A foundation recognising and rewarding architecture’s potential to act as tangible agents of change.
Each year, the OBEL jury establishes a focus for the award. Emphasis is placed on a focus that forms dialogue on emerging agendas that recognise the importance, fragility and challenges facing our societies and the built environment.
Focus
Systems' Hack
Calling on architecture to critically engage with and intervene in the systems that underpin contemporary society — from infrastructure and energy to food, water, education and information.
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Ready Made
Rethinking modes of production, value and regeneration, and prioritising what already exists while challenging the notion of architectural aesthetics.
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Architectures With
Questioning the role of the architect and exploring radical new ways of sharing and giving agency to all stakeholders.
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Adaptation
Collectively responding to the ever-growing vulnerability of people and planet.
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Emissions
Eliminating CO2 emissions from the built environment.
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Cities
Offering new and daring solutions to the challenges of urbanisation.
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Mending
Repairing, healing, and making our environment, in its many facets, whole again.
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Well-being
Touching and inspiring our senses and emotions.
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Initiatives
OBEL supports initiatives, such as fellowships, events, and publications, aligned with the overall values and mission of the foundation.
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