IIA National Awards For Excellence in Architecture 2021: The Indian Institute of Architects

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Presentation Register
IIA National Awards for Excellence

in Architecture 2021
Organized by
THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
The Call for Entries (Categories/Guidelines)
https://awards.indianinstituteofarchitects.com 1/12
CALL FOR ENTRIES

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE IIA NATIONAL AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN
ARCHITECTURE 2021
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(Also Categories
referred to as theEligibility Guidelines
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herein) Awards Regulations
is to encourage,
Presentation appreciate
acknowledge, Registerand honour the creative contribution of the IIA
members in the field of Architecture. The Awards are presented annually and
carry a Plaque and Citation in each category.
AWARD CATEGORIES
RESIDENTIAL
RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS – A
Single Family Dwellings, Bungalows, Villas, Mansions, Farm houses etc.
RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS – B
Multi-Family Dwellings, Multi-Storied Apartments, Gated Communities etc.
RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS – C
Townships, Group Housing
COMMERCIAL PROJECTS
COMMERCIAL PROJECTS – A
Stand Alone Corporate/Office Buildings, Business and Commercial Centres,
Shopping Centres, Malls etc.
COMMERCIAL PROJECTS – B
Multiple Blocks / Multiuse.
INSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS
Educational / Institutional Buildings / Campus, Sports Complexes, Art & Cultural
Centres etc.
HEALTHCARE PROJECTS
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HEALTHCARE PROJECTS – A
Nursing Homes and Stand Alone Hospitals upto 100 beds
HEALTHCARE PROJECTS – B
Multispecialty / Medical Colleges / Hospitals more than 100 Beds
Presentation/ INFRASTRUCTURE
INDUSTRIAL Register PROJECTS
Factory Buildings / Structures, Workshops, Transport Terminals, Toll Plazas etc.
INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECTS – RESIDENTIAL
INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECTS – NON RESIDENTIAL
INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECTS – NON RESIDENTIAL – A

Restaurants, Pubs, Coffee Shops, Eateries
INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECTS – NON RESIDENTIAL – B

Hotels
INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECTS – NON RESIDENTIAL – C

Office Interiors
INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECTS – NON RESIDENTIAL – D

Commercial interiors including retail outlets, malls, sports, art & culture
HOSPITALITY PROJECTS
Hotels & Resorts
RECREATION PROJECTS
Amusement Parks & Multiplexes
CONSERVATION PROJECTS
Adaptive Reuse, Retrofitting / Restoration of Old and Heritage sites/structures
ARCHITECTURE UNBUILT PROJECTS
LANDSCAPE PROJECTS – A
Landscape Projects – Small Scale (Site area up to 1 acre)
LANDSCAPE PROJECTS – B
Landscape Projects – Large Scale (Site area above 1 acre)
Presentation
SOCIALLY RegisterARCHITECTURE
RESPONSIBLE
Sustainable, Low Cost Regeneration of Existing Social Housing and Community,
Disaster Risk Reduction, and Post-Disaster Emergency Responsive Architecture
and Socially Beneficial Projects.
RESEARCH PAPERS
Original concise Architectural Research papers
PERIOD
The IIA National Awards for Excellence in Architecture-2020 shall cover projects
completed between, 1st January 2018 and 31st December 2021.
ELIGIBILITY
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IIA members having paid subscription upto 2022-2023 or Lifetime subscribers

are eligible to participate in the Awards. IIA National Office Bearers, IIA Awards
Committee members and the host Chapter Committee members are NOT
eligible for participation.

ENTRY DOCUMENTS
The submission process is entirely ONLINE, through the dedicated website –
https://awards.indianinstituteofarchitects.com/
The participants are requested to upload the following Documents:
1. A maximum of 6 sheets of A3 size in pdf format are to be uploaded

(maximum size of entire Set to be uploaded should not be more than
30MB), explaining the design with relevant drawings, sketches and
photographs. Presentation can be in Colour or B & W. Please ensure that all
drawings are legible and are not superimposed over images. Entries with
more than 6 sheets or larger than A3 size, will be disqualified.
2. A Report Document in single A4 size page in Microsoft Word Format (.doc
or .docx) is to be uploaded with relevant project details explaining the
concept, context, constraints, innovations, interesting construction
technologies etc. (Text Colour: Black, Font: Arial, Font Size: 12)
3. Submitted (entries) drawings, reports and documents, Participants should
NOT mention/print/stick their name or firm name, firm logo, IIA
membership number or any other identifying mark. Such identifications
shall lead to cancellation of entry.
4. Entry form to be filled online. Resume, passport size photograph, valid COA
certificate and IIA certificate should be uploaded.
5. A self-attested DECLARATION from the participant stating and confirming
that the project is an original work of him or his firm and not of others,
completed within the given period and further that no actions are pending
against the said projects in any statutory authority concerned about any
irregularity about the project and the Project has not been awarded by IIA
already.
Please Note:
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1. In case of any entry submitted by Partnership firm of Architects, all the

partners must be members of IIA in good standing.
2. Further, in case such entry wins an award, the Award and Certificate shall be
given in the name of the lead Architect.
3. A member can submit one or more projects / entries in any relevant
categories. Separate set of Entry Form & mandatory enclosures shall be
filled and submitted online for each entry/project.
4. In case of rehabilitation, conservation or restoration projects, entries must
include detailed documentation/images showing the prior existing
structure.
5. In case of Research category entries, either published or non published,
Original Architectural Research Studies shall be submitted in hard as well as
soft copies with the due certificate of original work.
6. In case of Landscape Projects, the Plans/Photographs prior to the
commencement of the Project are to be included.
7. The entry material sent to IIA for the AWARDS will be retained as property of
IIA. The Indian Institute of Architects shall be free to publish the entries in
the Institute’s publication or display the same in the Exhibitions organized
by the Institute. No claims for compensation or otherwise shall be
entertained by the IIA on any account.
8. Clarifications, if any, may be sent by email
to info@indianinstituteofarchitects.com
ENTRY FEES

