About
The RAIC Honours and Awards program celebrates Canadian architects and projects that exemplify design excellence and responsible architecture worldwide.
The RAIC Honours and Awards initiatives promote partnerships between architects and allied professionals supporting quality in the built environment through its programs such as the National Urban Design Awards and the Governor General’s Medals for Architecture. This is carried through all initiatives by fostering a standard of high-quality work and ethic through its Emerging Architectural Practice and Architectural Practice awards, and celebrates a lifetime of such work with its RAIC Gold Medal, the highest RAIC honour that can be bestowed on an individual or group.
Honours and Awards also supports and recognizes architectural contributions through advocacy, innovation, research, journalism and media.
Honours and Awards creates connection and collegiality between professional colleagues through its selections of award juries and its rigorous award review process. All Honours and Awards programs support equity, diversity and inclusion and seek to bring to light and celebrate the varied people, projects and initiatives taking place in Canada, or by Canadians abroad.
Awards
RAIC International Prize
The RAIC International Prize celebrates transformative architecture that embodies humanistic values and global design excellence, with an annual theme
Architectural Practice Award
The Architectural Practice Award recognizes a Canadian architectural practice that consistently produces distinguished architecture. The award acknowledges achievements several core areas.
Emerging Architecture Practice Award
This award aims to recognize an emerging Canadian architectural practice that demonstrates exceptional potential to make a significant contribution to the future of architecture.
National Urban Design Awards
The National Urban Design Awards program encourages the submission of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary projects involving planners, landscape architects, architects and/or other disciplines.
RAIC Advocate for Architecture Award
This award celebrates an individual, or collective of individuals, who has acted as a public champion for the advancement of Canadian architecture through their advocacy, patronage, and/or other forms of support.
RAIC Architectural Journalism & Media Award
This award recognizes an architect, architectural practice or individual that presents a narrative about architecture which promotes public understanding and awareness of architecture, the role of architects and their impacts on society, and/ or the value of design and design excellence.
Governor General’s Medals in Architecture
The Governor General’s Medals in Architecture recognizes and celebrates outstanding design in recently completed built projects of any size, type and geographical location by Canadian architects.
RAIC Research & Innovation in Architecture Award
This award recognizes an architect, architectural practice and/or academic researcher who has demonstrated excellence in research and/ or innovation in architectural practice, technology, or pedagogy.
Prix du XXe Siècle
The Prix du XX siècle promotes public awareness of significant modern Canadian architecture from the 20th century.
RAIC Gold Medal
The RAIC Gold Medal is the highest honour that the Institute can bestow in recognition of a significant and lasting contribution to Canadian architecture.
Honours
The OAA Scholarship for Exceptional Leadership through Design Excellence
The OAA Scholarship for Exceptional Leadership through Design Excellence is a national award recognizing an active RAIC Syllabus student whose work demonstrates leadership through sustainability, equity, diversity and inclusion, or Truth and Reconciliation.
Honorary Fellowship Nominations
Honorary Fellowship is one of the RAIC’s highest distinctions, recognizing individuals who have made exceptional contributions to architecture and the built environment in Canada. This honour celebrates leadership, influence, and lasting impact on the profession and society.
Fellowship Nomination
The College formally recognizes members—and occasionally distinguished non-members—who have made exceptional contributions to architecture. Fellowship is one of the highest honours the RAIC bestows, celebrating individuals for their achievements in areas such as research, scholarship, public service, or professional excellence in Canada or abroad.
RAIC Honorary Membership
Honorary Membership recognizes individuals who have given valuable and distinguished service to the architectural profession, and upheld the objectives and values of the RAIC, including support and advancement of equity, diversity and inclusion.
RAIC Student Medal
The Student Medal is awarded annually to a student graduating from a professional degree program in each accredited University School of Architecture in Canada
RAIC Student Honour Roll
The RAIC Honour Roll recognizes those students of an accredited professional degree program of Architecture in Canada who have achieved high academic standing in the top 10% of their graduating class.
