2022 Latrobe Prize Call for Submission by AIA College of Fellows

The American Institute of Architects College of Fellows

2022

Latrobe Prize Call for Submissions

The American Institute of Architects 1735 New York Ave NW Washington, DC 20006-5292

AIA College of Fellows Founded in 1952, the College of Fellows is composed of members of the Institute who are elevated to Fellowship by a jury of their peers. Fellowship is one of the highest honors the AIA can bestow upon a member. Elevation to Fellowship not only recognizes the achievement of the architect as an individual, but also elevates before the public and the profession those architects who have made significant contributions to architecture and to society.

Contents Informational Research Theme Thesis & Overall Goals Research Areas of Interest History of the Latrobe Prize Submission Information First Stage Second Stage

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$100,000 4

Informational The AIA College of Fellows invites individuals and teams to submit proposals for the 2022 Latrobe Prize Awarded to a research proposal that has the long-range potential to resolve one or more 21st century architectural and built environment challenges, the Latrobe Prize provides the recipient with $100,000 to conduct research on a critical issue and to develop a solution that enhances the current practice of architecture, construction practices and processes.

The Latrobe Prize The AIA College of Fellows’ mission is to support the Institute and advance the profession of architecture. Toward that end, the College seeks to encourage research that broadens the perspective and scope of architecture to include cross-disciplinary fields and expertise through its biennial competition: the Latrobe Prize. Research proposals for the Latrobe Prize shall support the overall theme and result in readily usable practical applications to advance architectural practice.

Background The 2019 Research Theme of the Latrobe Prize was noted as: “ Buildings + Human Performace" and was awarded to the project "Addressing a MultiBillion Dollar Challenge" Key concepts identified in the winning submittal that continue to excite the COF include: - Design excellence and its value - Design for equitable communities - Client engagement and partnerships - Feedback methods and outcomes - Adaptation and transformation - Knowledge creation and action 6

Research Theme Intent of the 2022 Latrobe Prize Theme • Establish that architecture goes beyond the design of buildings to the creation of positive outcomes for people and communities — a direct connection to the theme of the 2019 Latrobe Prize • Prioritize the creation of knowledge that supports the transformation of practice and an architect’s ability to “achieve a zero-carbon, equitable, resilient, and healthy built environment” — a direct connection to the AIA Climate Action Plan, The Climate Imperative • Affirm research projects that help Architect Practitioners and their Clients make wonderful architectural solutions that contribute to healthy and equitable communities • Affirm research projects that help Architect Practitioners and their Clients realize solutions for climate action • Demonstrate research methods that are valid, defensible, appropriate, and repeatable • Elevate research findings for any building type that are usable and applicable to Architect Practitioners in design decision-making • Elevate research that Clients will view as truly “value-added” as opposed to Architect’s marketing speak • Align with the AIA Research Agenda through a new, emerging field of interdisciplinary research • Demonstrate models for interdisciplinary collaboration between Architect Practitioners, Clients, and individuals in fields such as environmental science, urban ecology, public health, and planetary health With the Latrobe Prize, the COF hopes to evolve a vision for the profession through knowledge that immediately transforms architectural practice. 7

Thesis & Overall Goals Proposals for the 2022 Latrobe Prize must explore buildings at the intersection of Planetary Health and Human Health. Planetary health is a new field of research that connects two pressing issues: climate change and health equity. Buildings ∩ Planetary Health and Human Health • A definition for planetary health, as introduced in 2015 by Whitmore and colleagues states: “Put simply, planetary health is the health of human civilisation and the state of the natural systems on which it depends.” * This theme adapts and builds directly on the overall goals from the 2019 Latrobe Prize: • Expand the influence of design beyond buildings While architects see “building design and construction as the end,” clients see “buildings as a means to the end.” For the Client “ the end” is the value of a building as it connects to an overall mission and requires the continuous expenditure of resources, as well as maintaining services, user satisfaction, enhancing human performance, health, and wellness of inhabitants and communities. • Move beyond single-issue research themes and help Architect Practitioners and Clients address the complex intersection between human health, health equity, climate action, and the role of architecture, planning, and design therein. • Assist practicing architects in meeting their ethical obligations to people, communities, and the environment. Ground design decision-making and add value (however defined) to a Client. An outcome would be to enhance the role, responsibility, respect, trust and even change the method of compensation to the architect. *Whitmore et.al. “Safeguarding human health in the Anthroponocene epoch: report of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health”, The Rockefeller Foundation, July 16, 2015.

