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JUHANI PALLASMAA
Architect and writer, former professor of architecture and dean at the Helsinki University of Technology, former director of the museum of Finish Architecture
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SELMA TIR
DPhil candidate in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford, B.A. in Neuroscience and Mathematics from Smith College, USA
The Daylight Award Laureates
THE DAYLIGHT AWARD 2024 — DAYLIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE
Alberto Campo Baeza

THE DAYLIGHT AWARD 2024 — DAYLIGHT RESEARCH
Till Roenneberg
His work spans the natural and social sciences, and the use of diverse groups of organisms. This comparative and interdisciplinary strategy has allowed Roenneberg to take novel approaches to address key questions relating to the effects of daylight on human health, well-being, and performance.
His fundamental research findings have been both highly cited and influential, and significantly, applied to multiple branches of society, spanning medicine, public policy, and architecture.
In addition to his influential work as a scientist, Roenneberg is a gifted communicator and advocate for the importance of daylight for human health. He works with diverse organisations, giving many public lectures, engages with print, radio, television, and other journalists. Roenneberg has also written two popular science books.

Watch the announcement and celebration of the 2024 Laureates for Daylight Research and Daylight in Architecture
What is
The Daylight Award?
The Daylight Award honors and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture.
It acknowledges and encourages scientific knowledge and practical application of daylight, which interlink disciplines that are usually addressed in separated, monocultural spheres, professional circles or practices.
The Daylight Award strives to raise a holistic understanding of daylight, and increase its positive impact on life.
The nominations for The Daylight Award 2024 are closed. If you have missed nominating your candidate, you are welcome to send your nomination for The Daylight Award 2026.
MORE THAN AN AWARD
Community of researchers, architects, educators and students, bringing new knowledge, innovation and applications of daylight.
PREVIOUS LAUREATES
The attention brought to the importance of daylight in human health flagged up the whole relationship between neuroscience and architecture in general
— Russell Foster, 2020 Daylight Research Laureate
YVONNE FARRELL AND SHELLEY MCNAMARA
The Daylight Award for Architecture 2022

ANNA WIRZ-JUSTICE
The Daylight Award for Research 2022

JUHA LEIVISKÄ
The Daylight Award for Architecture 2020

Finnish Architect and Designer
RUSSELL FOSTER
The Daylight Award for Research 2020

Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford
HENRY PLUMMER
The Daylight Award for Lifetime Achievement 2020

Architect, Photographer & Writer
HIROSHI SAMBUICHI
The Daylight Award for Architecture 2018

GREG WARD
The Daylight Award for Research 2018

Consultant for Anyhere Software and Senior Member of Technical Staff – Research at Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
STEVEN HOLL
The Daylight Award for Architecture 2016

MARILYNE ANDERSEN
The Daylight Award for Research 2016

Our jury represent the highest possible level of expertise in the field of daylight
The jury represents relevant and comprehensive knowledge of the international scientific and architectural world.
In terms of merit, recognition and knowledge, the members are expected to be outstanding and highly respected by the international community.
The jury comprises at least six and no more than nine members. The jury should have members from at least three different countries and should not have more than two members from the same country.
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The following reflections are shared by people in our daylight community.
What does daylight mean to you?
DAYLIGHT REFLECTIONS
Daylight as well as artificial light is shared by everyone across the globe, yet as light changes rather quietly without a notice or a sound, we often forget to appreciate its unique qualities. My fascination with fleeting moments of light and their connection to space led me to my interest in design, and now I question how the design world contributes to the data and science of light and space.
— Yunni Cho
featured TESTIMONIAL
GERALDINE
QUEK
Ph.D. Candidate/Doctoral Assistant · EPFL
(École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

SELECTED DAYLIGHT COMMUNITY TESTIMONIALS
The community around daylight first and foremost excists trough the tremendious work done by the world’s leading scientist, professors and architects. Here we shed light on some of them.
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