Online platform now open for the 2024 CAA Awards
Submit your entry here
Closing date for Lifetime Achievement and Practice Awards, 19 April 2024
Closing date for Education Awards, 31 May 2024
The Commonwealth Association of Architects has launched the 2024 CAA Awards Programme, calling all architects and Architecture students to submit their entries. The CAA Awards recognise work that engages with contemporary challenges such as climate change and rapid urbanisation. The awards programme is open to all registered architects who are members of a CAA member organisation and to students from all accredited schools which are associated with CAA member countries. The programme is free to enter. The works submitted should engage with contemporary challenges such as climate change and rapid urbanisation, together with associated increases in vulnerability, inequality, and biodiversity loss.
Award Categories
- Lifetime Achievement Award
01. CAA Lifetime Achievement Award (also known as the CAA Robert Matthew Lifetime Achievement Award): The CAA Lifetime Achievement Award recognises a Commonwealth architect, or architectural practice, whose body of work is considered to have made a significant impact to the advancement of architecture in the Commonwealth over a number of years.
- Professional Practice Awards
02. CAA Environmental Impact Award: The CAA Environmental Impact Award will recognise work in any sector which can demonstrate having achieved a significant positive environmental impact in areas such as circular economy, energy & carbon, water, ecology & biodiversity and/or connectivity & transport.
03. CAA Social Impact Award: The CAA Social Impact Award will recognise work in any sector which can demonstrate having achieved significant positive social impact in areas such as affordability, community development, health & well-being, and social value.
- Education Awards
04. CAA Student Award: The CAA Student Award will recognise the work of students in Years 1-3 which creatively addresses issues associated with social, economic, and environmental well-being in the context of the current biodiversity crisis and climate emergency.
05. CAA President’s Award: The CAA President’s Award will recognise the work of students in Years 4, 5 & 6 which critically and creatively addresses the issues associated with social, economic, and environmental well-being in the context of the current biodiversity crisis and climate emergency.
Jury Members
Lifetime achievement & Professional Practice
CAA Chair of Professional Practice: Ms Mina Hasman, (United Kingdom)
Caribbean & Americas: Mr Bryan Bullen, (Grenada)
Europe: Ms Nana Biamah-Ofosu (United Kingdom)
Africa: Mr Christian Benimana (Rwanda)
Asia: Prof Rafiq Azam, (Bangladesh)
Pacific: Ms Caroline Pidcock, (Australia)
Education
CAA Chair of Education: Mr Alex Ndibwami, (Kigali Rwanda)
Caribbean & Americas: Ms Nooshin Esmaeili, (Canada)
Europe: Dr Byron Ioannou, (Cyprus)
Africa: Dr Hermie Delport, (South Africa)
Asia: Prof Sajida Haider Vandal, (Pakistan)
Pacific: Dr Rachel Hurst, (Australia)
Full details of the award categories, the award criteria, the award programme and the submission criteria can be found online here.
The deadline for Categories 1, 2 and 3 is 19 April 2024 and the deadline for Categories 4 & 5 is 31 May 2024. Further information can also be found online at www.commonwealtharchitects.org