2024

LAUREATES

Prof. Dr. Iyas Shahin & Prof. Dr. Wesam Al Asali, Damskus
Architects, Syria

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).

ANDRÉS JAQUE, USA CIRO PIROND, BRAZIL MARINA TABASSUM, BANGLADESH KLAUS K. LOENHART, GERMANY ANDRÉS JAQUE, USA CIRO PIRONDI, BRAZIL WESAM AL ASALI AND IYAS SHAHIN, SYRIA MARINA TABASSUM, BANGLADESH CIRO PIRONDI BRAZIL WESAM AL ASALI AND IYAS SHAHIN, SYRIA MARINA TABASSUM, BANGLADESH KLAUS K. LOENHART, GERMANY MARINA TABASSUM, BANGLADESH WESAM AL ASALI AND IYAS SHAHIN, SYRIA KLAUS K. LOENHART, GERMANY ANDRÉS JAQUE, USA WESAM AL ASALI AND IYAS SHAHIN, SYRIA KLAUS K. LOENHART, GERMANY ANDRÉS JAQUE, USA CIRO PIRONDI, BRAZIL

2023

LAUREATES

Prof. Simon Teyssou
Architect, Le Rouget, France

Simon Teyssou (born in Paris, France) graduated from the architecture school of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand (ENSACF) in 2000.

BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE, SPAIN ERIK AND RONALD RIETVELD, NETHERLANDS SIMON TEYSSOU, FRANCE METTE RAMSGAARD THOMSEN, DENMARK BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE, SPAIN ERIK AND RONALD NETHERLANDS RIETVELD, XU TIANTIAN, CHINA SIMON TEYSSOU, FRANCE ERIK AND RONALD RIETVELD,NETHERLANDS XU TIANTIAN, CHINA SIMON TEYSSOU, FRANCE METTE RAMSGAARD THOMSEN, DENMARK SIMON TEYSSOU, FRANCE XU TIANTIAN, CHINA METTE RAMSGAARD THOMSEN, DENMARK BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE, SPAIN XU TIANTIAN, CHINA METTE RAMSGAARD THOMSEN, DENMARK BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE, SPAIN ERIK AND RONALD RIETVELD, NETHERLANDS
2023 LAUREATES Benedetta Tagliabue, Barcelona, Spain Erik and Ronald Rietveld, Amsterdam, Netherlands Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Copenhagen, Denmark Simon Teyssou, Le rouget, France Xu Tiantian, Beijing, China
Gilles Clément, Crozant, France Anupama Kundoo, Auroville, India Dorte Mandrup, Copenhague, Denmark Martin Rauch, Schlins, Austria Okan Bal & Ömer Selçuk Baz, Yalin Architectural Design, Istanbul, Turkey 2022 LAUREATES
2021 LAUREATES Solano Benitez & Gloria Cabral, Asuncion, Paraguay José Cubilla, Asuncion, Paraguay Teresa Moller, Santiago, Chile Richard Sennett, London, Great Britain Severiano Porto, Manaus, Brazil
Ammar Khammash, Amman, Jordan Jorge Lobos, EAHR, Copenhagen, Denmark Rozana Montiel, Mexico City, Mexico Ersen Gürsel, Istanbul, Turkey Werner Sobek, Stuttgart, Germany 2019 LAUREATES
2018 LAUREATES 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
Brian MacKay-Lyons & Talbot Sweetapple, Halifax, Canada Assemble, London, Great Britain Takaharu Tezuka & Yui Tezuka, Tokyo, Japan Sonam Wangchuk, Leh, Ladakh, India Paulo David, Funchal, Portugal 2017 LAUREATES
2016 LAUREATES Gion Antoni Caminada, Vrin, Switzerland Patrice Doat, Grenoble, France Kengo Kuma, Tokyo, Japan Derek van Heerden & Steve Kinsler, East Coast architects, Durban, South Africa Patama Roonrakwit, Case Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
Santiago Cirugeda, Sevilla, Spain Jan Gehl, Copenhagen, Denmark Juan Roman, Talca University, Chile Marco Casagrande, Helsinki, Finland Rotor, Brussels, Belgium 2015 LAUREATES
2014 LAUREATES Christopher Alexander, Arundel, Great Britain Tatiana Bilbao, Mexico City, Mexico Adrian Geuze, West 8, Rotterdam, Netherlands Martin Rajnis, Prague, Czech Republic Bernd Gundermann, Auckland, New Zealand
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 Al Borde, Quito, Ecuador 2013 LAUREATES
2012 LAUREATES Salma Samar Damluji, Beirut, Lebanon Anne Feenstra, Kabul, Afghanistan Andreas Gjertsen & Yashar Hanstad, TYIN Tegnestue, Oslo, Norway Suriya Umpansiriratana, Bangkok, Thailand Philippe Madec, Paris, France
Carmen Arrospide Poblete, Patronate Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Peru Teddy Cruz, San Diego, USA Anna Heringer, Laufen, Germany Shlomo Aronson, Jerusalem, Israel Vatnavinir, Reykjavik, Iceland 2011 LAUREATES
2010 LAUREATES Steve Baer, Albuquerque, USA Phil Harris & Adrian Welke, Troppo, Darwin, Australia Junya Ishigami, Tokyo, Japan Snohetta, Oslo, Norway Giancarlo Mazzanti, Bogota, Columbia
Thomas Herzog, Munich, Germany Francis Kéré, Berlin, Germany and Burkina Faso Bijoy Jain, Studio Mumbai, Mumbai, India Sami Rintala, Bodø, Norway Patrick Bouchain, Paris, France 2009 LAUREATES
2008 LAUREATES Alejandro Aravena, Santiago, Chile Fabrizio Carola, Naples, Italy Andrew Freear, Rural Studio, Auburn, USA Carin Smuts, Cape Town, South Africa Philippe Samyn, Brussels, Belgium
Balkrishna Doshi, Ahmedabad, India Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Paris, France Hermann Kaufmann, Schwarzach, Austria Stefan Behnisch, Stuttgart, Germany Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu, Hangzhou, China 2007 LAUREATES

