ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Awards honors excellence in library interior design and promoting examples of extraordinary design reflected through innovative concepts across nine categories. The ALA (American Library Association)/IIDA Library Interior Design Awards celebrates those who make reading—and learning—fun. This is a biennial competition established in 2006, and taking place in even years.

Who Should Submit?
This award is open to any interior designer, interior architect, or architect with library interior design projects in the design phase or completed in the last two (2) calendar years.

Why Should I Apply?
Enter for the chance to have your work evaluated by world-renowned interior designers and architects like Fiona Grandowski, IIDA, AIA; Jeannette Lenear Peruchini; and Stasia Suleiman, IIDA. Projects are judged on excellence in aesthetics, design, creativity, and function as well as the suitability of the design solution to the project challenge and the successful integration of the elements of design.

Winners and their clients will be honored at the annual ALA Annual Conference with a special winner’s celebration. Winning projects will be published in the American Libraries magazine, on IIDA.org, and in an official press release distributed to leading industry outlets and media partners.

When
This award is open biennially in even years, January through April. 2024 winners have been awarded and celebrated at the Annual ALA Conference. Check back in January of 2026 for more information about the next biennial competition.

For questions or more information, contact IIDA Design Competitions Manager Veronica Whitaker at competitions@iida.org.

View the 2024 ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Award winning projects here
View the 2022 ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Award winning projects here
View the 2018 ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Award winning projects here

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