AIA Best Practices in Site Preservation Award

Established in 2011, this annual honor is awarded to groups or projects recognized by their peers for doing exemplary work in the field of site preservation and conservation. Each year the Institute selects a project that exemplifies the mission of AIA’s Site Preservation Program and presents it with an award of $5,000 for furthering their activities and programs. 

Nominations for this award must be submitted to AIA's Site Preservation Program. Nomination deadline May 1.

For further information, contact the Site Preservation Program Administrator at sitepreservation@aia.bu.edu.

Online Nomination Form

2013 Best Practices in Site Preservation Award: George Bey, Cristina Vidal Lorenzo and Gaspar Muñoz Cosme

The AIA Conservation and Site Preservation Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Best Practices in Site Preservation Award. This year’s recipients are George Bey of Millsaps College, for his work at Kaxil Kiuic, Mexico, and Cristina Vidal Lorenzo and Gaspar Muñoz Cosme, of the University of Valencia and Polytechnic University of Valencia, respectively, for their joint work on the La Blanca Project, Guatemala. This award, established by the AIA Conservation and Site Preservation Committee in 2011, identifies and promotes best practices in the interdisciplinary field of site preservation.

Past Winners