The Architecture Drawing Prize (TADP) celebrates and showcases the art and skill of architectural drawing in three categories: hand-drawn, digital and hybrid. Established in 2017 by Make Architects, 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.

ABOUT THE PRIZE

2024 will be a fallow year for the prize and will be returning in 2025.

The Architecture Drawing Prize is a collaboration between Make, Sir John Soane’s Museum and the World Architecture Festival (WAF). The annual drawing competition, sponsored by Iris Ceramica Group since 2022, receives entries from around the world across its three categories: hand-drawn, digital and hybrid. Past and present judges include Make founder Ken Shuttleworth, artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, Lily Jencks of Lily Jencks Studio, and Foster + Partners’ head of design communications Narinder Sagoo.

The 2023 winning and shortlisted drawings were exhibited at Sir John Soane’s Museum from 31 January–3 March, 2024. The overall winner and category winners were also displayed at World Architecture Festival 2023.

THE 2023 WEBINAR

THE 2023 WINNERS

Overall and Hybrid Category winner
‘(Re)membering the See Monster’ by Eldry John Infante

This drawing renders the transformation of a defunct oil platform and welcomes discussions that go beyond a structure’s physicality.

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Hand-drawn winner
‘Grundtvig’ by Ben Johnson

The ink drawing is inspired by the 1920s Grundtvig Church in Copenhagen made using six million bricks.

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Digital Category Winner
'The Archatographic Map of the Incomplete Landscape on Pedra Branca’ by Eugene Tan

‘The Archatographic Map of the Incomplete Landscape on Pedra Branca’ explores the vulnerability of our planet, more specifically in Singapore.

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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

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.