Farouk Hosny Foundation Architecture Award 2027
Farouk Hosny Foundation Architecture Award 2027 asks how public space can rebuild social connection, with artificial intelligence used as a documented design tool. Its theme, “The Plaza… A Meeting Place”, places urban life at the centre of the exercise.
Five essentials
| Organizer | Farouk Hosny Foundation for Culture & Arts, Egypt |
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| Eligibility | Egyptian nationals aged no more than 40 on 1 January 2027; architect team representative registered with the Egyptian Engineers Syndicate; up to four members |
| Fees | No entry fee stated in the reviewed public rules; confirm through registration |
| Prizes | EGP 100,000 / 75,000 / 50,000; total EGP 225,000 |
| Submission | 1 January 2027 at 24:00 Egypt time (22:00 UTC); 2 January at 01:00 Saudi time |
Deliverables and submission
Submit one anonymous original project: six landscape A1 boards in one PDF at least 300 dpi; an Arabic or English report up to 2,000 words; an AI-methodology document; and a narrated presentation up to five minutes without showing participants. An animation up to 120 seconds is optional. Submit through the official application page; obtain the TOR there for the complete site and technical brief. Shortlisted entrants must print the boards and report. See requirements.
Jury
The published architecture panel comprises Souhair Zaki Hawass (Cairo University), Hesham Seoudy (architecture and urban planning), Mohamed Abo Seeda (urban harmony), Hamdi El Stouhy (public buildings and cultural development), and Hatem Al Saeed (architectural design). These profiles provide academic, urban and practice experience relevant to the brief. The listed biographies do not establish a specialist AI evaluator.
Rights and award conditions
Finalists grant a permanent, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence over submitted images, including modification and derivative uses; sublicensing is also covered. This is a broad licence, not an express exclusive transfer of design ownership. Prize collection requires personal attendance, and taxes and expenses fall to participants. Earlier exhibition, competition or commercial use may affect eligibility; check the full rules, including differences in wording between language versions, before reusing an existing project.
✦ ArchUp Competition Review
The brief offers a substantive architectural question: can a plaza support everyday encounters rather than become a representational object? Requiring an explanation of AI use is a useful way to ask for design reasoning, not merely a generated image.
The named jury is a stronger basis for assessment than an anonymous panel. However, six boards, a report and narrated media represent a substantial workload. Entrants should weigh that effort and potential printing or attendance costs against the prizes. The breadth of the image licence deserves particular attention: publication visibility has value, but participants should understand how their work may be adapted and reused.
Related competitions
Compare the public-space agenda with iF DESIGN STUDENT AWARD 2027, which has international student eligibility, or the housing-and-community brief of Town Housing.
Sources checked 12 November 2026: application, requirements, jury, rules and prizes. Poster: Farouk Hosny Foundation.
Time remaining for submission
Official wording: 1 January 2027 at 24:00 Egypt time (GMT+2); countdown uses 22:00 UTC.
Official competition page
Review the current overview, obtain the full program brief and use the organizer’s submission form.
