The 2020 AIA National Photography Competition (c)

2020 Competition is Now Open:  Deadline April 15, 2020 at midnight, CST

We invite you to enter to 2020 Competition.  Winning images will also be exhibited at the A'20 Conference on Architecture in Los Angeles, on the AIA St. Louis website, in  AIArchitect.  Cash awards for the top award winning images will be made (see below).

Each Center for Architecture or AIA Chapter in the US may request a flash drive with the entries and winning images highlighted, to be displayed electronically.  In addition, note cards will be made of the top fourteen winners and will be available for purchase in outlets.  Each of the 14 winners will be provided a complimentary set of the note cards in 2021.

The subject matter must have an architectural theme or must contain some element of the man-made environment. Photographic interpretation of the subject matter is the issue, not the architecture. Entries must have been exposed by, and be owned by, the entrant.  Images previously awarded with a cash winning honor in previous AIA National Photography Competition(s) is/are not eligible for entry.

Entrants grant permission to the AIA to reproduce images for exhibitions, AIA publications and for promotional purposes. All reproductions will become the property of AIA St. Louis.  Should AIA St. Louis use the photographs for an additional purpose, we will secure written permission from the entrant.  The decision of the judges is final on all matters relating to the competition. Void where prohibited by law.

Submissions online must be uploaded by midnight on April 15, 2020, CST

Submissions entered on CD ROM must be postmarked on/before April 15, 2020.

To read the rules and regulations, click HERE.

To enter online, click HERE.

To submit via CD ROM or flash drive, click HERE. 

  What Am I Looking At?  2019 First Place Award, by Charles David Smith, FAIA  

To view award-winning images from past AIA National Photography Competition: 

• Click HERE to view the winning images from the 2019 AIA National Photography Competition

• Click HERE for 2018 Award-Winning Images

• Click HERE for 2017 Award-Winning Images

• Click HERE for 2016 Award-Winning Images

• Click HERE for 2015 Award-Winning Images

• Click  here. for 2014 Award-Winning Images

• Click  here. for 2013 Award-Winning Images

The competition was founded to capture and honor architects, design professionals and architectural students (AIAS members) whose amazing talents are showcased in their photographic interpretation of the designed environment.