Awards
AIA Cincinnati awards programs seek to recognize quality design in our community and encourage innovative design practices. AIA Cincinnati is one of the only AIA chapters in the country to host an awards program focusing on residential architecture: the CRANawards. We also join with other design professionals—APA, ASID, ASLA, IIDA, and SEGD—to host the interdisciplinary Cincinnati Design Awards. The Impact Award and Bettman Prize are awarded to dynamic ideas that leverage the power of design to enrich our community.
Cincinnati Design Awards
The Cincinnati Design Awards (CDA) program recognizes the best built-environment design produced by Cincinnati-area creative firms and promotes the social and economic value of good design in our community. Each autumn, a distinguished nationwide jury of design thought leaders and eminent practitioners presents the awards to projects submitted by local architects, interior designers, landscape architects, experiential graphic designers, and planners.
Impact Grant
AIA Cincinnati’s Impact Grant Award seeks dynamic ideas that leverage the power of design to enrich our community. Proposals that explore a method for advocating and raising the profile of architecture and its impact on society will be considered. A call for entries will be announced when an award is available.
Bettman Prize
Honoring city planner Henry A. Bettman, AIA Cincinnati’s Bettman Prize seeks proposals that through creativity and vision, seek to enrich the physical setting for urban life in greater Cincinnati. Proposals for research, programming studies, speculative design, small-scale construction, exhibitions, and installation of public art may address a broad variety of urban issues: neighborhood conservation; public housing; the streetscape; information design, signage and way-finding; energy and ecology; urban recreation and riverfront development; land use and zoning; transportation; building design; historic preservation; and the design and planning of monuments, memorials, parks, outdoor artworks, and other public amenities. A call for entries will be announced when an award is available.