Artist Credit: Kenta Miyakawa
AIP 38 Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize Winner

Architecture in Perspective 39

Deadline for professional and Student Competitions
May 1st, 2025 11:59pm est

About the Competition

ASAI invites its members—professional and student illustrators from around the globe—to take part in its annual Architecture in Perspective (AIP) Competition—an annual juried competition that recognizes the world’s best architectural illustrations. Submitted artworks may be created in any 2D medium and may include drawings, paintings, sketches, renderings, and digital imagery.

The Competition’s top award—the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize—is considered to be one of the highest professional honors in architectural illustration.

Selected artists will be announced on the website and awards will be presented during the Conference. All award-winning entries and honorable mentions will be published online and in a commemorative AIP Catalog.

Each year, to challenge our members to explore the evolution of the profession and the art form, we designate a Special Theme. The theme this year is:

ARTficial Intelligence”

Illustrators are free to interpret this theme in any way they choose—and submissions may or may not take advantage of AI in their creation. But questions arise. Does AI require human intervention before ART can be created? Is all ART artificial? (Both words have the same Latin root, after all) Do you have a strong premonition about the world that AI is leading us into—professionally or generally?

Eligibility

AIP 39 is open to current 2025 professional and student members of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators. 

Competition Sections & Categories

AIP consists of two Competitions, held on separate days, with separate Juries: The AIP Professional Competition and the AIP Student Competition.

The Professional Competition

The Professional Competition contains two Sections: The Rendering Section and The Observational Section.

The Rendering Section focuses on subject matter that is unbuilt, such as proposed buildings and environments, self-commissioned works, or imaginary scenarios. 

Illustrations may fall under the Formal Category (finished images such as formal renderings and presentation illustrations) or the Informal Category (sketches and gestural images).

Also included in the Rendering Section is a special Thematic Category that is redefined every year. This year’s theme is “ARTificial Intelligence.” 

The Observational Section includes field sketches, plein-air drawings, and depictions of architectural subjects that are wholly existent at the time the work is executed.

The Student Competition

The AIP Student Competition is open to student ASAI members who are registered in a full-time academic program. Submitted work may include Formal and Informal renderings, and illustrations of built, unbuilt and imaginary architectural works.

Awards & Prizes — Professional Competition​

The Professional Competition jury selects the finest architectural illustrations from a wide range of media, rendering styles and architectural subject matter for the exhibition and inclusion in the catalog. Awards are presented at the annual conference.
Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize

For the rendering unanimously selected by the jury as the Best in Show.

Best Formal Rendering

For the most outstanding Formal illustration.

  • Free one-year ASAI membership
  • Commemorative award certificate
  • Featured in exhibition and catalog
Best Informal Rendering

For the most outstanding Informal illustration or sketch.

  • Free one-year ASAI membership
  • Commemorative award certificate
  • Featured in exhibition and catalog
Best Observational Illustration

For the most outstanding Observational illustration.

  • Free one-year ASAI membership
  • Commemorative award certificate
  • Featured in exhibition and catalog
Thematic Award

Submissions are judged according to artistic skill, architectural relevance, originality, impact, and responsiveness to the theme, regardless of artistic medium: traditional, digital, AI, or other.

Winners Receive 

  • Commemorative award certificate
  • Featured in exhibition and catalog
Juror Awards

For the illustration that each juror selects as their personal favorite, three awards are presented in The Rendering Section and three in the Observational Section.

Winners Receive

  • Commemorative award certificate
  • Featured in exhibition and catalog
Awards of Excellence

Outstanding entries selected for exhibition and inclusion in the catalog will receive an Award of Excellence certificate.

Members’ Choice Award

For the most outstanding architectural illustration as voted by ASAI members, online.

  • Free one-year ASAI membership
  • Commemorative award certificate
  • Featured in exhibition and catalog

Awards & Prizes — Student Competition

The Student Competition jury selects the finest architectural illustrations from a wide range of media, rendering styles and architectural subject matter for the exhibition and inclusion in the catalog. Awards are presented at the annual Conference.

Henry Sorenson Student Award

For the most outstanding student illustration.

