Twenty-five Year Award

Entrants

• AIA chapters, Knowledge Communities, and members may submit nominations.

Projects

• Must have been completed between 1990 and 2000.
• Must have been designed by a U.S.-licensed architect at the time of the project’s completion.
• Must be in a substantially completed form, in good condition, and not fundamentally altered from its original intent.

Submission schedule: 

For more information on opening and deadline dates, please see AIA Awards FAQ.

Entries must demonstrate excellence in function, both in their original form and by today’s standards.

The jury will examine the building and site and will take into consideration any alteration to the immediate context.

There is no entry fee for this program.

Submission process: Visit the submission site for full submission details prior to the deadline. After logging in, you may view the entire submission site, and save your submission as you work to complete it. You will not be asked to pay until your submission is complete. A sample application can be viewed here: 25-year Award Sample Application. Please note that this is a sample and is designed to give the submitter an idea of what to expect in the application, this is not a final version. Please see the online application for the final version.

2024 Jury for Twenty-five Year Award

The Institute Honor Awards for Architecture Jury selects the recipient of the Twenty-five Year Award.

Norio Tsuchiya, AIA, Chair, Devenney Group, Ltd., Architects, Phoenix

Teonna Cooksey, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, New York

Nolman Davis, Assoc. AIA, Eppstein Uhen Architects, Milwaukee

Collete English Dixon, Roosevelt University, Chicago

Mollica Manandhar, AIA, Payette, Boston

Jerryn McCray, AIA, Jerryn J. McCray, Archirect, Baltimore

Annya Ramirez-Jimenez, AIA, Marvel Architects, New York

Yimeng Teng, AIA, Ro | Rockett Design, Los Angeles

2024 The Tokyo International Forum 

2023 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Gehry Partners, LLP

2022 Chapel of St. Ignatius, Steven Holl Architects 

2021 Burton Barr Phoenix Central Library, Will Bruder Architects | DWL Architects 

2020 Conjunctive Points -- The New City, Eric Owen Moss Architects 

2019 Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. 

2017 Grand Louvre - Phase I, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners 

2016 Monterey Bay Aquarium; EHDD

2015 Broadgate Exchange House; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

2014 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit - METRO; Harry Weese & Associates

2013 The Menil Collection; Renzo Piano Building Workshop

2012 Gehry Residence, Santa Monica; Gehry Partners LLP

2011 John Hancock Tower, Boston, Mass.; I.M. Pei & Partners

2010 King Abdul Aziz International Airport - Hajj Terminal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

2009 Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Cambridge, Mass.; Benjamin Thompson & Associates

2008 The Atheneum, New Harmony, Ind.; Richard Meier & Partners 

2007 Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.; Maya Lin, Designer; Cooper-Lecky Architects, Architect of Record

2006 Thorncrown Chapel, Eureka Springs, Ark., E. Fay Jones, FAIA

2005 Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., Louis I. Kahn, FAIA

2004 East Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; I.M. Pei & Partners, Architects

2003 Design Research Headquarters Building, Cambridge, Mass; BTA Architects (formerly known as Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Inc.)

2002 Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain; Sert Jackson and Associates

2001 Weyerhaeuser Headquarters, Federal Way, Wash.; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

2000 The Smith House, Darien, Conn.; Richard Meier & Partners

1999 The John Hancock Center, Chicago, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

1998 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Louis I. Kahn, FAIA

1997 Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, N. H., Louis I. Kahn, FAIA

1996 The Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel, Colorado Springs, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

1995 The Ford Foundation Headquarters, New York City, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates 

1994 The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, Edward Larrabee Barnes

1993 Deere & Company Administrative Center, Moline, Ill., Eero Saarinen and Associates

1992 The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., Louis I. Kahn, FAIA

1991 Sea Ranch Condominium I, The Sea Ranch, Calif., Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker

1990 The Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Missouri, Eero Saarinen and Associates

1989 Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, Pa., Robert Venturi, FAIA

1988 Dulles International Airport Terminal Building, Chantilly, Va., Eero Saarinen and Associates

1987 Bavinger House, Norman, Okla., Bruce Goff

1986 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, Frank Lloyd Wright

1985 General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Mich., Eero Saarinen and Associates with Smith, Hinchman & Grylls

1984 Seagram Building, New York City, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

1983 Price Tower, Bartlesville, Okla., Frank Lloyd Wright

1982 Equitable Savings and Loan Building, Portland, Oreg., Pietro Belluschi, FAIA 

1981 Farnsworth House, Plano, Ill., Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

1980 Lever House, New York City, Skidmore, Owings & Merril LLP

1979 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., Louis I. Kahn, FAIA

1978 The Eames House, Pacific Palisades, Calif., Charles and Ray Eames

1977 Christ Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Saarinen, Saarinen & Associates; Hills, Gilbertson & Hays

1976 860-880 North Lakeshore Drive Apartments, Chicago, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

1975 Philip Johnson's Residence, ("The Glass House"), New Caanan, Conn., Philip Johnson

1974 Johnson and Son Administration Building, Racine, Wis., Frank Lloyd Wright

1973 Taliesin West, Paradise Valley, Ariz., Frank Lloyd Wright

1972 Baldwin Hills Village, Los Angeles, Reginald D. Johnson; Wilson, Merrill & Alexander; Clarence S. Stein

1971 The Crow Island School, Winnetka, Ill., Perkins, Wheeler & Will; Eliel & Eero Saarinen 

1969 Rockefeller Center, New York City, Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray

Learn more about past winners.