Sophie Delhay Architecte

Sophie Delhay Architecte
Architekturpreis: Sophie Delhay©Sophie Delhay

Prize winner

 

The Schelling Architecture Award 2022 goes to Sophie Delhay, Paris. The French architect, who founded her own office in Paris in 2008, has become a leading figure in the renewal of urban housing in just a few years.

In her search for a socially relevant architecture, Delhay is almost exclusively concerned with all possible forms of multi-storey housing – an area of ​​construction that seems to offer only minimal freedom across Europe because it is bogged down in the constraints of global real estate financing and land speculation. Starting point for her designs is always specific research into the way of life of future residents.

Sophie Delhay understands her preoccupation with the grievances of today’s housing construction as a very personal, socio-political choice. For her, making suggestions as an architect as to how housing construction can be brought out of its impasse means changing society.