2024

LAUREATES

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Prof. Dr. Iyas Shahin & Prof. Dr. Wesam Al Asali, Damskus

Architects, Syria

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).

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, before pursuing further studies at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He earned a master’s degree in architecture and urban studies in 2016 and a Ph.D. in architecture in 2021, focusing on design strategies for thin-tile vaults for low-carbon ceiling systems. He served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and a Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, New Jersey, from 2021 to 2022. His research, funded by various institutions, focuses on natural materials in Spanish building crafts and scarcity-driven architecture in the Middle East. Engaged in teaching at multiple universities, he is currently the coordinator and professor of design studios and experimental workshops at IE University in Madrid, Spain.

Al Asali has received several prestigious awards, such as the Clare Hall Salje Medal for the best Ph.D. in the arts and humanities, the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) President’s Medal for Research, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians’ Founders’ Award.

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). Alongside Wesam Al Asali, he co-established IWLab in 2009, a multidisciplinary entity with a primary focus on cultural and architectural design. His work explores the role of architecture in crises, cultural heritage awareness, and spatial justice. Since 2021, Shahin has delved into experimental documentaries, utilizing them as a tool for criticism and the architectural observation of cities.

Shahin’s teaching activities include serving as an academic lecturer and tutor in the Faculty of Architecture at Damascus University since 2008, as well as numerous academic workshops and cultural participations abroad, including in the UK (Cambridge University), Denmark (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen), Germany (Cottbus University), and Finland. Conferences attended by Iyas Shahin include: Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War – International Conference OIB (2018), Spatial Justice –1st Damascus Conference for Reconstructing Damascus University (2019), Architecture as Craft – Informality for Reconstruction Damascus University (2019), and the 6th Conference Producing Critical Knowledge in the Arab Region ACSS (2023).

