WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL - 3PM
WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL - 3PM
LAUNCH EVENT
CHECK RECORDING HERE
THE SPONSORS
Drawing Prize 2026
Drawing Prize 2026
MEET THE DRAWING PRIZE COMMITTEE
MAKE ARCHITECTS
DRAWING PRIZE PANEL
Dr Ken Shuttleworth
MAKE Founder / Architect
Greg Willis
MAKE Architect
INSCRIPTIVE PRACTICES
DRAWING PRIZE PANEL
Professor Perry Kulper
MSA Visiting Professor
Dr Ray LUCAS
MSA Reader in Architecture
INDEPENDENT GUEST JUROR
Dr Emma-Kate Matthews
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
DRAWING PRIZES CHAIR
Bea MARTIN
MSA Inscriptive Practices Lead
Submission Guidelines & Key Dates
Submission deadline
Friday 29 May, 23:00 (via Moodle)
Finalists Announcement
Thursday 4 June
Winners Announcement
Friday 5 June
Awards Event
Friday 5 June
Submission requirements
- All techniques and media permitted
- File size: max 10MB
- up to 3 individual drawings
Support timeline
- Q&A / clarification period open until 25 May
- Bookable 1:1 tutorials with B available until Thursday 28 May
Explore last year’s winners
For all enquiries, please contact Bea Martin.
Founder
Dr Ken Shuttleworth
Ken founded Make Architects in 2004 and oversees the design development of all the practice’s schemes. Over the course of his 50-year career, he’s worked on some of the most groundbreaking architectural landmarks in the world. Ken is a former President of the British Council for Offices, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the UK Government Advisory Group on Professional and Business Services. He holds several honorary doctorates and regularly contributes to industry magazines and lectures at architecture schools in the UK and abroad. In 2013, he set up the Future Spaces Foundation to advance research and debate about the spaces we live in.
Over the past decade, Make’s work has been enhanced by the talent and commitment of partners across the creative sector, including artists like Kenny Hunter and Catherine Bertola – collaborations that have produced an array of inspiring public works of art.
Under Ken's leadership, Make established The Architectural Drawing Prize in collaboration with Sir John Soane's Museum and the World Architecture Festival in 2017, an annual endeavour that draws entries from around the world. Ken himself has been recognised for his artistic skills in draughtsmanship over the years, earning him the nickname ‘Ken the Pen’.
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GREG WILLIS
Greg Willis is an Architect at Make Architects, a 100% employee-owned practice headquartered in London. Since joining in 2005, he has overseen many of the practice’s urban design schemes and large-scale projects, working extensively in Birmingham and London, as well as on Make’s first two projects in India. His masterplanning work has included the coordinated provision of office space, public realm and cultural amenities to revitalise Birmingham’s city centre.
He also leads the design and development of Make’s virtual gallery programme – the Vault of Contemporary Art (VCA). In April 2020, he became the Project Architect for the VCA’s bespoke virtual exhibition on the work of artist Ben Johnson in collaboration with the V&A.
As an architect with experience of building across borders and cultures, Greg sees the virtual as a natural environment for architects to continue their exploration of how we best inhabit space. The VCA / V&A project has allowed him to enjoy a rare opportunity to collaborate with both artist and curator from conception through to completion of a significant exhibition.
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Visiting Professor
Perry Kulper
Perry Kulper is a Professor and Architect at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College. He has 17 years of teaching experience at SCI-Arc plus visiting roles at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. A Columbia University and Cal Poly graduate, he has worked at firms like Eisenman/Robertson and Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown. His work focuses on architectural drawing, spatial design, and expanding architecture’s conceptual boundaries.
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Reader
Dr RAY LUCAS
Ray is a reader in Architecture and have been a member of Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) staff since 2010.
His primary interests are in architectural anthropology, architectural drawing, and filmic architecture. He also has expertise in multi-sensory urbanism and Japanese architecture. He is currently completing a monograph titled Festival as Architecture: Japanese Matsuri and Theories of Temporality in Architecture for Bloomsbury Publishing. His previous publications include Anthropology for Architects (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Drawing Parallels (Routledge, 2019). He is also working on a forthcoming monograph, Thresholds in Japanese Architecture (Routledge, 2027). Other publications include Research Methods for Architecture (Laurence King Publishing, 2016; second edition forthcoming with Routledge in 2027), as well as co-editing Architecture, Festival and the City with Christian Frost and Jemma Browne (Routledge, 2018). He is Co-lead of the Built Heritage Research Group and a member of the Non-Standard Habitats Atelier, where he leads the MArch 2 cohort. He is also a member of the Inscriptive Practices and Future Processes team, contributing to extra-curricular teaching in drawing, notation, film, and sound design.
