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Enter the 2015 Houzz/AIA Future of Architecture Showcase
Are you a new or emerging architect, or an architecture student? We want to showcase your most interesting design projects and ideas
Houzz and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) are teaming up to spotlight architecture’s emerging talent. Enter the Future of Architecture Residential Design Contest and Showcase to get your work in front of Houzz’s 25 million users and for a chance collaborate with Houzz on a community revitalization project.
Other prizes include $5,000 to accelerate your career and an expense-paid trip to the 2015 AIA Convention in Atlanta. The revitalization project will be filmed and promoted to the public and your peers in the design community.
If you’re a new architect, or an architecture student, we want to see your work! Here’s how to enter:
Other prizes include $5,000 to accelerate your career and an expense-paid trip to the 2015 AIA Convention in Atlanta. The revitalization project will be filmed and promoted to the public and your peers in the design community.
If you’re a new architect, or an architecture student, we want to see your work! Here’s how to enter:
- Step 1: Upload images of your design projects.
- Step 2: Write a brief description of your project.
- Step 3: Share your entry with your friends, family and colleagues. That’s it. Read on for more details and category definitions.
Step 1: Click on a category:
Upload your photos. Once you click a category, you’ll be taken to a category-specific page to upload photos or images of your work. Just follow the instructions on the page.
Photos, renderings and sketches are all acceptable. There is no limit to the number of images you can upload, but remember this is a showcase, so select the best and most representative example(s) of your work.
More on the categories:
Upload your photos. Once you click a category, you’ll be taken to a category-specific page to upload photos or images of your work. Just follow the instructions on the page.
Photos, renderings and sketches are all acceptable. There is no limit to the number of images you can upload, but remember this is a showcase, so select the best and most representative example(s) of your work.
More on the categories:
- Social Impact. Recognizing residential-relevant designs that advance neighborhood or community interests, such as affordable or high-density housing. Projects should exhibit socially conscious themes and provide solutions to housing and related issues currently impacting a community.
- Small Spaces. Recognizing the idea that limitations imposed by lack of space can largely be overcome by intelligent design. Includes designs for microunits (250 square feet or less), stand-alone units or units in multifamily residences smaller than 1,000 square feet. Projects can be used as permanent homes or shelters.
- Aging In Place / Universal Design. These designs are simple and intuitive, with features and products that allow people of all ages and physical abilities to live comfortably and safely, and that enable people to participate in family and community life for much longer than they otherwise would have.
- Innovation. Residential-relevant designs that fall outside the three categories above. These projects may include innovative building materials and products as well as residential structures.
- Students. Designs by students currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate university architecture program. Projects must be residential in nature and address current housing issues such as accessibility and sustainability.
If you don’t yet have a free professional or student profile on Houzz, you’ll be prompted to create one. Once you’ve filled out your profile, click on the entry category link above once again to submit your project.
Students: It’s easiest (but not required) to use your Facebook account during the sign-up process, and be sure to select “Student–AEC & Design” when choosing your professional category.
Students: It’s easiest (but not required) to use your Facebook account during the sign-up process, and be sure to select “Student–AEC & Design” when choosing your professional category.
Step 2: Describe your entry. After uploading photos, click the green “done” button. You’ll be taken to your entry, a personal ideabook, where you can write a brief description of your project.
Help the Houzz community understand what you have created and why you have submitted it for that particular category.
Help the Houzz community understand what you have created and why you have submitted it for that particular category.
Step 3: Promote your entry. Your entry ideabook will be part of your profile on Houzz.
Share this ideabook via social networks and email with your friends, family and colleagues, and ask them to add your project images to their ideabooks on Houzz. It’s free for anyone to create a profile and start saving photos.
The projects with the most ideabook adds from the Houzz community will win a Future of Architecture award. There will be one winner per category.
Official Rules
Share this ideabook via social networks and email with your friends, family and colleagues, and ask them to add your project images to their ideabooks on Houzz. It’s free for anyone to create a profile and start saving photos.
The projects with the most ideabook adds from the Houzz community will win a Future of Architecture award. There will be one winner per category.
Official Rules
Houzz and the AIA are dedicated to bringing more attention to the importance of good architecture, and making it easier for the world to see the work of the next generation of practitioners.
See how to enter in this step-by-step video