Research Areas of Interest Buildings ∩ Planetary Health and Human Health Proposals for the 2022 Latrobe Prize should aim to explore positive outcomes for people, communities, and the planet resulting from architectural design excellence. The 2022 Latrobe Prize encourages investigations on architecture in the built environment at the intersection of climate action, climate justice, environmental justice, public health, and health equity. Multiscale Thinking: Research teams should establish a perspective on the design of buildings as integral and contributing to the health of individuals, communities, regions, and the planet and may explore proposals to pilot near-term solutions on a range of topics including: - Climate Change Adaptation, Health Equity, and Health Access - Nature-Based Solutions - Ecological and Community Wellbeing and Resilience - Food Security, Food Systems and Access - Energy Systems, Vulnerability, and Access - Circularity, Material Assemblies and Material Flows - Housing Equity and Sustainable Design - Public Open Space, Wellbeing and - Labor, Automation and AI

In 2000, the College of Fellows established a research grants program intended to serve as a catalyst for significant investigation into issues important to the profession. The program began as the Latrobe Fellowship with the initial grant of $50,000. In 2003, the grant was increased to $100,000 to be given over a two-year period, and in 2007, was renamed the Latrobe Prize. 12

Former Latrobe Prize Recipients 2001

A Study of New York and Jersey

2015

Research into new material

Upper Bay

Drylands Resilience Initiative:

development and application

Principle Investigators:

Digital

with the publication of

Guy Nordenson; Princeton

Tools for Sustainable Urban

Refabricating Architecture

University

Design in Arid

Principal Investigators:

with Stanley T. Allen, AIA;

and Semi-Arid Urban Centers

Stephen Kieran and

Catherine Seavitt, AIA; James

Principal Investigators:

James Timberlake

Smith

Hadley Arnold

and Michael Tantala, Tantala

Peter Arnold

2003

Associates; Adam Yarinsky and

Fundamental Neuroscience

Stephen

2017

Research and Development for

Cassell, Architecture

Future-Use Architecture - Design

Architecture

Research Office

for Persistent Change

Principal Investigator: Academy

Principal Investigators:

of Neuroscience

2009

Peter Wiederspahn, AIA, Michelle

for Architecture

Growing Energy/Water:

Laboy, PE, and David Fannon, AIA

Using the Grid to

with Northeastern University’s

2005

Get Off the Grid

School of Architecture and

Developing an Evidence-Based

Principal Investigators:

Resilient Cities Laboratory

Design Model that Measures

Martin Felsen, AIA and Sarah Dunn

Human

2019

Response

2011

Adressing a Multi-Billion Dollar

A Pilot Study of a Collaborative,

Public Interest Practices in

Challange

Trans-Disciplinary Model in a

Architecture

Principal Investigators:

Healthcare Setting

Principal Investigators: Bryan

Bruce Levin, J.D. Associate Clinical

Principal Investigators:

Bell, Roberta Feldman, Sergio

Professor, School of Education, Drexel

Chong Partners Architecture, in

Palleroni and David Perkes, AIA

University and Sean O’Donnell, FAIA,

partnership with Kaiser Foundation

Perkins Eastman

Health Plan, Inc. and the University

2013

of California, Berkeley

Urban Sphere: The City of Seven Billion

2007

Principal Investigators: Joyce

On the Water, A Model for the

Hsiang, Assoc. AIA, and Bimal Mendis,

Future:

