2025 overall winner: Shilpogram: A Crafter’s Village by Sanjidah Chowdhury
In partnership with Make Architects and Sir John Soane’s Museum, World Architecture Festival (WAF) announces the call for entries for the ninth edition of The Architecture Drawing Prize, sponsored by Iris Ceramica Group. Now a leading international competition, the Prize attracts entries from architects, designers and students across the world. A selection of winning entries are exhibited at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, with selected works also displayed at the World Architecture Festival.
In the spirit of work by great architects of the past, from Palladio and John Soane to Le Corbusier and Cedric Price, The Architecture Drawing Prize is a platform for reflecting on and exploring how drawing continues to advance the art of architecture today. It embraces the creative use of digital tools and digitally produced renderings, while recognising the enduring importance of hand drawing.
In recognition of the evolving nature of architectural drawing, including the growing influence of AI tools and techniques, the awards will be judged on an overall basis rather than in category silos. There will be multiple winners and a special prize for hand drawing to mark the initial inspiration for the awards. WAF invites entries of all types and forms – from conceptual to technical or construction drawings, cutaways or perspective views – and anything in between. Drawings will be evaluated based on their technical skill, originality of approach and ability to convey an architectural idea. Drawings can be entirely speculative or relate to real life projects.
The judging panel for 2026 is:
- Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, Artists
- Federica Minozzi, Group CEO, Iris Ceramica Group
- Ken Shuttleworth, Founder, Make Architects
- Lily Jencks, Executive Chair, Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House
- Erin McKellar, Assistant Curator, Exhibitions, Sir John Soane’s Museum
- Narinder Singh Sagoo MBE, Head of Design Communications, Foster + Partners
- Paul Finch, WAF Programme Director and chair of the jury
Judges meet in person to review submissions and assess them against criteria including technical skill, originality of approach and the ability to convey an architectural idea, whether the drawing relates to a built, unbuilt or purely conceptual project.
