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.

Previous Laureates

THE DAYLIGHT AWARD 2022 — 2016

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)

THE DAYLIGHT AWARD 2014 — 1980

SANAA

The Daylight Award by VELUX Stiftung 2014
Architectural firm based in Tokyo, Japan

GIGON & GUYER

The Daylight Award by VELUX Stiftung 2012
Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer architectural office based in Zurich, Switzerland

LACATON & VASSAL

The Daylight and Building Component Award 2011
French architecture studio founded by Anne Lacaton and Philippe Vassal in 1986

PETER ZUMTHOR

The Daylight Award by VELUX Stiftung 2010

Professor and Founder of his own firm in Haldenstein, Switzerland

JAMES CARPENTER

The Daylight and Building Component Award 2010

Principle of James Carpenter Design Associates (JCDA), a cross-disciplinary design firm working at the intersection of art, engineering and the built environment.

RICHARD PEREZ

The Daylight and Building Component Award 2008

Research Professor at the University at Albany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, where he directs applied research in the fields of solar radiation and solar energy applications and daylighting.

BOB GYSIN

The Daylight Award by VELUX Stiftung 2007
Bob Gysin + Partner BGP is an architectural practice based in Zurich, Switzerland.

HENNING LARSEN

Daylight Award by the VELUX Foundations 1987

Henning Larsen, Hon. FAIA (1925 – 2013) was a Danish architect, internationally mostly known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh and the Copenhagen Opera House.

JØRN UTZON

Daylight Award by the VELUX Foundations 1980
Jørn Oberg Utzon, AC, Hon. FAIA (1918 – 2008) was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia.