Victorian Architecture Awards

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The Victorian Architecture Awards are granted annually by the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects.{{Cite web |title=Victorian Architecture Awards |url=https://www.architecture.com.au/vic-awards |access-date=17 December 2023 |website=Australian Institute of Architects}} They began with the Street Architecture Medal, awarded between 1929 and 1942. Apart from a single award in 1954, annual awards did not resume until 1964, backdated by one year.[http://www.architecture.com.au/i-cms?page=4768 75 Years of Victorian Architecture Awards], Australian Institute of Architects

To mark the 75th Victorian Architecture Awards in 2003, the Institute published Judging Architecture – Issues, Divisions, Triumphs, which lists all awards since 1929.

Awards and Prizes

The most prestigious award has been variously called the Medal, the Bronze Medal, or Merit Award, but since but since 1987 it has been called the Victorian Architecture Medal.

The numbers and categories of awards has expanded and changed over the years. Since the 1990s, some categories have been named after significant architects or firms who have practiced in Victoria.{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=2023 Victorian Architecture Awards |url=https://www.architecture.com.au/awards/2023-awards/2023-vic-architecture-award-winners |access-date=17 December 2023 |website=Architecture.com.au}}

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Victorian Architecture Medal (started 1929)
William Wardell Award for Public Architecture (started 1996)
Dimity Reed Melbourne Prize (started 1997, named 2023)
Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award (started 2003, named 2023)
Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design
Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Commercial Architecture
John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture / Conservation
Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for Residential Architecture Houses – New
John and Phyllis Murphy Award for Residential Architecture Houses – Alterations and Additions
Best Overend Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
Marion Mahony Award for Interior Architecture
Kevin Borland Award for Small Project Architecture
Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture
Allan and Beth Coldicutt Award for Sustainable Architecture
Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
EmAGN Project Award

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Victorian President’s Prize (started 2000)
Regional Prize (started 2001)
Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media (National, State and Advocacy categories)
Victorian Emerging Architect Prize
Victorian Student Ideas Prize
Victorian Graduate Prize
Robert Caulfield Graduate Research Scholarship
Sinclair–Nelson Drawing Scholarship

2024 Awards

In 2024 the AIA Victoria Chapter received the largest total entries of all Australian States and Territories chapters with 228 submissions across 15 categories for judging. At the awards held on Friday 7 June, 2024 a total of 15 named awards, 24 architecture awards and 22 commendations were presented.{{Cite web |date=7 June 2024 |title=Winners announced: 2024 Victorian Architecture Awards |url=https://architectureau.com/articles/2024-victorian-architecture-awards |access-date=8 June 2024 |website=ArchitectureAU.com}}

References

External links

[https://www.architecture.com.au/vic-awards AIA Victoria Chapter Architecture Awards]

Category:Architecture awards

Category:Architecture in Australia

Category:Awards established in 1929

Category:1929 establishments in Australia