The Daylight and Building Component Award

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The Daylight and Building Component Award
Sponsored byThe VELUX Foundation
DateAround the first of March each year
Location Hørsholm
Country Denmark
Reward(s)100,000 Euro
First awarded1980
Website veluxfoundations.dk/en/awards/daylight-award

The Daylight and Building Component Award is presented annually to an individual, or group of individuals, who have contributed significantly to the technical, social, artistic or design-related understanding of daylight. Previous awardees include architects, scientists, artists and building professionals, and the award carries with it a prize of 100,000 Euro. The award was established in 1980 and is given by the VELUX Foundation.

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History

Upon its establishment in 1980, the Daylight and Building Component Award was given to Danish citizens who had made a significant contribution to the understanding and practical use of daylight. In the early years, this meant that many of the recipients were architects or artists, many of whom had worked with daylight in an architectural or design context. Jørn Utzon, one of the most famous Danish Architects of the 20th century, was among the group awarded the first year. Through the next twenty-five years, the award was given intermittently, often to larger groups of individuals. In 2006, the award was given to the father-son team of architects Povl Wilhelm Wohlert and Claus Ditlev Wohlert.

In 2008, was converted to an annual award with four categories:

  1. Daylighting design
  2. Contribution to the science of daylighting
  3. Contribution to awareness or interest about daylighting.
  4. Contribution to the awareness of the industrial building component's importance, value and practical use in the everyday life

The monetary prize was also doubled in 2008 to 100,000 Euro, making it one of the largest of its kind within the architecture and building communities worldwide.

In 2010, the award was given to American architect James Carpenter, whose recent projects include the design of 7 World Trade Center, the first building to be reconstructed at the site since Sept. 11, 2001.

The award is given around the first of March each year at a ceremony in Hørsholm, Denmark.

List of recipients

YearNameCountryComments
1980 Jørn Utzon DenmarkArchitect.
1980 Jens Urup Jensen DenmarkPainter
1980Knud ThomsenDenmarkArchitect
1980 Erik Flagsted Rasmussen DenmarkArchitect
1987Holger JensenDenmark
1987 Henning Larsen DenmarkArchitect
1988 Per Sten Hebsgaard DenmarkGlass Artist
1988 Torben Hjort DenmarkArchitect
1988 Sven Åge Larsen DenmarkCeramic Artist
1988 Niels Frithiof Truelsen DenmarkArchitect
2000H.N.BrandtEnglandManager
2005Jørgen TroelsenDenmarkEngineer
2005Michel LangrandFranceManager
2005István KónyaHungaryManager
2006 Povl Wilhelm Wohlert DenmarkArchitect
2006 Claus Ditlev Wohlert DenmarkArchitect
2008Richard Perez [1] US/FranceScientist
2009 Karl Lenhardt [2] GermanyInventor
2010 James Carpenter USArchitect
2011 Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal FranceArchitects

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