AIA Oregon Architecture Awards

Oregon's premiere annual architecture event, the Oregon Architecture Awards, celebrates outstanding design as a nationally renowned jury recognizes architects, their clients, industry partners and communities for achieving design excellence locally and globally.

The AIAO Architecture Awards Committee emphasizes that all entrants have an equal chance for recognition, regardless of project scale, budget, type or location.

Only AIA Oregon Member Firms and individual AIA Members may participate and enter. Not an AIA Oregon Firm member? Now would be a good time to become one! Learn More

Previous Years

2019 AIA Portland Architecture Award Results

2020 AIA Oregon Architecture Award Results

2021 AIA Oregon Architecture Awards

2022 AIA Oregon Architecture Awards

2023 AIA Oregon Architecture Awards

On On November 9, 2023 AIA Oregon members and friends gathered at the Portland Museum of Art to celebrate design excellence at the Oregon Architecture Awards.

Thank you to all attendees and sponsors for another memorable celebration!

A jury of architects selected 15 project awards and used energy data collected from project submissions helped to determine three Architecture 2030 Awards.

The recording of the event will be available soon.

Photos by Shanti Martin, Pdx Photo Lounge

2023 Jury

Thank you to our jurors for volunteering their time and energy to review, discuss, and ultimately award the projects entered into the 2023 OAA program. Full Bios can be seen here

Jury Chair
Jaime Torres Carmona, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+ C
Principal and Founder
Canopy

Jaime Torres Carmona founded Canopy to explore his belief in design as a vehicle for positive change, through projects ranging in scale from community and health centers to housing, schools, mixed-use buildings and urban design. Jaime is drawn towards the urban and civic realm and its impact on the human experience, and is recognized for his sensitivity toward the end user, the community impact and the environment.

Jaime is currently engaged in projects throughout Chicago and the Midwest, focusing on opportunities that allow him to combine research with a participative process to create meaningful spaces.

Joseph King, AIA, LEED AP
Associate Principal
SCB in San Francisco

Joseph King is an Associate Principal, Studio Leader, and Senior Designer in SCB’s San Francisco office, specializing in urban mixed-use and multifamily residential projects. Joe’s focus starts at the beginning of conceptual design, leading the data collection, site analysis, and massing studies that help define a project’s approach and initiate the design process. His emphasis on collaborative design involves working closely with clients, contractors, and consultants from the start of a project through delivery.

Kate Michaud, AIA, LEED AP
Senior Associate, Director of Project Delivery
MSR Design in Minneapolis

As MSR Design’s director of project delivery and a firm senior associate, Kate is a thoughtful architect with experience in a diverse mix of projects, including public libraries, market rate and affordable multifamily housing, single-family residences, and corporate offices. Kate has a passion for community centered work and believes that everyone can benefit from good design. She is a member of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including an AIA Chicago Distinguished Building Award, AIA Iowa Honor Award, and two Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Architectural Excellence in Community Design.

Brett Randall Jones, AIA LEED® AP
Principal
David Baker Architects in Oakland, CA

Brett Randall Jones, AIA, LEED AP, is a Principal at David Baker Architects, a progressive architecture firm in San Francisco that creates acclaimed buildings and communities in diverse environments. Formed in 1982, DBA is known for innovative housing, creative site strategies, healthy design, and integrating new construction into the urban realm.

He believes that being connected with the community for which we are designing is essential to the creation of meaningful buildings. Focused on place-based architecture, Brett is a key figure in DBA’s hospitality practice. He also serves as the Principal in Charge of the DBA_Workshop—our prototyping and fabrication shop—expanding our shop capacity and facilitating the integration of original designs and custom pieces into DBA’s housing and hospitality projects.

Stephen Mueller
Founding Partner
Agency

Stephen Mueller is an Associate Professor at Texas Tech University Huckabee College of Architecture (HCoA) and Founding Director of Research at POST (Project for Operative Spatial Technologies), an HCoA research center and territorial think-tank situated on the US-Mexico border. POST promotes environmental and spatial justice in the borderland by developing computational design tools, investigative spatial analyses, built projects and public interfaces.

Mueller is a registered architect and founding partner of AGENCY, a design and research practice that leverages spatial design and spatial information to counteract nascent forms of global and urban insecurity.

2023 Professional Achievement Awards

The Professional Achievement Awards celebrate and recognize achievement at all levels of the profession within our community. The objective is to promote engagement within the chapter and recognize valuable contributions of members who are serving the community and proactively improving the architecture profession.

The AIA Oregon Executive Committee selected 2 Professional Achievement Awards from those nominated.

2023 AIA OREGON PRESIDENT’S AWARD
Jay Raskin, FAIA
Jay Raskin Architect

2023 AIA OREGON YOUNG ARCHITECT AWARD
Nicole Becker, AIA
Associate and Project Architect, ZGF Architects