In order to apply your nomination please download the postal form here. Fill in all required tabs and use one of the following email adresses below to send us your nomination.

The Deadline for every years application is the 15th of June.

Nominations are accepted through March 1st, with Closing Date for Nominations at June 15th. Nominations that do not result in the award are automatically carried over the following year. The jury takes deliberations early in the calendar year and the winning architect is announced early summer to the international press.

The Chicago Athenaeum Museum may also solicit nominations from past laureates, designers or architects, academics, critics, museums, government officials involved in cultural endeavors or with a special expertise in the field of design and architecture.

To submit to the American Prize for Design, you can either nominate yourself or somebody else providing you give specific reasons and examples as to why either you or the person you are nominating deserve to be the American Prize Design Award Winner.

Please fill out the form below with all mandatory fields. Fill free to contact us for any farther enquries and questions at: curatorial@chicagoathenaeum.org.

U.S.A Offices
The Chicago Athenaeum Museum
601 South Prospect Street Galena,
Illinois 61036, USA
Tel: (001) 815 777 4444
Fax: (001) 815 777 2471
E-mail: curatorial@chicagoathenaeum.org