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Experienced landscape designer? This NYC role could be for you

2026-09-16T11:30:00-04:00

Following our previous look at an opening for assistant professors at the University of Southern California, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for an Experienced Landscape Designer or Landscape Architect / Project Manager at Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects.

The position, based in New York City, calls for candidates with a minimum of five years of professional experience, including demonstrated project-management responsibility. Candidates should have experience across all project phases, the firm adds, from conceptual design through construction administration, with particular emphasis on developing and coordinating construction documents.

Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center for Hudson Valley Shakespeare by Studio Gang, with landscape architecture by Nelson Byrd Woltz. Image credit: Jason O'Rear

Why the role interests us

The opening at Nelson Byrd Woltz comes at a time when the firm has been involved in severa...

In a Mexican jungle, a gleaming minimalist home ‘balances matter and void’

2026-09-16T09:05:00-04:00

Mexico-based practice HW Studio has completed Casa Malonic, a coastal residence in Zihuatanejo. The scheme is designed around a sequence of enclosed and open spaces that frame the surrounding jungle and Pacific Ocean.

Image credit: César Béjar

The project responds to a site characterized by dense vegetation, mature trees, rocky terrain, and expansive views toward the sea. Rather than treating the house as an isolated object within the landscape, the design team sought to reduce the scheme to a limited number of elements, primarily a ground plane, roof, walls, and shaded spaces.

Image credit: César Béjar

From the street, the building appears as a largely enclosed minimalist white volume accompanied by a curved concrete wall. Following the trajectory of the adjacent road, the wall establishes a boundary between the residence and the street while guiding occupants toward the entrance. Existing vegetation, rocks, and changes in topography ...

Blakely Island Cabin by Wittman Estes

2026-09-16T01:18:00-04:00

Situated in San Juan Island Archipelago on the Salish Sea, this cabin is an open studio that pays tribute to the practice of building a tiny house in the woods in the tradition of Thoreau’s Walden Cabin and Le Corbusier’s 1952 Cabanon. Embracing a sense of floating, this 400-square-foot guest house is suspended within the forest on stilts above a sweeping terrain, with panoramic views of the Salish Sea. The compact 16’x20’ volume contains a small kitchen, a Murphy bed, one bath, and a loft for 2 bunks.

Nestled between a large glacial erratic boulder and mature Douglas fir tree, the small footprint replaced a previous shack, seeking a minimal impact on the delicate ecology of a remote San Juan Island site.

Program

A suspended metal walkway wends through the woods and guides the arrival to the entry and opens to views of Thatcher Bay. The compact kitchen is tucked beneath the loft. At the northwest, a bathroom has a glass to glass corner window looking into the forest. Hardwood decki...

Wild Paradise by Parallect-design

2026-09-16T01:16:00-04:00

Surrounded by mountains and clear waters, the landscape of Siming Lake forms the site’s most pristine context. Perched on the lakeside highland, Wild Paradise breaks the stereotypes of traditional rural cultural tourism. Targeting the core demands of young visitors, it adopts contemporary minimalist architectural aesthetics, high-quality visual scenography and a layered relaxing experience, creating a lakeside public space where young people are willing to visit, photograph, share and revisit. By reinterpreting rural space from a youth perspective and revitalizing mountainous sites with lightweight design, the project offers a practical model for youth entrepreneurship, gentle rural renewal and youth-oriented cultural tourism scenography.

Against the backdrop of rural revitalization and cultural tourism upgrading, the consumer base and communication logic of rural cultural tourism are undergoing profound changes. The new generation aged 18–35 is not only the core consumer group of ...

1100 Architect, Henning Larsen, PAU, and Mythology are Archinect Jobs' latest featured employers

2026-09-15T13:53:00-04:00

Take a look at our latest curated selection of architecture and design firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs: This week's featured employer highlight includes job openings at NYC-based studios.

For even more opportunities, visit the Archinect job board.

Henning Larsen has two exciting positions available: a Project Architect with at least ten years of experience and proficiency with Revit; and a Junior Designer with one-plus years of experience and proficiency with Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite, and other digital design workflows. The Project Architect should have experience leading consultant coordination and managing project teams, and the Junior Designer should be open to learning new information while also sharing knowledge with less experienced staff.

Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre by Henning Larsen in collaboration with Studio Olafur Eliasson and Batteríið Architects. Photo: Nic Lehoux

1100 Architect is hiring a Junior Architect/Designer with one to three years of ex...

'We Love Thinking About Houses and Housing in LA': A Conversation With Now Here

2026-09-15T13:43:00-04:00

Studio Snapshot is back with a look at the work of award-winning practice Now Here, based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2017 by architect, educator, and writer Katy Barkan, a 2020–21 Rome Prize winner, the boutique firm impresses with unexpected material choices and playful geometric twists — a quality that recently earned them the Emerging Practice distinction at this year's AIA Los Angeles Board of Directors Awards.

In our conversation, Barkan talks about her priorities as a principal, balancing practice and academia, and how the team develops a shared cultural context.

MVRDV designs colorful residential volumes in Miami inspired by textiles

2026-09-15T11:07:00-04:00

MVRDV has unveiled the design for WOMA, a mixed-use development in Miami’s Wynwood Norte neighborhood comprising 163 residences alongside office, retail, and cultural spaces.

The project was developed by Quito-based Uribe Schwarzkopf, and was designed in collaboration with Miami-based Kobi Karp Architecture and Interior Design.

Image credit: MVRDV

The scheme is conceived as a collection of stacked volumes intended to respond to the site’s relatively low-rise scale surroundings. The development will occupy the former site of a coffee roasting company and draws on Wynwood Norte’s history as a center for garment manufacturing, art, and creative industries.

Image credit: MVRDV

The residential component will include units ranging from micro-studios to three-bedroom apartments, alongside four atelier-apartments designed for artists and other creative professionals. The atelier units feature double-height windows facing a central public plaza, allowing ...

Houston Astrodome revival dreams could become reality

2026-09-15T09:29:00-04:00

Plans to revive the Houston Astrodome are making promising steps forward after a request for information by the Astrodome Conservancy elicited a strong response from developers. According to the non-profit, more than 200 responses have been received, including dozens of developers.

We reported on Gensler’s proposal for the Astrodome’s overhaul in November 2024. The plans call for the erection of four new smaller structures inside the stadium. An arching internal pedestrian boulevard comparable to the New York High Line then interjects itself as an elevated connector to the adjoining NRG Stadium and NRG Center venues.

Image courtesy Astrodome Conservancy

“The Astrodome is a significant public asset with substantial public support for its reuse,” the conservancy said in the RFI. “Vision: Astrodome is intended to advance an adaptive reuse strategy that preserves the Astrodome’s architectural and cultural significance while evaluating its potential for year-round activation. The vision ...

Get Lectured: Yale University, Fall '26

2026-09-14T19:25:00-04:00

Get Lectured takes a look at upcoming public lectures and events at the Yale School of Architecture this semester.

The program already presented fala and Rosetta S. Elkin and continues with guest speakers Francis Kéré (Oct 1); Martin Finio (Nov 5); Sam Alison-Mayne and Sebastian Mendez (Nov 9); and a roundtable with Sandra Barclay, Fernanda Canales, and Alan Ricks, moderated by curator Helen Brown Bechtel on December 3.

An open house for the 2026 Jim Vlock First Year Building Project takes place on October 15.

The exhibition Practicing Pluralism opened in August and will be on view until December 4.

Completing the series are the symposia Putting Architecture in Its Place: Robert A.M. Stern and His Scholarship (Oct 17) and World Ecologies in Formation (Oct 29–31).

For more details, visit the Yale Architecture events page.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Dunegrass Ridge by North House Architects

2026-09-14T15:52:00-04:00

Set in a rolling landscape of dunes and forest, this house in west Michigan creates a private retreat for a Chicago-based couple. Though its site has much to offer—privacy and a landscape full of character—it came with a set of complex challenges. Many of the dunes are protected by environmental regulation and the topography offers no direct vantage point to more distant views.

The design for this house creates opportunities from these site-related constraints. Though the clients had originally envisioned a long barn-like structure, with program arrayed horizontally, the house inverts that orientation, stacking program vertically as a way to keep the building’s footprint tight and the protected dunes untouched. This approach also led to opportunities to elevate living spaces, creating perches with distant views.

