Words Gabrielle de la Cruz and The Architecture Drawing Prize
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Launched by the World Architecture Festival in 2017, The Architecture Drawing Prize is an avenue for celebrating and showcasing the art and skill of drawing and its continuing relevance to architecture today. It highlights the lasting importance of hand drawing while openly exploring the creative use of digital tools and digitally-produced renderings in the depiction of built space.
Last year’s overall winner is Dafni Filippa’s “Fluid Strada – Flood-responsive landscape performance,” which is a hybrid drawing combining different rendering techniques. Over the years, a growing number of Filipino creatives have joined the WAF, with Filipino-French artist Clement Laurencio bagging the 2020 Architecture Drawing Prize for his Apartment #5 drawing, a Labyrinth and Repository of Spatial Memories, and Pampanga-based architectural designer and artist Eldry John Infante getting shortlisted for his graphite rendition of Renzo Piano’s ‘The Bubble’ last year.
Drawings of all types and forms are welcome, from conceptual to technical drawings, construction drawings, cutaways or perspective views, and anything in between. Architects, designers, and students from all over the world are encouraged to participate in this edition in the following categories: Hand-drawn, Digital, and Hybrid (a combination of the two).
The entries can either be entirely suggestive or related to actual projects. The 2022 judges namely Sir John Soane’s Museum Director, Bruce Boucher; artist Pablo Bronstein; Lily Jencks Studio Founder, Lily Jencks; artists Ben Langlands & Nikki Bell; Iris Ceramica Group CEO, Federica Minozzi; Foster + Partners Senior Partner, Narinder Sagoo; and MakeArchitects Founder, Ken Shuttleworth, will evaluate all the submissions based on their technical skill, originality of approach, and ability to convey an architectural idea.
WAF will curate the entries along with this edition’s partners, Make Architects and Sir John Soane’s Museum. Bruce Boucher, Director of Sir John Joane’s Museum, says that the Architecture Drawing Prize “has become a showcase for the best in contemporary draughtsmanship across media, which remains central to architectural practice today.” The museum will host the Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition from February 8 to May 7, 2023, showcasing the 2022 overall winner and selected winning and shortlisted entries.
Winners will be decided in October and will be put on view at the World Architecture Festival in Lisbon from November 30 to December 2, 2022. Category winners will be given complimentary tickets, including a panel discussion featuring a number of award judges and a gala dinner award presentation ceremony.
With WAF, Kanto supports all aspects of creation, discourse, and innovation activities like the Architecture Drawing Prize fosters. •
Read the official announcement here.
