The Global Award Community as a Driver of Change
The Global Award Community in 2024 consists of 90 contemporary architects, urban and landscape designers from around the globe who have received the award. It works towards a sustainable architectural ethics and fosters research, experimentation, and transmission in the fields of sustainable architecture, urban renewal, and academic social responsibility. It defines architecture as an agent of empowerment, self-development, and civic rights.
“Dare, transmit, federate” is its motto.
As a symbol of its pioneering role, it is notable that five architects who have received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture have since been honored with the Pritzker Architecture Prize:
- Wang Shu (Global Award 2007, Pritzker 2012),
- Alejandro Aravena (Global Award 2008, Pritzker 2016),
- Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (Global Award 2007, Pritzker 2018),
- Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal (Global Award 2018, Pritzker 2021)
- Diébédo Francis Kéré (Global Award 2009, Pritzker 2022).
Other architects whom the Global Award is also proud to have supported include Carin Smuts (GA 2008), Rural Studio (GA 2008), Bijoy Jain (GA 2009), Anna Heringer (GA 2011), Teddy Cruz (GA 2011), Salma Samar Damluji (GA 2012), Al Borde (GA 2013), Talca University (GA 2015), Marta Maccaglia (GA 2018), Boonserm Premthada (GA 2018), Rozana Montiel (GA 2019), Werner Sobek (GA 2019), Anupama Kundoo (GA 2022), Dorte Mandrup (GA 2022), Xu Tiantian (GA 2023), Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (GA 2023), Marina Tabassum (GA 2024), Klaus K. Loenhart (GA 2024) and IW-Lab (GA 2024).