Design-Build


Submission Deadline: September 18, 2013 

Description
To honor the best practices in school-based design-build projects.

Criteria

This ACSA award recognizes projects that demonstrate how faculty, students, and schools work to realize design-build projects. Curricula based design-build projects can encompass a variety of endeavors, scope, scale and setting, but at their core they present constructions that illustrate design learning outcomes from conception to tangible fruition. 

Projects will be considered at any scale and may include but are not limited to: products, installations, interiors, and full-scale constructions. Submissions should convey how the projects link curricular objectives and design pedagogies with measurable outcomes. Submissions should convey how they address ideas of cultural, social, economical, or environmental sustainability.

Eligibility
Persons in ACSA member schools who are primarily engaged in teaching may enter one or more submissions relevant to their educational activities.

Submission Documentation
Submissions must explain the nature of the design-build agenda and demonstrate what students learned and how they benefited and the sustained impact of the agenda on a curriculum (if applicable). Entries must consist of high-quality digital graphic material and text, maximum of 1,000 words, submitted through the online system by the nominee in PDF format with up to 20, 8.5x11 pages. No models, slides, or films will be accepted. All material must be submitted by September 18, 2013 at 5:00 pm ET, online at www.acsa-arch.org and the submitter will need to log into the ACSA website in order to submit.

Each submission shall contain the following:

  • Submission Information, completed online during submission (www.acsa-arch.org);
  • Abstract (not to exceed 300 words) describing the nature of the design-build agenda, explaining what students learned and how they benefited and the sustained impact of the agenda on a curriculum (if applicable). (copy/paste text box);
  • Supporting material or documents illustrating or describing the candidate’s design (not to exceed a total of 20, 8.5x11 pages, in PDF format).

To maintain anonymity, no names of entrants or collaborating parties may appear on any part of the submission. Credits may be concealed by any simple means.

  • Projects that have previously been recognized by the ACSA will not be considered.

Selection & Presentation
The ACSA Awards Committee shall recommend to the ACSA board for approval no more than four projects for this award per year. The Committee, in any year, may choose not to bestow the Collaborative Practice Award. Award recipients will present and display their projects as part of the 102nd ACSA Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, FL 2014. The ACSA president shall present recipients with a certificate at an Architectural Education Awards Ceremony during the 102nd ACSA Annual Meeting.

+ Download the complete 2013-2014 ACSA Architecture Awards Program (PDF)

2013-2014 DB Jurors: TBD