Victorian Architecture Awards

The Victorian Architecture Awards are  granted annually by the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. They began with the Street Architecture Medal, awarded between 1929 and 1942. Apart from a single award in 1954, annual awards did not resume until 1964, backdated by one year.

To mark the 75th Victorian Architecture Awards in 2003, the Institute published Judging Architecture – Issues, Divisions, Triumphs, which lists all awards since 1929.

Awards and Prizes
The most prestigious award has been variously called the Medal, the Bronze Medal, or Merit Award, but since but since 1987 it has been called the Victorian Architecture Medal.

The numbers and categories of awards has expanded and changed over the years. Since the 1990s, some categories have been named after significant architects or firms who have practiced in Victoria.

Awards

 * Victorian Architecture Medal (started 1929)
 * Dimity Reed Melbourne Prize (started 1997)
 * Maggie Edmond Enduring Architecture Award (started 2003)
 * William Wardell Award for Public/Institutional Architecture
 * Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design
 * Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Commercial Architecture
 * John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture / Conservation
 * Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for Residential Architecture Houses – New
 * John and Phyllis Murphy Award for Residential Architecture Houses – Alterations and Additions
 * Best Overend Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
 * Marion Mahony Award for Interior Architecture
 * Kevin Borland Award for Small Project Architecture
 * Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture
 * Allan and Beth Coldicutt Award for Sustainable Architecture
 * Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
 * EmAGN Project Award

Prizes

 * Victorian President’s Prize (started 2000)
 * Regional Prize
 * Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media (National, State and Advocacy categories)
 * Victorian Emerging Architect Prize
 * Victorian Student Ideas Prize
 * Victorian Graduate Prize
 * Robert Caulfield Graduate Research Scholarship
 * Sinclair–Nelson Drawing Scholarship

2024 Awards
In 2024 the AIA Victoria Chapter received the largest total entries of all Australian States and Territories chapters with 228 submissions across 15 categories for judging. At the awards held on Friday 7 June, 2024 a total of 15 named awards, 24 architecture awards and 22 commendations were presented.