The 2015 global award for sustainable architecture

Professor and architect Jana Revedin established in 2007, through the LOCUS Foundation in partnership with the Cité de l´Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, an annual honor given to the quests, solutions and projects of architects and urban planners around the world for sustainability through research, writing, social and environmental activism, academic activity or experimental design. The recipients of the prize are 5 architects nominated and selected by a jury chaired by founder Jana Revedin and including Marie-Hélène Contal, IFA Paris; Christophe Pourtois, CIVA Brussels; Spela Hudnik, Ljubljana International Architecture Biennale; prof. arch. Benno Albrecht, IUAV in Venice and Kristiina Nivari, Museum of Finnish Architecture in Helsinki. In 2015, the jury was joined by Salma Samar Damluji (Global Award 2012).

The jury decided on the following list of winners:

1. School of Architecture of the University of Talca, Chile, represented by the Dean, prof. arh. Juan Román Pérez

2. Santiago Cirugeda, Recetas Urbanas (Urban Recipes office), Seville, Spain

3. Jan Gehl, Gehl Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark, known to the Romanian public through two of his books translated into Romanian

4. Rotor, Brussels, Belgium, architecture office represented by Lionel Devlieger and Maarten Gielen

5. Marco Casagrande, Casagrande Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland/ Taiwan

The prizes will be awarded in May 2016 at a conference in Paris (Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine) and the deadline for the 2016 edition is October 31.

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