The American Institute of Architects (AIA) proudly announced the winners of its 2026 Awards during a gala held at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. This highly anticipated event celebrated more than 100 award winners including the Housing Award, honoring the best home design that showcases how beauty, safety, sustainability, and comfort come together. See the winners here.Download the 2026 Housing Awards publication here.
On October 21, 2025, 8 advisory group members of the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community (HCD) joined leaders at the AIA Housing Summit in Washington, DC, hosted by AIA President Evelyn Lee. The Summit brought together AIA National Leadership, senior leaders from approximately 20 national housing organizations, volunteer leaders, and AIA staff to advance coordinated housing advocacy and action within the AIA and beyond.
Seattle has a series of pre-approved accessory dwelling unit plans available to browse here: https://aduniverse-seattlecitygis.hub.arcgis.com/ In 2020, the city ran a competition to select up to 10 cottage read more
Across the county, zoning and building code reforms are reintroducing denser forms of housing into neighborhoods. Some middle housing infill types, such as ADUs, are well known, but small-scale multiplexes, read more
There is a CA State bill proposing this. It's not approved yet. https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab748 Also related, there is a non profit that has put together a pre-approved read more
Over 20 years Portland Oregon tried to establish model community design standards for as-of -right approvals, workable "model" infill prototypes and has tried "competitions" for various dense single dwelling read more
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