Global Award for Sustainable Architecture

Each year, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture™ recognises five architects who share the principles of sustainable development and a participatory architectural approach to the needs of societies in both the Global North and the Global South.

The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture^TM was founded in 2006 by the architect and scholar Jana Revedin, together with the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, the cultural partner of the award. The Global Award Community, which now consists of 80 contemporary architects from around the globe who have 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 empowerment, self-development and civic rights.

The Global Award is under the patronage of UNESCO.

As a symbol of its pioneering role, five architects or teams who have received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture have since been awarded the Pritzker Prize: Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (GA 2007, Pritzker 2018), Wang Shu (GA 2007, Pritzker 2012), Alejandro Aravena (GA 2008, Pritzker 2016), Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal (GA 2018 with Frédéric Druot, Pritzker 2021) and Diébédo Francis Kéré (GA 2009, Pritzker 2022).
Other architects whom the Global Award is also proud to have discovered and supported include Carin Smuts (GA 2008), Rural Studio (GA 2008), Anna Heringer (GA 2011), Salma Samar Damluji (GA 2012), Al Borde (GA 2013), Marta Maccaglia (GA 2018), Boonserm Premthada (GA 2018) and Rozana Montiel (GA 2019).

The scientific jury - chaired by Jana Revedin, founder and president of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture^TM - is composed of :
Catherine Chevillot, President, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Paris, France
Marie-Hélène Contal, architect, Dean of the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris, France
Professor Dr. Jacopo Galli, architect, IUAV University, Venice, Italy
Professor Spela Hudnik, architect, Ljubljana University, Slovenia
Professor Dr. Deniz Incedayi, architect, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey
Prof. Dr. Jana Revedin, architect, founding president of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture^TM, Venice, Italy
Honorary member: Professor Chris Younès, psychosociologist, doctorate and HDR in philosophy, École Spéciale d'Architecture

Global Award Winners 2007-2023

2023 : Benedetta Tagliabue, Barcelona - Xu Tiantian, Bejing - Simon Teyssou, Le Rouget-Pers - Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Copenhagen - RAAAF (Ronald Rietveld & Erik Rietveld), Amsterdam

2022 : Martin Rauch, Schlins, Vorarlberg - Anupama Kundoo, Auroville, Berlin - Okan Bal & Ömer Selçuk Baz, Yalin Architectural Design, Istanbul - Dorte Mandrup, Copenhague - Gilles Clément, Crozant

2021 : Teresa Moller, Santiago - Solano Benitez & Gloria Cabral, Asuncion - Severiano Porto, Manaus - José Cubilla, Asuncion - Richard Sennett, London

2019 : Rozana Montiel, Mexico - Werner Sobek, ILEK, Stuttgart - Ersen Gürsel, Istanbul - Ammar Khammash, Amman - Jorge Lobos, EAHR, Copenhagen

2018 : Boonserm Premthada, Bangkok Project Studio, Bangkok - Raumlabor, Berlin - Marta Maccaglia, Associacion Semillas, Pangoa - Nina Maritz, Nina Maritz, Windhoek - Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, Frédéric Druot, Paris

2017 : Takaharu Tezuka + Yui Tezuka, Tokyo - Brian MacKay-Lyons & Talbot Sweetapple, Halifax - Assemble, London - Sonam Wangchuk, Leh, Ladakh - Paulo David, Funchal

2016 : Patrice Doat, Grenoble - Derek van Heerden & Steve Kinsler, East Coast architects, Durban - Kengo Kuma, Tokyo - Gion Antoni Caminada, Vrin - Patama Roonrakwit, Case Studio, Bangkok

2015 : Marco Casagrande, Helsinki - Santiago Cirugeda, Seville - Jan Gehl, Copenhagen - Juan Roman, Talca - Rotor, Brussels

2014 : Christopher Alexander, Arundel - Tatiana Bilbao, Mexico - Adrian Geuze, West 8, Rotterdam - Bernd Gundermann, Auckland - Martin Rajnis, Prague

2013 : José Paulo Dos Santos, Porto - Ted Flato & David Lake, Lake-Flato, San Antonio - Kevin Low, Kuala Lumpur - Marie Moignot & Xavier De Wil, MDW, Brussels - Al Borde, Quito

2012 : Salma Samar Damluji, Beirut - Anne Feenstra, Kabul - Andreas Gjertsen & Yashar Hanstad, TYIN Tegnestue, Oslo - Philippe Madec, Paris - Suriya Umpansiriratana, Bangkok

2011 : Shlomo Aronson, Jerusalem - Carmen Arrospide Poblete, Patronate MachuPicchu, Cuzco - Teddy Cruz, San Diego - Anna Heringer, Laufen - Vatnavinir, Reykjavik

2010 : Steve Baer, Albuquerque - Phil Harris & Adrian Welke, Troppo, Darwin - Junya Ishigami, Tokyo - Giancarlo Mazzanti, Bogota - Snohetta, Oslo

2009 : Patrick Bouchain Paris - Thomas Herzog, Munich - Bijoy Jain, Studio Mumbai, Mumbai - Francis Kéré, Berlin - Sami Rintala, Bodø

2008 : Alejandro Aravena, Santiago - Fabrizio Carola, Naples - Andrew Freear, Rural Studio, Auburn - Philippe Samyn, Brussels - Carin Smuts, Cape Town

2007 : Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Paris - Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu, Hangzhou - Hermann Kaufmann, Schwarzach - Stefan Behnisch, Stuttgart - Balkrishna Doshi, Ahmedabad