Best Housing

Balkrishna Doshi was an Indian architect shaped by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn; in 2018 he became India's first Pritzker Prize winner.

Charles Correa was an Indian architect and urban planner known for climate-responsive buildings and for helping plan Navi Mumbai from 1970.

Eduardo Souto de Moura is a Portuguese architect, winner of the 2011 Pritzker Prize and designer of Braga Municipal Stadium in Portugal.

Anne Lacaton is a French architect and co-founder of Lacaton and Vassal, winner of the 2021 Pritzker Prize for adaptive housing work.

Riken Yamamoto is a Japanese architect known for housing and civic projects that link private and public life; he won the 2024 Pritzker Prize.

Jean-Philippe Vassal is a French architect and co-founder of Lacaton and Vassal, awarded the 2021 Pritzker Prize for reuse-focused design.

Alejandro Aravena is a Chilean architect and 2016 Pritzker laureate, known for Elemental's incremental social housing such as Quinta Monroy in Iquique.

Herman Hertzberger is a Dutch architect associated with structuralism, noted for the Centraal Beheer office in Apeldoorn, completed in 1972.

Frida Escobedo is a Mexican architect whose 2018 Serpentine Pavilion in London made her the youngest designer in the program at the time.

Ralph Erskine was a British-born architect active in Sweden, known for climate-aware housing and the Byker Wall redevelopment in Newcastle.

Tatiana Bilbao is a Mexican architect whose studio, founded in 2004, is noted for sustainable design and social housing prototypes.

Mario Pani was a Mexican architect and planner central to modern Mexico City, including UNAM's Rectorate Tower built between 1950 and 1952.

Ricardo Bofill was a Spanish architect whose Taller de Arquitectura produced postmodern works such as Les Espaces d'Abraxas near Paris in 1982.

Farshid Moussavi is an Iranian British architect who co-founded Foreign Office Architects and helped design Yokohama's Osanbashi terminal.

Kunlé Adeyemi is a Nigerian architect and founder of NLÉ, known for Makoko Floating School, a 2013 prototype for waterfront communities.

Alison Brooks is a Canadian-born British architect, winner of the 2008 Stirling Prize as part of the Accordia housing design team in Cambridge.

Nathalie de Vries is a Dutch architect and co-founder of MVRDV, the Rotterdam studio established in 1993 with Maas and Van Rijs.

Lead Me Home is Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk's 2021 Netflix documentary short on homelessness on the U.S. West Coast, nominated for the 2022 Oscar.