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Prof. Klaus K. Loenhart

Architect and Landscape Architect, Austria/Germany

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.

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

Klaus K. Loenhart graduated in 1994 from the Department of Architecture, Munich University of Applied Sciences. After a collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron, he attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design, graduating with degrees in history and theory in 1999, and in landscape architecture in 2000.

Back in Munich, he founded his own practice in 2002. The firm terrain: integral designs focuses on bioclimatic experimental architecture, like the headquarters of Grüne Erde in Austria (2020) or the Austrian Pavilion, breathe.austria, at the Expo 2015 in Milan, which received the UNESCO Design Cities – Grand Award in 2016.

His career as a professor and researcher, which began at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, continued at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as a teaching fellow in architecture and contemporary landscape theory (1999–01), then at Graz University of Technology, as director of the Institute of Architecture and Landscape (IA&L) (2007–), and as founder and director of LandLab (2009–).

Publications by Klaus K. Loenhart include: Breathe! Investigations into Our Atmospherically Entangled Future (Birkhäuser, 2021) and All of Us, Dasein Is Co-Design (IA&L, Graz, forthcoming 2025).

Awards received by Loenhart include: 2000 Gerald McCue Medal, “for the highest academic achievement of a Master’s thesis,” Harvard University; Balthasar Neumann Prize 2008, with honors; German Structural Engineering Prize 2010; Styrian Architecture Award 2011; Austrian Timber Construction Award 2019, first prize; Austrian National Design Award 2019, first prize; Green Good Design Award 2020; and Austrian Innovation and Sustainability in Architecture 2022, first prize.

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Prof. Dr. Andrés Jaque

Architect, New York, USA/Spain

Founder of the Office for Political Innovation – OFFPOLINN, Madrid, New York
Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University

Founder of the Office for Political Innovation – OFFPOLINN, Madrid, New York
Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University

Andrés Jaque (born in Madrid, Spain) is an architect, writer, and curator. He earned both his master’s degree and his Ph.D. in architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), Spain. During his student years, he was an Alfred Toepfer Stiftung’s Tessenow Stipendiat from 1988 to 2000. He founded his own practice Andrés Jaque Arquitectos in 2000, and three years later, in 2003, he established the Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN). The purpose was to introduce a trans-sectional approach, focusing on the intervention of complex composites of relationships within architectural design. OFFPOLINN has evolved into an international practice encompassing design, research, and environmental activism, based in both New York and Madrid.

Andrés Jaque has served as a guest professor at numerous universities, including the universities of Madrid, Valencia, and Alicante in Spain, the Instituto Politecnico in Milan, ETH Zurich, Princeton University, and Cooper Union in New York. His affiliation with the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) began in 2013. Andrés Jaque assumed the role of director of the Advanced Architectural Design Program in 2018, and later, in 2023, was appointed as dean.

Awards received include the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts (2016) and the Silver Lion for Best Research Project at the 14th Biennale of Architecture of Venice (2014). He was co-curator of Manifesta 12 in Palermo, The Planetary Garden (2018), and Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water (2020).

Publications by Andrés Jaque and OFFPOLINN include: Superpowers of Scale (Columbia University Press, 2020) and More-Than-Human (Idea Books, 2020).

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Prof. Ciro Pirondi

Architect, São Paolo, Brazil 

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.

 

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 FilgueirasLima,” Escola da Cidade, São Paulo

Ciro Pirondi (born in São Paulo, Brazil) is an accomplished architect and urban planner. He earned his degree in architecture and urbanism from the Universidade Braz Cubas in São Paulo, Brazil, and completed his Ph.D. at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. In 1983, he founded his architectural firm, Ciro Pirondi Arquitetos Associados, which focuses on the revitalization of public spaces and favelas. Noteworthy among his contributions is the masterplan for the Paraisópolis favela, developed in collaboration with Ruben Otero and Anália Amorim.

