The Marble Architectural Awards (MAA) is a competition open to architects, designers, urban landscapers and interior designers who are invited to submit their completed works where natural stone has been used to significantly high formal or technical standards.

The aim of the MAA was to create a promotional tool to increase the awareness and knowledge of stone materials and their uses on the part of architects and designers. Every year we receive images and drawings of dozens of projects and select those which best interpret the characteristics and intrinsic value of natural stone products in the most original way.  

The works submitted are classified and made available for consultation purposes by the IMM. The MAA archives are a valuable study tool for architects as well as students and anyone else with an interest in natural stone.

Each year the Awards are held in a different geographical area according to a six-year cycle. The cycle is North America, the Far East, Europe (except Italy), Italy, Oceania together with Central and South America and southern Africa and North Africa with the Middle East.

The works submitted to the MAA may compete in each of the three sections of the Awards: external facings (Section I), Interior Design (section II), Urban landscape (Section III).

The condition for admission of works is that they show a significant use of natural stone of any kind (marble, granite, travertine or stone) or origin.

Each year’s MAA competition is hosted by a panel of highly acclaimed experts who select the winning projects and award the architects and experts who have taken part in the completion of the work. The Jury reserves the right to give special mentions and/or indicate other projects as worthy of note for the value or originality of the design solutions put forward.