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 2008 Submission Site
l Guide to Online Submission
l Photo Release Form l Eligibility of Projects
2008 Timeline
October 26 - Submission process opens
December 21- Deadline for entry
January - Jury reviews project entries
March 1 - All entrants are notified of results
April 1-3 - Selected projects are presented at School Building
Expo
May 15-17 - Selected projects are presented at the AIA National
Convention
Submission Fees
AIA Member - $500 per project
Non-member - $600 per project
Overview. The CAE Educational Facility
Design Awards program is a marketplace of ideas. Through this
forum, the committee disseminates quality ideas on educational
facility planning and design to clients, architects, and the
public. As we rethink and reshape what we do as architects, we must
evaluate and measure our successes and have an arena in which to
test ideas. This awards program is an opportunity to engage in
critical evaluation and experimentation, not as an end in itself,
but always in the context of our clients and their needs.
The CAE Educational Facility Design Awards identify, honor,
and disseminate the projects and ideas that exhibit innovation and
excellence by
- Enhancing the client's educational program through the
thoughtful planning and design of facilities
- Integrating function and aesthetics in designs that
respect the surrounding community and context
- Incorporating a planning/design process that is
educational and collaborative and builds the capacity of the school
and its community to support its students
- Creating a facility that is evironmentally responsive
This program has two primary areas of focus: the project area
and the forum of ideas.
Project area. The project area focuses on how
individual projects further the client's mission, goals, and
educational program. In this area, the entire story will be told
with respect to how each submitted project is conceived, planned,
designed, built, inhabited, and evaluated.
This area will portray quality within both the process and the
product. The best processes exhibit authentic collaboration between
the design team, the client, and the community as they work
together to fulfill the client's goals. These are projects that
show exemplary care in serving the client and ensuring a quality
built environment, both functionally, environmentally, and
aesthetically.
Forum of ideas. The forum of ideas will be a place
for experimentation, a planting bed for thoughts to nurture and
grow. The process of conceiving, planning, designing, and building
is a path of discovery, and the forum of ideas will be sufficiently
flexible to respond to the imagination of the participants. This
area will not necessarily showcase entire projects, but rather
select elements from projects.
Eligibility of
Projects
All entries must meet the following requirements:
- Educational facilities that are eligible for consideration
include domestic and international early childhood learning
environments (including Head Start); public, private, and parochial
elementary, middle/junior high, and high schools; alternative
schools (i.e., charter schools, magnet schools,
vocational/technical schools, and at-risk schools); innovative
learning centers (i.e., museum schools, environmental learning
centers, and high-tech learning environments); two-year technical
and community colleges; and corporate or other specialized training
centers
- Projects may include new construction, additions, and
renovations/modernizations.
- Master plans, including multiple sites and/or multiple phases,
will be considered.
- Projects may be in the process of design or construction, as
long as the renderings submitted clearly illustrate the built feel
of the final product.
- Submissions of commissioned and completed research projects are
encouraged; however, hypothetical projects are
not eligible.
- Individual designers, educational planners, academics, and
nonprofits other than architects are eligible to submit in the
Unique Learning Environment category and are highly encouraged to
participate. In all other categories, only projects designed by
architects licensed in North America are eligible.
- Projects will not be accepted from firms affiliated with a jury
member.
Winning Projects
2006-2007 Awards
2005–2006 Awards
2004–2005 Awards
2003–2004 Awards
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