Pirondi is also committed to preserving the heritage and archives of Brazilian modernist architects. His portfolio includes the renovation of Oscar Niemeyer’s Copan Building, one of the world’s largest residential skyscrapers. Notably, he served as the director of the Casa de Lúcio Costa and as the president of the Vilanova Artigas Foundation. Currently, he serves as executive director of the Oscar Niemeyer Foundation.

Pirondi has also held various academic roles. From 1992 to 1996, he was coordinator of architecture and urbanism at Universidade Braz Cubas in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. From 1990 to 1999, he served as a professor in the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo do Mackenzie in São Paulo. In 2002, he cofounded the Escuela da Cidade, serving as its director from 2002 to 2019.

Currently, Pirondi leads the Fábrica – Escola de Humanidades “João Filgueiras Lima,” a high school created by Escuela da Cidade, which shares the university’s space and teaching methods. As a guest lecturer at the Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV), he contributed to the “Architecture as a Human Right” course and collaborated on multiple occasions with WAVE. Pirondi is also the author of A City for Everyone, published by Incipit Editore in 2017.

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Prof. Marina Tabassum

Architect, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Founder of MTA Architects, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Founder of the Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity (FACE)

Founder of MTA Architects, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Founder of the Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity (FACE)

Marina Tabassum (born in Dhaka) graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1994 and founded the architectural firm URBANA in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with Kashef Chowdhury in 1995.

Tabassum established her own practice in 2005, Marina Tabassum Architects. Among her major works are the Museum of Independence, Dhaka (2006), the Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, Dhaka (2012), which has made her known throughout the world, the AR Tower, Dhaka (2015), and the Hamidur Rahman Community Center, Dhaka (2019). She is the founding president of the Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity (FACE).

Since 2005, Marina Tabassum has devoted much of her time to teaching, as a visiting professor at a number of international universities, including the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Delft University of Technology, University of Texas, and University of Toronto, as well as, in Bangladesh, at BRAC University, founded in 2001, where she has taught courses on contemporary South Asian architecture, and at the University of Asia Pacific. From 2015 to 2021 she served as Director of Academic Programs at the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements, Dhaka.

International awards received by Marina Tabassum include: Architect of the Year Award, India (2001); Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2016); Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize (2021); The Soane Medal (2021); and Lisbon Triennale Lifetime Achievement Award (2022). She also served as a member of the steering committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

2023

LAUREATES

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Prof. Simon Teyssou

Architect, Le Rouget, France

Simon Teyssou (born in Paris, France) graduated from the architecture school of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand (ENSACF) in 2000.

Simon Teyssou (born in Paris, France) graduated from the architecture school of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand (ENSACF) in 2000. Clermont-Ferrand, the historic capital of Auvergne, is situated in a rural region in central France. Here he set up his architectural practice, Atelier du Rouget, in 2001. From 2008 to 2018, Teyssou taught architectural design at ENSACF, a role he held until assuming the position of director. From 2015, he has also contributed his insights as a member of the “Resources” research laboratory.

Atelier du Rouget undertakes projects of all kinds: urban studies, public spaces, housing, facilities, services, and furniture. Teyssou demonstrates his critical ecology approach by participating in numerous forums, conferences, and publications. Some of the most important ones include: the moderation of a round table, “The Potentials for the Archaic Today,” organized by ARENA – Architecture Research European Network, Paris (2018), “Urban Planning Tomorrow,” at the Franco-Chinese Forum in Lyon (2018), and the “New Rurality Association” in Paris (2019).

Awards received by Simon Teyssou in France include: Grand Prix d’Urbanisme 2023, Grand Prix d’architecture of the architecture review D’A for the Center of Mandailles project (2000), the National Prize of Wood Construction in the category “Social Habitat” for a housing project in Limoges (2016), the National Prize EIFFEL for the rehabilitation of the Aurillac rugby stadium (2019), and the National Prize of Urbanisme in Paris (2023). His main exhibitions include: Materials in the Spotlight (group show) in Durban (2014), The Lightness of Being: New Wood Architectures in France in Linz (2014), New Richness, French Pavilion at the Venice International Architecture Biennale (2016), and the Biennale of Architecture and Landscape in Versailles (2022).

