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AIP 38 Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize Winner

Architecture in Perspective 39

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

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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:

“ARTificial 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?

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Eligibility

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

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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.

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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
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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

ビル バトラー

Pelli Clarke & Partners

ペリ クラーク＆パートナーズ

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.

ウィリアム バトラーは、ペリ クラーク＆パートナーズのパートナーであり、アメリカ、ヨーロッパ、アジアで40年以上にわたり大規模な文化プロジェクトやマスタープランを主導してきた著名な建築家である。
主な作品に、グーグルのオースティン・キャンパス（ブロック185）、東京アメリカンクラブ、ミネアポリス公共図書館などがある。
 
バトラーのアプローチは、コラボレーション、持続可能性、文脈に配慮したデザインを重視し、変革的な空間の創造を目指している。
イエール大学建築学部で14年間フリーハンド・ドローイングを教え、この技法を日々の設計プロセスに取り入れている。
バトラーの建築に対する情熱は、「人々が世界を体験する感覚を変えるような楽しい場所」を創造し、ヒューマニズムのデザインを通して世界的にコミュニティを向上させるというコミットメントに反映されている。

TOMOYUKI TANAKA

田中智之　たなかともゆき

Waseda University

建築家・早稲田大学教授

photo: Kioku Keizo

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).

2016年「土木展」（21_21 DESIGN SIGHT）など多数の展覧会に参加。2019年には熊本市現代美術館で個展も開催。主な著書に『ハイパー建築パースドローイング 空間形状を操る26の手描きテクニック』（学芸出版社、2021年）など多数。

SEAN SCENSOR

ショーン センサー

Safdie Architects

サフディ アーキテクツ

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.

サフディ・アーキテクツのシニア・パートナーであるショーン・センサー（AIA）は、設計の専門知識や先進的な建築技術に関する知識と、実務に関する見識を融合させ、最重要プロジェクトの多くを担当しています。
建築家は一般市民に対して倫理的な責任を負っているという信念のもと、ショーンは強いコミュニティ意識、人道的な居住性、自然とのつながりを備えたデザインの実現に尽力しています。
 
担当プロジェクトとしては、アルバート・アインシュタイン教育研究センター、ハビタット秦皇島、ヴィラサット・エ・カルサ博物館、ソルトレイクシティ公共図書館、テルフェア美術館など、
変革をもたらすプロジェクトを指揮してきた。

Student Competition Jurors

HERA KIM

김헤라

TinkerTailor
ティンカー・テーラー

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.

韓国ソヘラ キムを拠点に活動するクリエイティブ・ディレクター、AIデザイナー、フローリスト。アート、自然、テクノロジーを融合させたTINKERTAILOR Studioの創設者。AIプロンプトエンジニア、アートディレクターとしてパリ、ドバイ、ミラノのプロジェクトに参加。クリスティーズ、アンド・アザー・ストーリーズ、スペースNK、チャールズ＆キース、ロイヤル・ニュージーランド・バレエ団とコラボレーション。2023年のAIデザイナー・トップ10に選出され、韓国文化省およびMaekyung NFTデジタルアート・コンテストで受賞。

NARINDER SAGOO

ナリンダー サグー

Foster + Partners

フォスター＋パートナーズ

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.

ナリンダー サグーは、先見性のある建築アーティストであり、フォスター＋パートナーズのシニアパートナーです。フォスター卿と共に27年以上の経験を持つナリンダーのユニークなドローイングスキルは、
30セント・メアリーズ・アックス、ウェンブリー・ナショナル・スタジアム、カリフォルニアのアップル・パークなど、数多くのプロジェクトで建築のビジュアルを描き、伝えるのに役立っている。
建築家でありアーティストでもある彼のユニークな役割は、コンセプト・デザインと戦略的デザインの方向性において価値をもたらしている。
建築イラストレーターとしても活躍するナリンダーは、2,200以上の建築プロジェクトのために15,000点以上のイラストを描き、
 
その多くはロイヤル・アカデミー・オブ・アーツで展示され、国際的に展示されている。
未完成建築の世界を視覚化し、その雰囲気を捉える彼の能力は、アーキテクチャー・クラブによれば、同世代で最も優れた建築アーティストのひとりとして認められている。
 

JANE GREALY

ジェーン グリーリー

Jane Grealy & Associates

ジェーン グリーリー＆アソシエーツ

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.

1979年以来建築イラストレーターとして成功を収め、その作品は既存の建物と想像上の建物、風景、空間の両方の観察に基づいて描かれている。
オーストラリア建築イラストレーター協会の創立会長を務め、アメリカ建築イラストレーター協会の会長も務めた。
2015年以降、グリーリーは2023年の権威あるドーベル・ドローイング賞第23位入賞をはじめ、多くの国内外の賞の最終選考や入賞を果たしている。
彼女の作品は、ブリスベン美術館コレクションを含む多くの美術館やギャラリーに展示されている。
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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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