Aligning with its mission to promote excellent and innovative research in architecture and urbanism, the TPJ will award every year a “TPJ Best Paper Award” to one of the articles published during the previous year. Thus, any article published on the TPJ automatically enters the competition for this award.
The Editorial Team will make a shortlist of candidate-articles, which will be then evaluated by the TPJ Editorial Advisory Board. Depending on the quality of the submissions and in addition to a winner, there may be recognition for runners-up and/or honorable mentions.
The winner/s are announced by mid-April every year and they are recognized at one of the yearly THE PLAN Perspective forums (EU/USA/UK).
Best Paper Award
2026
Winner
Giorgio Adelmo Bertani, Francesca Vezzali · Vol. 5 (2020) · n.1 (2020)
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Best Paper Award
2024
Winner
Fabio Lepratto · Vol. 9 (2024) · n.1 (2024)
Runner-up
Sarosh Anklesaria · Vol. 9 (2024) · n.2 (2024)
ex-aequo
Igor Siddiqui · Vol. 9 (2024) · n.1 (2024)
ex-aequo
Riccardo Maria Balzarotti, Luca Maria Francesco Fabris · Vol. 9 (2024) · n.2 (2024)
ex-aequo
Pablo Moyano Fernandez · Vol. 9 (2024) · n.1 (2024)
ex-aequo
Best Paper Award
2023
Winner
Valeria Marsaglia, Guido Brusa, Ingrid Paoletti · Vol. 8 (2023) · n.1 (2023)
Runner-up
Cem S. Kayatekin, June Aoun, Yusuf Sühan Bozkurt, Daphné Fournel · Vol. 8 (2023) · n.2 (2023)
Third Place
Kristin Jones, Zaida Garcia-Requejo · Vol. 6 (2021) · n.1 (2021)
ex-aequo
Genevieve Baudoin, Bruce A. Johnson · Vol. 8 (2023) · n.2 (2023)
ex-aequo
Best Paper Award
2021
Winner
María Asunción Salgado de la Rosa, Belén Butragueño Díaz-Guerra, Javier Francisco Raposo Grau · Vol. 6 (2021) · n.1 (2021)
Runner-up
Catherine De Almeida · Vol. 6 (2021) · n.1 (2021)
ex-aequo
Vera Parlac · Vol. 6 (2021) · n.2 (2021)
ex-aequo
Shortlisted
William Sarnecky, Michael Hughes · Vol. 6 (2021) · n.1 (2021)
Genevieve Baudoin, Bruce A. Johnson · Vol. 6 (2021) · n.2 (2021)
Best Paper Award
2020
Winner
Andreea Mihalache · Vol. 5 (2020) · n.1 (2020)
Runner-up
Aki Ishida · Vol. 5 (2020) · n.2 (2020)
Shortlisted
Alberto Francini, Fabrizio Mangiaveti · Vol. 5 (2020) · n.2 (2020)
Nicoletta Brancaccio, Davide Giacomo Maria Gattoni, Federico Niola, Stefano Rozzi · Vol. 5 (2020) · n.1 (2020)
Best Paper Award
2019
Winner
Kathleen James-Chakraborty · Vol. 4 (2019) · n.2 (2019)
Runner-up
Stamatina Kousidi · Vol. 4 (2019) · n.1 (2019)
ex-aequo
Noemí Gómez Lobo, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Diego Martín Sánchez · Vol. 4 (2019) · n.2 (2019)
ex-aequo
Shortlisted
Chiara Belingardi, Claudia Mattogno · Vol. 4 (2019) · n.2 (2019)
Stephen Luoni · Vol. 4 (2019) · n.1 (2019)
Best Paper Award
2018
Winner
Olivia Hamilton · Vol. 3 (2018) · n.2 (2018)
ex-aequo
Jose Manuel Sanchez · Vol. 3 (2018) · n.2 (2018)
ex-aequo
Runner-up
Mary Pat McGuire · Vol. 3 (2018) · n.1 (2018)
ex-aequo
Wendy Wei-Yue Fok · Vol. 3 (2018) · n.2 (2018)
ex-aequo
Shortlisted
conrad-bercah · Vol. 3 (2018) · n.1 (2018)
Best Paper Award
2017
Winner
Jeffrey E. Huber, Keith Van de Riet, John Sandell, Lawrence Scarpa · Vol. 2 (2017) · n.2 (2017)
Runner-up
Gabriel Kaprielian · Vol. 2 (2017) · n.2 (2017)
ex-aequo
Michael Jefferson, Suzanne Lettieri · Vol. 2 (2017) · n.2 (2017)
ex-aequo
Andreea Mihalache · Vol. 2 (2017) · n.1 (2017)
ex-aequo
Shortlisted
Alexander L. Ring · Vol. 2 (2017) · n.2 (2017)
Will Alsop · Vol. 2 (2017) · n.1 (2017)
Best Paper Award
2016
Winner
Joseph Godlewski · VOLUME 0/2016 · Issue 0, 2016
Runner-up
Martin Hättasch · VOLUME 0/2016 · Issue 0, 2016
ex-aequo
Paul Holmquist · Vol. 1 (2016) · n.1 (2016)
ex-aequo
Shortlisted
Shannon Criss, Matt Kleinmann · Vol. 1 (2016) · n.2 (2016)
Tatiana Bilbao, Nuria Benitez · Vol. 1 (2016) · n.2 (2016)