Shigeru Ban - Hualin temporary elementary school - Photo © Li Jun

The UIA Member Sections are invited to submit nominations for the UIA Gold Medal and the five UIA prizes until 31 March 2014. The winners will be announced in Durban, at the next UIA Congress.The UIA Gold Medal is the most prestigious prize for an architect, attributed by architects.

The five UIA prizes recognise excellence in five specific architectural domains: urban and territory planning, innovation, teaching, improving habitats and community structures, and solutions to aide the world’s most impoverished populations.These truly international prizes demonstrate the UIA’s values: professionalism, culturaldiversity, independence and integrity.

• The Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for town planning and improving the quality of public spaces and landscapes
• The Auguste Perret Prize for advanced technology, innovation, and implementation of green and energy-efficient structures and materials
• The Jean Tschumi Prize for excellence in architectural education, criticism or architectural history, all of which contribute to high quality architecture
• The Sir Robert Matthew Prize for the amelioration of habitats and public spaces in the interest of harmonious and cooperative development
• The Vassilis Sgoutas Prize for architecture serving the most impoverished and for the conception of inventive solutions for reducing poverty and indigence.

These five prizes are named for the past Presidents of the UIA whose fame was founded on their ethics as well as on their mastery of their particular discipline. Candidatures suggested by the UIA member sections or Council members should be uploaded to the UIA website before 31 March 2014.  The jury, composed of the UIA Bureau members, will meet on 5 May 2014, in Melbourne, Australia.

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