The American Architecture Awards is a national and international awards program for new architecture, landscape architecture, interiors, and urban planning in the United States. The program was launched by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in 1994 to honor the most outstanding architecture designed across the world. The Awards Program is open to all American architecture offices and international firms with projects inside the United States from the past two years. The awards are organized annually with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The Awards are the nation's highest public recognition for architectural design excellence given by a non-commercial, non-trade affiliated public arts, culture and educational institution in the United States. The awards deadline is February 1 and the awards are given annually at the end of September by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. The winning projects are selected by a jury from several hundred submissions from architectural practices in the U.S. and around the world.
Recent juries for awards have been conducted in Dublin, Ireland (2007) Athens, Greece (2008); Stuttgart, Germany (2009); Istanbul, Turkey (2010); Vancouver, Canada (2011); Seoul, South Korea (2013); Athens, Greece (2014); Phoenix Arizona (2015); and Denver, Colorado (2016) in coordination with The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, The Turkish Camber of Architects in Istanbul, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in Vancouver, The Federation of Institutes of Korean Architects, The Hellenic Institute of Architecture, International Biennial of Architecture Buenos Aires, The Istanbul Design Biennial, and The University of Florence.
The Awards are published each year in Global Design + Urbanism by Metropolitan Arts Press.
The awarded projects form an exhibition, "The City and the World", that has toured inside the United States and Europe.
Awarded projects The number of awarded projects:
1994 – 30 projects 1995 – 29 projects 1996 – 40 projects 1997 – 27 projects 1998 – 29 projects 1999 – 32 projects 2000–43 projects 2001–31 projects 2002–35 projects 2003–42 projects 2004–37 projects 2005–29 projects 2006–33 projects 2007–32 projects 2008–65 projects 2009–64 projects 2010–47 projects 2011–45 projects 2012–62 projects 2013–65 projects 2014–65 projects 2015–60 projects 2016–74 projects 2017-79 projects 2018-113 projects 2019-105 projects 2020 -128 projects 2021 - 120 projects
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