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| Global Award for Sustainable Architecture | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Contributing to a more equitable and sustainable development. |
| Sponsored by | Saint Gobain |
| First awarded | 2007 |
The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture is an international architecture founded in 2006 by architect and scholar Jana Revedin. [1]
Each year, the award honors five architects who "contribute to a more equitable and sustainable development and create an innovative and participatory approach to meet the needs of societies," [1] whether they are experts in economics, construction, or self-development actors for whom sustainability is synonymous with social and urban equity.
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. Since 2010, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture is under the high Patronage of UNESCO. [2]
The laureates of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture are selected by the Global Award Scientific Committee.
2024
The 2024 edition rises the topic: "Architecture Is Education" [3]
The 2023 edition rises the question: "Architecture is experimentation" [4]
The 2022 edition rises the question: "The Territory: Threat or Opportunity?"
The 2021 edition rises the question: "Architecture and Nature: a new Synergie?"
The 2019 edition celebrates the Centenary of Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus by honoring "the multidisciplinary and social-reformatory aim of the Bauhaus" that is: "Architecture is science, art and crafts at the service of society." [5]
The 2018 edition's theme is "Architecture as an agent of civic empowerment". [9]
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." [13]
The 2016 edition - Jury held during the terrorist attacks to Paris' Bataclan - is dedicated to "Liberty of Thought"
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