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Inscriptive Practices Lead
BEA MARTIN
Bea Martin is a Portuguese-born, British architect, artist, writer, and educator. She is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture, where she is currently the Inscriptive Practices and Future Processes Lead, and a PhD candidate in Architectural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture.
Her work is driven by a sustained interest in the unknown, the unformed, and the not-yet, explored through speculative drawing, visual studies, and experimental architectural practice. Moving between digital and analogue modes of production, her research treats drawing not as a representational end, but as a living apparatus—an inscriptive and propositional process through which architecture is discovered, interrogated, and continually re-formed.
Bea is the founder of Speculative Assemblies, an experimental design and research laboratory that investigates visual and conceptual constructs in architecture, focusing on abstraction, ambiguity, and open-ended inquiry. Her work challenges conventional boundaries between architecture, art, and research, foregrounding rigorous relationships between concept, technique, and craft.
With over fifteen years of professional experience in architectural practice, including work at Richard Rogers and Partners, Bea’s background bridges the precision of professional architecture with experimental and speculative modes of thinking and making. Prior to joining MSA, she taught at the University of Huddersfield, Birmingham City University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Associate Professor, Bartlett
Dr Emma-Kate Matthews
Emma-Kate (b. 1986) is an architect, composer, musician, and digital artist whose work explores the creative intersections of sonic and spatial practices. She specialises in producing site-specific, spatialised audio-visual projects that investigate creative reciprocities between sonic and spatial practices Her compositions have been performed at internationally renowned venues, including the Sagrada Familia, the Southbank Centre, the Barbican, and the Brighton Festival. Notably, she composed for the London Symphony Orchestra’s prestigious Panufnik residency. As a solo artist, Emma-Kate has released a series of electronic-classical works on acclaimed labels such as Algebra, NMC, Musicity Global, and Accidental. Her music has been broadcast internationally on prominent platforms like BBC Radio 3, Resonance FM, and Tokyo Radio. Emma-Kate is an associate professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, where she serves as the Director of Fabrication and Design Collaboration. She also teaches on the MSci Architecture program and conducts research in spatiosonic practice. She completed her PhD in July 2025. Additionally, she hosts Hunter Gatherer, an eclectic radio show on RTM.FM every fourth Thursday.
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WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL - 3PM
WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL - 3PM
LAUNCH EVENT
CHECK RECORDING HERE
THE SPONSORS
Drawing Prize 2026
Drawing Prize 2026
MEET THE DRAWING PRIZE COMMITTEE
MAKE ARCHITECTS
DRAWING PRIZE PANEL
Dr Ken Shuttleworth
MAKE Founder / Architect
Greg Willis
MAKE Architect
INSCRIPTIVE PRACTICES
DRAWING PRIZE PANEL
Professor Perry Kulper
MSA Visiting Professor
Dr Ray LUCAS
MSA Reader in Architecture
INDEPENDENT GUEST JUROR
Dr Emma-Kate Matthews
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
DRAWING PRIZES CHAIR
Bea MARTIN
MSA Inscriptive Practices Lead
Submission Guidelines & Key Dates
Submission deadline
Friday 29 May, 23:00 (via Moodle)
Finalists Announcement
Thursday 4 June
Winners Announcement
Friday 5 June
Awards Event
Friday 5 June
Submission requirements
Support timeline
Explore last year’s winners
For all enquiries, please contact Bea Martin.
Founder
Dr Ken Shuttleworth
Ken founded Make Architects in 2004 and oversees the design development of all the practice’s schemes. Over the course of his 50-year career, he’s worked on some of the most groundbreaking architectural landmarks in the world. Ken is a former President of the British Council for Offices, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the UK Government Advisory Group on Professional and Business Services. He holds several honorary doctorates and regularly contributes to industry magazines and lectures at architecture schools in the UK and abroad. In 2013, he set up the Future Spaces Foundation to advance research and debate about the spaces we live in. Over the past decade, Make’s work has been enhanced by the talent and commitment of partners across the creative sector, including artists like Kenny Hunter and Catherine Bertola – collaborations that have produced an array of inspiring public works of art. Under Ken's leadership, Make established The Architectural Drawing Prize in collaboration with Sir John Soane's Museum and the World Architecture Festival in 2017, an annual endeavour that draws entries from around the world. Ken himself has been recognised for his artistic skills in draughtsmanship over the years, earning him the nickname ‘Ken the Pen’.
