The California Architectural Foundation (CAF) is proud to sponsor the 2013 Owings Award for Environmental Excellence. This award recognizes built projects by individuals or groups that demonstrate outstanding accomplishments in the reconciliation of nature and the built environment. The winning project will be able to tell a collaborative story of risk-taking and creative thinking that assessed the needs of the community and explored new territory with its integration of built structures and natural systems. The focus of this award is how the “human footprint” integrates the built and natural systems into a seamless whole.

Eligible projects must have been built within the last five years and meet one of two criteria:

• The project was built in California, OR
• The work was designed by at least one licensed professional based in California.

Read the Submittal Guidelines for more information about the criteria for selection.