{"id":10420,"date":"2026-03-23T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:30:51","slug":"aia-dc-design-excellence-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/events\/aia-dc-design-excellence-awards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"AIA DC Design Excellence Awards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background: #f6f6f6; border-left: 4px solid #97D422; padding: 16px 20px; margin: 24px 0; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 6px 0;\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> Washington DC (venue to be confirmed)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> September 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The AIA DC Design Excellence Awards are the Washington DC chapter&#8217;s primary annual recognition programme, celebrating work across the full range of architectural practice active within the District. The 2026 awards, with the ceremony in September, recognise projects demonstrating technical innovation, design quality and meaningful contribution to the public realm of one of the world&#8217;s most architecturally significant capital cities.<\/p>\n<p>Categories span residential, commercial, institutional and civic building types, with particular emphasis on the District&#8217;s unique context, including the relationship between new work and Washington&#8217;s historic fabric, the particular demands of federal and diplomatic clients and the city&#8217;s public realm obligations as a national capital. Shortlisted projects are published by AIA DC ahead of the September ceremony, providing significant editorial exposure for recognised practices.<\/p>\n<p>For architects active in the Washington metropolitan area, the Design Excellence Awards represent the most authoritative local peer recognition available, with a judging panel drawn from practitioners of national standing. Entry and registration details are available at dcarchcenter.org ahead of the submission deadline.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 32px 0; border-radius: 12px; overflow: hidden; box-shadow: 0 2px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=District+Architecture+Center+Washington+DC+20004&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary recognition programme for AIA DC celebrates technical innovation and public realm contributions within Washington DC, with the ceremony held in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,19,81],"tags":[],"location":[93],"class_list":["post-10420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-events","category-events","category-us-events","location-washington-d-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10613,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions\/10613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/10615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10420"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/location?post=10420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}