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Benedetta Tagliabue

Architect, Barcelona, Spain

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.

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. During her studies, she participated in the Transbuilding and Gandelsonas-Agrest project in New York in 1988. Moving to Barcelona in 1990, she founded EMBT with the Catalan architect Enric Miralles in 1993. Winning competitions for the Santa Caterina Market in 1997 and for the new Parliament of Scotland in 1998 marked a pivotal moment for EMBT, propelling the studio onto the international architecture stage.

After the death of her husband, Enric Miralles, in 2000, Benedetta Tagliabue completed EMBT’s projects.

International awards received by EMBT include: National Architecture Award of Catalonia (2002), RIBA Stirling Prize (2005), Rietveld Prize (2001), Honor Award of the American Society of Landscape Architects for the project Diagonal Mar Park in Barcelona (2005), Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2006), National Architecture Award of Spain (2006), RIBA International Award for Best International Building of 2011, RIBA Charles Jencks Award, and Piranesi Prix de Rome (2020).

Benedetta is Doctor Honoris Causa at Napier University, Edinburgh (2004), and regularly lectures at architecture forums and universities, including Harvard, Columbia, and the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB). Furthermore, she holds the status of being an honorary member of both the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). She has served as a jury member for the Pritzker Architecture Prize since 2014 and is a member of the Pontificia Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon in Rome as of 2022. Additionally, she has assumed the role of president and founder of the Fundació Enric Miralles in Barcelona.

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Erik and Ronald Rietveld

Philosopher and Artist, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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.

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. Today, he holds the position of Socrates Professor at the University of Twente and is the founder and director of the research master’s “Vacant NL” in the Sandberg Institute at the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy, both in the Netherlands. In 2013, his research project at the University of Amsterdam, “The Landscape of Affordances: Situating the Embodied Mind,” was rewarded with a VIDI-Award from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). He received an ERC-Starting Grant for his project titled “Skilled Intentionality for ‘Higher’ Embodied Cognition: Joining Forces with a Field of Affordances in Flux” in 2015. Erik Rietveld consistently contributes to various journals, including Philosophical Studies, Phenomenology & The Cognitive Sciences, The Architectural Review, Mind, and Harvard Design Magazine.

Ronald Rietveld (born in Gorinchem, Netherlands) graduated from the Amsterdam Academy of Arts in 2004 and was the winner of the Prix de Rome Gold Medal in 2006. During his time at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, he and his brother Erik established the multidisciplinary studio RAAAF (Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances) at the intersection of visual art, architecture, and philosophy.

Awards and grants received by RAAAF include: the AR Award in London (2013), the European Prize of Architecture Philippe Rotthier (2017), the Stipendium for Established Artists (2016) by the Mondriaan Fund for Visual Arts, the Radical Award (2013), and the New Talent Award from Metropolis NYC (2015). Additionally, RAAAF curated the Dutch “Vacant NL” contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010. Noteworthy installations by RAAAF have been featured at prominent international exhibitions, including the Bienal de São Paulo, the Istanbul Art Biennale, the Garage Museum for Contemporary Art in Moscow, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Erik and Ronald give lectures at art academies, universities, and professional symposia worldwide. Since 2016, both have been members of the Society of Arts of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

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Prof. Dr. Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

Architect, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark

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.

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.

In 2005, she founded the Centre for IT and Architecture research group (CITA) at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation where she has piloted a special research focus on the new digital-material relations that digital technologies bring forth. CITA has been central in the forming of an international research field examining the changes to material practice in architecture. This has been led by a series of research investigations developing concepts and technologies as well as strategic projects such as the international Marie Curie ITN network Innochain and the ERC project “Eco-Metabolistic Modelling for Architectural Design” that fosters interdisciplinary sharing and dissemination of expertise and supports new collaborations in the fields of architecture, engineering and fabrication.

