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Honor Awards

  • Submission Period August 30, 2024 - October 15, 2024

The AIA Atlanta Honor Awards celebrate outstanding leadership and service within the chapter, the architecture profession, and the broader community. Nominations for these prestigious awards open in September, inviting submissions from individuals, organizations, and firms. Eligibility criteria differ by category, ensuring a wide range of contributions are recognized.

Winners will be revealed at Build Something Great, AIA Atlanta’s premier event, on Friday, November 15. Don’t miss the chance to be part of this celebration — submit your nomination today.

2024 Award Categories

Silver Medal

Overall Firm Excellence

This award is the highest honor bestowed by AIA Atlanta on a firm for its general excellence in its practice of architecture and design. It is open to any architecture firm within AIA Atlanta’s chapter jurisdiction. The Silver Medal honors a firm (single practitioner up to a large entity) that has sustained outstanding performance as evidenced by a consistently high level of design quality and demonstrated community, political, or AIA leadership in the interests of the profession. The firm must have been in practice for a minimum of five years, and cannot have received this award in the previous 10 years.

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John A. Busby Jr. Exceptional Young Architect Award

The John A. Busby Jr. Award is presented to a young chapter member who is either an unlicensed AIA Associate or a licensed architect of 10 years or less. The award recognizes noteworthy achievements in at least two areas: design contributions, leadership, education, professional service, and public or community service. It also honors contributions to AIA’s core values. Recipients can be architects, architectural educators, or those engaged in related careers.

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James G. Fausett Service to the Profession Award

The James G. Fausett Service to the Profession Award recognizes a firm, group, or individual for outstanding service to the AIA Atlanta Chapter, the Institute, or the architecture profession at large. Nominees do not need to be AIA members. The award honors contributions and commitments to the Chapter, state or local components, or the profession, focusing on achievements made within the preceding 36 months.

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  • 2023 Honorees

  • Ivan Allen Sr. Award

    Ken Higa, AIA

    The most prestigious prize, the Ivan Allen Sr. Award, is awarded to the member who has made a deep and lasting impact on peers, AIA and the built environment, and therefore sustained the highest ideals of the profession.
  • Silver Medal

    HKS Atlanta

    The Silver Medal is the highest honor bestowed upon an architecture firm for its general excellence. The recipient has sustained outstanding performance in design quality and in community, political or AIA leadership in the interests of the profession.
  • John A. Busby Jr. Exceptional Young Architect Award

    Heather Potts Lang, AIA

    The John A. Busby Jr. Medal is given to a young member excelling in one or more of the areas: design excellence; AIA leadership; community involvement; pursuit of lifelong education; and/or managing or starting a firm.
  • John A. Busby Jr. Exceptional Young Architect Award

    Bridget Ellgass, AIA

    The John A. Busby Jr. Medal is given to a young member excelling in one or more of the areas: design excellence; AIA leadership; community involvement; pursuit of lifelong education; and/or managing or starting a firm.
  • Dorothy Spence Citizen Architect Award

    Jonathan Gould, AIA

    The Dorothy Spence Citizen Architect Award honors an AIA member who engages the community with a design mentality, seeing it as an architect sees a project: all connected. This award recognizes contributions made outside of AIA volunteer roles.

Past Winners