Dora Riedel Seinecke (1906-1982) was a Chilean architect who, in 1930, became the first woman to receive an architectural degree in Chile.

She moved with her family to the port city of Valparaíso, where she took lessons in oil painting and completed her secondary education.

[3] Her father was supportive and approached the director of the School of Architecture at the University of Chile to ask if they accepted women.

The family lived in Munich until 1938, but then moved to Hammerle's native Tyrol, where he worked as a municipal architect and Director of Architecture and Urban Planning in Innsbruck.

[7] In August 2018, the prize was presented for the first time to architect Paulina Villalobos; the award ceremony was also attended by Veronika Pavlu Hammerle, a granddaughter of Dora Riedel, who travelled specially from Austria.