The IAWA Center announces the 2021 IAWA Kristine Fallon Prize of $5000, inviting professionals and scholars to extend research into an important arena – women in architecture who have made significant contributions to the field through their work practicing at large U.S. firms in the second half of the 20th century. With important contributions made by women at large firms fundamentally unknown, research that documents this information is urgent.

The work submitted should be recently published (within the last five years) or publication-ready articles, chapters, books, manuscripts, dissertations, or exhibition catalogs, and should advance recognition of women’s contributions in architecture as framed above.

The IAWA Mission encourages such research in addition to the goal of preserving archival materials related to the work of women who shaped the designed environment, thus preserving for prosperity a record of their achievements.
The recipient of the 2021 IAWA Kristine Fallon Prize will be selected through a jury process. The award will be granted to the best original work that addresses the call above. In the event that the jury finds no submission of adequate originality, substance and quality, the jury may decline to grant the Prize.

The work should be submitted as a PDF electronically by December 1, 2021 with the subject heading:
The 2021 IAWA Kristine Fallon Prize. All submitted entries for the Prize will be retained and preserved in the IAWA Collections.
 

The prize will be awarded in two installments: $2,000 will be made available to the recipient upon announcement of the award in early January 2022 with the remaining $3000 of the award granted upon the presentation of the work during the 2022 IAWA Center Symposium in March at Virginia Tech. To complete the record of the prize, a copy of the final published work must also be donated to the IAWA.

If further information is required, please contact Professor Donna Dunay at: iawacenter@vt.edu

Submissions should be addressed to:
IAWA Center Executive Committee ATTN: Donna Dunay, FAIA Chair, International Archive of Women in Architecture
School of Architecture + Design 1325 Perry Street 201 Cowgill Hall (0205)
College of Architecture + Urban Studies, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061
And emailed to: iawacenter@vt.edu
Subject: The 2021 IAWA Kristine Fallon Prize
 

2021 IAWA Kristine Fallon Prize Schedule
March 19, 2020 Announcement: The 2021 IAWA Kristine Fallon Prize
December 1, 2021 Receipt of Submissions
Mid-January 2022 Jury Convenes with Announcement
March 2022 The 2021 IAWA Kristine Fallon Prize Presentation: 2022 IAWA Symposium