Clad in unfinished vertical wood planks and glass, this home is designed to integrate seamlessly and quietly into its environment. A poured-concrete base provides a baseme...

Ground + Sky House by Appleseed Studio

2026-09-14T13:33:00-04:00

Ground + Sky House is a small lodging in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The project takes on two lenses through which to observe the earth: a “sky” volume for weightless living and a “ground” volume for a closer look. This is a direct response to the site, where the house sits perched on a hill above the beautiful Twin Lakes.

Born from the same ethos as APPLESEED itself, the project will provide free stays for local non-profit organizations in addition to private ones.

Hut-spot Pavilion by m²ft architects

2026-09-14T13:29:00-04:00

Biodiversity habitat device.

A modular pavilion bridging human and non-human environments, using woodland prunings to foster biodiversity and offer a shared refuge

HUT-SPOT stands on the edge of the woodland where the vegetation of the Romagna hills in Italy is slowly reclaiming an asphalted clearing, a former tennis court abandoned for decades. A threshold between two worlds with different logics, situated precisely on the boundary between them. It is here, at this point of transition between the man-made and nature reclaiming its space, that the pavilion finds its purpose, gathering prunings and dry branches from the woodland into a modular structure that arranges them to form a ziggurat within the parallelepiped framework — a layering of residues that is both primitive and contemporary.

The name itself embodies a dual nature: ‘hotspot’, a term with both ecological and technological connotations, refers to a place of high biodiversity and a hub of connectivity; ‘hut’ evokes a hut...

Pippal Restaurant by STUDIO BANAA

2026-09-14T13:28:00-04:00

An authentic dining experience that fuses varied traditional dishes through a modern lens.

Taking inspiration from the regional art and architecture of India, the architectural forms follow a similar logic. Here the traditional Indian repeating archway, as seen in many historic buildings and Kalamkari Art, is abstracted as a cascading triangular form materializing in the bar and in ceiling elements.

Located within a narrow space, seating was maximized via perimeter benches and by extending the dining space to the outdoors with a large industrial garage door. The bar becomes a centralized focal point, with its triangular form illuminating like a lantern from all directions.

While each section of the restaurant is individually unique, it is united through a common design language. In this sense, PIPPAL’s identity becomes a unification of spaces rather than as a space broken down into segments.

Five unique projects by ParkFowler Plus: Your Next Employer?

2026-09-14T11:02:00-04:00

Following our previous visit to Syndicate Smith, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Chicago this week to explore the work of ParkFowler Plus.

Founded in 2022, the firm has delivered over 14 million square feet of built work in the Midwest and across the United States. “We believe that good design is more than innovative technology, though we ceaselessly experiment with methods and materials,” the firm says about its approach. “We believe it is more than rigorous research, though we are at the forefront of pedagogy and public learning. We believe it is more than composition, though we are indebted to the formal clarity of modernism. More than anything, we believe good design manages to inspire awe, steward resources, and serve communities.”

Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm is currently hiring for several roles to join their Chicago team. For candidates interested in applying for a position or anybody interested in learning more about the studio’s output, we have roun...

It takes over 12 years to become an architect on average, NCARB data finds

2026-09-14T09:14:00-04:00

The average time to earn an architect license in the United States is 12.3 years, according to new figures released by NCARB. The time taken is down four months from last year’s average of 12.7 years.

In total, there are 39,090 candidates currently pursuing licensure, with 3,488 new architects obtaining a license. The number of people receiving a license is down 6% from last year. Of those who started the licensure path 13 years ago, NCARB adds, 37% had stopped pursuing it as of 2025.

“When viewed by race and ethnicity, there was a significant difference in attrition rates for white candidates compared to their non-white peers,” NCARB notes. “Compared to candidates of color, white candidates who started an NCARB Record in 2012 were far more likely to be licensed in 2025: 54% of white candidates were licensed, compared to 32% of candidates of color.”

Related on Archinect: Number of architects rose last year, but long-term decline predicted. Image courtesy Yan Krukau/Pexels

The largest...

