Special emphasis will be put on architecture that considers the overall quality of life, its impact on human health, well-being and performance, and its value to society".
Russell Foster, neuroscientist from United Kingdom, was awarded in category Daylight Research, for his clinical studies in humans addressing important questions regarding light.
Architectural academic, photographer and writer Henry Plummer, United States, received the award for lifetime achievement, for recording daylight phenomena in his extensive photography and writing.
Daylight is employed in their design process as an integrated and irreplaceable quality, along with the spatial arrangement, structural frame, and technical systems.
Cambo Baeza’s projects are restrained and silent examples of sensuous, mental, and poetic qualities in the architectural articulation of daylight.