Saxony State Prize for Building Culture 2026

The Saxon State Prize for Building Culture is awarded by the Saxon State Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development in collaboration with the Saxon Chamber of Architects and the Saxon Chamber of Engineers. An exhibition featuring the prize winners is held at the ZfBK and then sent on tour throughout Saxony by the ZfBK.

The award recognizes construction projects that make an outstanding contribution to building culture in Saxony. This year, the competition is dedicated to the theme “Building at the Intersection of High-Tech and Low-Tech” and thus to one of the most important current requirements in construction: the efficient and sustainable design of buildings. In recent decades, high-tech solutions with complex technical equipment have been primarily used to reduce energy consumption. Increasingly, however, low-tech approaches are also being pursued, utilizing construction methods with minimal technology, natural principles of operation, and simple systems. The crucial question here is not whether high-tech or low-tech points the way forward, but how both approaches can be synergistically combined. The 2026 State Prize for Building Culture recognizes and highlights construction projects in which the planners have addressed the tension between high-tech and low-tech in a particularly innovative way. The award recognizes projects that address the challenges of modern architecture and have produced forward-thinking, transferable solutions for the “right” level of technical equipment and amenities.

Opening: May 24, 2026, 1:00 p.m.