Awards ceremony

Architectural firms from 47 countries had submitted their completed projects by 17 December 2019, thus competing for the AIT-Award 2020. At the end of January 2020, the jurors met in Hamburg to select this year’s winners in the 14 categories from 877 entries. The festive awards ceremony will take place on 30 September 2020 at 4.00 pm at Light + Building trade fair in Frankfurt am Main. During the trade fair, the award-winning projects will be presented at the AIT special area in Hall 1.2 | A51. This will be followed by a documentation of the award-winning projects in a special edition of AIT-Dialog magazine and exhibitions at the AIT-ArchitekturSalons.

The competition

For the fifth time, AIT and AIT-Dialog offered the internationally highly regarded interior design/architecture award, thus following on from the successful competitions held in 2012 to 2018.

The AIT-Award is divided into 14 categories: all architectural projects and interiors completed in the last two years were eligible for entry. The two special themes “Mixed-use” and “Social Design / Participatory architecture” were also included. Furthermore, a separate category was dedicated to “young architects”.

The results

A total of 877 projects from 47 countries were submitted for the AIT-Award 2020 | Best in Interior and Architecture. The top-class jury selected ten to fifteen superior projects in each category on 23 and 24 January 2020 in Hamburg. The exact rankings will be announced at the award ceremony.
This year’s finalists come from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.

The award ceremony

The rankings will be announced by the jurors and the AIT editorial team on 11 March 2020 during a festive awards ceremony in the presence of the nominated interior design/architecture firms in the context of Light + Building in Frankfurt am Main.

When
30 September 2020, 4.00 pm

Where
Messe Frankfurt exhibition grounds, Light + Building, Panorama Hall at the Forum, Level 1 | City Entrance

Programm

4.00 pm Doors open

4.30 pm Welcome

Introduction
Dominique Ewert, Light + Building trade fair, DE-Frankfurt am Main
Petra Stephan, AIT, DE-Leinfelden-Echterdingen

Official speech Marieke Kums, Studio Maks, NL-Rotterdam

Presentation of awards
Ester Bruzkus, ester bruzkus architekten, DE-Berlin
Simon Frommenwiler, HHF Architects, CH-Basel
Werner Frosch, henning larsen architects, DE-Munich
Roger Riewe, Riegler Riewe Architekten, AT-Graz
Christian von Wissel, Hochschule Bremen, DE-Bremen

Presentation
Kristina Bacht, AIT-Dialog, DE-Hamburg
Amandus Samsøe Sattler, Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten, DE-Munich

6.00 pm Champagne reception

The exhibition

During the Light + Building trade fair in Frankfurt am Main from 27 September to 2 October 2020, the award-winning projects will be exhibited at AIT special area in Hall 1.2 | A51. Afterwards, the winning projects of the AIT-Award 2020 will be on display at the AIT-ArchitekturSalons and published in AIT-Dialog magazine.