Recognising Design That Shapes the World — landscape, architecture, and the spaces between.
Forma International Design Prize is an independent international award dedicated to celebrating exceptional achievement in landscape architecture and built environment design.
We believe the most significant design shapes communities, preserves culture, and advances sustainability. Each edition focuses on a distinct theme, inviting submissions from practitioners, academics, and emerging designers worldwide.
Guided by an international jury of distinguished professionals and academics, Forma upholds rigorous standards of critical evaluation — recognising work that is technically accomplished and genuinely meaningful.
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The primary category of Forma, celebrating outdoor environments that serve communities and define collective experience. From ecological restoration to urban green infrastructure, this category honours landscape projects at every scale — evaluated for design quality, ecological sensitivity, cultural responsiveness, and lasting social value.
Architecture does not exist in isolation. This category recognises buildings, structures, and pavilions whose design achieves meaningful dialogue with their natural or urban landscape setting. Projects are evaluated on how the relationship between built form and landscape is central to the design narrative.
Interior environments that extend, mirror, or respond to the landscape beyond. This category celebrates interior spaces where the boundary between inside and outside is dissolved — through material, light, biophilic elements, or conceptual alignment with nature.
Cities are the most complex landscapes we create. This category celebrates urban design, planning, and placemaking projects that reimagine cities as humane, ecologically intelligent, and culturally vibrant environments.
Design has a duty to the planet. This category celebrates projects where sustainability and ecological thinking are not add-ons but fundamental to the design concept — showing that ecological responsibility and aesthetic ambition are not in conflict.
The future of design belongs to those willing to question its limits. Open to students, recent graduates, academic researchers, and designers working in speculative or experimental modes — evaluated on intellectual rigour, originality, and potential for real-world impact.
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Work Submission · FIDP 2026–2027
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