As members of the Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA), the RAIC is pleased to announce that their awards program that is open for submissions.
The 2024 CAA Award Programme aims to recognize the outstanding work of architects and students addressing contemporary challenges such as climate change, rapid urbanization, and an associated increase in vulnerability, inequality, and biodiversity loss.
The Award Categories are as follows:
Lifetime Achievement
• CAA Lifetime Achievement Award (also known as the CAA Robert Matthew Lifetime Achievement Award): The CAA Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a Commonwealth architect, or architectural practice, whose body of work is considered to have made a significant impact on the advancement of architecture in the Commonwealth over a number of years.
Professional Practice
• CAA Environmental Impact Award: The CAA Environmental Impact Award will recognize work in any sector which can demonstrate having achieved a significant positive environmental impact in areas such as circular economy, energy & carbon, water, ecology & biodiversity and/or connectivity & transport.
• CAA Social Impact Award: The CAA Social Impact Award will recognize work in any sector which can demonstrate having achieved significant positive social impact in areas such as affordability, community development, health & well-being, and social value.
Education
• CAA Student Award: The CAA Student Award will recognize the work of students in Years 1-3 which creatively addresses issues associated with social, economic, and environmental well-being in the context of the current biodiversity crisis and climate emergency.
• CAA President’s Award: The CAA President’s Award will recognize the work of students in Years 4, 5 & 6 which critically and creatively address the issues associated with social, economic, and environmental well-being in the context of the current biodiversity crisis and climate emergency.
Click here to learn more about the awards or to apply. The deadline for submission for Categories 1, 2 & 3 is April 19, 2024, and the deadline for submission for Categories 4 & 5 is May 31, 2024.