Alessandro Petti, Professor of Architecture and Social Justice at the Royal Institute of Art, and his practice together with Sandi Hilal, DAAR, earlier this year received the RIBA Charles Jencks Award for 2025, announced in April by The Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Founder of the Jencks Foundation, Lily Jencks:
“We are thrilled to award the 2025 RIBA Charles Jencks Award to DAAR and are looking forward to their lecture at RIBA. The award celebrates architecture’s multiple intelligences; that it is not only building or design that is important, but a sincere dedication to theory and research that situates architecture in its wider social, economic and political context. DAAR have a long-standing commitment to the architectural and learning practices of decolonisation: propagated through exhibitions, teaching and publishing. This research-driven art practice runs in parallel to significant building projects, creating a powerful body of work that is both theoretically and practically engaged with architecture’s effort to redress injustice.”
On 30 May 2025 DAAR delivered a lecture at the RIBA headquarters, which now can be viewed here.