Source: https://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/live/en/page/the-architecture-drawing-prize-categories
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) is accepting entries for its sixth annual drawing prize [Deadline: 9 September 2022]
Open to architects, designers and students, the anonymous competition seeks high-quality submissions in three separate categories: hand-drawings, digital images, and hybrids of the two. Supporters include Make Architects, Sir John Soane’s Museum and Iris Ceramica Group.
The winners and shortlist will feature in an exhibition at WAF in Lisbon from 30 November to 2 December 2022. The overall winners of the 2022 Architecture Drawing Prize will each receive a complimentary WAF delegate pass and be invited to attend a gala dinner award presentation ceremony. One overall winner will be announced at a special preview of the Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum, which will run from 8 February to 7 May next year.
Bruce Boucher, director of Sir John Soane's Museum said: ‘Sir John Soane’s Museum is pleased to partner with Make Architects and WAF in hosting the sixth edition of The Architectural Drawing Prize. This event has become a showcase for the best in contemporary draughtsmanship across media, which remains central to architectural practice today, and the Soane Museum is an appropriate venue for exhibiting both the winning and commended drawings.’
Ken Shuttleworth, founder of Make, said: ‘Drawing is a special tie, a strong common ground between architects and artists. Our studio’s role in promoting drawing is an important way for us to explain and celebrate the design process while continuing to explore the elements that make architecture special.’
Federica Minozzi, chief executive of Iris Ceramica Group said: ‘The power of drawing is a kind of marvel. Our hands can perfectly combine the process of design and thought. This simple act makes it possible to move between the worlds of matter and thought bringing to life ideas into something buildable. Hence the importance of the Prize that assumes a prominent role in reflecting architectural creativity.’
The Architecture Drawing Prize was founded in 2017 and is now in its sixth year. Entries are judged on technical skill, success in communicating a design idea, originality, quality of drawing, and architectural proposition.
Last year’s overall winner was Fluid Strada: Flood-responsive landscape performance – a hybrid drawing combining different rendering techniques – submitted by Dafni Filippa. The 2020 winner was Anton Markus Pasing, whose submission City in a box: paradox memories was praised by judges for its ‘level of depth, confidence in composition, pure symmetry and strong perspective.’
The second annual Architecture Drawing Prize in 2018 went to Li Han, one of the founding partners of Drawing Architecture Studio in Beijing, for his work entitled The Samsara of Building No.42 on Dirty Street. The winner of the inaugural prize in 2017 went to Jerome Xin Hao Ng for Memento Mori: a Peckham Hospice Care Home, which was praised for its technical skill and the way in which it demonstrates the settings for multi-generation social interaction.
This year’s judges include the artist Pablo Bronstein; Lily Jencks, founder of Lily Jencks Studio; Narinder Sagoo, senior partner at Foster + Partners and the artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell. The application fee is £99 or £49 for students and those aged under 30 years.
The deadline for applications is 9 September and the winners and shortlist will be announced in October.
How to apply
Visit the competition website for more information
