2009 Call for Entries for the IDID Awards at AIA New Hampshire

Excellence in Architecture Design Awards Program
25th Anniversary

Eligibility
This design awards program recognizes and honors excellence in architectural design by registered licensed architects who are full members of AIANH. Firms that are domiciled in NH may submit projects anywhere in the world. Firms domiciled outside of NH but with a principal who is a full member of AIANH may submit projects located in New Hampshire. Projects must be completed after January 1998.

Judging
The jurors are Grace N. Chiang AIA, Principal, Holt Architects, PC; Anton Christiansen AIA, LEED, Principal Associate, Holt Architects, PC; and Andrew Magre AIA, Senior Project Manager, Planning, Design & Construction, Cornell University; all from Ithaca, NY

Criteria
Entries will be judged on their own merit regardless of project size or type. Primary criteria is overall design excellence including aesthetics, clarity, creativity, appropriate functionality, sustainability, and building performance. Submissions should clearly address these areas. The jury may elect to honor projects by building type or other category or may choose to make no such distinctions.

Entry Procedures
Entry due date: Entries are due by 5 p.m. October 17, 2008 at the AIANH office, 310 Marlboro St., 2nd Floor, Keene, NH. If you wish to have your binder returned please include a Fed Ex or UPS return label with your account number.

Fees: Submissions must include a check payable to AIANH for the appropriate amount. Entry fees must be received for your project to be judged. Entry fee: $120 per project submitted. Include fee in the envelope taped to the inside back page of your submission with your other supporting documents (see below).

Submission fulfillment
Entries must be complete, adhere to the submission format below, include all supporting documents, and be accompanied by the entry fees. Projects that do not fulfill these requirements cannot be accepted.

Submission Format
The jurors’ decisions will be based on the materials submitted. All information/materials listed below should conform in general to a format no larger than 11” x 14” and submitted in an appropriate flat binder (please do not use 3-ring notebooks; we recommend the Itoya binders). Conceal references to the architecture firm on all materials submitted for review.

Each binder must include, if appropriate and available, the following:

A typed bulleted outline (not to exceed one side of one page in 10-pt type or larger) noting the project type and location of the project; what part of the project you did; program and special constraints; site description; design solution; indicate if the design is original or an adaptation of a prototype; unusual/innovative building components; sustainable design elements (energy-efficiency, appropriate land use, minimized ecological impact, material use, performance matrix, etc.); universal design elements; materials used; parking spaces; completion date (year); construction budget; cost/s.f.; and describe others involved in the design process (users, artists, neighbors, etc.)
Site plan
Scaled drawings of plans and/or other descriptive graphics
Photographs illustrating interior and exterior character: Include up to 8 pages (16 sides) of exterior and interior images. For restorations or adaptations, include up to three additional images of the project in its original condition. Concise captions on all photos and other images help tell the story. You may include more than one image on each side of each page.

(Note: Submissions lacking the above items do not give the jurors enough information to fairly assess them.)

Supporting Documents (these items are REQUIRED for your submission to be complete):

Credit information sheet: include the project name, city, and state; the client’s name; your firm name; and the firm names, contact person, and complete postal addresses of associated architecture firms, contractors or construction managers, engineering firms and other professional consultants, subcontractors, and major suppliers. At the bottom of this sheet note the name, email address, and daytime telephone number and extension of contact person in your firm for the purposes of this submission. Note: It is not the responsibility of the AIANH office to obtain the contact information required on your credit information sheet. Please also include this information as a Word document on your CD.
Projects submitted by persons other than the Architect of Record for the project must have written approval from the Architect of Record included.
One 20 x 20 inch presentation board showing image/s of your project to cover 16 x 20 inches of the board, plus a 2 x 4 inch label with the project name, firm name, firm location, CM or General Contractor, and Photography credit (label is either vertical or horizontal, depending on orientation of your 16x20 display). Note: This board is not for the jurors, but for our annual Awards submissions tour around the state and the annual exhibit at the NH Institute of Art (see below).
A written description or outline of the project (150 words or less) to be used for publicity. Please also include copy in a Word document on your CD.
Three digital images of the project. The images will be used in a Powerpoint presentation at the Awards Banquet, for publication in the NH Forum and the AIANH Website, and distributed to the press. Images should be on a CD and saved as 300 dpi jpegs. Please include a text document that includes the title for each image and the name of the photographer.
Signed copy of the photographer’s copyright release form (available here)

Place items 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 in an envelope and tape this envelope to the inside back cover of the binder. Note: Including items 1 and 4 as Word documents on your CD is very helpful; but also include hard copy in the envelope.

Awards Submissions Exhibit
All submissions will be on view (with a People’s Choice Vote) at the New Hampshire institute of Art, Manchester, Dec. 1, 2008-Jan. 16, 2009, and displayed at selected sites throughout the year.

Awards Banquet
The Awards Banquet will be held January 16, 2009 at the NH Institute of Art in Manchester, NH. All entries will be on view and included in a Powerpoint presentation.

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