Honors and Awards
BSA honors extraordinary contributions to community and profession, with accolades for design and project excellence, lifetime and community achievement, and young professionals.
Contact: Wandy Pascoal, [email protected]
BSA Design Awards
The BSA Design Awards honor projects that embody the values of the AIA Framework for Design Excellence and the BSA’s vision of building a just and sustainable Boston, together.
Submissions are accepted from eligible firms and projects. Awards are determined by expert juries.
Harleston Parker Medal
This highest design honor awarded by the Boston Society of Architects/AIA recognizes “the most beautiful piece of architecture, building, monument or structure within the City or Metropolitan Parks District limits” built within the last ten years. Additionally, by public vote, the most popular among each year’s Medal finalists is awarded the Harleston Parker People's Choice Award.
Nominations are accepted from the public. Awards are issued by a community jury.
Women in Design Award
The WiD award recognizes a person who has built their life around design, whose work exemplifies the best of process and product, and who uses a position of achievement to give back to the world of design and to the community at large.
Nominations are accepted from the public for eligible candidates. Awards are made by the Women in Design Knowledge Community.
BSA Award of Honor
The BSA Award of Honor recognizes a BSA member, current or former, who has made "outstanding contributions to architecture and to the profession" over an extended period of time.
Nominations and awards are made by the BSA Honors and Awards Committee.
Honorary BSA Membership
The Honorary BSA Membership recognizes a person of esteemed character who has rendered valuable service to the profession of architecture within the territory of the BSA, but is not eligible for AIA or Associate AIA membership in the Boston Society of Architects/AIA or any other chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Nominations and awards are made by the BSA Honors and Awards Committee.
BSA Commonwealth Award
The BSA Commonwealth Award recognizes an individual, group, concept, or object—other than an architect or a building—that has exercised an outstanding positive influence on our built environment or our awareness of it.
Nominations and awards are made by the BSA Honors and Awards Committee.
AIA College of Fellows
Granted to less than three percent of the architecture profession, membership in the prestigious AIA College of Fellows—the AIA’s highest membership honor—recognizes exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society. Elected by their peers, Fellows can be identified by the designation FAIA after their name.
Submissions are accepted by the BSA College of Fellows Committee. Awards are determined by an AIA National jury.
BSA Earl R. Flansburgh Young Designers Award
The Earl R. Flansburgh Young Designers Award recognizes notable contributions by emerging professionals under the age of 40, including practitioners, aspiring architects, and architecture students. The award honors the legacy of past BSA president and distinguished Boston architect Earl R. Flansburgh FAIA, founder of Flansburgh Associates.
Submissions are accepted from eligible candidates. Awards are made by the BSA Honors and Awards Committee.
Rotch Travelling Scholarship
The Rotch Travelling Scholarship provides one emerging professional—an architecture graduate of the past 10 years, with one year of experience in a Massachusetts firm or a degree from a Massachusetts institution—with a stiped to cover a minimum of six months of travel and architecture study abroad.
Submissions are accepted from eligible candidates. Awards are made by a Rotch Travelling Scholarship jury.