House in Kagurazaka by Takumi Wakui + Riho Wakui Architects

2026-09-13T01:54:00-04:00

A Vertical Machiya in Kagurazaka

"Raising a Vertical Machiya in a Dense Urban Wooden District"

This is a private residence for an architect couple, located in Kagurazaka, Tokyo. Designed as a timber-structure house, it reinterprets the traditional Japanese machiya (townhouse) in a vertical format, allowing the residents to experience abundant natural light and wind even within a densely built urban wooden district.

Historical research into the site's urban context revealed that during the Edo period, the area was developed as samurai residences with narrow-frontage townhouses. Over time, the land was repeatedly subdivided, resulting in the current fine-grained plot layout. Seeking a way to create a spacious living environment on a small site of approximately 33 m² (10 tsubo), the concept emerged of "raising a machiya vertically" to extend the spatial depth upwards rather than horizontally.

Instead of dividing the interior into individual rooms, functions are distributed floor by flo...

10 bedroom spaces we liked this week

2026-09-12T08:02:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Bedroom Spaces.

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↑ Quarry House in Kyiv, Ukraine, by NUTRO Studio; Photo: Andriy Shurpenkov

↑ Butterfly House in Menlo Park, CA, by William Duff Architects; Photo: Matthew Millman

↑ Cinco House in São Paulo, Brazil, by Memola Estúdio; Photo: Fran Parente

↑ Gates Residence in Gates, OR, by Skylab Architecture

↑ Sea Stack in Neskowin, OR, by CBTWO Architects; Photo: Josh Partee

↑ C294 Apartments in Mexico City, Mexico, by Michan Architecture; Photo: Cesar Belio

↑ Apartamento F in Olhão, Portugal, by Tatiana Bento/Sena Architects

↑ Dyes Inlet House in Silverdale, WA, by SHED Architecture & Design; Photo: Rafael Soldi

↑ Castle Hotel Althö...

Get Lectured: USC, Fall '26

2026-09-11T19:40:00-04:00

Today's Get Lectured highlights the Fall '26 public events and lectures at the USC School of Architecture, an Archinect Partner School.

The semester already began with speakers Jose Herrasti, Fernanda Oppermann, and Jerry van Eyck. Coming up next are a special presentation and roundtable with Ma Yansong (Sep 22) and lectures by Scott Uriu (Sep 30), Marina Tabassum (Oct 26), and Yong Ju Lee (Nov 18).

The program also features the newly opened exhibition Paul R. Williams: An Architect Considered (until March 13, 2027), with special events College Night (Sep 24) and The Missing Middle (Nov 19).

A celebration of life for the late award-winning architect and longtime USC adjunct professor Lorcan O’Herlihy (he died in June) takes place on September 14.

The symposia Expanded Borders | Fronteras Expandidas (Oct 16) and Hyperpractice Los Angeles (Oct 20) round out the program.

For more details, visit the USC SoA calendar page.

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New architecture and design competitions: AR Future Projects, BKLYN Design Awards, Floating Table, and Minab Martyrs' Cemetery

2026-09-11T15:00:00-04:00

Bustler's curated picks of new architecture and design competitions this week feature four calls seeking holistic designs for a restaurant in Quintana Roo, Mexico, outstanding projects by Brooklyn designers, visions for a living landscape and memorial space within the Minab School Martyrs' Cemetery in Iran, and future designs currently in construction or still on the drawing board.

For the complete directory of newly listed competitions, click here.

National Academy of Design elects 12 new members for ‘extraordinary contribution’ to art and architecture

2026-09-11T11:21:00-04:00

The National Academy of Design has elected 12 artists and architects from across the United States as National Academicians in the Class of 2026. The individuals were chosen for their “extraordinary contributions to contemporary American art and architecture.”

The annual process for electing National Academicians dates back to 1825, when the National Academy was founded as the first artist- and architect-led organization in the United States. To date, 450+ artists and architects have been elected to the community.

“We are thrilled to welcome these twelve artists and architects as members of the National Academy of Design,” said Gregory Wessner, Executive Director of the National Academy of Design. “Each year, the election of new National Academicians reflects the breadth and diversity of cultural practice in America. As the first class of Academicians to be inducted in our third century, the Class of 2026 beautifully reflects the energy and promise of the Academy’s future.”

The twe...

2,977 lights rebuild the Twin Towers in 9/11 tribute over New York Harbor

2026-09-11T10:00:00-04:00

In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, a public light installation transformed the skies over New York Harbor this week, with 2,977 individual lights rising into the night, one for each life lost in the tragic events that day.

