Entries are now open for the Architecture Drawing Prize 2023, an award that celebrates the art and skill of architectural drawing. Architects, designers, and students from around the world will need to submit their entries by September 8, 2023.
Established in 2017 by the World Architecture Festival (WAF), Make Architects, and Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Architecture Drawing Prize is being held for the seventh time. Recalling the spirit of the great architects of the past, from Palladio to John Soane, Le Corbusier, and Cedric Price, the competition aims to showcase the importance of architectural drawing and the skills of established and emerging professionals in the graphic representation of projects. Sponsored by the Iris Ceramica Group, the competition also aims to explore the relationship between art and architecture involved in the graphic communication of a project.
The competition gives artists and architects complete freedom in their approach. Drawings can be executed using a wide variety of techniques – hand-drawn, digital, or hybrid – and can be perspectives, technical drawings, construction details, and so on.
“Architecture can combine technology and sustainability in order to stimulate more significant interactions between humans and the environment. The Architecture Drawing Prize is a brilliant opportunity to demonstrate the genius of people and the desire to experiment. Hence the importance of the Prize: it assumes a prominent role in reflecting architectural creativity.”
Federica Minozzi, CEO of Iris Ceramica Group
>>> Discover the winners and overall winner of the Architecture Drawing Prize 2022
The jury and dates
The judges of the 2023 competition are Lily Jencks, founder of Lily Jencks Studio; artist duo Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell; artist Pablo Bronstein; Federica Minozzi, CEO of Iris Ceramica Group; Narinder Sagoo, senior partner at Foster + Partners; Ken Shuttleworth, founder of Make Architects; and Louise Stewart, head of exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum.
Entries must be submitted by September 8, 2023. The names of the shortlisted entries and winners will be published in October. Both the winning and shortlisted entries will be exhibited at the final event of the World Architecture Festival, to take place in Singapore, November 29 – December 1, 2023. The overall winner will be announced during the vernissage of the Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, scheduled for January 31 – March 3, 2024.
>>> For more information, visit the competition website
Christopher Wijatno, Deep Water Purgatory (2017, Digital)
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Dimitris Grozopoulos, Scenarios for a Post-Crisis Landscape (2017, Handdrawn)
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Jerome Xin Hao Ng, Memento Mori - A Peckham Hospice Care Home (2017, Hybrid)
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Li Han, The Samsara of Building No.42 on Dirty Street (2018, Digital)
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Carlijn Kingma, The Babylonian Tower of Modernity (2018 - Handdrawn)
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Lukas Göbl, City of Beautiful Bodies (2018 - Hybrid)
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Anton Markus, Pasing_City in a box: paradox memories (2019 - Digital)
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Anna Heringer - Masterplan Rudrapur, Bangladesh (2019 - Handdrawn)
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Jerome Xin Hao Ng, Metabolist of a Dementia Nation-2 (2019 - Hybrid)
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Chenglin Able, Re-Reading Metropolis (2020, Digital)
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Marc Brousse, Dear Hashima (2020 - Handdrawn)
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Victor Hugo Azevedo and Cheryl Lu Xu, Airplane Tower (2020 - Hybrid and Lockdown)
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Clement Laurencio, Apartment #5, a Labyrinth and Repository of Spatial Memories (2020 - Hybrid)
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Zachary Higson, Site[s] of Flux - Roaming Giant_ (2021, Digital and Lockdown)
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Antonio Paoletti, Reconfiguring Addis Ababa’s Narratives – Storytelling for Architecture (2021 - Handdrawn)
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Boji Hu, (Un)homeliness (2021, Joint Hybrid)
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Dafni Filippa, Fluid Strata (2021, Joint Hybrid)
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Anton Markus Pasing, The Wall (2022, Digital)
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Weicheng Ye, The Spirit of Mountain (2022, Handdrawn)
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Mike Ren and Samuel Wen, Fitzroy Food Institute (2022, Hybrid)
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The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition 2023 at Sir John Soane’s Museum
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The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition 2023 at Sir John Soane’s Museum
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The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition 2023 at Sir John Soane’s Museum
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The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition 2023 at Sir John Soane’s Museum
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The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition 2023 at Sir John Soane’s Museum
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The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition 2023 at Sir John Soane’s Museum
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