2019 Design Awards
The AIA Central Valley Design Awards Program recognizes excellence in the categories of architecture, interior architecture and reconstruction / renovation with opportunities for additional recognition of sustainable design (COTE) and / or custom residential projects (CRAN). The program also includes a Divine Detail category, which Design Award entrants may enter at no additional charge, and a Regional Recognition Award, which is open to AIA members from other AIA Chapters for projects located within our 17-county Chapter area.
The program demonstrates to the public the value of good design, and celebrates Central Valley architecture and the AIA members who design it.
2019 Design Awards Celebration Recap
It was a wonderful evening last Saturday, October 5th to celebrate this year’s Central Valley Design Awards! The quick paced presentation style gave firms a couple minutes to share snippets of the project story, and Bart Overly’s jury comments described project successes. The EP Tiny Home/ADU Competition honorees also shared their designs and received awards.
Click here for a photo collage of the night. Photos by Charles Vincent McDonald.
Our thanks to The e49 Foundation for hosting us at their new headquarters in Del Paso Heights.
Award Recipients
West Valley College District Facilities and Maintenance Building 
Piedmont Hills High School 
PG&E Gas Safety Academy 
El Camino Fundamental High School Center for the Arts 
University of California, Santa Cruz Upper Quarry Amphitheater Restoration Renovation 
UC Davis Ann E. Pitzer Center Classroom and Recital Hall
View the Experience Architecture Guide for spreads of all the project winners, starting on page 28.
HONOR + DIVINE DETAIL
Piedmont Hills High School; Firm: LPA Inc.
MERIT
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Gas Safety Academy; Firm: Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture
West Valley College District Facilities and Maintenance Building; Firm: LPA Inc.
CITATION
UC Davis Ann E. Pitzer Center Classroom and Recital Hall; Firm: LPAS Architecture + Design
UC Santa Cruz Upper Quarry Amphitheater; Firm: Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture
El Camino Fundamental High School Center for the Arts; Firm: HGA
PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Sacramento State University Union Expansion; Firm: Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture
You are invited to the 2019 Design Awards Celebration!
We’ll honor the AIA Central Valley Design Awards & Tiny House Competition recipients this year during a special evening at the Artisan Building in Del Paso — the new e49 Foundation headquarters.
Mingle with your colleagues, invited guests, and the public while enjoying live music, wine and delectable bites. Enjoy brief presentations highlighting this year’s award-receiving projects! Event concludes with dessert and a champagne toast.
Click here for the invitation.
DATE: Saturday, October 5, 2019
TIME: 6:00 – 9:30 (reception 6-7 pm, brief presentations to follow)
PLACE: Artisan Building, 1901 Del Paso Blvd, Sacramento, 95838
COST: Early Bird, register by September 13th – $40 per person
Late Registration, September 14-October 1st – $50 per person
DRESS: Cocktail attire
RSVP: 2019designawards.bpt.me by Monday, September 30th
Sponsors: Comstock’s Magazine, SMUD, Milgard Windows & Doors, Lionakis, Fulcrum Properties, e49 Foundation, Cosentino, Hoshida & Reyes Architects and Wood Rodgers.
2019 Design Awards Submission Guidelines
2019 KEY DATES
Registration Opens: June 17th
Submission Deadline: July 19th EXTENDED TO July 26th!
Exhibition Board Due: September 19th
Awards Presentation: October 5th
FEES
$300 – Design Award Entry for AIACV Members
$450 – Regional Recognition Design Award Entry for AIA members submitting projects in the AIACV Chapter area
$60 – Divine Detail
A non-refundable entry fee must be paid online at the time of registration. No entry fee will be refunded for entries that are disqualified, late, or incomplete.
ELIGIBILITY
Projects entered:
- Must be designed by AIA Central Valley members in good standing, or member firms paying supplemental dues. Projects designed by AIA Central Valley members may be located anywhere in the world.
- AIA member architects from other Chapters may also enter, but only for projects built within the AIA Central Valley 17-county Chapter membership area. Projects submitted to the non-AIACV member category will be juried separately and one award will be bestowed.
- Must be designed and completed on or after January 1, 2009.
- Must not have previously received an AIA Central Valley Design Award.
For full entry requirements and to submit a project to the program, please visit our entry website.
2019 Tiny Home / ADU Competition
AIA Central Valley Emerging Professionals invite you to share your innovation, creativity and vision by designing a Tiny Home or Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU), with the winning designs to be built by our partner e49 Corporation, as part of their flexible supportive housing program. This competition is an opportunity for architects, emerging professionals, college and high school students, to have direct impact in providing solutions to the City of Sacramento’s affordable housing shortage.
Award Winners
Barndominium 
Unity Home 
The Fern 
BeFit.Tiny House 
Tiny House|2019 
AIA Central Vally Tiny Home
View the Experience Architecture Guide for spreads of all the project winners, starting on page 28.
EP AWARD
Unity Home | LPA Inc.: Amanda Menscel, Andrew Wickham, Chase Collins, Robyn Wrobleski, Assoc. AIA
AIA AWARD
Barndominium | Mark Roddy, FAIA & Ryan Haines
STUDENT AWARD
The Fern | Marishia Lopez, CRC
HONORABLE MENTIONS
BeFit.Tiny House | ACH|MCH: Anthony Herrera, AIA & Michelle Claudio Hecht
Tiny House|2019 | Van Doan, CRC
AIA Central Valley Tiny Home | Sean Martin, CRC
Competition Guidelines
Dates & Deadlines
February 19: Competition Launch / Registration Opens
March 13: 12:00 pm Information Session & Site Visit
May 17: Submittals Due (by 5:00 pm)
May 30: Jury Session
June 17: Award Recipients Notified
Oct 5: Awards Presentation at 2019 Design Awards Gala
Overview
The number of homeless individuals in Sacramento County is on the rise, estimates as of 2018, project a population of over 6,000- significantly higher than the year before. The Sacramento Mayor’s office has established a goal of housing 2,000 people experiencing homelessness by 2020, and the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency has been directed to increase public housing resources for homelessness. One approach to providing housing is the Housing First Model that provides permanent housing and long-term wrap-around services to persons who have experienced long-term homelessness.
An example of an emerging Housing First Model is Compassion Village, an initiative of The E49 Foundation. Compassion Village is a grassroots effort led by faith communities, to build Tiny Home Villages on/and rehabilitate underutilized church properties as resource centers throughout the Sacramento region. The vision is to have 15-20 villages, each focused on a particular neighborhood/population’s needs.