Competition Details

Perkins+Will - 2016 Unbuilt Design Awards Winner

AIA Dallas Unbuilt Design Awards

Submit Your Unbuilt Design Awards Entry

ELIGIBILITY

  1. Entrant must be an AIA Dallas chapter or AIA Northeast Texas section member and licensed architect or a firm comprised of AIA Dallas members and licensed architects.
  2. The primary design must be originated by a local AIA Dallas chapter or AIA Northeast Texas section member. In the case of joint ventures and design collaborations, appropriate credit must be given in the submission regarding the responsibilities of each firm or individual.
  3. The entry cannot previously have been a winner in the category for which it is being submitted. For example, awarded Unbuilt projects could be submitted for a Built Design Award but cannot be resubmitted to Unbuilt.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The AIA Dallas Design Awards program is seeking entries responsive to beauty, poetry, context and previous condition, inspiration, process, environmental and social impact, economy and consumption.

The AIA Dallas Design Awards uses a paperless, electronic submission process.

  1. Each submission must recognize all firms and individuals involved in the design process.
  2. An Unbuilt entry may be any building design, conceptual or theory-based design study, interior architecture, restoration, or urban design/planning project for which the documentation has been complete since January 1, 2018.
  3. Release Waiver: By submitting an entry, entrants take full responsibility for the accuracy of all information submitted and warrant that all necessary permissions have been obtained from others who may have rights to the work. Entrants further acknowledge that no royalty or compensation is due to anyone, hold AIA Dallas, its sponsors, staff, consultants and members harmless from all liability and grant to AIA Dallas the non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce and distribute copies of the original entry.
  4. Each submittal must contain RGB JPEG slides (including RGB JPEG text and RGB JPEG plan files).
  5. The slides must have an exact height of 2400 pixels and an exact width of 3200 pixels (vertical views also have an exact height of 2400 pixels) – no exceptions.
  6. The maximum number of slides allowed is 10.
  7. The images should be named with a double-digit numerical sequence for viewing by the jury. Slides will also be on display in sequential order at the awards venue gallery. (i.e. “01.jpg” for the first image, “02.jpg” for the second image, etc.)
  8. Firm and photographer must not be listed on the slides. Entries that violate this requirement are subject to disqualification.
  9. Please consider text size and legibility when composing slides.

Submissions must include the following:

  1. Slides must include a site plan and/or floor plan, and any additional drawings to give the jury a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the entry (in the form of JPEG files).

NOTE: Entrants are no longer required to submit a project information sheet PDF.  This will be generated automatically from your online submission.  The first image of the entry slides will be used as the feature image on the project information sheet for the jurors' reference.  Please consider that when arranging the order of your entry slides.

ENTRY APPLICATION

Each submittal must consist of the following:

  1. Complete all form fields on the AIA Dallas Design Awards submission portal
    1. Entry title, location, and size
    2. Client’s name and address (when applicable)
    3. Names and addresses of the entrant/designer, the consultants, and others to receive credit; each entrant is responsible for giving proper credit where joint ventures, firm name changes or former partnerships are involved; disputes regarding credits may result in disqualification
    4. Date of design completion
  2. Up to 10 slides of project
  3. Complete the Project Narrative

The Design Awards Committee or the jury may make any interpretations that may be necessary to carry out the program’s intent.

ENTRY FEES

The Unbuilt entry fee must be submitted at the time of entry. The early bird submission fee is $180, and it is due by Friday, July 19, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. The fee for entries submitted after that time is $200. No entry fee will be refunded.

DEADLINES

We will begin accepting entries Monday, June 3, 2024.  Design award submissions are due by 11:59 p.m., Thursday, August 8, 2024. All materials stated above must be submitted at this time. No entries will be accepted after this time.

Submissions must be entered online: 
Please enter your information, submit your slides and Project Information Sheet through the Design Awards portal. 

QUESTIONS?

Feel free to contact AIA Dallas (214.742.3242) or the Design Awards Committee Leadership:
2024 Chair: Matthew Crummey, AIA matthew.crummey@perkinswill.com
2024 Vice Chair: Cassidy Jones, AIA cassidy.jones@pflugerarchitects.com

Unbuilt Design Awards Jurors

Neil Denari, FAIA

Neil Denari, FAIA

Principal, Neil M. Denari Architects

Neil M. Denari is principal of the Los Angeles based office Neil M. Denari Architects and is a Professor of Architecture at UCLA. He received his B. Arch from the University of Houston in 1980 and an M. Arch from Harvard in 1982. With NMDA, Denari has designed and built projects in Asia, North America, and Europe. In 2015, Denari was elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. He is the recipient of the AIA-LA Gold Medal in 2011, AIA-LA Educator of the Year in 2019, and was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2010. Denari is the author of Interrupted Projections (TOTO, 1996), Gyroscopic Horizons (Princeton, 1999), and Mass X (AADCU, 2018). He exhibits and lectures worldwide on his work.

Iman Fayyad

Iman Fayyad

Designer and Assistant Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Iman Fayyad is a designer and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she teaches and conducts research in spatial geometry with a focus on tectonics, construction, and representation. She is founding director of projectif, an award-winning research practice that explores architectural geometry’s relationship with material economy, sensory perception, and the politics of physical space and building practice. Her writing and design work have been published and exhibited in venues including the New York Times, Technology: Architecture and Design, Nexus Network Journal (Architecture and Mathematics), Log, Pidgin, Archinect, Yale Architecture Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art, citygroupNY, and the Roca Gallery in London. Her public work and research on zero-waste geometric construction techniques has been funded by grants through the MetLife Foundation and Lender Center for Social Justice, and has received recognition by the Architects’ Newspaper Best of Design Young Architects Prize, the ACSA Faculty Design Award, and Architizer’s Design For Good Award. She is a 2024 MacDowell Fellow.

Previously, Fayyad was Assistant Professor at Syracuse University where she coordinated the first-year design studio curriculum and taught courses in digital media. Her course on Projective Systems and Architectural Form, designed for the new Directed Research Program, was the recipient of the 2024 Britton Memorial Collaborative Research Prize. Fayyad has served on the faculty at MIT, Princeton, and Harvard, where she served as the faculty coordinator of the Digital Media Workshop Program, and where she was the inaugural John Irving Innovation Fellow. She was twice named the Architecture Faculty of the Year at Harvard University.

Fayyad holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from MIT (Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honors), and a Master in Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was the recipient of the AIA Certificate of Merit, Faculty Design Award, and the Araldo A. Cossutta Prize for Design Excellence. Prior to starting her own practice, she worked at offices in Boston, New York, and Paris.

Andrew McGee, AIA

Andrew McGee, AIA

Principal and Co-Founder, Format

Andrew is a principal and co-founder of Format. He is a LEED Accredited Professional, and an NCARB-certified architect, with registration in the state of New York. He contributes to the design of all architectural projects in the office and is equally adept at managing both the design and execution of a variety of project scales and types.

Prior to founding Format, Andrew gained over a decade of experience designing and delivering architectural projects in New York City at leading architectural firms like Studio Gang Architects and Deborah Berke Partners. At Studio Gang Architects he co-managed the design and programming for the Gilder Center extension at the American Museum of Natural History. Prior to that, he was a designer at Deborah Berke Partners, where he helped manage the design and delivery of a variety of residential projects in and around New York City, and was a project manager on the competition-winning design for the Cummins employee offices in Indianapolis, IN.

He holds a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of Michigan.