Spectrum Foundation Awards

A + D / Spectrum Foundation Architectural Awards

Sponsored by Asia's leading architectural journal, Architecture Plus Design, and the Spectrum Foundation, awards are given to the best entries in categories, such as institutional buildings, group housing, individual houses, innovative interiors and others. Over the years more than two hundred architects have served as jury members to select the winners, which receive trophies and prizes at an annual ceremony.

The most prestigious architectural award in India is the foundation's Golden Architect Award for Life Time Achievement. Every year each juror votes for their nominee for the Golden Architect Award. The five architects who have the maximum votes from all of these annual jury nominations are then taken as the Nominees and an international committee reviews their work, electing the Golden Architect. In 2006 the Selection Committee met in Bangkok, Thailand and was composed of five Indian architects and eleven international architects and designers. Thus, the award is unique for its rational and impartial process of selection, with over two hundred well known architects voting for the nomination list. In 2006, the Awards ceremony was held in Kuala Lumpur, where the famous Indian Architect Achut Kanvinde was honored posthumously. Previous winners have been B. V. Doshi, Charles Correa, Utham Jain, and Raj Rewal and Joseph Allen Stein. At the 2007 awards ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal the India Architect, Christopher Charles Benninger received the Golden Architect Award.