The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts invite architects to participate in the competition for the 2022 Governor General’s Medals in Architecture.
Awarded every two years, the 12 medals recognize and celebrate outstanding design in recently completed built projects, big or small, by Canadian architects. The Medals are among this country’s most prestigious and coveted architectural awards.
The call for submissions is open to all architects or teams of architects who were the lead design architects. They must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, and licensed or registered with a Canadian provincial or territorial jurisdiction.
The 2022 jury members are: Dr. Izabel Fraga Do Amaral E Silva, Director of the School of Architecture, University of Montreal; Anik Shooner, FIRAC, President and co-founder of Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes, Montreal; Dr. Patrick Stewart, MRAIC, Principal-Patrick Stewart Architecture, Chilliwack; Christian Benimana, RA, Senior Principal of MASS Design Group & Director of the African Design Centre, Kigali, Rwanda; and Dr. Lígia Nunes, Chair, architecture sans frontières International, Lisboa, Portugal.
Eligible projects are those that were built in and outside of Canada and completed between January 1, 2014, and September 1, 2021. The submission deadline is December 10, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Applicants should use the RAIC’s online submission platform for their submissions.