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Does architecture mean experimentation? If so, how can we redefine architects as lifelong explorers, as they were seen at the time of the Bauhaus? Themed Architecture is Experimentation, the 2023 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture centered on this question, which today is more pressing than ever.
This year’s winners were Benedetta Tagliabue, Xu Tiantian, Simon Teyssou, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, and Ronald and Erik Rietveld. The winners were announced by Catherine Chevillot, president of the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, together with Jana Revedin, founding president of the award. The awards ceremony will be held on Friday, October 13, at 2 p.m. at the Cité Auditorium, Place du Trocadéro, Paris.
“Through structural and material innovations, Benedetta Tagliabue in Barcelona, Xu Tiantian in Beijing, and Simon Teyssou in Le Rouget are architects who experiment with participatory processes in their projects, drawing in local people. Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, a Copenhagen-based architect and researcher, works with biopolymers, the building material of the future. One an architect and artist, the other a philosopher, brothers Ronald and Erik Rietveld from Amsterdam experiment with existing architecture as a way of giving new meaning to our historic contexts”.
Jana Revedin, founding president of the Global Award for Sustainable ArchitectureTM
Established in 2006 by architect Jana Revedin and, since 2010, under the high patronage of UNESCO, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture recognizes five architects every year who have distinguished themselves for their commitment to more sustainable, more ethical architecture, for adopting a participatory approach to respond to the needs of society, and for research and training activities that benefit the planet and people’s quality of life.
To date, the award has recognized 80 architects from Namibia to Japan, Jordan, Ecuador, France, Thailand, Malaysia, Iceland, and many other countries around the world. This Global Award Community includes five Pritzker Prize winners: Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, Wang Shu, Alejandro Aravena, Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, and Diébédo Francis Kéré.
The 2023 award jury is chaired by Jana Revedin, and its members include Catherine Chevillot; Marie-Hélène Contal, dean of Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris; Jacopo Galli, professor at IUAV University, Venice; Spela Hudnik, professor at University of Ljubljana; and Deniz Incedayi, professor at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul.
All images courtesy Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine Paris
