Various preparatory milestones must eventuate for participation in any worthwhile international architectural awards programme: an admirable commission, smooth consultation and construction processes, viable completion dates and heroic photography. All of this predetermines only the possibility of being short-listed.
Following two years of Covid-enforced, online-only participation, the architecture celebrated in Lisbon at the 2022 World Architecture Festival (WAF) seemed intent on finding relationships with people to reflect the festival’s theme: ‘Together’. This was an opposing reference to the impact of isolation, and the dislocation and loneliness the architectural community (amongst others) faced during the Covid pandemic.
Since its inaugural beginnings in 2008, WAF is now recognised as one of the world’s best architectural conferences and awards programmes.
