The Swiss Architectural Award is an international architecture award.

History

The Swiss Architectural Award honors architects from all over the world whose work has made a significant contribution to contemporary architecture. The Swiss Architectural Award was founded in 2007, is endowed with 100,000 Swiss francs and is awarded every two years to architects under the age of 50 who have completed at least three important works. Since the seventh edition (2020), the Swiss Architecture Prize has been sponsored by the Teatro dell'architettura Foundation, which inherited the BSI Architecture Foundation. The Chairman of the Teatro dell'architettura Foundation is

Mario Botta Mario Botta (born 1 April 1943) is a Swiss architect. Career Botta designed his first building, a two-family house at Morbio Superiore in Ticino, at age 16. He graduated from the Università Iuav di Venezia (1969). While the arrangements of spa ...

. The prize is organized, awarded and sponsored by the Università della Svizzera Italiana

Mendrisio Mendrisio (; lmo, label= Ticinese, Mendris ) is a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Mendrisio is the seat of the Accademia di Architettura of the university of Italian-speaking Switzerland (U ...

. The jury consists of the chairman

and other architects and architecture critics from USI Mendrisio, the EPFL Lausanne and the

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. The nominees are selected by an international advisory board made up of architects and architecture critics.

Prizewinner

2022

* Prizewinner:

Xu Tiantian Xu Tiantian () is a Chinese architect who is the founding principal architect of DnA Design and Architecture. She has engaged extensively in the rural revitalizing process in China. She has received numerous awards, such as the WA China Archit ...

* Nominees:

Raphael Zuber Raphael Zuber (born 5 June 1973 in Chur) is a Swiss architect. Biography Raphael Zuber studied at ETH Zurich until 2001 and practiced with Valerio Olgiati in Zurich. After graduating, he founded an architectural office in Chur. Zuber taught at ...

, Atelier Masōmī – Mariam Kamara, Bernardo Bader, Barão Hutter, Giulio Basili, Bloco Arquitetos, Manuel Cervantes, dekleva gregoric architects, Domat, Estudio Flume, Estudio Macías Peredo, Graux & Baeyens, Grillovasiu, Go Hasegawa, Carla Juaçaba, Ryan Kennihan, LACOL Arquitectura Cooperativa, lopes brenna, Rozana Montiel, Nickisch Walder, RAMA estudio, Sugiberri, Ted’A Arquitectes, Terra+Tuma, Tropical Space, Xu Tiantian * Advisory Board: Manuel Aires Mateus, Solano Benitez, Angelo Bucci, Marianne Burkhalter,

Sean Godsell Sean Godsell (born 9 September 1960) is an Australian architect. Biography Godsell was born in Melbourne, Australia, the son of David Godsell, also an architect. In his early years he lived in Beaumaris and attended Kostka Hall a preparatory s ...

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, ...

, Shelley McNamara,

Valerio Olgiati Valerio Olgiati (born 1958) is a Swiss architect. He initially studied architecture at ETH Zurich, a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland, after which he lived in Switzerland, followed by Los Angeles in the United States. He mad ...

, András Pálffy, Elisa Valero, Paolo Zermani * Jury:

(chairman), Walter Angonese, Stéphanie Bru, Dieter Dietz, Tom Emerson

2020

* Prizewinner: Bruther (Stéphanie Bru & Alexandre Thériot) * Nominees: Al Borde, Arrhov Frick, Bernardo Bader, Barbas Lopes Arquitectos, Tatiana Bilbao, Bruther, Riccardo Butini, Carmody Groarke, Ricardo Carvalho, Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury / URBANA, DECA Architecture,

Angela Deuber Angela Deuber is a Switzerland, Swiss architect, born 1975 in Bad Kissingen (district), Bad Kissingen. She studied at ETH Zurich and has her office in Zürich, Zurich. Deuber works on both regional and international projects, participates in exh ...

, Edition Office, Estudio MMX, Nick Gelpi, Guidotti Architekten, Carla Juaçaba, langarita-navarro arquitectos, MAPA, Shingo Masuda + Katsuhisa Otsubo, Daniel Moreno Flores, Erika Nakagawa, OFFICE KGDVS, Camilo Rebelo, RAW – Robust Architecture Workshop, Sabin Blanco Architects, SIAA_, Taylor and Hinds Architects, Ted’A Arquitectes, Terra+Tuma, Francesca Torzo, Christian Wassmann, Xu Tiantian - DnA Design and Architecture * Advisory Board: Manuel Aires Mateus, Solano Benitez, Angelo Bucci, Marianne Burkhalter, Sean Godsell,

Steven Holl Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947) is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. Among his most recognized works are the 2019 REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 2019 Hunters Point Library in Q ...

Junya 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, ...

, Bijoy Jain, Shelley McNamara,

, Adolph Stiller, Elisa Valero, Paolo Zermani * Jury:

(chairman), Riccardo Blumer, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, Dieter Dietz, Christophe Girot, Nicola Navone

2018

* Prizewinner: Elisa Valero * Nominees: Al Borde, Arquitetos Associados, Barozzi Veiga, Baserga Mozzetti, Baukuh,

Fernanda Canales Fernanda Canales (born 1974) is an architect, designer, critic, and curator of Architecture of Mexico, Mexican architecture. Background Fernanda Canales was born in Mexico City. She studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana; she ...

