AIA El Paso Chapter's Annual Design Awards recognizes outstanding architectural and urban design by architects, emerging professionals, and students practicing in El Paso, to promote public interest in architectural design excellence.

Winning entries will demonstrate high-quality design solutions that are appropriate and responsive to the needs of the end users, the urban context, and the environment. The jury will look at the projects to understand what criteria were most important to the designers: form, function, sustainability, etcetera.

This year's Jury Chair is Carlos Jimenez. Born in San Jose, Costa Rica in 1959, Jimenez moved to the United States in 1974. Following his training as an architect at the University of Houston College of Architecture in 1981 Jimenez established Carlos Jimenez Studio in 1983. He has previously taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Texas A&M University, University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and at Berkeley, University of Navarra in Pamplona Spain, Williams College, Tulane University, University of Houston, Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, University of Texas at Arlington and at Austin, University of Oregon and Washington University in Saint Louis. Jimenez is a tenured Professor at Rice University School of Architecture and is a frequent guest lecturer, critic and jury member at national and international architecture events.  He served on the Jury of the Pritzker Architecture Prize from 2001 to 2011. 

This year’s design award winners will be announced and recognized at the Annual AIA El Paso Architecture Gala (Powered by PechaKucha) on October 22nd in Downtown El Paso at the Hotel Paso del Norte. Award recipients will present their projects in the PechaKucha 20x20 format at the live event. 

Winning entries and presentations from the design awards will be shared via PechaKucha.com and the AIA El Paso chapter's website  www.aiaelpaso.org

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