The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture was founded in 2006 by architect and scholar

Jana Revedin Jana Revedin is a German scholar, researcher, architect and professor thereof. Born in Konstanz, Germany, Revedin has a degree from the Polytechnic University of Milan and a Doctor of Architecture from Università Iuav di Venezia. Having previ ...

. The Global Award Community, which 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 honours 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. The Award is run by the

Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine The Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Architecture and Heritage City) is a museum of architecture and monumental sculpture located in the Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro), in Paris, France. Its permanent collection is also known as Musée n ...

. Since 2010, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture is put under the high Patronage of

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

. 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.

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 Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...

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Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 200 ...

by honoring "the multidisciplinary and social-reformatory aim of the Bauhaus" that is: "Architecture is science, art and crafts at the service of society." *, Estudio de Arquitectura – Mexico City, Mexico *

Werner Sobek Werner Sobek (born May 16, 1953) is a German architect and structural engineer. Life Werner Sobek was born 1953 in Aalen, Germany. From 1974 to 1980, he studied structural engineering and architecture at the University of Stuttgart. From 1980 t ...

, Director of the Institut of Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) – Stuttgart, Germany *, EPA architects – Istanbul, Turkey *, Khammash Architects – Amman, Jordan
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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 Anne Lacaton (born 2 August 1955) is a French architect and educator. She runs the architectural practice Lacaton & Vassal, with Jean-Philippe Vassal. The pair were jointly awarded the 2021 Pritzker Prize. Early life and education She was bor ...

Jean-Philippe Vassal Jean-Philippe Vassal (; born 22 February 1954) is a French architect and academic. He runs the architectural practice Lacaton & Vassal, with Anne Lacaton. The pair were jointly awarded the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Early life and educ ...

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 Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, MVC is an Indian Army veteran, who served with the Assam Regiment and the Ladakh Scouts. He was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, India's second highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy, during his successful ...

– 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 is a Japanese architect and professor in the Department of Architecture (Graduate School of Engineering) at the University of Tokyo. Frequently compared to contemporaries Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima, Kuma is also noted for his prolific writings ...

– Tokyo, Japan * CASE Studio, Patama Roonrakwit – Bangkok, Thailand *

Gion A. Caminada Gion Antoni Caminada (born 8 August 1957) is a Swiss architect and professor of architecture at the ETH Zurich. He is known for his works in and around the Swiss village of Vrin, including the ''Stiva da morts'' mortuary. Many of Caminada's proje ...

– Vrin, Switzerland * East Coast Architects – Durban, South Africa

2015

* Talca School of Architecture – Talca, Chile * Santiago Cirugeda – Recetas Urbanas, Sevilla, Spain *

Jan Gehl Jan Gehl Hon. FAIA (born 17 September 1936, Copenhagen) is a Danish architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen whose career has focused on improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards the pedestrian and ...

– Copenhagen, Denmark * Rotor – Brussels, Belgium *

Marco Casagrande Marco Casagrande (born 7 May 1971) is a Finnish architect, environmental artist, architectural theorist, former mercenary, writer and professor of architecture. He graduated from Helsinki University of Technology department of architecture (2001 ...

– Helsinki, Finland / Taiwan

2014

Christopher Alexander Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (4 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature o ...

– Arundel, Great Britain / Berkeley, California, USA *

Tatiana Bilbao Tatiana Bilbao Spamer (born 1972) is a Mexican architect whose works often merged geometry with nature. Her practice focuses on sustainable design and social housing. She founded Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO in 2004 and has completed projects in China ...

– Mexico City, Mexico * Bernd Gundermann, Urbia Group – Auckland, New Zealand *

Martin Rajniš Martin Rajniš (born 16 May 1944, Prague) is a Czech architect, urbanist and professor. His architecture design career spans over fifty years and he taught at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague from 1990 a 1997 and later at the Te ...

– Prague, Czech Republic *

West 8 West 8 is an urban planning and landscape architecture firm founded by Adriaan Geuze and Paul van Beek in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1987. It is known for its contemporary designs and innovative solutions to urban planning problems using lighting, ...

– 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 Salma Samar Damluji (born in Beirut in 1954), is an Iraqi British architect, professor and author. She graduated from the AA School of Architecture in 1977 and from the Royal College of Art in London in 1987, where she did her doctorate. She w ...

– London, UK * Anne Feenstra – Kabul, Afghanistan * Suriya Umpansiriratana – Bangkok, Thailand * Philippe Madec – Paris, France *

TYIN tegnestue Architects TYIN tegnestue Architects is an architecture firm that centres on a philosophy of an architecture of necessity. It has mainly completed work in the humanitarian field abroad, but the core thinking lies in the adaption of situations. TYIN’s key ...

