FTI Announces the 2025 Vitruvian Honors & Awards Program

The Facade Tectonics Institute is pleased to announce our third biennial Vitruvian Honors & Awards Program, for which registration is scheduled to open in mid-January 2025. The premiere celebration seeks to recognize unprecedented innovation and achievements in the field of facade design and delivery. FTI has developed a highly curated awards program to honor exemplary projects and project teams, and individuals that have made extraordinary contributions to facade design, engineering, fabrication, installation, and lifecycle performance.

Honing in on FTI's mission, the 2025 Vitruvian Honors & Award recipients will embody the goals of the Institute in advancing the art, science and technology of designing, planning, and constructing high performance building facades for the benefit of the planet and people. The chair of the 2024 Vitruvian Honors & Awards program is Peter Arbour, AIA.

Entry forms and instructions will be posted on the FTI website in January 2025, at www.facadetectonics.org

Important Dates

• Monday, January 16, 2025 – Program launch
• Monday, June 19, 2025 - Award submission deadline
• Monday, July 17, 2025 – Finalist slate is complete; Finalists notified
• Tuesday, September 18, 2025 – FTI Vitruvian Honors & Awards Symposium and Awards Ceremony

Honors & Awards Categories

FTI's Vitruvian Honors & Awards Committee worked collaboratively to develop 13 distinct categories that are emblematic of The Institute's vision and mission as well as celebrate innovation, collaboration, and achievement within the AECO industry. Core mission considerations of resilience and sustainability are an embedded priority within each category.

Awards: Outstanding Projects

• New Facade (low-rise, mid-rise, high-rise)
• Outstanding Facade Adaptive Reuse
• Outstanding Facade Heritage Conservation
• Outstanding Facade Design Innovation
• Outstanding Product Innovation
• Outstanding Facade Systems Integration
• Outstanding Unbuilt Facade
• Outstanding Facade Research
• Outstanding Student Project

Honors: Outstanding Individuals or Teams

• Collaborative Achievement
• Unsung Hero
• Emerging Professional
• Façade Educator

Project Award Eligibility

For awards involving built projects, the projects must have been completed in the last five years and have been functioning and occupied for at least one calendar year.

All members of the project team: owner, architect, key consultants, contractors, fabricators, and material, product and systems suppliers-must be credited.

Members of the jury credited in an entry, or whose organization of employment is credited in an entry, will be recused from judging that submission.

Submission forms and deliverables must be completed by the submission deadline.

Finalists & Winners

Winners will be honored at the biennial Vitruvian Honors & Awards ceremony. Finalists will have the opportunity to present their project on a virtual FTI Vitruvian Honors & Awards webinar.

Awards will be presented at a lecture/cocktail celebration at the Center for Architecture in New York City.

About Us

The Façade Tectonics Institute in a non-profit member-based organization that got its start in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California in 2007. The Institute’s mission is to accelerate transformative change in the built environment toward imperative goals of resilience and sustainability. For more information on the Institute, visit our website, www.facadetectonics.org.