The Daylight Award Laureates

THE DAYLIGHT AWARD 2024 — DAYLIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE

Alberto Campo Baeza

Alberto Campo Baeza is an internationally recognised and widely published Spanish architect, who also served as a highly regarded Professor at the Escuela Technica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid in 1986-2017. Besides, he has taught and lectured in numerous universities around the world. He is one of the most admired representatives of the contemporary minimalist orientation in architecture who has developed this line of architectural thinking most consistently, subtly, and impressively.

THE DAYLIGHT AWARD 2024 — DAYLIGHT RESEARCH

Till Roenneberg

Professor Till Roenneberg is Emeritus Professor of Chronobiology at the Institute of Medical Psychology at Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Roenneberg has dedicated most of his career to investigating the effects of light on circadian clocks, sleep, and health.
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

Recording of the livestream from Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, on 16 May 2024

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.

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Dr Mandana S. Khanie, Lecturer Health and Wellbeing in Sustainable Buildings, The Bartlett, Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL

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Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD LLD ARB, Professor of Sustainable Design, The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, and former The Daylight Award jury member

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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

YVONNE FARRELL AND SHELLEY MCNAMARA
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara co-founded Grafton Architects in 1978

ANNA WIRZ-JUSTICE

The Daylight Award for Research 2022

YVONNE FARRELL AND SHELLEY MCNAMARA
Anna Wirz-Justice, PhD, is a neurobiologist and Professor emerita at the Centre for Chronobiology, Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Basel.

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

Architect and Founder of Sambuichi Architects

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

Architect and Principal of Steven Holl Architects, with offices in New York City and Beijing

MARILYNE ANDERSEN

The Daylight Award for Research 2016

Professor of Sustainable Construction Technologies and Dean of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL)
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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

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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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