Created with input from 9/11 families, survivors, and responders, the aerial artwork builds on the visual language of the annual Tribute in Light while introducing a more architectural gesture.

Video courtesy New York Foundation of the Arts

Titled 2,977 Lights Over New York Harbor, the installation first gathers the lights into a swirling helix before assembling them into a representation of the Twin Towers at full architectural scale.

Image courtesy New York Foundation of the Arts

The project brings together creative director Addison Mehr, producers Sky Elements, designer Yan Paul Dubbelman, and artistic advisors Studio Drift, Shigeru Ban, and Dean Maltz.

Image courtesy New York Foundation of the Arts

A musical score featuring works...

Gerhard Richter and Selldorf design hexagonal pavilion in Doha with vibrant facade patterns

2026-09-11T09:04:00-04:00

Qatar Museums has announced plans for a permanent pavilion designed by German artist Gerhard Richter in Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art Park. The structure, developed by Richter with Selldorf Architects, is scheduled to open on November 20th, ahead of the inaugural Rubaiya Qatar contemporary art quadrennial.

Image credit: Selldorf Architects

Named the Doha Pavilion: Gerhard Richter, the project has been designed as both a freestanding artwork and a functional setting for a selection of Richter’s paintings and sculptures. The scheme’s hexagonal form comprises six exterior walls clad in printed panels featuring repeating patterns derived from Richter’s experiments with digital image manipulation.

Image credit: Selldorf Architects

The patterns trace their origins to Richter’s 1990 work Abstract Painting (724-4). Beginning in 2010, the artist digitally divided an image of the painting into increasingly narrow vertical strips, eventually producing 8,192 divisions that were mirrored and repeat...

Somers Point Paddle Club by Parnagian Architects

2026-09-10T16:24:00-04:00

The Somers Point Paddle Club transforms a cleared waterfront site into a gathering place organized around recreation, hospitality, and connection to the water. The principal challenge was to accommodate an intensive program while maintaining human scale and architectural clarity on a site shaped by the Bay Front Historic District, coastal regulation, flood requirements, and public waterfront access.

Rather than concentrate the program into a single mass, the project is conceived as a cloister of gabled volumes organized around an elevated pool deck. The strategy draws from Somers Point's maritime history, where boatyards and boathouses formed clusters of simple utilitarian structures. Early studies explored buildings of varying size, height, and orientation, with the spaces between them treated as active architectural "voids." This allows a substantial contemporary program to be experienced as a collection of intimate spaces rather than a singular large building.

Flood requirements be...

Architecture schools are hiring: Explore 15 academic job opportunities featured on Archinect Jobs

2026-09-10T15:50:00-04:00

In this week's edition of our curated career roundups from the Archinect job board, we highlight 13 universities and schools currently seeking faculty, academic leadership, staff, and fellow positions.

Preparing for a new job? Be sure to follow our Archinect Tips series to improve your portfolio, resume, and interviewing skills and increase your chances of getting that next job.

Teaching Positions

University of Southern California seeks an Assistant Professor, Architectural Design in Los Angeles, CA
"The School seeks architectural designers with proven records of research and teaching in design studios and seminars at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The candidate’s practice should represent a robust research agenda, one that engages urgent social, cultural, technological, and/or environmental challenges facing the built environment today. Ideal candidates might integrate rigorous design experimentation with scholarly inquiry, advance architectural discourse through the u...

Casa Malonic by HW Studio

2026-09-10T14:39:00-04:00

Upon arriving at this place, the landscape reveals itself with an intensity that is difficult to describe. The sea becomes an infinite horizon, while a portion of jungle occupies the site with an almost sacred presence. Light, flowers, stones, trees, and countless living beings come together to create an experience that already exists before architecture.

Under these conditions, architecture could not be understood as an object independent from the landscape, but rather as a way of establishing a relationship with it.

The response was to reduce architecture to its essential elements.

A ground.
A roof.
A shadow.

The house seeks the simplicity of una enramada, a simple shelter beneath a canopy. Not as an image of traditional architecture, but as an elemental condition of inhabiting: being beneath a shade, protected from rain and sun, while the landscape lives around it.

