• Sustainable Design Thesis Award: This award recognises the most environmentally sensitive project. Projects that serve the need of the era, to fight the climate change with innovations and technologies already known to us. Design that gives the new directions and provide the new generation a food for thought.
• Residential Thesis Award: This award recognises the best residential projects that provide a comfortable and attractive living environment for residents in their respective climates. Also design that defines the new standards for living, which could be either new technologies based or simply the use of wisdom.
• Public/ Institutional Thesis Award: This award recognises the architectural excellence for buildings or complexes in public or private sector for education, government, social, cultural, health, religious or administrative purposes. Designs that seek the new architectural language to fulfil the functional requirements.
• Transport Terminal Thesis Award: This award has been instituted to recognise architectural excellence and innovations in the Transport terminals such as Railways, Airports, Bus Stations, Boat Piers, Port facilities etc. Projects that take the transport architecture to a new level and define some new directions.
• Mixed Use Thesis Award: This award recognizes the year’s best mixed-use structure featuring a combination of one or more categories, such as hospitality and commercial or residential and commercial or a mixture of all the three categories.

Jury Members: 

Anica Landreneau, Anna Haringer, Chitra Vishwanath, Daniel Bonilla, Francoise Helena Jorda, Imola Berczi, Imola Berczi, Jana Revedin, Jordan Goldstein, Mitchell Joachim, Narendra Dengle, Philippe Samyn, Romi Khosla, Shirish Beri, Sumita Arora, Vinod Gupta

Submission Requirements:

• Submissions may contain any or all of the following, i.e. text, diagrams, plans, sections, sketches, photographs, graphics, collage etc, in a combination without restrictions that can convey the visual summary of the design intent of the entrant comprehensively illustrating the :
  1. Response to challenges outlined in the Hypothesis.
  2. The emergence of unified and relevant image of Design
• Submission must contain Hypothesis (not more than 500 words) in .doc file.
• Max. of 6, A3 size sheets (420mm X 297mm), in horizontal format and submitted as digital, colored, high-resolution files, meant for printing in JPEG format needs to be upload at Re-thinking The Future Website prior to the submission deadline.
• Each submission must contain the ’Registration ID’ provided by the RTF at the time of registration, this ID must be written in bold Arial font, 15 mm in height on the top right corner of each submission entry.
• Submission must be free from any kinds of identifying marks, such as and including firm logos, name of participant.
• The submissions will ONLY bear the Registration ID, given to an entrant after their successful registration, as a means of identification and any other identifying mark will make the entrant liable for disqualification.

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Re-thinking The Future (RTF) was born from the idea of creating a new window on international trends in architecture and design that looks on to the solutions for the need of the era i.e., Climate Change. RTF is a hub of services for architecture and design. RTF is working to develop an architectural language that would ‘sustain’ and ‘survive’ the impacts of climate change taking sustainability one step ahead. This year RTF is presenting ‘INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL THESIS AWARD’ ( IATA) to give voice to young architects and creative people from all over the world and discovering a new talent.