AIA Puerto Rico

Celebrate Excellence in Puerto Rican Architecture

AIA Puerto Rico proudly presents the 2025 Design & Honor Awards

August 30th, 2025

Join us for an evening of inspiration and recognition on August 30th at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico for the AIA Puerto Rico 2025 Design & Honor Awards Gala. This prestigious event honors the architects, projects, and collaborators who elevate the built environment, advance design, and contribute to the theoretical development of our profession. Don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate the best in local design, innovation, and architectural impact.

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Get your ticket starting June 16.

This 50th edition marks a milestone in the history of the awards, and we proudly dedicate it to all the Puerto Rican Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), who have represented us with distinction at international level.

Ready to submit your application? Here’s What You Need to Know

All Applicants wishing to submit one or more projects for consideration for the 2025 AIA PR Design & Honor Awards program must register the project(s) and pay any applicable fees before the payment deadline and must submit the required documents to the AIAPR before the submission deadline.

Dates and Deadlines:

*No late submissions will be accepted. No registration fees will be refunded for disqualified or incomplete submissions.

Submission Fees:

Award of Excellence for Built Work: $180 first, $100 additional
Unbuilt Design Award: $180 first, $100 additional
Theoretical and Research Design Award – Architects: $180 first, $100 additional
Theoretical and Research Design Award – Associates: $90 first, $50 additional
Theoretical and Research Design Award – Student AIAS: $40 first, $30 additional
Theoretical and Research Design Award– Non-AIAS Student: $50 first, $40 additional
Sustainable Design Award: $180 first, $100 additional
Test of Time Award: $180 first, $100 additional
Student Work Design Award – Student AIAS: $40 first, $30 additional
Student Work Design Award – Non-AIAS Student: $50 first, $40 additional

Projects submitted for an Award of Excellence of Built Work are automatically entered in the “PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD”.

Once a project has been SUBMITTED, it will be assigned an ID number to be used throughout the evaluation process.

How to Prepare Your Submission:

Submission Overview

Each project must be submitted as a single PowerPoint (.PPT) file, not to exceed 25 MB.
A minimum of 10 and a maximum of 20 slides per project is allowed. Slides may contain more than one image.
When possible, include images of the building in use, in any order that best tells the jury your project’s story.
Preservation/restoration projects must provide sufficient information to distinguish between the original architect’s work and the newly altered, preserved, or restored elements.
Include one image showing each exposed side of the building or environment.
Include one additional image showing the context of each exposed side (may be omitted if context is clearly defined in other images).
For a group of buildings, include one image that illustrates the complete project and its relationship to its surroundings.
For projects with exterior alterations, include one image of each altered, exposed side before and after the intervention (unless unavailability is documented).
Include at least one interior image for each major functional space.
Include conceptual diagrams, elevations, floor plans, sections, and a site plan with a North arrow and graphic scale.
Composite pages are acceptable. Text and notes may appear on images/drawings.
Renderings must be clearly labeled as such, especially if they depict unbuilt elements.
The first slide must include the project title, location, and square footage.
The second slide must include a project description highlighting its positive impact on individuals and communities, and how it meets client/user goals.
Do not include any identifying information about the entrant or firm in the presentation.
All text must be typed in Arial font, minimum 10 pt, and placed on the right side of each slide.
The layout, background, and formatting provided in the official template must not be changed.
A site plan or aerial photo and floor plans are required, including graphic scales and directional north arrows.
Presentations must not include sound, animation, video, panorama movies, hyperlinks, or links to other files.
Name the file as: “EntryNumber.ppt”
All entries must be submitted through the official AIA Puerto Rico platform.

Tell the Jury a Story

The Jury will consist of practicing architects from outside the Chapter. Every year, jurors reward submissions that best tell the story of a project behind the marketing images. What concepts and considerations drove the design? What were the challenges and opportunities along the way? How did the design team arrive at the solution?
We encourage submitters to use the project narrative, captions, inclusion of process work, design diagrams, and metrics as opportunities to tell a design story.

Requirements of Powerpoint

Power Point presentation – 8.5” x 11” – Landscape format

Slide 1. Title Slide:

Name Of Project
Project Location
Submission Category

Slide 2. Abbreviated Project Narrative

Project Narrative (100 words or less). (Narrative will be included in any media announcement(s) and publicity.)

Slide 3. Through Slide 10 (minimum | 20 maximum)

Submit at least 5 high-resolution IMAGES that best represent your project
Plans, sections, and small diagrams are NOT recommended
Images will be included in any media announcement(s) and publicity.

Requirements of Board

The board artwork must be submitted in the following format:

TIF format
CMYK color mode
Final size: 30.25″ x 40.25″ (When exporting from InDesign or Illustrator, please include the bleed in the export settings so that the final size matches these dimensions; Photoshop canvases should already be set to the correct size.)
Resolution: 300 dpi