​​Bernard Tschumi wins the 2024 Grand Prix d’Architecture

Bernard Tschumi’s inspirational five-decade career in building has garnered the coveted Grand Prix d’Architecture honor for 2024. The Prize was announced earlier this month by the French Académe des Beaux-Arts in Paris in recognition of the overall breadth and body of his work, which includes more than sixty realized designs. 

The list of works by the Swiss-born Tschumi, who also won the Grand Prix National d'Architecture in 1996, that were mentioned by the jury included the Parc de la Villette in Paris, Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing, and the Acropolis Museum in Athens. His academic work and later projects like the Tianjin Binhai Science Museum in China and The Haagse Passage (De Passage) in the Netherlands were also cited for their design excellence and ability to "emphasize the relationship between concept and context and between space and event."

Tschumi celebrated his 80th birthday in January. His win follows Christian de Portzamparc (2023), Henri Ciriani (2022), and Álvaro Siza Vieira (2019) as the fourth winner of the new Prize. The honor will be conferred on December 4th under the Dome of the Palais de l'Institut de France.