The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture is an international architecture founded in 2006 by architect and scholar Jana Revedin.
Description Each year, the award honors five architects who "contribute to a more equitable and sustainable development and create an innovative and participatory approach to meet the needs of societies," whether they are experts in economics, construction, or self-development actors for whom sustainability is synonymous with social and urban equity.
The Scientific Committee of the Award counts on scholars from the Mimar Sinan University Istanbul, the International Architecture Biennale Ljubljana and the Università Iuav Venice. Since 2010, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture has been under the patronage of UNESCO.
The laureates of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture are selected by the Global Award Scientific Committee.
Laureates 2025
Andrea Gebhard, Urban and landscape planner, Germany Marie Combette and Daniel Moreno Flores, Architects, Ecuador Salima Naji, Anthropologist, architect and artist, Morocco Hoàng Thúc Hào, Architect and researcher, Vietnam Marie and Keith Zawistowski, Architects, France
2024
The 2024 edition rises the topic: "Architecture Is Education"
Iyas Shahin and Wesam Al Asali of IWLAB Laboratory, Syria and Spain Andrés Jaque, founder of Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN) Marina Tabassum, founder of Marina Tabassum Architects in Bangladesh Ciro Pirondi, cofounder of Escola da Cidade in Brazil Klaus K. Loenhart, architect and landscape designer, Institute of Architecture and Landscape in Graz, Germany and Austria
2023 The 2023 edition rises the question: "Architecture is experimentation"
Benedetta Tagliabué – Barcelona, Spain. Xu Tiantian, architect, DnA Design and Architecture, Beijing, China. Simon Teyssou – architect, Atelier du Rouget Simon Teyssou & associés, Le Rouget-Pers, Cantal, France. Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen – architect, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark. Ronald Rietveld – architect, artist, and ERIK RIETVELD philosopher, RAAAF, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2022 The 2022 edition rises the question: "The Territory: Threat or Opportunity?" Anupama Kundoo, Auroville, Berlin Dorte Mandrup – Copenhague, Denmark Martin Rauch, Schlins, Vorarlberg Okan Bal & Ömer Selçuk Baz, Yalin Architectural Design, Istanbul Gilles Clément, Crozant
2021 The 2021 edition rises the question: "Architecture and Nature: a new Synergie?" Teresa Moller – Santiago, Chile Solano Benitez & Gloria Cabral – Asuncion, Paraguay Severiano Porto – Manaus, Brazil José Cubilla – Asuncion, Paraguay Richard Sennett – London, UK
2019 The 2019 edition celebrates the Centenary of Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus by honoring "the multidisciplinary and social-reformatory aim of the Bauhaus" that is: "Architecture is science, art and crafts at the service of society." Rozana Montiel, Estudio de Arquitectura – Mexico City, Mexico Werner Sobek, Director of the Institut of Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) – Stuttgart, Germany , EPA architects – Istanbul, Turkey Ammar Khammash, Khammash Architects – Amman, Jordan Jorge Lobos, Founder of Emergency Architecture & Human Rights (EAHR) – Copenhagen, Denmark / Arquitecto Jorge Lobos – Puerto Montt, Chile
2018 The 2018 edition's theme is "Architecture as an agent of civic empowerment". Boonserm Premthada, Bangkok Projects Studio – Bangkok, Thailand Nina Maritz, Nina Maritz architects – Klein Windhoek, Namibia Marta Maccaglia, Asociación Semillas – Pangoa, Peru Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal and – Paris, France Raumlabor – Berlin, Germany
2017 The 2017 edition is dedicated to the "invisible resources": "an architecture of resources which includes the immaterial and invisible agents of time, rights, community, processes, flows, interdisciplinary dialogue, resilience, senses and experimentation." MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited – Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Sonam Wangchuk – Leh, Ladakh, India Assemble – London, Great Britain Takaharu and Yui Tezuka, Tezuka Architects – Tokyo, Japan Paulo David – Madeira, Funchal, Portugal
2016 The 2016 edition - Jury held during the terrorist attacks to Paris' Bataclan - is dedicated to "Liberty of Thought" Patrice Doat – Grenoble, France Kengo Kuma – Tokyo, Japan CASE Studio, Patama Roonrakwit – Bangkok, Thailand Gion A. Caminada – Vrin, Switzerland East Coast Architects – Durban, South Africa
2015 Talca School of Architecture – Talca, Chile Santiago Cirugeda – Recetas Urbanas, Sevilla, Spain Jan Gehl – Copenhagen, Denmark Rotor – Brussels, Belgium Marco Casagrande – Helsinki, Finland / Taiwan
2014 Christopher Alexander – Arundel, Great Britain / Berkeley, California, USA Tatiana Bilbao – Mexico City, Mexico Bernd Gundermann, Urbia Group – Auckland, New Zealand Martin Rajniš – Prague, Czech Republic West 8 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2013 José Paulo dos Santos – Porto, Portugal Kevin Low, Smallprojects – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Al Borde Arquitectos (David Barragán, Pascual Gangotena, Marialuisa Borja, Esteban Benavides) – Quito, Ecuador Lake/Flato Architects, David Lake and Ted Flato – San Antonio, Texas, USA MDW Architecture, Marie Moignot, Xavier De Wil and Gilles Debrun – Brussels, Belgium
2012 Salma Samar Damluji – London, UK Anne Feenstra – Kabul, AfghanistanAnne Feenstra: Suriya Umpansiriratana – Bangkok, ThailandSuriya Umpansiriratana , www.isuriya.com Philippe Madec – Paris, FrancePhilippe Madec , www.atelierphilippemadec.com TYIN tegnestue Architects – Trondheim, NorwayTYIN Architect , www.tyintegnestue.no
2011 Shlomo Aronson – Jerusalem Vatnavinir – Reykjavik, IcelandVatnavinir , www.vatnavinir.is Anna Heringer – Laufen, GermanyAnna Heringer , www.anna-heringer.com Teddy Cruz – Tijuana, Mexico / San Diego, California, USATeddy Cruz , www.california-architects.com Carmen Arrospide Poblete, Patronato de Cultura Machupicchu – Cuzco, PeruPatronato de Cultura Machupicchu , www.patronatomachupicchu.org
2010 Troppo Architects – Darwin, Australia Jun'ya Ishigami – Tokyo, Japan Giancarlo Mazzanti – Bogota, Colombia Kjetil Thorsen Trædal, Snøhetta – Oslo, Norway Steve Baer – Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
2009 Patrick Bouchain and Loïc Julienne – France Thomas Herzog – Munich, Germany Bijoy Jain, Studio Mumbai – Mumbai, India Diébédo Francis Kéré – Berlin, Germany / Gando, Burkina Faso Sami Rintala – Bodo, Norway
2008 Andrew Freear, Rural Studio – Auburn, Alabama, USA Fabrizio Carola – Naples, Italy / Bamako, Mali Alejandro Aravena, Elemental – Santiago, Chile Carin Smuts, CS Studio Architects – Cape Town, South Africa Philippe Samyn, Philippe Samyn & Partners – Brussels, Belgium
2007 Hermann Kaufmann – Schwarzach, Vorarlberg, Austria Balkrishna Doshi, Vastu-Shilpa Foundation – Ahmedabad, India Françoise-Hélène Jourda – Paris, France Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu – Hangzhou, China , Behnisch Architekten – Stuttgart, Germany
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External links
Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine Global Award for Sustainable Architecture