Global Award for Sustainable Architecture

The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture was founded in 2006 by architect and scholar Jana Revedin. The Global Award Community, founded in 2022, consists of the 75 contemporary architects or architect collectives from around the globe who have previously received the award, 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 community empowerment, development and civic rights.

Each year, the award honors five architects who share a common belief in more sustainable development and who have pioneered innovative and holistic approaches in their own communities, in western and emerging countries, in developed cities and precarious districts, in megalopolises, and in the countryside. 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 is put under the high Patronage of UNESCO.

The laureates of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture are selected by the Global Award Scientific Committee. The 2022 committee includes Jana Revedin, Marie-Hélène Contal, Deniz Inceday, Chris Younés, Spela Hudnik Jacopo Galli and as honorary members two former Global Award laureates, Takaharu Tezuka and Francis Kéré.

Each year, the winners' projects, ideas, and practices are gathered in a book: Sustainable Design, Vers une nouvelle éthique pour l'architecture et la ville / Towards a new ethics for architecture and the city, directed and co-written by Marie-Hélène Contal and Jana Revedin, and coedited by Gallimard Editions Alternatives and the Cité de l'Architecture et du patrimoine. The book number 9 is dedicated to the 2021 Global Awards.

2023
The 2023 edition rises the question: "Architecture is experimentation"


 * BENEDETTA, TAGLIABUE, architect, EMBT, 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
 * 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
 * Solano Benitez & Gloria Cabral, Asuncion
 * Severiano Porto, Manaus
 * José Cubilla, Asuncion
 * Richard Sennett, London

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, Afghanistan
 * Suriya Umpansiriratana – Bangkok, Thailand
 * Philippe Madec – Paris, France
 * TYIN tegnestue Architects – Trondheim, Norway

2011

 * Shlomo Aronson – Jerusalem
 * Vatnavinir – Reykjavik, Iceland
 * Anna Heringer – Laufen, Germany
 * Teddy Cruz – Tijuana, Mexico / San Diego, California, USA
 * Carmen Arrospide Poblete, Patronato de Cultura Machupicchu – Cuzco, Peru

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 de Chile, 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