Victorian Architecture Awards
The Victorian Architecture Awards are granted annually by the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. They began with the Street Architecture Medal, awarded between 1929 and 1942. Apart from a single award in 1954, annual awards did not resume until 1964, backdated by one year.
Awards and Prizes
The most prestigious award has been variously called the Medal, the Bronze Medal, or Merit Award, but since but since 1987 it has been called the Victorian Architecture Medal.The numbers and categories of awards has expanded and changed over the years. Since the 1990s, some categories have been named after significant architects or firms who have practiced in Victoria.
Awards
- Victorian Architecture Medal
- William Wardell Award for Public Architecture
- Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for Residential Architecture Houses – New
- Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Commercial Architecture
- Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design
- Dimity Reed Melbourne Prize
- Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award
- John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture, Conservation/Creative Adaptation
- Marion Mahony Award for Interior Architecture
- Best Overend Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
- Allan and Beth Coldicutt Award for Sustainable Architecture
- Kevin Borland Award for Small Project Architecture
- Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture
- John and Phyllis Murphy Award for Residential Architecture Houses – Alterations and Additions
- Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
- EmAGN Project Award
Prizes
Source:- Victorian President’s Prize
- Regional Prize
- Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media
- Victorian Emerging Architect Prize
- Victorian Student Ideas Prize
- Victorian Graduate Prize
- Robert Caulfield Graduate Research Scholarship
- Sinclair–Nelson Drawing Scholarship