Finalists - EAAE Pedagogy Awards 2026
Finalists Announcement
EAAE Pedagogy Awards 2026, in association with ACE
Innovation & Excellence in Teaching 2026
This year, the EAAE together with ACE organized the second Pedagogy Awards.
The aim of the awards is to promote excellence and innovation in teaching and to share good practice amongst teaching staff.
The Awards were open to any staff who are engaged in teaching on an architecture programme in Europe and whose school has membership of EAAE or associated membership of the EAAE in the current academic year.
The jury unanimously selected the five finalists for the EAAE Pedagogy Awards 2026 listed below:
Pia Fricker
Teaching Team: Zubin Tan, Janne Keskinen, Tina Cerpnjak, Raphael Weidhaas
Title: Immersive data interaction
School: Aalto University – Finland
Sima Rouholamin
Teaching Team: Cian Deegan, David Knight, Kevin Donovan, Johanna Cleary, Sarah Sheridan, Adam Campbell, Anna Cooke, Calbhac O’Carroll, Colin Mac Suibhne, Gavin Buggy, Kieran O’Brien, Martin Spillane, Noel Brady, Steve Larkin, Tim O’Leary
Title: Transformative Action
School: TU Dublin – Ireland
Liesbeth Huybrechts
Teaching Team: Peter Firman, Liese Mertens, Peter Princen, Frank Vanden Ecker
Title: Live Lab
School: Hasselt University – Belgium
Laurent de Wurstemberger & Rodrigo Fernandez
Title: Rediscovering earth
School: School of Architecture and Engineering of Fribourg – Switzerland
Débora Domingo Calabuig
Teaching Team: Javier Rivera Linares, Eduardo Puertes Espert, Mar Munoz Aparici
Title: Resilient Rambleta
School: UPV Valencia - Spain
Find more information on each project attached here.
The winner will be announced at the Annual Conference and General Meeting in Cagliari 26-29 August 2026
The Awards Ceremony will be live streamed and the link will appear on the website.
The jury comprised of Cathi Ho Schar, Claus Peder Pedersen, Dag Boutsen, Daniel Fügenschuh, Dubravko Bacic, Gerhard Bruyns, Luis Rico-Gutierrez, Massimo Santanicchia, Mia Roth Cerina, Michela Barosio, Māra Liepa-Zemeša, Madeleine Maaskant, Nicolas Pham, Oya Atalay Franck, Patrick Flynn, Roberto Cavallo and Rashida Ng.
€3000 will be awarded to the winning person or team to provide seed funding for their research and development of architectural teaching.
More information on the awards can be found here: https://www.eaae.be/event/eaae-pedagogy-awards/
Find the Booklet from the Pedagogy Awards 2024 under EAAE Joint Publishings!
