The World Architecture Festival invited entries of all types and forms, from conceptual, technical or construction drawings to cutaways, perspective views, speculative scenarios and transgressive formats. Entries were open to architects, designers and students and evaluated by a professional jury on technical skill, originality of approach and the ability to convey an architectural idea. Acknowledging the growing influence of AI tools and techniques as well as the evolving nature of drawing itself, the awards are judged on an overall basis rather than in category silos. The special prize for hand-drawing, established to recall the original spirit of the awards, was awarded to Ross Cameron for his pencil drawing of the scaffolding that has surrounded Glasgow School of Art since the fires of 2014 and 2018, “capturing the tension between permanence and impermanence in a structure intended to be temporary.”
From memory and housing to addiction, climate, myth, fiction, perception and public consultation, the drawings recognized this year reflect a broad range of subjects, scales and techniques. In addition to Ross Cameron’s drawing, works engaging with memory and history include Ioana Enache’s The People’s Palace, an archive of spoken testimony within the foundations of the unfinished Romanian Opera, and Bojana Sićović’s Urban Scenography, which examines social housing in New Belgrade. Javier García Goicoechea’s In the Eye of the Storm uses six floor plans to trace the progression of addiction through the spaces of a casino, offering a psychological analysis.
현대의 기후 및 생태 우려가 Annabelle Tan의 Post-Tropical Landscapes에서 드러나며, 싱가포르를 위한 덩굴이 덮인 콘크리트 구조물을 보여주고, Laurie Chetwood의 Re-enchanted City는 버려진 대도시의 재정착을 상상합니다. Alexandra Kazandzhyan의 Floating Feast, 한 개의 탁자로 형성된 떠다니는 지구랏과 Gary Polk의 Gilgamesh, 건축 파편의 괴수 같으면서도 독특한 구성은 드로잉의 추정적이고 환상적인 가능성을 가리킵니다. 이 선정은 연구 기반의 예술 실천도 포함하며, 예를 들어 Michael Chapman의 49패널로 구성된 허구의 Fox River 감옥 지도와 Ben Johnson의 중력 없는 통로를 탐구한 드로잉과 페인팅 작업, 그리고 대중 협의를 위해 제작된 Jarrell Goh의 Cambridge Business Park 마스터플랜도 포함합니다.
Pour cette édition, les dessins ont été sélectionnés par Ken Shuttleworth, fondateur de Make Architects; les artistes Ben Langlands et Nikki Bell; Lily Jencks, présidente exécutive de la Jencks Foundation au The Cosmic House; Federica Minozzi, directrice générale du Iris Ceramica Group; Narinder Singh Sagoo MBE, responsable des communications design chez Foster + Partners; Erin McKellar, conservatrice assistante des expositions au Sir John Soane’s Museum; et Paul Finch, directeur du programme WAF et président du jury. Les dessins sélectionnés seront également exposés lors du World Architecture Festival, qui se tiendra au Broward County Convention Center à Fort Lauderdale, en Floride, du 18 au 20 novembre 2026.
