Architects Anne Lacaton and Suad Amiry named 2025 Jane Drew Prize for Architecture and Ada Louise Huxtable Prize winners

This year’s winners of the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture and Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture have been announced by the UK-based publications The Architectural Review and Architects’ Journal as part of their annual W Awards program.

The 13th edition of the Awards saw the Anne Lacaton, co-founder of Lacaton & Vassal, chosen as the 2025 Jane Drew Prize winner. Her contributions to equity practices in the field led the citation, along with a commitment to design excellence that was highlighted by the firm’s multistage Palais de Tokyo renovation and other works that are “defining what it means to build responsibly in the 21st century.” 

Speaking of her accomplishments, Manon Mollard, Editor of The Architectural Review said: "Far from pretensions to stardom, Anne Lacaton’s practice is considered and audacious, with a clarity of purpose that must be celebrated. With Jean-Philippe Vassal, she places residents and users at the centre, and designs buildings that are both frugal and generous. Their denunciation of demolition as madness, and advocacy for reuse and transformation is an urgent message for all architects, clients and politicians."

Along with her husband and practice partner Jean-Philippe Vassal, Lacaton has also won the 2021 Pritzker Prize, 2023 Soane Medal, and several other major awards since entering practice in the 1980s. She was joined by the 2025 Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture winner Suad Amiry, the founder of a nonprofit organisation dedicated to historic preservation and the reuse of buildings in Palestine.

Through her work with RIWAQ (or the 'Centre for Architectural Conservation'), Amiry has contributed to the architectural profession through important documentation of the physical history of the Palestinian people. In particular, it has sought to document rural village architecture around the West Bank and outside the Gaza Strip since its 1991 founding. Those efforts have been honored with the 2012 Curry Stone Design Prize and 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture since then. 

Eleanor Beaumont, the Deputy Editor of The Architectural Review,  states of her mission: "In light of continuing and increasing violence and destruction in Palestine, Suad Amiry’s commitment to the restoration and reuse of historical Palestinian structures is vital. Amiry’s varied practice, combining both advocacy and writing, teaches spatial practitioners to imagine a world beyond the rubble."