Zumtobel Group Award 2021 : Call for entries

The Zumtobel Group Award honours outstanding and innovative architectural and engineering performances in sustainable solutions, and pioneering social and humanitarian initiatives and research projects in the built environment that make a notable contribution to a liveable, sustainable and equitable future.

The Zumtobel Group is once again calling for entries for its international architecture award, held in 2021. The public call for submissions for the Zumtobel Group Award—Innovations for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment is still open for projects to be submitted until May 15, 2021. The international architecture award—offered in the two categories Buildings and Urban Developments & Initiatives—aims to promote pioneering concepts and developments leading to greater humanity and sustainability in the built environment and the way it is designed. For the first time, the 2021 award also includes a Special Prize for Innovation. As in its preceding years, the Award is curated by Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin.

Architecture and engineering firms, urban and landscape planners, universities and technology companies, NGOs, and public or private initiatives are invited to submit their current projects. The public online application form is available here.

With the architecture award, the Zumtobel Group addresses core issues of our age, such as how best to deal with our finite resources, opportunities for repurposing existing buildings, sustainable development concepts for urban and rural space, utilisation of new materials and innovative processes, and the central question of humane living conditions.

Award categories & prizes
Buildings: 50,000 EUR / Urban Developments & Initiatives: 50,000 EUR / Special Prize for Innovations: 20,000 EUR

Participation is free.

Initiator
The Austrian based Zumtobel Group.

Curator
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss and Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin

International expert jury
Liz Diller, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, USA / Alfred Felder, CEO Zumtobel Group, Austria / Francine Houben, Mecanoo, Netherlands / Zhang Ke, ZAO/standardarchitecture, China / Dorte Mandrup, Dorte Mandrup A/S, Denmark / Tobias Nolte, Certain Measures, Germany/USA / Werner Sobek, Werner Sobek AG, Germany / Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Snøhetta, Norway

Timeline
Online submissions: Until May 15 via this link
Final Jury: November 2021
Announcement: March 2022
Award Ceremony: March 2022

Contact:Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin, Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss / Hans-Jürgen Commerell
T +49 (30) 282 70 15 / zumtobelgroupaward@aedes-arc.de