Twenty-four schools of thought.
One standard: the work itself.
Entries are anonymised and scored by a 24-member international panel of professors and practitioners spanning four continents — from Los Angeles and São Paulo to Helsinki, Rome, Abuja and Tuskegee.
Jury members — 2026 cycle
Each juror reviews entries independently; scores are combined across the panel, so no single perspective decides an outcome.
Aaron Gensler
Georgina Huljich
Arthur Hunold Lara
Laura Zubillaga
Giuseppe Ciorra
Mostafa Alani
Muhammad Isa Bala
Oluwafemi Akande
Basil Agoha
15 more jurors — announcing soon
Judged on merit — across every scale and style.
From city blocks to single rooms, the panel reads every entry through the same four criteria.
Judged blind. On purpose.
Anonymised entries
Sheets and briefs carry a Registration ID only — no studio names, no logos. Jurors evaluate the work without knowing whose it is.
Independent scoring
Jurors score separately before results are combined, preventing any single voice from dominating the panel.
Conflict recusal
Jurors do not score entries where a professional or institutional connection exists.
Global panel
A 24-member panel across the Americas, Europe and Africa reads each cycle through genuinely different architectural cultures.
300+ jurors across previous editions
The 2026 panel continues a jury tradition that has included academics and practitioners from UCLA, Aalto University, the Manchester School of Architecture, Qatar University, SUTD Singapore, the University of Arizona, and the studio of Satoshi Okada — among more than 300 jurors across twenty editions.