award Press
Release (pdf)
Images:
View the winning projects of the 2007 Honor Awards
View the winning projects of the 2006 Honor Awards
View the winning projects of the 2005 Honor Awards
View the winning projects of the 2004 Honor Awards.
View the winning projects of the 2003 Honor Awards.
Gold Medal Award
Dates:
Nominations next received in April 2010
AIA Minnesota's highest award bestowed on an individual member. It serves as recognition for a lifetime of distinguished achievement and significant contributions to architecture. The 2008 recipient is David Salmela, FAIA. Salmela, founding principal of Salmela Architect in Duluth, MN, established in 1994, is a self-trained architect and modernist, sensitive to the Minnesota vernacular. His work has won 42 regional and national level awards.
View 2008 Gold Medal Press Release (PDF)
View 2006 Gold Medal Press Release (PDF)
View 2004 Gold Medal Press Release (PDF)
Firm Award
Dates:
Nominations next received in April 2009.
In 2005, AIA Minnesota reorganized the selection process for determining the AIA Minnesota Firm Award and the AIA Minnesota Gold Medal Award. In an effort to involve more members in the process we have created a Selection Committee, which consists of Board Members, Fellows, previous Firm/Gold Medal Award recipients and the Chair of the Awards Committee.
The 2007 Firm Award honored Elness Swenson Graham Architects. The firm, established in 1973, was selected for this award based on the tremendous impact they have had on the Twin Cities and the region in the area of urban design, residential and mixed-use housing. The firm is unparalleled in this area and has made a significant contribution to the communities in which they have worked. They have shown design leadership in their considerable work with developers, clearly ascending in the past ten years to their current stature.
View the 2007 AIA Minnesota Firm Award Press
Release (pdf).
The 2005 Firm Award honored SALA Architects, Inc. With three Twin Cities area offices, SALA specializes in creating homes and other environments as better places to live. Since 1983 they have served many clients across the state and country, won numerous awards, and have been featured in newspaper, magazine, radio and television articles. Learn more about SALA…
View the 2005 AIA Minnesota Firm Award Press
Release (pdf).
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