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The Young Architects Forum (YAF), a program of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the College of Fellows (COF), is organized to address issues of particular importance to recently licensed architects.

FAQ: What is a young architect and what is an emerging professional? Young architects are architects licensed up to ten years of initial licensure, and the name does not have any relationship to age. Emerging professionals are professionals who have completed their academic studies up to the point of licensure or up to 10 years after completion of their academic studies. Although young architects are now defined as distinct from emerging professionals, many components refer to these groups similarly. For example, a local YAF group may include emerging professionals and a local Emerging Professionals Committee may include young architects.

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UPDATE: 2020 Holland Prize Competition Extensions

  • 1.  UPDATE: 2020 Holland Prize Competition Extensions

    Posted 03-23-2020 03:53 PM
    Update: Extended deadlines for the 2020 Leicester B. Holland Prize Competition 

    The Leicester B. Holland Prize is an annual competition, open to both students and professionals, that recognizes the BEST SINGLE-SHEET MEASURED DRAWING of an historic building, site, or structure prepared to Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) standards for inclusion in the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection at     The Library of Congress.

    PRIZES
    The winner of the 2020 Holland Prize will receive a $1,000 cash prize, a certificate of recognition, and publication of the winning drawing in "Preservation Architect", the online newsletter of The American Institute of Architects Historic Resources Committee. Merit awards may also be given.

    COST
    There is no cost to enter the competition.

    SCHEDULE
    1 September: Email deadline for submission of entry forms
    15 September: Final date that HABS/HAER/HALS staff will review drawings and historical reports
    1 October: Postmark deadline for completed entries
    Autumn: Prize winners announced

    LEARN MORE
    Information on how to participate, rules and recommendations, submission guidelines, judging and rating scale and the previous winning drawings of the competition, are available on the Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS website at https://www.nps.gov/hdp/competitions/holland.htm

    ABOUT LEICESTER B. HOLLAND
    The prize honors Leicester B. Holland (1882-1952), FAIA, chairman of The American Institute of Architects' Committee on Historic Buildings, head of the Fine Arts Division of The Library of Congress and first curator of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) collection, a co-founder of the HABS program in the 1930s, and the first chair of the HABS Advisory Board.

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    Robert Arzola
    HABS Architect and Holland Prize Coordinator Heritage Documentation Programs
    HABS, National Park Service
    Washington DC
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