Assoc. AIA

2022 Jury: Billie Faircloth, FAIA- Chair Partner and Research Director KieranTimberlake, 1st Recipient of the Latrobe Prize Adjunct Professor, Weitzman School of Design, UPenn Philadelphia, PA Dr. Malo Hutson Dean, School of Architecture University of Virginia Director, Columbia GSAPP Urban Community and Health Equity Lab Charlottesville, VA Alison Kwok, FAIA Professor & Director, NetZED Laboratory University of Oregon ACSA Distinguished Professor, 2021 Eugene, OR 14

Vivian Lee, FAIA New York Studio Executive Director Wood Bagot New York, NY Dr. Upali Nanda, Assoc. AIA Principal and Director of Research HKS ECAC, ACHE Detroit, MI Roger Schluntz, FAIA 2022 Chancellor Professor and Dean Emeritus School of Architecture & Planning University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM Ronald Blitch, FAIA, FACHA Bursar President Blitch Knevel Architects New Orleans, LA

Submission Information The 2022 Latrobe Prize will accept submission in two stages: First Stage: Open for all submission from which three submissions will be chosen Second Stage: Invited submission only for an in person interview with the jury

Evaluation Criteria • Relevance of the proposed research program to the general goals and objectives of the College of Fellows, the Latrobe Prize program, and the 2022 theme. • Breadth, depth, and innovativeness of the research programs. • Projected applications of research outcomes to practice. • Benefits of research outcomes to professional and public constituencies. • Qualifications, expertise, prior achievements, maturity, and performance record of the applicant(s). • Demonstrated capacity to administer a sustained research program, including the formulation and management of the budget. • Presence of matching funds in the proposal. • Quality and content of supporting documentation. • Quality and content of letters of reference. 15

Open call for preliminary proposals.

First stage proposals must be emailed on or before November 1, 2021. Email proposals to:

Latrobe Prize Jury College of Fellows cof@aia.org

First Stage Open Submission Requirements Title page Name of project Name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of principal investigator(s) Keywords Date of submission 125-word abstract Summarizing the topic of proposed research — the questions, problems, or conditions that stimulate the research; the scope of work; and the expected outcomes of the project Description

Schedule of production Timeline of the proposed program of research, including expected deadlines for the publication of preliminary results. Supporting documentation CV(s) of the principal investigator(s). Detailed letter of support from the applicant’s supervising unit head or chief executive or chief academic officer of the department, college, university, company, or corporation, as appropriate. Documentation

500-word expository description of the topic, scope, and projected outcomes of the proposed work; institutional context of the research (e.g. team composition, facilities, travel, institutional support); and proposed plans to disseminate the results of the research once complete.

Maximum of 10 pages for required information plus an additional 20 pages for supplemental if appropriate (e.g. copies of relevant writings; completed or speculative creative work or building design; or other documentation that establishes unique expertise and qualification(s).

Preliminary budget

All proposals: 8.5 x 11 inch paper size,

Itemized use of the $100,000 grant (e.g. salaries, release time, research assistance, travel, equipment, supplies, software, etc.) and any matching funds that will be provided by other funding sources.

30 pages maximum 12 point font minimum Must be emailed as PDF by November 1, 2021 cof@aia.org

Invited short list only

All invited submissions must be emailed on or before February 7, 2022.

For more information contact: Muza Conforti 202-626-7514 cof@aia.org or www.aia.org/cof

Second Stage Invited Submission Requirements Title page

Supplemental documentation

Name of project

Five letters of recommendation, including at least one submitted by a member of the College of Fellows.

Name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of principal investigator(s) Keywords Date of submission

An in person presentation to and interview with the jury will be scheduled for the week of March 7, 2022.

250-word abstract Summarizing the topic of proposed research — the questions, problems, or conditions that stimulate the research; the scope of work; and the expected outcomes of the project Description 10-page illustrated narrative that answers the following questions: What problems does this proposal seek to address? How does this project stimulate the transformation of future practices? How will the proposed program of research be applied to architectural practice? How will the proposed program of research benefit clients and the public? 19

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