Jarrod Reedie
The prize is recognised as the premier humanitarian architecture award for working with underprivileged communities. The practice, headed by husband and wife David Kaunitz and Ka Wai Yeung, have amassed a portfolio of architecture that spans across more than 30 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island communities, 200 Pacific Island communities as well as in Asia.
Thomas Vonier, President of the UIA says the work conducted by Kaunitz Yeung within these communities made it impossible not to award the practice with the Vassilis Sgoutas Prize.
“The Jury admired your profound commitment to innovative design and sustainable construction, implemented with local participation,” he says on the Jury’s behalf.