@make_architects
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GREG WILLIS
Greg Willis is an Architect at Make Architects, a 100% employee-owned practice headquartered in London. Since joining in 2005, he has overseen many of the practice’s urban design schemes and large-scale projects, working extensively in Birmingham and London, as well as on Make’s first two projects in India. His masterplanning work has included the coordinated provision of office space, public realm and cultural amenities to revitalise Birmingham’s city centre. He also leads the design and development of Make’s virtual gallery programme – the Vault of Contemporary Art (VCA). In April 2020, he became the Project Architect for the VCA’s bespoke virtual exhibition on the work of artist Ben Johnson in collaboration with the V&A. As an architect with experience of building across borders and cultures, Greg sees the virtual as a natural environment for architects to continue their exploration of how we best inhabit space. The VCA / V&A project has allowed him to enjoy a rare opportunity to collaborate with both artist and curator from conception through to completion of a significant exhibition.
@make_architects
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Visiting Professor
Perry Kulper
Perry Kulper is a Professor and Architect at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College. He has 17 years of teaching experience at SCI-Arc plus visiting roles at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. A Columbia University and Cal Poly graduate, he has worked at firms like Eisenman/Robertson and Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown. His work focuses on architectural drawing, spatial design, and expanding architecture’s conceptual boundaries.
@pkulper
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Reader
Dr RAY LUCAS
Ray is a reader in Architecture and have been a member of Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) staff since 2010. His primary interests are in architectural anthropology, architectural drawing, and filmic architecture. He also has expertise in multi-sensory urbanism and Japanese architecture. He is currently completing a monograph titled Festival as Architecture: Japanese Matsuri and Theories of Temporality in Architecture for Bloomsbury Publishing. His previous publications include Anthropology for Architects (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Drawing Parallels (Routledge, 2019). He is also working on a forthcoming monograph, Thresholds in Japanese Architecture (Routledge, 2027). Other publications include Research Methods for Architecture (Laurence King Publishing, 2016; second edition forthcoming with Routledge in 2027), as well as co-editing Architecture, Festival and the City with Christian Frost and Jemma Browne (Routledge, 2018). He is Co-lead of the Built Heritage Research Group and a member of the Non-Standard Habitats Atelier, where he leads the MArch 2 cohort. He is also a member of the Inscriptive Practices and Future Processes team, contributing to extra-curricular teaching in drawing, notation, film, and sound design.
@drawing_parallels
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Inscriptive Practices Lead
BEA MARTIN
Bea Martin is a Portuguese-born, British architect, artist, writer, and educator. She is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture, where she is currently the Inscriptive Practices and Future Processes Lead, and a PhD candidate in Architectural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Her work is driven by a sustained interest in the unknown, the unformed, and the not-yet, explored through speculative drawing, visual studies, and experimental architectural practice. Moving between digital and analogue modes of production, her research treats drawing not as a representational end, but as a living apparatus—an inscriptive and propositional process through which architecture is discovered, interrogated, and continually re-formed. Bea is the founder of Speculative Assemblies, an experimental design and research laboratory that investigates visual and conceptual constructs in architecture, focusing on abstraction, ambiguity, and open-ended inquiry. Her work challenges conventional boundaries between architecture, art, and research, foregrounding rigorous relationships between concept, technique, and craft. With over fifteen years of professional experience in architectural practice, including work at Richard Rogers and Partners, Bea’s background bridges the precision of professional architecture with experimental and speculative modes of thinking and making. Prior to joining MSA, she taught at the University of Huddersfield, Birmingham City University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
@bgommartin
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Associate Professor, Bartlett
Dr Emma-Kate Matthews
Emma-Kate (b. 1986) is an architect, composer, musician, and digital artist whose work explores the creative intersections of sonic and spatial practices. She specialises in producing site-specific, spatialised audio-visual projects that investigate creative reciprocities between sonic and spatial practices Her compositions have been performed at internationally renowned venues, including the Sagrada Familia, the Southbank Centre, the Barbican, and the Brighton Festival. Notably, she composed for the London Symphony Orchestra’s prestigious Panufnik residency. As a solo artist, Emma-Kate has released a series of electronic-classical works on acclaimed labels such as Algebra, NMC, Musicity Global, and Accidental. Her music has been broadcast internationally on prominent platforms like BBC Radio 3, Resonance FM, and Tokyo Radio. Emma-Kate is an associate professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, where she serves as the Director of Fabrication and Design Collaboration. She also teaches on the MSci Architecture program and conducts research in spatiosonic practice. She completed her PhD in July 2025. Additionally, she hosts Hunter Gatherer, an eclectic radio show on RTM.FM every fourth Thursday.
@emmatr0n
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about...
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architects
&
Drawing Prizes 2026
MSA Drawing Prize Announcement Recording available HERE
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inscriptive practices at Manchester School of Architecture
If you have questions or wish to discuss the development of your drawing, you can...
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