, ChartierDalix, José Cubilla,

Frida Escobedo Frida Escobedo (born 1979) is a Mexican architect. She specifically designs and restores urban spaces: housing, community centers, art venues, and hotels. When creating, Escobedo illustrates her works within a general theme of time, not in a his ...

, Gong Dong / Vector Architects, H + F Arquitetos, Anna Heringer, Akihisa Hirata, Anne Holtrop, Hua Li / TAO, Trace Architecture Office, Kumiko Inui, Carla Juaçaba, Anssi Lassila / OOPEAA – Office for Peripheral Architecture, Li Zhang / TeamMinus, Ling Hao, Rozana Montiel, Daniel Moreno Flores, onishimaki + hyakudayuki Architekten, Orkidstudio Architects, Oualalou + Choi, PAO – Volksarchitekturbüro, James Russell, Sami Arquitectos, SO-IL, Marina Tabassum, TNA Architects, Elisa Valero * Advisory Board: Solano Benitez, Ole Bouman, Angelo Bucci, Gonçalo Byrne, Jean-Louis Cohen, Luis Fernandez Galiano, Sean Godsell,

Toyo Ito is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" ...

, Bijoy Jain, Shelley McNamara,

, José Maria Sanchez Garcia, Li Xiaodong * Jury:

(chairman), Riccardo Blumer, An Fonteyne,

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 ...

, Paolo Tombesi

2016

source: * Prizewinner:

* Nominees: Andrade Morettin Arquitetos,

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, Arquitecturia, Eduardo Castillo, Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury / URBANA, Santiago Cirugeda / Recetas Urbanas, DRDH Architects,

Sou Fujimoto is a Japanese architect. Born in Hokkaido in 1971, he graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1994, and established his own office, Sou Fujimoto Architects, in 2000. Noted for delicate light structures and permeable enclosures, Fujimoto desig ...

, HARQUITECTES, Go Hasegawa, Grainne Hassett / Hassett Ducatez Architects, Anna Heringer, Anne Holtrop, Hua Li - TAO, Trace Architecture Office, Jun Igarashi, Sebastián Irarrázaval, Junya Ishigami, Alexia León, Inês Lobo, Made in, Mokena Makeka / Makeka Design Lab, O-office Architects, OUALALOU + CHOI, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Productora, Sami Arquitectos, Vo Trong Nghia, Zecc Architects * Advisory Board: Solano Benitez, Ole Bouman, Gonçalo Byrne, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Sean Godsell,

, Bijoy Jain,

, Xiaodong Li, Shelley McNamara,

Paulo Mendes da Rocha Paulo Mendes da Rocha (October 25, 1928 – May 23, 2021) was a Brazilian architect. Mendes da Rocha attended the Mackenzie Presbyterian University College of Architecture, graduating in 1954. Working almost exclusively in Brazil, Mendes da Roc ...

, Smiljan Radic * Jury:

(chairman), Jean-Louis Cohen, Marc Collomb,

Bruno Reichlin Bruno Reichlin (born 10 February 1941 in Lucerne) is a Swiss architect. Biography Reichlin studied at the Polytechnic of Zürich. In the 1970s he got associated with Fabio Reinhart and opened a practice in Lugano. They were strongly influenced b ...

, José María Sánchez García

2014

* Prizewinner: José María Sánchez García * Nominees:

, Boyd Cody Architects,

Arno Brandlhuber The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber. Source and route The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a so ...

, Tom de Paor, Anne Feenstra, Toni Gironès, Hall McKnight, Go Hasegawa, Akihisa Hirata, Hollmén Reuter Sandman, Höweler + Yoon Architecture, Kumiko Inui, Johnstonmarklee, Carla Juaçaba, Lassila Hirvilammi Architects / OOPEAA, Office for Peripheral Architecture, LTL Architects, MAP Studio – Magnani Pelzel Associated Architects, onishimaki + hyakudayuki architects, Sameep Padora, Smiljan Radic, Camilo Restrepo, Rintala Eggertsson Architects, Mauricio Rocha, Sergison Bates Architects, Studio Weave, TYIN tegnestue Architects Trondheim * Advisory Board: Solano Benitez, Barry Bergdoll, Ole Bouman, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Sean Godsell,

, Shelley McNamara, Rahul Mehrotra, Mohsen Mostafavi,

Eduardo Souto de Moura Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura (; born 25 July 1952), better known as Eduardo Souto de Moura, is a Portuguese architect who was the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011 and the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2013. Along with Ferna ...

* Jury:

(chairman), Alberto Campo Baeza, Marc Collomb, Charles Kleiber,

, Nicola Navone

2012

* Prizewinner: Studio Mumbai * Nominees:

Atelier Bow-Wow Atelier Bow-Wow is a Tokyo-based architecture firm, founded in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima. The firm is well known for its domestic and cultural architecture and its research exploring the urban conditions of micro, ad hoc archi ...

