Architect under 40 to be honoured

The RIBA is to create an international honour for young architects which will be judged in tandem with its replacement for the Lubetkin Prize.

The RIBA International Emerging Architect Prize will be awarded to the best building designed by a practice whose oldest founding director is under the age of 40 at the time of its completion.

The winner will be chosen from eligible entries to its RIBA International Prize, the deadline for which is February 9.

The announcement comes two years after the Lubetkin Prize was scrapped. Its replacement, the RIBA International Prize for a building that “stretches the boundaries of architecture”, is launched this year. To reflect the gap, buildings completed in the last three years are eligible.

The RIBA also announced an additional member of the panel which will be judging both awards. Marilyn Jordan Taylor, dean of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and former managing partner of SOM, joins Richard Rogers, Kunlé Adeyemi, of NLÉ Projects and Philip Gumuchdjian, of Gumuchdjian Architects.