The Architecture Drawing Prize Exhibition – 28 January – 15 February 2026
Winners of the 8th edition of The Architecture Drawing Prize – a partnership between Make Architects, World Architecture Festival and Sir John Soane’s Museum – will go on display in January at Sir John Soane’s Museum.
The annual Architecture Drawing Prize celebrates the significance of drawing as a tool in capturing and communicating architectural ideas. The 2025 winners hail from around the world, including the UK, China, USA, Brazil and the Netherlands, and comprise architects, designers and students.
The exhibition will showcase the winning and commended entries, created in a wide range of media from pencil and ink to digital programmes, and serves as a fantastic entry point into the state of architecture in the present and the exciting new voices to look out for in the future.
They include an integrated memorial to the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, suspended structures in-between mountains, mapping of urban drift, a re-imagined Venetian cityscape, a diptych critiquing social media’s effect on architecture, the underground ecosystem of soil, innovative dry docks and a re-purposing of decommissioned naval parts, a power plant that reverses decades of harmful coal-burning, two views of an American land art piece, a Brazilian art gallery, the transformation of industrial landscapes into agricultural systems, a Bhutan waterscape that tackles water crises, and a Bangladeshi village adapted to climate change.
The works on display, which span all forms of architectural designs, from conceptual to technical, testify to the skill, ambition and creativity that characterise architectural drawing today.
The judges of the 2025 prize were Founder of Make Architects, Ken Shuttleworth; Artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell; Founder of Lily Jencks Studio, Lily Jencks; Iris Ceramica Group CEO, Federica Minozzi; Head of Design
Communications at Foster + Partners, Narinder Sagoo; Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum, Erin McKellar; and WAF Programme Director and Chair of the jury, Paul Finch.
Erin McKellar, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum, said:
“This year, for the first time, The Architecture Drawing Prize decided not to consider drawings in category silos. This resulted in an exciting group of entries, many of which bridge drawing methods and media. The exhibition brings together these high-impact works, displayed across our first-floor galleries, allowing visitors to see and be inspired by the breadth of contemporary architectural drawing.”
This exhibition follows the World Architecture Festival in Miami which showcased the winners in November 2025.
The 2025 sponsor is Iris Ceramica Group with ArchDaily and Dezeen as media partners.
The full list of winners (in alphabetical order)
Anna Pang – The Tales of Liminality
CJ Lim – Gossips: Phantoms of Deconstructivism and Postmodernism
Danilo Zamboni – São Paulo State Art Gallery
Erhang Wang – The Lost Boys: It’s OK to Cry – Composite Drawing (Plan, Section, Perspective, and Axonometric)
Holly McLean – Hackney Power Plant Sectional Isometric
Inside Outside – Living Soil
Jason Wang – Dockyard X
Marie-Louise Raue – Two views
Smout Allen – Super-Mega-Ruralistic
Oscar Ssu Kuo Lo – Architecture in Translation
Sanjidah Chowdhury – Shilpogram: A Crafter & Village
Tom Wood – A Working Monument
Xinyi Liu and Christine Wacta – Spatialization and Memory Mapping: an Urban Redesign
through the Lens of Savannah Train Station
Yichen Li – Himalayas Frontline: A Waterscape against Climate Change
Yixuan Liu and Yilin Zhang – Almost Forgotten