Global Award for Sustainable Architecture reveals five winners for 2024

The results of the 18th Global Award for Sustainable Architecture have been announced by the German architect and UNESCO Education and Research Commission delegate Jana Revedin. 

The award was created in 2006 to promote "innovative thinking" around the sustainable practice of architecture globally. Early recipients included Pritzker Prize winners Francis Kéré, Alejandro Aravena, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, and the late B.V. Doshi. 

This year's cohort includes an elect assortment of their fellow colleagues whose bodies of work are exemplary of the theme "Architecture is Education."

The five winners for 2024 are:

• Iyas Shahim and Wesam Al Asali, founders of the IWLAB laboratory (Syria)
• Andrés Jaque, from the Office of Political Innovation, Dean of Columbia GSAPP (Spain/United States)
• Marina Tabassum, architect (Bangladesh)
• Ciro Pirondi, co-founder L'Escola da Cidade (Brazil)
• Klaus K Loenhart, architect and landscape architect and director of the Institute of Architecture and Landscape at TU Graz (Austria/Germany)