– Trondheim, Norway

2011

Shlomo Aronson Shlomo Aronson may refer to: * (1864–1935), first Ashkhenazi rabbi of Tel Aviv, grandfather of the historian * Shlomo Aronson (landscape architect) (1936–2018), Israeli landscape architect * Shlomo Aronson (historian) Shlomo Aronson (1936 – ...

– Jerusalem * Vatnavinir – Reykjavik, Iceland *

Anna Heringer Anna Heringer (born 13 October 1977 in Rosenheim) is a German architect. A proponent of sustainable architecture, she has designed a number of notable buildings including the METI Handmade School in Rudrapur, Bangladesh.

– Laufen, Germany *

Teddy Cruz Teddy Cruz (born 1962 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is an American architect, urbanist, Professor in Ancient Architecture and Urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. Cruz studied at Rafael Landivar Un ...

– Tijuana, Mexico / San Diego, California, USA * Carmen Arrospide Poblete, Patronato de Cultura Machupicchu – Cuzco, Peru

2010

Troppo Architects Troppo Architects is an Australian architectural practice with the aim of promoting good tropical architecture in Australia's Top End. The practice was founded in 1980 in Darwin with the aid of a Northern Territory grant to examine the history of ...

– Darwin, Australia *

Jun'ya Ishigami (born 1974 in Kanagawa prefecture) is a Japanese architect. He acquired his master's degree in architecture and planning at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2000. Ishigami worked with Kazuyo Sejima from 2000 to 2004 at SANAA, ...

– Tokyo, Japan *

Giancarlo Mazzanti Giancarlo Mazzanti (born 1963) is a Colombian architect based in Bogota. Mazzanti was born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1963. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Pontifical Xaverian University in Bogotá (Pontificia U ...

– Bogota, Colombia * Kjetil Thorsen Trædal,

Snøhetta Snøhetta is the highest mountain in the Dovrefjell mountain range in Norway. At , it is the highest mountain in Norway outside the Jotunheimen range, making it the 24th highest peak in Norway, based on a topographic prominence cutoff. At , it ...

– Oslo, Norway *

Steve Baer Steve Baer (born 1938) is an American inventor and pioneer of passive solar technology. Baer helped popularize the use of zomes. He took a number of solar power patents, wrote a number of books and publicized his work. Baer served on the board ...

– Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

2009

* Patrick Bouchain and Loïc Julienne – France *

Thomas Herzog Thomas Herzog (born 3 August 1941) is a German architect from Munich known for his focus on climate and energy use through the use of technologically advanced architectural skins. He began with an interest in pneumatics and became Germany's young ...

– Munich, Germany *

Bijoy Jain Bijoy Jain (born 1965) is an Indian people, Indian architect and Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor of architecture at Yale University. He received his M. Arch from Washington University in St Louis, USA in 1990. He then worked in Richard Meie ...

, Studio Mumbai – Mumbai, India *

Diébédo Francis Kéré Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 10 April 1965) is a Burkinabé-German architect, recognized for creating innovative works that are often sustainable and collaborative in nature. In 2022, he became the first African to receive the ''Pritzker Arc ...

– 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 Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori (born 22 June 1967) is a Chilean architect and executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016, and was the director and curator of the Architecture Section of the 201 ...

, Elemental – Santiago de Chile, Chile * Carin Smuts, CS Studio Architects – Cape Town, South Africa *

Philippe Samyn Sir Philippe Samyn (born 1 September 1948, in Ghent) is a Belgians, Belgian architect and civil engineer whose style is characterized by extensive use of glass, wood and steel to build often monumental structures. He is also known for his disc ...

, Philippe Samyn & Partners – Brussels, Belgium

2007

Hermann Kaufmann Hermann Kaufmann (born in Reuthe, Bregenzerwald) is an Austrian architect. Early life Hermann Kaufmann was born in 1955 in Reuthe, Bregenzerwald (Austria) and comes from a family with a long tradition in the carpentry business. At that time ...

– Schwarzach, Vorarlberg, Austria *

Balkrishna Doshi Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi OAL (born 26 August 1927) is an Indian architect. He is considered to be an important figure of Indian architecture and noted for his contributions to the evolution of architectural discourse in India. Having worked ...

, Vastu-Shilpa Foundation – Ahmedabad, India *

Françoise-Hélène Jourda Françoise H Jourda (26 November 1955 – 31 May 2015) was an award-winning French architect. Jourda has taught architecture internationally since 1979 at the Ecole d’Architecture de Lyon, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the Universi ...

– Paris, France *

Wang Shu Wang Shu (, born 4 November 1963)Behnisch Architekten Behnisch Architekten is an architectural practice based in Stuttgart, Germany, with branches in Munich, Germany; Boston, Massachusetts and Los Angeles, California. The office was founded in 1989 by Stefan Behnisch, son of the well-known German ...

– Stuttgart, Germany

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