In 2022, she was appointed Cret Chair at University of Pennsylvania where she runs research studio on bio-based additive manufacturing for repair. In 2023, she was General Reporter and Head of Science Track for the UIA2023CPH world congress “Sustainable Futures – Leave no one behind” asking how architecture can contribute to the UN SDGs. She is the first architect to be admitted to The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. In 2022, she was appointed Fellow of Digital Futures at the University of Tongji, Shanghai.

Academic awards received by Ramsgaard Thomsen include: the Anna Nordlander Prize for a woman architect who has contributed considerably to her field (2011), the EliteForsk Prize for an outstanding researcher under forty-five, demonstrating international excellence (2016), and the ACADIA Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence awarded to CITA in 2016. Ramsgaard Thomsen was General Reporter and Head of Science Track for the 2023 UIA World Congress of Architects “Sustainable Futures – Leave No One Behind.

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Prof. Xu Tiantian

Architect, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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.

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. A Tulou can have a circular or rectangular floor plan, combining living, worship, storage, work, and communal spaces. Xu notes that her architectural interests were probably born out of her childhood in this beautiful traditional home. She received her bachelor’s degree in architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing and her master’s degree in urban design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. After working for OMA in the United States and the Netherlands, she founded the DnA_Design and Architecture studio in Beijing. Her “Architectural Acupuncture” for the social and economic revitalization of rural China was selected by UN Habitat as an inspirational approach concerning the links between urban and rural areas.

Awards received by Xu Tiantian include: the WA China Architecture Award (2006 and 2008), the Architectural League New York’s Young Architects Award (2008), the Design Vanguard Award by the Architectural Record (2009); the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture (2019), and the 14th International Prize for Sustainable Architecture, Gold Medal (2019). In 2022, she received the Swiss Architectural Award for three projects: the reuse of the Shimen Bridge over the Songyin River (2016–17), the Tofu Factory in Caizhai Village (2017–18), and the reuse of the Jinyun Quarries (2021–22). She was also the recipient of the Kunstpreis Berlin in 2023.

Xu Tiantian has taught design as a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture and is now a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. In 2020, she was appointed as an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Global Award Winners 2007-2022

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

Solano Benitez & Gloria Cabral, Asuncion, Paraguay

José Cubilla, Asuncion, Paraguay

Teresa Moller, Santiago, Chile

Severiano Porto, Manaus, Brazil

Richard Sennett, London, Great Britain 

Ersen Gürsel, Istanbul, Turkey

Ammar Khammash, Amman, Jordan

Jorge Lobos, EAHR, Copenhagen, Denmark

Rozana Montiel, Mexico City, Mexico

Werner Sobek, Stuttgart, Germany

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

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, India 

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  

Marco Casagrande, Helsinki, Finland

Santiago Cirugeda, Sevilla, Spain

Jan Gehl, Copenhagen, Denmark

Juan Roman, Talca University, Chile

Rotor, Brussels, Belgium 

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 

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 

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 

Shlomo Aronson, Jerusalem, Israel

Carmen Arrospide Poblete, Patronate Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Peru

Teddy Cruz, San Diego, USA

Anna Heringer, Laufen, Germany

Vatnavinir, Reykjavik, Iceland

Steve Baer, Albuquerque, USA

Phil Harris & Adrian Welke, Troppo, Darwin, Australia

Junya Ishigami, Tokyo, Japan

Giancarlo Mazzanti, Bogota, Columbia

Snohetta, Oslo, Norway 

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 

Alejandro Aravena, Santiago, Chile

Fabrizio Carola, Naples, Italy

Andrew Freear, Rural Studio, Auburn, USA

Philippe Samyn, Brussels, Belgium

Carin Smuts, Cape Town, South Africa  

Stefan Behnisch, Stuttgart, Germany

Balkrishna Doshi, Ahmedabad, India

Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Paris, France

Hermann Kaufmann, Schwarzach, Austria

Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu, Hangzhou, China

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