Present your project at the World Architecture Festival in Lisbon

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Lisbon is where the ten regional winners will meet the jury and present their projects in front of a live audience of architects, fellow students of architecture and architectural media. Winners are teams selected from the following regions: 1) Western Europe, 2) Eastern Europe and the Middle East, 3) the Americas, 4) Asia and Oceania, and 5) Africa. Based on the presentations, the jury will select two global winners, one for each of the categories: ‘Daylight in Buildings’ and ‘Daylight Investigations’.

Enter the awards to attend the World Architecture Festival to present your work!

Friends of Architecture
The International VELUX Award will connect you with your student peers, who have been working on daylight in architecture.Together you will share the opportunity to have your work evaluated by the acclaimed jury in person. Presenting your work at WAF is a chance to hear the jury’s perspective and gain insight into the industry. Most of all, you will be able to form lasting bonds with new friends from all over the world who are passionate about daylight in architecture.

“When students come to Lisbon and stand in front of jury to tell their daylight story and to listen to jury’s comment and feedback – it will be of a tremendous importance to their professional development and future career,” says International VELUX Award programme manager, Per Arnold Andersen.

“The International VELUX Award brings students from all over the world together on the topic of daylight, and after having worked on their projects in closed circles of their teammates and teachers in their schools, students really appreciate being in the same room together with other selected teams, and present their project to the esteemed jury,” he explains.

“The success of being selected from hundreds of submitted projects is already there, setting up the celebratory tone, even before the global winners are chosen! So, we can certainly say that in Lisbon, there will be a room of future architects that will create the light of tomorrow.”

Join the Architecture Community
As chosen regional winners of International VELUX Award joining the World Architecture Festival, you will become part of the architecture community, share your expertise and learn from your fellow participants.

Now in its 13th year, WAF is the world’s largest architecture festival and live awards competition. It is the only global architecture festival that combines awards, seminars and networking. WAF awards are the only awards where architects pitch their work to a panel of expert judges and their peers – all live at the festival.

The visitors have a chance to watch the presentations from over 500 finalists, hear the judges’ critique and understand the intricate details of some of the best architecture projects in the world today. There will be around 150 jury members evaluating the awards, and the expected audience of 2000 architects from around the world.

World Architecture Festival 2020 will take place from the 2-4 December at the Feira Internacional de Lisboa in Portugal. You can find out more about the festival at their website.