Student Juror Awards

For the illustration that each juror selects as their personal favorite. Three awards are presented

  • Juror’s Certificate of Merit
  • Featured in exhibition and catalog
Student Awards of Distinction
 

For illustrations selected for inclusion in the exhibition and catalog.

  • Certificate of Distinction
  • Featured in exhibition and catalog

Meet the Jurors

Professional Competition Jurors

BILL BUTLER

William Butler, a distinguished architect and partner at Pelli Clarke & Partners, has led large-scale cultural projects and master planning for over four decades across the US, Europe, and Asia. His notable works include Google’s Austin campus (Block 185), the Tokyo American Club, and the Minneapolis Public Library. Butler’s approach emphasizes collaboration, sustainability, and context-sensitive design, aiming to create transformative spaces. He taught freehand drawing at Yale School of Architecture for 14 years and incorporates this technique in his daily design process. Butler’s passion for architecture is reflected in his commitment to creating “joyful places that transform the way people experience the world,” enhancing communities globally through humanist design.

 

TOMOYUKI TANAKA

photo: Kioku Keizo
田中智之 たなかともゆき
建築家・早稲田大学教授
 

Tomoyuki Tanaka is an architect and a professor at Waseda University.

He has participated in numerous exhibitions, including “Civil Engineering Exhibition,” at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, in 2016. He also held a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto in 2019. His work has appeared in many major publications, including “Hyper Architectural Perspective Drawings: 26 Hand-Drawing Techniques for Manipulating Spatial Shapes” (Gakugei Shuppansha, 2021).

SEAN SCENSOR

As Senior Partner at Safdie Architects, Sean Scensor, AIA, combines his design expertise, advanced building technologies knowledge, and practice insight to drive many of the firm’s most significant projects. Guided by the belief that architects have an ethical responsibility to the public, Sean is committed to realizing designs with a strong sense of community, humane livability, and connection to nature. Sean has directed transformative projects such as the Albert Einstein Education and Research Center, Habitat Qinhuangdao, the Virasat-e-Khalsa Museum, Salt Lake City Public Library, and the Telfair Museum of Art.

Student Competition Jurors

HERA KIM

Hera Kim 김헤라 is a Creative Director, AI Designer based in Seoul, South Korea and is the founder of TINKERTAILOR Studio, where she merges art, nature, and technology. She is an AI Prompt Engineer and Art Director for projects in Paris, Dubai, and Milan. She has collaborated with Christie’s, & Other Stories, SpaceNK, Charles & Keith, and the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Recognized as one of the top 10 AI designers in 2023, Hera has received awards from the Korean Ministry of Culture and the Maekyung NFT Digital Art Contest.

NARINDER SAGOO

Narinder Sagoo is a visionary architectural artist and Senior Partner at Foster + Partners. With over 27 years of experience working alongside Lord Foster, Narinder’s unique drawing skills have been instrumental in illustrating and communicating architectural visions for numerous projects, including 30 St Marys Axe, Wembley National Stadium, and Apple Park in California. His unique role as an architect and artist, bringing value in conceptual design and strategic design direction.

Renowned for his perspective drawings, Narinder has produced over 15,000 illustrations for more than 2,200 architectural projects, many of which have been showcased at the Royal Academy of Arts and exhibited internationally. His ability to visualize the unbuilt world and capture its atmosphere has earned him recognition as one of the finest architectural artists of his generation, according to The Architecture Club.

JANE GREALY

Grealy has enjoyed a successful career as an architectural illustrator since 1979, whose work is based on observation of both existing and imagined buildings, landscapes and spaces. She was the founding president of the Australian Association of Architectural Illustrators and served as president of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators. Since 2015, Grealy has gone on to feature as a finalist and prize winner for many national and international prizes including the prestigious Dobell Drawing Prize #23 in 2023. Her work is represented in many museums and galleries including in the Museum of Brisbane Collection.

Submission Fees

Professionals

Individual and Corporate memberships include one entry into the competition. Additional entries up to a maximum of 10 entries are available at a discounted rate.

First additional entry: US $65.
Entry Blocks: US $155 for 4 additional entries or
                            $305 for 9 additional entries.

Students

Students are free up to a maximum of five entries. Students MUST be currently enrolled in a full-time program and able to provide a current Student ID card at the time of entry.

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