FTI Announces the 2025 Vitruvian Honors & Awards Program

FTI Announces the 2025 Vitruvian Honors & Awards Program
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Date: 7 January 2025

The Facade Tectonics Institute is pleased to announce our third biennial Vitruvian Honors & Awards Program.

The premiere celebration seeks to recognize unprecedented innovation and achievements in the field of facade design and delivery. FTI has developed a highly curated awards program to honor exemplary projects, project teams, and individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to facade design, engineering, fabrication, installation, and lifecycle performance.

Honing in on FTI's mission, the 2025 Vitruvian Honors & Award recipients will embody the goals of the Institute in advancing the art, science, and technology of designing, planning, and constructing high-performance building facades for the benefit of the planet and people.

The chair of the 2025 Vitruvian Honors & Awards program is Peter Arbour, AIA.
 

Important Dates

  • Monday, January 13, 2025 – Program launch
  • Monday, June 23, 2025 - Award submission deadline
  • Monday, July 21, 2025 – Finalist slate is complete; Finalists are notified
  • Tuesday, September 18, 2025 – FTI Vitruvian Honors & Awards Symposium and Awards Ceremony

Honors & Awards Categories

FTI's Vitruvian Honors & Awards Committee worked collaboratively to develop 13 distinct categories symbolic of The Institute's vision and mission and celebrate innovation, collaboration, and achievement within the AECO industry. Core mission considerations of resilience and sustainability are prioritized in each category.

Awards: Outstanding Projects

  • New Facade (low-rise, mid-rise, high-rise)
  • Outstanding Facade Adaptive Reuse
  • Outstanding Heritage Conservation
  • Outstanding Facade Innovation
  • Outstanding Facade Integration
  • Outstanding Unbuilt Facade
  • Outstanding Facade Research
  • Outstanding Facade New Product Development
  • Outstanding Student Project

Honors: Outstanding Individuals or Teams

  • Collaborative Achievement
  • Unsung Hero
  • Emerging Professional
  • Façade Educator

Judging Panel

Judges are thought leaders from a cross-section of the global architectural industry. The 2025 members of the jury are:

  • Angel Ayon AIA, NCARB, NOMA, LEED AP | Principal, AYON Studio New York, NY
  • Karen Brandt AIA | Principal Heintges San Francisco, CA
  • Graham Dodd |Arup Fellow, Director ARUP London, England
  • Mitsu Edwards | Director, Fadades & Special Structures EOC Engineers Paris, France
  • Stacey Hooper AIA LEED BD & C | NBBJ Partner Los Angeles, CA
  • Dan Shannon | Managing Partner MdeAS Architects New York, NY

Project Award Eligibility

For awards involving built projects, the projects must have been completed in the last five years and have been functioning and occupied for at least one calendar year.

All members of the project team, including the owner, architect, key consultants, contractors, fabricators, and material, product, and systems suppliers, must be credited.

Members of the jury credited in an entry or whose organization of employment is credited in an entry will be recused from judging that submission.

Submission forms and deliverables must be completed by the submission deadline of Monday, June 23, 2025.

Finalists & Winners

Winners will be honored at the biennial Vitruvian Honors & Awards ceremony. Winners will have the opportunity to present their project on a virtual FTI Vitruvian Honors & Awards webinar.

Awards will be presented at a lecture/cocktail celebration at the Center for Architecture in New York City.

About Us

The Façade Tectonics Institute is a non-profit, member-based organization that started at the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California in 2007. The Institute’s mission is to accelerate transformative change in the built environment toward imperative goals of resilience and sustainability. For more information on the Institute, visit our website, www.facadetectonics.org.

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