Member Architects
Rs. 5000 per entry + GST per entry
Research Papers
Rs. 2000 per entry + GST per entry
ENTRY DATES
The online portal for submission will be open from
1st August 2022 | 10.00 am

The last date for uploading all the documents into the website is
31st August 2022 | 11.59 pm

EVALUATION AND JURY
A distinguished Panel of Jury will assess all the entries.
The Jury will comprise of the President of IIA or his nominee and a Panel of
Eminent Senior Architects. (Names of the Jury Panel will be announced
shortly) 
The Jury will be a two stage process. From all the entries received, the Jury
will do an initial shortlist of projects.
The shortlisted projects will be presented online by the respective architects
during the second stage Jury.
The final Jury evaluation will also be based on these presentations.
There will be separate Jury for the Research category, which shall be judged
at the first stage of Jury.
Decisions, deliberations, opinions and proceedings of the Jury shall not be
made public or otherwise revealed.
Awards committee decisions, Awards modality and process, decisions of the
Jury shall be final and binding on all participants without appeal and cannot
be challenged.
GENERAL GUIDELINES
Presentation of an Award to any entry in no way legalizes its status.
If the project (i.e. an Award winning project) is involved in any revenue
dispute or in violation of any statutory laws/regulations at subsequent time,
the said award has no legal standing or validity in such dispute / violation.
The management of these Awards is entirely based on the bonafide
personal declaration duly signed & stamped by Architect / Firm along with
the entry form.
If prior to the actual presentation of the Award, any such violation comes to
the notice of the Organizers (i.e. IIA National Council) along with
documentary evidence or incorrect in any case, the organizers reserve the
rights to withdraw / cancel the Entry, in consultation with the Jury.
Categories with insufficient entries are liable to be cancelled.
For the category of Un-built Projects, projects will have to be actual
proposed projects with a real site, following the relevant rules and
regulation. Documental proof has to be submitted in this regard. No
hypothetical projects will be entertained.
Posthumous Award: In case of death of an individual (whose project is
selected for the Award) prior to actual presentation of Award, the Organizers
may present the Award posthumously.

Proposed Regulations for Research Category,

IIA National Awards 2020
1. Entrants must be a member of IIA. Papers written by more than one author
are permitted, but the main author must be a member of IIA.
2. More than one paper may be submitted by the author.
3. The papers/ research work has to be related to the built environment, written
in English and of 2000 – 5000 words. The research may be based on their
ongoing or completed research.
4. The papers/ work sent for the research category does not need to be original.
It may have been published elsewhere. However, the work must be the author’s
own work.
5. The paper should be sent as a pdf. PPTs and word docs will not be accepted.
The following should be blackened out :
i) Name of author/s
ii) Name of journal/publication
iii) Date of publication

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iv) Name of author/s institution
v) Any other marks of identification
If any of these are seen to occur on the pdf, the entry shall be disqualified.
6.Presentation
The paper must Register
largely follow the structure: (1) Introduction (2) Review of
literature (3) Methodology (4) Results/Findings (5) Discussion (6) Conclusions &
Recommendations
7. The references must be clear, cited within the text and for the images and
tables as well. The list of references must mention the essentials of Author, Date
of publication, Publisher, etc.
8. A plagiarism check will be done by IIA. The permissible limit is 10 % similarity.
9. Stage 1 shortlisting will be done (by the JIIA Board of Reviewers or a suitable
panel of jurors for research category) according to the requirements of paper
submission for Category 3 of JIIA[1] on a double-blind peer review basis.
10. Authors of the shortlisted papers will be called for the final Jury. They can
present their work with a PPT in the allotted time of 15-20 minutes in front of
the Panel of Jurors consisting of academicians.
11. The presented material must be strictly from the paper itself. No additional
information/ graphics external to the paper will be admissible.
12. There will be Q & A session and discussion by the Jurors.

PRESENTATION OF THE AWARDS
Based on entries received, the Jury at its discretion can choose to confer the
Awards or to not give Award at all in each category.
The Awards are to be given to an individual Architect. In case an entry is

submitted by a Team / Firm, the Award shall be given to the Principal Architect
of the Team / Firm or to a person so nominated by Team / Firm.
All Award winning entries shall be published in the official website of IIA –
www.indianinstituteofarchitects.com and JIIA, the Journal of the Indian
Institute of Architects
The short-listed participants shall prepare their Presentation in Power Point

format, which will be used for online presentations. Further details will be
intimated to the short-listed participants.
If the winner of an Award for whatsoever reason cannot be present at the

Awards Presentation Programme, a nominee can receive the award on his
behalf with prior notification.
For,
IIA NATIONAL AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN ARCHITECTURE 2021
Ar. Vilas Avachat – Vice President, IIA – Convenor

Ar. Leena Kumar- Jt. Hon. Secretary, IIA – Co-Convenor
Ar. Muralidhar Reddy -Chairman, IIA Awards Committee
© 2022 IIA Awards.


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