2025 AWARDS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS
AIA South Dakota invites your participation in the 2025 AIA South Dakota Design Awards program. The program is open to all AIA South Dakota architect members. Awards may be submitted as an individual AIA SD member or as a firm with a key project member (e.g. Architect of Record, Architect-in-Charge, Design Architect, etc.) as an AIA SD member. The submitted project must also be located in South Dakota.
Design Awards submissions are due by 5 p.m. CT/4 p.m. MT on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. This year's categories are Architecture: Large Project, Architecture: Small Project, and Master Planning & Community Design (the 2025 rolling category).
Click here to download the 2025 AIA SD Design Awards submittal instructions and full requirements.
2025 NOMINATED AWARDS
For the AIA SD 2025 Nominated Awards, nominations will be accepted for the Young Architect Award, Legacy Award and Associate Award until 5 p.m. CT/4 p.m. MT on Friday, July 11, 2025. Click here for more info.
The juror panel for the 2024 AIA SD Design Awards was led by Tim Schroeder, FAIA, CDT, CXMP, LEED AP, President of Neumann Monson Architects. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries in the three award categories — Architecture - Large Project, Architecture - Small Project and a Rolling Category — Preservation & Adaptive Reuse.
The juror panel for the 2023 AIA SD Design Awards was led by Kate Schwennsen, FAIA, Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the School of Architecture, Clemson University. Also serving as jurors were Thomas Savory, FAIA, LEED AP, NCARB, a principal and higher education design director with McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture, and Jane Frederick, FAIA, LEED AP, a principal at Frederick + Frederick Architects who had served as the 96th president of the American Institute of Architects. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries in the three award categories — Architecture - Large Project, Architecture - Small Project and a Rolling Category — Best Moment.
The juror panel for the 2022 AIA SD Design Awards was led by Jeffrey Day, FAIA, founding principal of Actual Architecture Co., assembling a team of three to judge 19 South Dakota entries. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries in the three award categories — Architecture - Large Project, Architecture - Small Project and a Rolling Category — Master Planning & Community Design.
2021 HONOR AWARD goes to:
The juror for the 2020 AIA SD Design Awards was Matt Kreilich, FAIA, of Snow Kreilich, an AIA Firm of the Year honoree.