2024
LAUREATES
Cofounders of IWLab
Wesam Al Asali (born in Syria) is an architect, educator, and researcher who graduated from Damascus University’s Faculty of Architecture, Syria and Iyas Shahin (born in Damascus, Syria) is an architect, researcher, and artist who holds a master’s degree in architectural/urban design from Damascus University (2013) and a Ph.D. in housing (2017).
2023
LAUREATES
Xu Tiantian (born in Fujian, China) grew up in a Tulou, a large earthen building traditionally used by the Hakka people in the Fujian province in southeastern China.
Global Award Winners 2007-2022
2024
LAUREATES
Wesam Al Asali And Iyas Shahin
Cofounders of IWLab
Wesam Al Asali (born in Syria) is an architect, educator, and researcher who graduated from Damascus University’s Faculty of Architecture, Syria and Iyas Shahin (born in Damascus, Syria) is an architect, researcher, and artist who holds a master’s degree in architectural/urban design from Damascus University (2013) and a Ph.D. in housing (2017).
Klaus K. Loenhart
Founder and CEO of Studio terrain: integral designs, Munich, Germany
Director of the Institute of Architecture and Landscape (IA&L), Graz University of Technology, Austria
Founder and director of the laboratory LandLab, Graz University of Technology.
Andrés Jaque
Founder of the Office for Political Innovation – OFFPOLINN, Madrid, New York
Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Ciro Pirondi
Founder of Ciro Pirondi Arquitetos Associados, São Paulo, Brazil Cofounder and former director of Escola da Cidade, São Paulo Director of the Fabrica – Escola de Humanidades “João Filgueiras Lima,” Escola da Cidade, São Paulo.
Marina Tabassum
Founder of MTA Architects, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Founder of the Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity (FACE)
2023
LAUREATES
Xu Tiantian
Xu Tiantian (born in Fujian, China) grew up in a Tulou, a large earthen building traditionally used by the Hakka people in the Fujian province in southeastern China.
Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen
Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen explores the intersections between architecture and advanced computational design processes, examining the profound changes that digital technologies bring to the way architecture is thought, designed and built.
Benedetta Tagliabue
Benedetta Tagliabue (born in Milan, Italy) began her studies in 1980 at Columbia University, New York, and graduated from Università Iuav di Venezia in 1989.
Erik and Ronald Rietveld
Erik Rietveld (born in Gorinchem, Netherlands) served as a fellow in philosophy at Harvard University and as a visiting scholar in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.
Simon Teyssou
Simon Teyssou (born in Paris, France) graduated from the architecture school of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand (ENSACF) in 2000.
Global Award Winners 2007-2022
2022
Okan Bal & Ömer Selçuk Baz, Yalin Architectural Design, Istanbul, Turkey
Gilles Clément, Crozant, France
Anupama Kundoo, Auroville, India
Dorte Mandrup, Copenhagen, Denmark
Martin Rauch, Schlins, Austria
2021
Solano Benitez & Gloria Cabral, Asuncion, Paraguay
José Cubilla, Asuncion, Paraguay
Teresa Moller, Santiago, Chile
Severiano Porto, Manaus, Brazil
Richard Sennett, London, Great Britain
2019
Ersen Gürsel, Istanbul, Turkey
Ammar Khammash, Amman, Jordan
Jorge Lobos, EAHR, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rozana Montiel, Mexico City, Mexico
Werner Sobek, Stuttgart, Germany
2018
Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, Frédéric Druot, Paris, France
Marta Maccaglia, Associacion Semillas, Pangoa, Peru
Nina Maritz, Windhoek, Namibia
Boonserm Premthada, Bangkok Project Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
Raumlabor, Berlin, Germany
2017
Assemble, London, Great Britain
Paulo David, Funchal, Portugal
Brian MacKay-Lyons & Talbot Sweetapple, Halifax, Canada
Takaharu Tezuka & Yui Tezuka, Tokyo, Japan
Sonam Wangchuk, Leh, Ladakh
2016
Gion Antoni Caminada, Vrin, Switzerland
Patrice Doat, Grenoble, France
Kengo Kuma, Tokyo, Japan
Patama Roonrakwit, Case Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
Derek van Heerden & Steve Kinsler, East Coast architects, Durban, South Africa
2015
Marco Casagrande, Helsinki, Finland
Santiago Cirugeda, Sevilla, Spain
Jan Gehl, Copenhagen, Denmark
Juan Roman, Talca University, Chile
Rotor, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Christopher Alexander, Arundel, Great Britain
Tatiana Bilbao, Mexico City, Mexico
Adrian Geuze, West 8, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Bernd Gundermann, Auckland, New Zealand
Martin Rajnis, Prague, Czech Republic
2013
Al Borde, Quito, Ecuador
Ted Flato & David Lake, Lake-Flato, San Antonio, USA
Kevin Low, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Marie Moignot & Xavier De Wil, MDW, Brussels, Belgium
José Paulo Dos Santos, Porto, Portugal
2012
Salma Samar Damluji, Beirut, Lebanon
Anne Feenstra, Kabul, Afghanistan
Andreas Gjertsen & Yashar Hanstad, TYIN Tegnestue, Oslo, Norway
Philippe Madec, Paris, France
Suriya Umpansiriratana, Bangkok, Thailand
2011
Shlomo Aronson, Jerusalem, Israel
Carmen Arrospide Poblete, Patronate Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Peru
Teddy Cruz, San Diego, USA
Anna Heringer, Laufen, Germany
Vatnavinir, Reykjavik, Iceland
2010
Steve Baer, Albuquerque, USA
Phil Harris & Adrian Welke, Troppo, Darwin, Australia
Junya Ishigami, Tokyo, Japan
Giancarlo Mazzanti, Bogota, Columbia
Snohetta, Oslo, Norway
2009
Patrick Bouchain, Paris, France
Thomas Herzog, Munich, Germany
Francis Kéré, Berlin, Germany and Burkina Faso
Bijoy Jain, Studio Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Sami Rintala, Bodø, Norway
2008
Alejandro Aravena, Santiago, Chile
Fabrizio Carola, Naples, Italy
Andrew Freear, Rural Studio, Auburn, USA
Philippe Samyn, Brussels, Belgium
Carin Smuts, Cape Town, South Africa
2007
Stefan Behnisch, Stuttgart, Germany
Balkrishna Doshi, Ahmedabad, India
Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Paris, France
Hermann Kaufmann, Schwarzach, Austria
Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu, Hangzhou, China