The Architecture Drawing Prize (TADP) celebrates and showcases the art and skill of architectural drawing in multiple formats. Established in 2017, the Prize has become a leading international platform for discourse around architectural drawing with both shortlisted and winning entries exhibited at Sir John Soane's Museum in London.
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The Architecture Drawing Prize, a collaboration between Make Architects, Sir John Soane's Museum, and World Architecture Festival, is now accepting entries for its 2025 competition.
In recognition of the evolving nature of architectural drawing, including the growing influence of AI tools and techniques, this year’s awards will be judged on an overall basis rather than in category silos. There will be multiple winners and a special prize for hand-drawing to mark the initial inspiration for the awards.
By entering you have the chance to have your work displayed at the world-renowned Sir John Soane's Museum in early 2026. Plus, winners will gain international recognition at the World Architecture Festival 2025 in Miami.
Judges include Make Architects founder, Ken Shuttleworth; acclaimed artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell; Lily Jencks of Lily Jencks Studio; and Foster + Partners' head of design communications, Narinder Sagoo. Don't miss this incredible opportunity to elevate your architectural drawings to a global stage!
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The Architecture Drawing Prize
The Architecture Drawing Prize
In recognition of the evolving nature of architectural drawing — including the growing influence of AI tools and techniques — this year’s awards will be judged on an overall basis rather than in category silos.
What we therefore require:
- Title of entry
- Name of entrant
- Project description outlining the intention/context of the drawing (up to 150 words)
- Means/method of production (to include details of digital programmes used, and how AI has been deployed if relevant)
- Dimensions of the original
We welcome drawings of every description.
Please include only one drawing/series for the subject entered. If there are additional subjects, please submit additional separate entries.
Are you under 30 or a student? Please use the discount code TADPUNDER30 towards the end of the entry process to enter for just £49!
Entry guidelines
Entry requirements
In recognition of the changing nature of drawing production, particularly as the result of AI, this year’s awards will be judged on an overall basis rather than in category silos.
What we therefore require:
- Title of entry
- Name of entrant
- Project description outlining the intention/context of the drawing (up to 150 words)
- Means/method of production (to include details of digital programmes used, and how AI has been deployed if relevant)
- Dimensions of the original We welcome drawings of every description.
We welcome drawings of every description.
Entry deadline: 12 September 2025
Standard entry fee: £99
Entry fee for under 30's and students: £49
Who can enter?
The Prize is open to all architects, designers and students.
How is the Prize judged?
Judges will meet in person during October 2025 to review the drawings.
The judges will be looking for:
- Technical skill
Success in conveying a design idea, be it a general concept or a specific proposal
- Originality of approach
- Quality of drawing irrespective of the project it may represent (built, unbuilt or purely conceptual)
- Extent to which the drawing makes a proposition about architecture, rather than simply recording it
Am I required to submit the original artwork?
To enter the Prize you need to upload an image of your drawing to the online entry system. You do not need to supply the original artwork.
For the overall winner and other winners
All winning entries will be displayed at the Sir John Soane's Museum dedicated Drawing Prize exhibition in London. Selected winners may be displayed at the World Architecture Festival 2025 in Miami this November. Dependent on the type of drawing, winners may be required to send their original drawing.
The 2023 webinar
The 2023 winners
The 2022 winners
Hybrid
Overall and Hybrid Category Winner
Fitzroy Food Institute
Samuel Wen and Michael Ren
'Fitzroy Food Institute stands out for its well-considered and subtle use of colour. It’s a very accessible drawing looking over a shared meal at a table; yet it is full of architectural interest featuring not only a plan, but sections and elevations as well as detail. A conceptually original and genuinely delightful entry.'Ken Shuttleworth, founder, Make Architects
Hand-Drawn Category Winner
The Spirit of Mountain
Weicheng Ye
‘This is a drawing of great delicacy which highlights the difference between a tall-building aesthetic, and the possibility of disrupting it in a creative way via the insertion of nature as artistic intervention. A very worthy winner.’
Paul Finch, Director, WAF
Digital
Digital Category Winner
The Wall
Anton Markus Pasing
'The Wall fills the view with a golden elevation: expansive and richly complex, it appears both vertical and horizontal, before us and below us, a terrain of construction and sedimented accumulation. It is not a border or a barrier, it is a space itself, a place of habitation, a record of social interaction. The wall is like time, it is history in the making.'
Artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell
Archive
Drawing prize archive
2021 winners and shortlist
Take a look at the 2021 winners and shortlist drawings across its three categories: Hand-drawn, Digital and Hybrid.View the 2020 virtual exhibition
During the pandemic, the usual exhibition of drawings couldn’t take place at the Sir John Soane’s Museum. Make Architects, therefore, produced a virtual gallery of all the previous winners to be enjoyed by audiences at any time all across the world.
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