Residential design is the purview of a wide array of practices. From young offices developing their own design language to established firms refining a sensibility or investigating new ideas. Celebrating these firms and projects are the AIALA Residential Architecture Awards (RAAs). This inclusive awards program invites work at all scales from firms of all sizes. Projects remain in the category they were submitted in and are compared to work of like scale.
Categories
Multi-Unit Residential (MUR): projects intended for habitation by multiple tenants, including (but not limited to) condos, apartment buildings, co-ops, public housing, townhouses, duplexes, and/or small-lot projects, Retirement.
- MUR_S Small: Up to 20 Units
- MUR_M Medium: Up to 50 Units
- MUR_L Large: 50 Units +
Single-Family Residential (SFR): projects intended for single-family habitation.
- SFR_S Small: Up to 2,500 Sq. Ft.
- SFR_M Medium: Up to 5,000 Sq. Ft.
- SFR_L Large: 5,000 Sq. Ft.+
Adaptive Re-Use/Renovation/Historic Preservation (ARHP): residential projects that are designed in consideration of existing built conditions.
Additions and Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU): projects that add to, expand, or extend an existing residential building. Additional dwelling units can be detached, or attached, to the primary structure. Can also be a repurposed existing space within a primary residence.
Affordable Housing (AH): projects defined as affordable housing by the US federal government.
Alternative Housing (ALT): residential structures that are built or designed outside of the mainstream norm.
Sustainable Housing (SH): residential projects that are addressing climate-responsive, low-emissions, resilient design considerations.
Temporary Shelter (TS): Temporary housing or portable housing or modular housing to transition people from the streets to housing, or serve during environmental disasters.
Eligibility
AIALA Members and Non-Members may submit projects located in the greater Los Angeles area AND/OR AIALA Members may submit residential work completed anywhere in the world.
- You may register and submit any number of built projects for the AIALA RAAs.
- Architects and associates and non-members may submit their own residence.
- An entry will be eligible even though the submitting architect is not the sole author, providing the submitting architect credits all participants who substantially contributed to the design of the project.
- Projects by any 2022 AIALA RAA jury member (or that jury member’s firm, regardless of location) are not eligible.
- Projects must have been completed no earlier than January 1, 2018.
- In order to submit, registration fees must be paid via Submittable no later than Friday, March 11, 2022.
