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The 2014 AIA/AAH Healthcare Design Awards
The 2014 AIA/AAH Healthcare Design Awards honor these
projects for excellence in form and function, for innovation and
for balancing the personal with the public. As Erik Goodfriend,
chair of the 2014 jury, observed, "The projects recognized this
year insightfully address the basic individual need for to access
care, while concurrently supporting the broad social, cultural
and civic needs of their community."
The winning projects took industry best practices and
improved on them. Overall the jurors for the 2014 Design
Awards were impressed by the innovative use of color, light
and materials and the incorporation of nature into the designs,
which included projects that focused on a specific need such
as bringing pets into the care space, as well as those that took
a more expansive view and looked to improve and expand
healthcare at the community level. Submissions included
projects in rural environments as well as those in complex
urban locations.
Considering the diversity of designs in this year's
submissions, Goodfriend said, "These exemplary design
strategies leveraged typical program and building elements
to create a greater good for the patients, providers and
community."
Serving with Erik Goodfriend as jurors for the 2014 AIA/
AAH Healthcare Design Awards were Roger Call, AIA; Jim
Lennon; James C. Lord II, AIA; Mark Patterson, AIA; Mark
Tortorich, FAIA; and Shane Williams, AIA.

The mission of the American Institute of Architects
Academy of Architecture for Health is:
To improve both the quality of healthcare design and
the design of healthy communities by developing,
documenting, and disseminating knowledge;
educating design practitioners and other related
constituencies; advancing the practice of architecture;
and affiliating and advocating with others that share
these priorities.
Simply put, design can make a difference-the planning and
design of healthcare facilities impact people and affect their
quality of life. Healthcare design solutions can act as allies in
the healing process.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of
Architecture for Health (AAH) is excited to celebrate the
outstanding achievements of contemporary architects and
recognize the firms for their contributions to the healthcare
environment with the 2014 AIA/AAH Healthcare Design
Awards. Each year the awards showcase the best of healthcare
building design and healthcare design-oriented research and
highlight the trends of healthcare facilities and the future
direction of design. Winning projects exhibit conceptual
strengths that address aesthetic civic, urban and social
concerns. The panel of jurors evaluates project entries for
effectively incorporating these concerns as well as the requisite
functionality and sustainability concerns of a hospital.

This year the jury selected eight winning entries from
the projects submitted, in four categories:

The 2014 AIA/AAH Healthcare Design
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healing, encourage cultural and social
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Category A: Built, less than $25 million in
construction cost
Category B: Built, more than $25 million in
construction cost
Category C: Unbuilt, must be commissioned for
compensation by a client with the authority and
intention to build.
Category D: Innovations in planning and design
research, built and unbuilt
The Innovations in Healthcare Design category
recognizes a broad array of innovative or
revolutionary ideas in healthcare design,
planning and implementation. Awarded projects
demonstrate new ideas that benefit the profession
and can be applied by others to improve the
overall quality of services provided by Healthcare
Architects and/or Healthcare Providers.

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