2022 Honors + Design Awards

Congratulations to this year’s winners!!!

Images above are from our Design Award Winners

For more about our Honors + Design Awards winners > read our Winter Newsletter

Design Award Recipients:

Architecture Design: After Architecture, LLC | Tangential Timber

Architecture Design: VMDO Architects | Lubber Run Community Center

Contextual Design: Cunningham Quill Architects | Dairy Market

Residential Design: Two Street Studios | 1125 Commerce

Student + Emerging Architect: University of Virginia School of Architecture | Circular Chromatics

Chapter Honors Recipients:

Milton Latour Grigg Award: W. Douglas Gilpin Jr., FAIA

Chapter Honors: Phoebe Crisman, AIA

Community Service Award: Building Goodness Foundation

Community Service Award: Carl Schwarz

Young Activist Award: Hayley Owens, Assoc. AIA

2022 Design Jury (Thank you!):

Jury Chair: Julie Nelson, AIA | BKSK Architects

Jury Members:

Craig Borum, FAIA | ply+

Margaret Cavenagh, AIA | Studio Gang


2020 Honors + Awards Winners

Design Award Recipients:

Architecture Design, Honor: Parabola | Goggle at 1212 Bordeau

Architecture, Merit: VMDO | Virginia Wesleyan University Greer Environmental Science Center

Architecture, Merit: VMDO | Bluestone Elementary School

Residential, Honor: Bushman Dreyfus | Mossy Rock

Residential, Merit: Formwork | Log Cabin Addition

Residential, Honorable Mention: BRW | Southwood Trailer Park

Interiors, Honor: Parabola | San Francisco Tech Company

Interiors, Merit: Bushman Dreyfus | Live Arts Lobby

Interiors, Merit: Bushman Dreyfus | 118 E. Main Apartment w Stair

Contextual Design, Merit: Bushman Dreyfus : 600 West Main

Student + Emerging Architects, Merit: Junyi Wu, Kaiyuan Zhu, & Wenjin Xue - University of Virginia School of Architecture | Redefining Street Space, Shanghai

Student + Emerging Architects, Merit: Katie MacDonald, Associate AIA; Kyle Schumann - After Architecture | Camp Barker Memorial


Chapter Honors Recipients:

Milton L. Grigg Award: John “Jay” Dagliesh

Chapter Honors: Kurt Keesecker

Chapter Honors: Jody Lahendro

Chapter Honors: Fred Wolf

Community Service Award: Dan Rosensweig

Young Activist in Architecture Award: Whitney McDermott


2020 Honors + Awards Committee

Committee Chair: Phoebe Crisman, AIA

Committee Members:

Liz Sloan, AIA

Karim Habbab, Assoc. AIA

Allison Ewing, AIA

Bruce Wardell, AIA


2020 DESIGN JURY

Jury Chair: Judith Kinnard, FAIA | Tulane University

Jury Members:

Jonathan Tate, AIA | Office of Jonathan Tate

Paula Peer, AIA | Trapolin-Peer Architects


2018 Honors + Awards Winners

Design Award Recipients:

HONOR: VMDO Architects | Lynchburg City Stadium Renovation

HONOR: VMDO Architects | Brooks Family YMCA

MERIT: Hays + Ewing Design Studio | Linkhorn Bay House

MERIT: Grimm + Parker Architects | Sterling Branch Library

HONORABLE MENTION: VMDO Architects | Georgia Institute of Technology Glenn and Towers Residence Halls

HONORABLE MENTION: VMDO Architects | Harrisonburg City Public Schools Elon W. Rhodes Early Learning Center

HONORABLE MENTION: Hays + Ewing Design Studio | Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia

HONORABLE MENTION: Stantec | Frederick County Middle School

HONORABLE MENTION: Alloy Workshop |Vitae Spirits



Chapter Honors Recipients:

Milton Latour Grigg Award: Edward R. Ford, AIA

Chapter Honors Award: Karen Van Lengen, FAIA

Chapter Honors Award: Daniel Zimmerman, AIA

Community Service Award: Frank Dukes, Ph. D., AIA



2018 DESIGN JURY

Jury Chair: Richard Maimon, FAIA | KieranTimberlake

Jury Members:

Kiki Bolender, FAIA | Boldender Architects

Mark Kocent, AIA | University of Pennsylvania

Jeff Goldstein, AIA | Digsau


2016 Honors + Awards Winners

Chapter Honors Recipients:

Milton Latour Grigg Award: Richard Crozier, AIA

Chapter Honors Award: Craig Swift, AIA

Community Service Award: Ed Ford, AIA

Young Activist Award: Ariel Chelsea, UVA AIAS


AIA CV HONORS + AWARDS is a bi-annual event


Our next call for entries will be in 2024. Our sincere thanks goes out to the firms who submitted projects this year, the Honors + Awards Committee, and the Design Awards Jury.

Design Awards

There are six categories in the Design Awards:  Architecture, Contextual Design, Historic Preservation, Interiors, Residential Design, and Students and Emerging Architects.  Within the six categories, submitted projects may be completed as well as envisioned or unbuilt projects.  

The jury may select as many projects as they choose in each category for awards of Honor, Merit, and Honorable Mention.

Chapter Honors

The Chapter gives awards in four areas of practice:

The Milton Latour Grigg Award is the highest award bestowed on a member architect, to honor a distinguished, sustained, body of accomplishments.  Award winner’s work spans the spectrum of the profession and transcends the scope of normal professional activities. 

The Chapter Honors are given to members of the Central Virginia Chapter of the AIA who have distinguished themselves in design, practice, education, in service to the profession, or as a “citizen architect”.  This Honor can serve as an accolade for the work of an entire career, or as recognition of the current accomplishments of a younger leader. Up to three awards may be bestowed each year.

The Community Service Award is the Chapter award honoring an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to the built environment or the public’s awareness of the built environment within Central Virginia.

The Young Activist in Architecture Award is awarded in recognition of the key role architects play in shaping our communities, and in particular, the energy with which young professionals are engaging in community activism. The award seeks to honor individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to their community early in their careers. Nominees must be AIA members in good standing for less than 10 years.