Awards
Celebrating Excellence
The Urban Guild Awards recognize outstanding design work that embodies our mission: creating enduring, people-centered places rooted in tradition and innovation. These awards honor projects that demonstrate the highest standards of urban design and architecture while reminding the public and profession alike that great design is not only possible, it’s essential.
Awards take place annually at The Summit.
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This award celebrates built design work that masterfully applies timeless design principles in a manner that refines them and best integrates them into their urban context. Submitted projects may be any type, scale, or program so long as they are successful in directly furthering the mission of the Guild to improve the design of communities. Submitted design work for this category must have been built within the past five years.
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This award celebrates built or unbuilt work that demonstrates visionary innovation within an urban context. Exploration is understood as a conscious attempt to identify new and innovative design strategies for improving the urban built environment and has been designed within the past five years.
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Description texThe Urban Guild’s student award category celebrates emerging talent in architecture and urban design. This category honors student projects that demonstrate a strong understanding of timeless design principles, creativity in solving real-world challenges, and a commitment to shaping places that are beautiful, functional, and enduring. It’s an opportunity to spotlight the next generation of designers who are advancing the future of our built environment.t goes here
The Urban Guild Award Categories
The Barranco Award honors the memory of Jackson, Mississippi architect Michael Barranco. It is awarded to individuals who not only distinguished themselves in design but who also demonstrate a gift for building enduring relationships beyond architecture, and inspiring coalitions for transformative change in the lives of families and communities--- while unselfishly not caring who gets credit.
Barranco Award
The Stewardship Award is chosen by The Guild Board of Directors and the Awards Task Force to acknowledge a developer, builder, patron, historic foundation, author, or person who has directly influenced the mission of the Guild.