, Nuno Brandão Costa, Angelo Bucci, Jan de Vylder, Inge Vinck und Jo Taillieu, Marcus Donaghy und William Dimond, Ecosistema Urbano, Liza Fior –MUF Architecture, Antón García-Abril, Anna Heringer, Zhang Ke, Zhang Lei, LTL ARCHITECTS, Gurjit Singh Matharoo, Alberto Mozó, Hiroshi Nakamura, Mauricio Pezo und Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Smiljan Radic, Camilo Rebelo, Enric Ruiz -Geli, José María Saez, Joaõ Pedro Serôdio und Isabel Furtado, Dominic Stevens, Studio Mumbai, Jonathan Woolf,

Alejandro Zaera-Polo Alejandro Zaera Polo is a Spanish architect, theorist and founder of Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML). He was formerly dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture and of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. ...

* Beratungsgremium: Solano Benitez, Barry Bergdoll, Ole Bouman, Luis Fernández-Galiano,

Kenneth Frampton Kenneth Brian Frampton (born 20 November 1930) is a British architect, critic and historian. He is the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. He has be ...

, Sean Godsell, Kengo Kuma, Shelley McNamara, Rahul Mehrotra,

, Wang Shu * Jury:

(chairman), Gonçalo Byrne, Marco Della Torre, Diebédo Francis Kéré, Mohsen Mostafavi, Nikola Navone

2010

* Prizewinner:

* Nominees: Iñaqui Carnicero, Ignacio Vila, Alejandro Virseda,

Adam Caruso Caruso St John is a London-based architectural firm established in 1990 by Adam Caruso and Peter St John. Practice Caruso St John gained international recognition for its designs of public spaces. The practice came to public attention with The ...

, Peter St. John, Davide Cristofani, Gabriele Lelli, João Pedro Falcão de Campos, Dietmar Feichtinger, Arturo Franco Diaz, Sosuke Fujimoto, José Fernando Gonçalves, Erich Hubmann, Andreas Vaß, Bjarke Ingels,

, Diebédo Francis Kéré,

Christian Kerez Christian Kerez (born 27 May 1962 in Maracaibo) is a Swiss architect, architectural photographer and a university professor. Biography Christian Kerez studied architecture at ETH Zurich until 1991 and then worked with Rudolf Fontana in Domat ...

, Andrea Liverani, Enrico Molteni, Fabio Mariani, Joao Mendes Ribeiro, MGM - José Morales, Sara de Giles Dubois, Juan G. Mariscal, Hiroshi Nakamura, nARCHITECTS - Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang, Willem Jan Neutelings, Michiel Riedijk, Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Joshua Prinz Ramus, Bernhard Quirot, Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Markus Scherer, José Selgas, Lucia Cano, URBANUS - Liu Xiaodu, Meng Yan, Wang Hui, Xu Tiantian - DnA Design und Architektur * Advisory Board: Emilio Ambass, Laurent Beaudouin, Gonçalo Byrne, Alberto Campo Baeza, Massimo Carmassi,

, Dan S. Hanganu, Kengo Kuma,

Boris Podrecca Boris Podrecca (born 30 January 1940 in Belgrade) is a Slovenes, Slovene-Italy, Italian architect and urban designer living in Vienna, Austria. Podrecca is considered by some critics a pioneer of postmodernism. With some of his early works, such a ...

, Zhi Wenjun * Jury:

(chairman), Valentin Bearth, Solano Benitez, Barry Bergdoll, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Nikola Navone

2008

* Prizewinner: Solano Benitez * Nominees: Solano Benitez, 3LHD Architekten, David Adjaye, Francisco und Manuel Aires Mateus, Jesus Aparicio,

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 ...

, Alfonso Cendron, Dominique Coulon, Richard Francis Jones, Sean Godsel, Thomas Heidewick, Rick Freude, Albert Kalach, Francisco Mangado, Luis L. Mansilla, Emilio Tuñón Alvarez, Rahul Mehrotra, Miller & Maranta, Marco Navarra – NOWA, Büro dA - Monica Ponce de Leon, Nader Teherani,

, João Perloiro, João L. Ferreira, Paulo Perloiro, Paulo M. Barata, Pedro Appleton, Saša Randić, Idis Turato, João Alvaro Rocha, Enric Ruiz Geli - Wolke 9, SM.AO - Juan Carlos Sancho, Sol Madridejos, Beniamino Servino, Shuhei Endo, Das nächste UNTERNEHMEN, Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas, Wang Shu * Beratungsgremium: Laurent Beaudouin, Gonçalo Byrne, Alberto Campo Baeza, Massimo Carmassi und Roberto Collovà,

, Dan S. Hanganu, Yung Ho Chang, Kengo Kuma,

, Anant Raje,

* Jury:

(chairman), Emilio Ambasz, Valentin Bearth, Davide Croff, Zhi Wenjun source:

References

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