AA alum Oscar Ssu Kuo Lo is awarded an Architecture Drawing Prize 2025
AA alum Oscar Ssu Kuo Lo is awarded an Architecture Drawing Prize 2025
AA alum Oscar Ssu Kuo Lo has been awarded one of the Architecture Drawing Prize 2025 awards for his work in Diploma 6, taught by Maria Fedorchenko. The annual prize celebrates the importance of drawing as a tool for capturing and communicating architectural ideas. The winning works were displayed at the World Architecture Festival in Miami from 12–14 November 2025 and will be shown at Sir John Soane’s Museum from 28 January–15 February 2026.
His winning triptych Architecture in Translation depicts and explores the competing ideologies through which architecture is conceived and materialised. It interrogates the tension between control and emergence, between the imposed object and the emergent system. Through translations between space, form and diagram, the architecture of the city evolves in response to both external forces and its internal logics. Architecture in Translation resists the imperative for novelty or iconography. The architecture it proposes may be neither new nor novel – perhaps even 'late'. Yet its strength lies in its architectural silence: a quiet dialogue with its past and with itself, attuned to disciplinary specificity and its own evolution.
Image Credit: Oscar Ssu Kuo Lo, Architecture in Translation: Typological and Diagrammatic Reasoning of the City, Diploma 6, 2024–25
9 January 2026