Awards

Host: Katie Ackerly, AIA - Common Application Jury Chair *** Early Bird Registration for the AIA California Design Awards Ends 03.22.24 Register Here *** This year AIA California is hosting a webinar to review the Common Application. Come join the us as we review the form in depth, answer questions, and discuss common mistakes caught by the Common Application Review Jury. The Common App for Design Excellence is an Excel-based tool, originally conceived of and developed by Corey Squire, AIA; Helena Zambrano, AIA; and Anne Schopf, FAIA; and others. The tool is intended to help streamline sustainability reporting for AIA design awards. Since its inception, more than two dozen Design Awards Committees at the state and local level have adopted the Common App as part of the submission requirements for their chapter’s design awards. Over the past year, the COTE Network Common App Subcommittee has refreshed the Common App to improve consistency with the AIA Framework for Design Excellence and to enhance user functionality. - AIA COTE Network If planning to submit for the AIA California Design Awards, please look over the Common Application prior to the webinar and prepare questions to ask the panelists.