2026 AIA Arizona Design Awards Gala

Celebrate the winners at the 2026 AIA Arizona Design Awards Gala on the evening of Saturday, November 14, at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. Early bird best-rate tickets are available now through October 27 only!

Awards will recognize the many people and projects of AIA Arizona. This year, AIA Arizona will celebrate both an Arizona Medal honoree and a Firm of the Year, as well as AIA10, Associate, and Allied members. Design excellence will be recognized with many projects to be honored across multiple categories.

Interested in sponsoring? Click here to become a sponsor of the 2026 AIA Arizona Design Awards Gala.

Click here to see photos of the 2025 AIA Arizona Design Awards Gala.

View all winners in Project categories from the past four years at this link.

View the recent winners of the Practice categories at this link.

What is the gala experience like? Click on the video below to see highlights from last year’s AIA Arizona Design Awards Gala!

DESIGN AWARDS GALA SPONSORS [confirmed as of October 19]

Title Arcadia

Bar Concrete Masonry Checkoff

Premier Sponsors Elevate / Salt River Project

Achievement Sponsors Arizona Architecture Foundation / Clayco / McCarthy Building Companies / Wendell Burnette Architects

Supporting Sponsors 180 Degrees Design + Build / Airpark Signs / Arizona Restaurant Consulting / Available Light / Ayers Saint Gross / AZ Architecture / beSpoke Real Estate / BWS Architects / Corporate Interior Systems / Creative Designs in Lighting / DeBartolo Architects / Grace Design Studios / Holly Street Studio / Inszone Insurance Services / JFK Electrical Contracting / Kitchell / Layton Construction / Meyer Borgman Johnson / Optima / Primak Construction Group / RC Lurie / Shepley Bulfinch / Stuckey Insurance / Telgian Engineering & Consulting / Treanor / Walter P Moore

Thank You Level Sponsors 1GPA / AIA Phoenix Metro / Arizona Masonry Council / Boyer Vertical / Multistudio / Norris Design / Okland Construction / Pivium / Schaefer Structural Engineering / suoLL Architects / Terracon / The Construction Zone / Timely Industries / triARC Architecture & Design / YKK AP

Friend Level Sponsors Architekton / Associated Mechanical Engineers / Jason Roehner Photography / Line and Space / Raymond James Financial Inc. / Sazan Group / Timmerman Photography