Prize Eligibility

Architecture schools with programs that were both located in one of NCARB's 54 Member Board jurisdictions and that had a program accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) or a program that was a candidate for NAAB-accreditation were eligible to submit projects. In addition to responding to the objectives of the NCARB Prize program, projects must have also met the following requirements:

• The project must involve non-faculty architect practitioners.*
• The project must be offered as part of the architecture curriculum in the architecture school.
• The project must be a course or part of a course that is offered for academic credit.
• The project must have commenced no earlier than the fall 2008 academic term and must have been completed or must be in progress by the end of the fall 2010 academic term.

Projects did not have to be studio-based or design-based; projects did not have to result in a building project or built project. Non-design and non-studio projects such as seminar-, classroom-, laboratory-based projects were eligible for submission as long as they responded to the 2011 NCARB Prize program objectives and met all eligibility requirements.

* Non-faculty architect practitioners must have held current registration in a U.S. jursidiction. Non-faculty architect practitioners were not required to be registered in the same jurisdiction in which the architecture school was located and non-faculty architect practitioners were not required to be in the same physical location as the architecture school as long as means to ensure the involvement of the non-faculty architect practitioners was evident. Non-faculty architect practitioners may not have included any faculty members (adjunct, visiting, part-time or full-time). Verification of all non-faculty architect practitioners’ registration status must have been submitted with project documents.