The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has opened entries for the international 2022 Brick in Architecture Awards, featuring a new category for thin brick projects. As the nation’s leading architectural design competition featuring fired-clay brick, all submissions must use clay brick as the project’s primary building material. Entrants of the competition must be either an architect or designer employed by an architectural, design-build or landscaping design firm.
As per the 2022 Brick in Architecture Awards competition rules, eligible projects include any work of architecture completed since January 1st, 2017, in which new clay brick products comprise the predominant exterior building or paving material (over 50 percent) including face or hollow brick, building brick, thin brick, paving brick, glazed brick, structural glazed facing tile, new clay brick products in special shapes and/or a combination of these. An overall Craftsmanship Award will honour a mason or team of masons with exceptionally artful or unique installation.
Entries must be submitted in one or more of the following categories:
- Commercial
- Education – K-12
- Education – Colleges & Universities (Higher Education)
- Residential – Single Family
- Residential – Multi-Family
- Thin Brick
- Paving & Landscape Projects
- Historic Renovation
- International (Projects outside of the US, Canada or a U.S. territory must be entered in this category)