The horizon is not a view placed inside the house. It is the condition that conceives the house.

The ground extends t...

Weitzman students win USTA competition to reimagine future of tennis courts

2026-09-10T11:32:00-04:00

Four Master of Architecture students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design have won the Future Courts challenge, a student design competition organized by the United States Tennis Association.

Ann Teng Chua, Teng Long “Tommy” Lee, Liam Niland, and Kotaro Shiraishi were chosen for The Rainwoven Court, a proposal for a tennis facility in Houston designed in response to the city’s heat, humidity, and heavy rainfall.

Richard and Su Rogers’ innovative Wimbledon House given to National Trust

2026-09-10T09:13:00-04:00

The modernist Wimbledon House, designed in 1968 by Richard and Su Rogers, has been given to the National Trust by the Rogers family, securing the influential 20th-century residence for long-term conservation and public access.

The home was gifted to the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2015, and restored by architect Philip Gumuchdjian and landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan.

Image credit: National Trust Images, Megan Taylor

Located at 22 Parkside in southwest London, the house was designed for Richard Rogers’ parents and became an early testing ground for ideas that would later inform projects including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Lloyd’s Building in London.

Comprising two single-story structures, the house uses a prefabricated construction system characterized externally by glass and yellow-painted steel.

Image credit: National Trust Images, Megan Taylor

Conceived as...

Watch Ma Yansong explain the Lucas Museum design LIVE

2026-09-09T18:47:00-04:00

If you're in LA later this month to witness the opening of the much-buzzed-about Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, don't miss this exclusive event presented by the USC School of Architecture: Designing the Lucas Museum with Ma Yansong features the building's architect, explaining the design team's vision for the Exposition Park building. The presentation is followed by a roundtable discussion with the museum's CEO Tracey Bates, architects Thom Mayne and Eric Owen Moss, and moderator Frances Anderton.

The event takes place on opening night, Tuesday, September 22, from 6 to 8 pm, at Bovard Auditorium. Admission is free and open to everyone, but registration is required.

Photo: Hufton+Crow, image courtesy of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

And while you're in town, also check out USC's College Night at Fisher Museum on Thursday, September 24, from 6 pm. The event offers after-hours access to the museum's "Paul R. Williams: An Architect Considered" exhibition for current Southern California ...

Daniel Libeskind named 2026 Praemium Imperiale laureate for Architecture

2026-09-09T13:43:00-04:00

Daniel Libeskind has been named the 2026 Praemium Imperiale laureate for Architecture. The Polish-American architect, born in 1946, is being recognized for his contributions to architecture and urban design spanning more than four decades.

Libeskind, who founded Studio Libeskind in Berlin in 1989 (relocated to New York City in 2003), has built a practice around architecture’s ability to carry cultural and emotional meaning, with his work often characterized by angular geometries and dramatic circulation. Notable projects include the Jewish Museum Berlin, Imperial War Museum North, and Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building.

Jewish Museum Berlin by Studio Libeskind. Image credit: Lovie Tey/Unsplash.

The award places Libeskind among a particularly heavyweight group of previous Architecture laureates, including Frank Gehry, Kenzo Tange, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, SANAA, Shigeru Ban, Diébédo Francis Kéré, and last year's recipient Edua...

Architecture Drawing Prize 2026 calls for entries ahead of September 11 deadline

2026-09-09T12:44:00-04:00

The Architecture Drawing Prize has opened its 2026 call for entries, inviting architects, designers, and students worldwide to submit work ahead of the September 11 deadline.

Now in its ninth edition, the international prize is presented by the World Architecture Festival in partnership with Make Architects and Sir John Soane's Museum, with support from Iris Ceramica Group.

The competition welcomes architectural drawings across a wide range of formats, including conceptual sketches, technical and construction drawings, cutaways, perspective views, and digitally produced work. Entries are considered together rather than divided into separate categories, with multiple winners selected alongside a special award recognizing hand drawing.

This year's jury includes artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, Iris Ceramica Group CEO Federica Minozzi, Make Architects founder Ken Shuttleworth, Lily Jencks, Sir John Soane's Museum Assistant Curator Erin McKellar, and Narinder Singh Sagoo MBE, Head ...