Past Exhibitions

Explore past online exhibitions here.

2023 Professional Awards of the Potomac Chapter ASLA

This exhibition highlights award-winning works of landscape architecture from the 2023 Professional Awards of the Potomac Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The range of projects encompasses residential, private and public practice, and a variety of project types that includes parks, residences, planning, plazas, campuses, community areas, historic landscapes, and more.

2022 Professional Awards of the Potomac Chapter ASLA

This exhibition highlights award-winning works of landscape architecture from the2022 Professional Awards of the Potomac Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The range of projects encompasses residential, private and public practice, and a variety of project types that includes playgrounds, memorials, plazas, community areas, historic landscapes, and more.

Cultural Amplifier

During the 21st century, we have experienced unprecedented global integration—the rapid pace of globalization fueling economic opportunities along with other benefits. But it has also begun to diffuse cultural identity in cities. Cultural Amplifier illustrates design ideas that respond to social transmission and infrastructure in Washington, DC on creating cultural destinations, not another monumental landmark.

The Beauty of Zero

Organized by the Net-Zero Energy Coalition: National Capital Region, this exhibition is comprised of data, details, processes, people, case studies and content that brings to life the aesthetics of net-zero energy. This presentation is our community’s collective vision of a beautiful carbon neutral national capital region. Join our community in visioning and working toward a beautiful net-zero energy future for all.

2021 Awards Show

The 2021 Awards Show combines award-winning projects from two of AIA|DC’s largest competitions: Chapter Design Awards and Washingtonian Residential Design Awards. Each year, our competitions recognize practitioners who demonstrate excellence in design. Projects are selected by distinguished juries of design professionals based outside of the Washington metropolitan region.

Lisa Noble: A Tale of Two Cabins

In 2017, artist Lisa Noble’s life turned inside out with the sudden loss of her father. As a result, she began spilling her grief and memories onto the canvas. The intimate scenes of her family’s Canadian cabins were a series that she had just started a few months earlier. No longer a tourist looking back at old photos, Lisa was forced to view the cabins in a very different yet deeply meaningful way, working through loss to communicate the pleasures of these important locations.

2021 Professional Awards of the Potomac Chapter ASLA

This exhibition highlights award-winning works of landscape architecture from the 2021 Professional Awards of the Potomac Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The range of projects encompasses residential, private and public practice, and a variety of project types that includes parks, campuses, plazas, historic landscapes, and more.

Architecture in Dialogue: The Aga Khan Award for Architecture

This exhibition features six award-winning projects from the 2017–2019 cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.The Award, established by the Aga Khan in 1977 to identify and encourage building concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of communities in which Muslims have a significant presence, recognises examples of architectural excellence in the fields of contemporary design, social housing, community improvement and development, historic preservation, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape design and improvement of the environment.

#iseeDC2020

2020—one of the most tumultuous years on record—brought about profound changes in the way we view our society, its institutions, and our interactions with the environment. This unprecedented mix of life-changing issues inspired the #iseeDC2020 Instagram Photo Contest theme: Architecture, Equity, and the Pandemic.

Politics, Protest, and Place

Architects and urban designers are stewards of public space and it is their professional and civic responsibility to influence change—as well as elected officials—toward a more equitable built environment for all. Politics, Protest, and Place, an ideas design competition, called designers to rethink their built environment to bolster voices of our communities, foster civic engagement, and promote change through design.

CANstruction

This is the 22nd annual CANstruction held in DC. Over the years, the competition has donated 450 tons of food to the Capital Area Food Bank. That’s the same weight as about five-and-a-half Space Shuttles! CANstruction is an international competition where teams build sculptures out of canned food. All the food is then donated to the local food bank. Architecture and design firms comprise the teams that create and build the structures.

2020 Awards Show

The 2020 Awards Show combines award-winning projects from two of AIA|DC’s largest competitions: Chapter Design Awards and Washingtonian Residential Design Awards. Each year, our competitions recognize practitioners who demonstrate excellence in design. Projects are selected by distinguished juries of design professionals based outside of the Washington metropolitan region.

On Architecture

Explore quoted criticisms, opinions, or ideas about the built world around us by architects from around the globe who are connected to the Washington, DC region through projects or practice. But architects aren’t the only voices speaking about architecture. We include some amusing, thought-provoking, or otherwise romantic words by figures from other walks of life—artists, politicians, writers—who offer their own thoughts on architecture.

ALLEY HOPPIN! Putting People Back in DC’s Alleys

An award-winning, ongoing research and public space advocacy initiative created by EL Studio, comprised of three phases: Research—mapping the physical evolution of the alleys and establishing an agenda for future development; Outreach—public engagement, creation of awareness and the identification of program; and Advocacy—connecting with stakeholders and the development of design proposals for new built interventions.

Next Generation Architects: 7th Annual Thesis Showcase

An exhibition of juried thesis projects by graduating students from schools of architecture around the globe. This program, organized by the AIA|DC Emerging Architects Committee, aims to spotlight the next generation of engaged architects emerging from today’s architecture schools.

4x8 Cityscape

Architect James Stokoe, AIA documented the overnight boarding up along Wisconsin Avenue in northwest Washington, DC during the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Based on his photographs, he illustrated this rare and temporary architectural intervention while designing a project for remembrance.

2020 Professional Awards of the Potomac Chapter, ASLA

This exhibition highlights award-winning works of landscape architecture from the 2020 Professional Awards of the Potomac Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The range of projects encompasses residential, private and public practice, and a variety of project types that includes parks, campuses, plazas, historic landscapes, and more.

Doorways: Artistic Reflections of Place

From his travels around the world, Donald Beekman Myer, FAIA painted doorways he encountered along his epic journey. This exhibition features 35 mixed media artworks, mostly watercolor and color pencil, representing places such as Cuba, Colombia, Croatia, France, and Morocco. With this exhibition, we celebrate Don’s memory and the artistic talents he shared with family, friends, and colleagues throughout the community.

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