Arkitera Young Architect Award 2026

The 17th Arkitera Young Architect Award is open to architects, interior architects and landscape architects in Türkiye under 40. Applications are free and close on 16 November 2026, with the ceremony on 9 December.

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Category: Awards
Organizer: Arkitera Architecture Centre (Arkitera Mimarlık Merkezi)
Location: Istanbul, Türkiye
Eligibility: Architects, interior architects and landscape architects under 40 (born after 1 January 1986). Past winners of the award cannot apply; earlier recipients of the Jury Encouragement Award can apply again.
Language: Turkish
Registration deadline: 16 November 2026
Submission deadline: 16 November 2026
Results announcement: 9 December 2026
Fees: Free
Prizes: Honorary award: statuette and plaque for the winner
Jury: Renda Helin Çilalioğlu Çizer, Ediz Demirel, Ece Avcı Kantarcı, Cihan Sevindik, Erhan Vural
Submission requirements: By 23:59 on Monday 16 November 2026, to [email protected]: an authorship statement, a personal information form, an office information form and a project information form, plus visual material (photographs, visualisations, diagrams, plans, sections) by email or file sharing. Candidates whose profile and projects are already published on Arkitera only need to send the authorship statement.

Prize breakdown

One winner; the jury may also reward several co-authors who work together
Award statuette and plaque
No cash prize
Award ceremony: 9 December 2026 at Kastamonu Entegre headquarters

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Award details and application

Applications are open for the Arkitera Young Architect Award 2026, the honorary prize that Arkitera Architecture Centre gives to designers under 40. Held for the 17th time and supported by Kastamonu Entegre, it sets out to recognise the work of young architects, interior architects and landscape architects and to give that work a common platform. Entry is free, applications close at 23:59 on Monday 16 November 2026, and the ceremony takes place on 9 December 2026.

Who can apply

Architects, interior architects and landscape architects under the age of 40, meaning born after 1 January 1986.
People who have already won the award cannot apply again.
Those who received the Jury Encouragement Award in earlier years are welcome to apply once more.

What to send

Candidates email four documents to the award secretariat: an authorship statement, a personal information form, an office information form and a project information form. Visual material on the projects, such as photographs, visualisations, diagrams, plans and sections, goes in by email or file sharing before the deadline. Anyone whose profile and projects already appear on Arkitera’s platforms only needs to send the authorship statement, in which they confirm they are an author of the projects submitted.

How the jury decides

The jury looks at the candidate’s whole body of design work, with built architecture, interior and landscape projects first, and also takes publications and academic work into account where they exist. To keep the assessment as even as possible, everything is judged through the candidate’s person, office and project pages on Arkitera. The award goes to a single name, although the jury can choose to reward several authors who work together. Decisions are taken by majority vote and are final.

The 2026 jury is made up of Renda Helin Çilalioğlu Çizer, Ediz Demirel, Ece Avcı Kantarcı, Cihan Sevindik and Erhan Vural.

Award and key dates

There is no cash prize: the winner receives an award statuette and a plaque. Applications are kept confidential.

Application deadline: Monday 16 November 2026, 23:59
Award ceremony: Wednesday 9 December 2026, Kastamonu Entegre headquarters

The forms and full conditions, in Turkish, are on the Arkitera award page.

Written by

Muhammad Abdullatef - Tifa Studio

Muhammad Abdellatif is the founder of Tifa Studio and an architecture and urban design researcher writing for illustrarch. He holds an M.Arch from Istanbul Technical University and is a PhD candidate in Urban Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, covering cities, parametric design, and the details most people walk past.