40under40 European Design Award

40under40 European Design Award Europe 40 Under 40® is an annual awards program that celebrates the Next New Talented Generation of European Architects and Industrial Designers

🎉 We’re excited to announce that   has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆Meet Maxime, an ar...
31/07/2026

🎉 We’re excited to announce that has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆

Meet Maxime, an architect who shaped by city life and mountain escapes. Since 2011, he’s blended rigorous planning with a love for nature—drawing inspiration from hikes, climbs, and campsites. 🥾⛰️

With his partner Gautier Duthoit, Maxime weaves architecture, craftsmanship, and raw landscapes into every project. From a primary school and market hall to a nearly finished water sports center and “house for humans and nature,” their work honors aesthetic, structural, and cultural context. 🏗️🌿

Selected project:
⚒Moby Dick II | Bischwiller, Bas-Rhin, France | 2025


🎉 We’re excited to announce that  Ophelie Dozat  has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆Ophé...
29/07/2026

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Ophelie Dozat has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆

Ophélie is an architect, doctoral researcher, and co-founder of Materra–Matang. With a master’s in social sciences and a PhD in architecture at ENSAV, her work explores the aesthetic role of retaining walls in shaping landscapes.

From teaching at ENSAV and EPFL to being a Fellow at the Villa Medici in Rome, her journey blends research, design, and education. In 2023, her practice won the AJAP award, and in 2025, she was honored as Young Woman Architect under 40. Two of her furniture designs are now part of the Mobilier National collections.
Selected Projects:
⚒Drying Pavilion | France, Porquerolles, Var | 2025
⚒Artist’s workshop | France, Seine saint denis, Montreuil | 2025
⚒Garden Pavilion at Palazzo Farnese | Italy, Rome | 2025

Architecture. Research. Design. All in one. 🏛️🪑📚


🎉 We’re excited to announce that  Luc Doin has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆Luc is an ...
15/07/2026

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Luc Doin has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆

Luc is an architect and partner at Mesure. His practice spans design, project management, research, public outreach and experimental construction.

Mesure’s generalist, frugal approach transforms existing buildings and landscapes, using local materials and skills. Since 2025 they operate from Pilat (Loire) and Vercors (Isère) to combine regional perspectives with on-the-ground presence.

Selected Projects:
⚒Symphonie pastorale | France | 2023
⚒L’Epi – the ear of wheat | France | 2023
⚒Distillerie de Chavanay | France | 2023

architecture

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Alienor Bolelli  has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆🏛️ ...
08/07/2026

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Alienor Bolelli has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆

🏛️ Aliénor is an architect and co-founder of Minuit Architectes, a Paris-based studio founded in 2020 with Félix Borel, Maxime Eon, and Joseph Vincent.

📍Their work treats architecture through construction: simple, legible systems where structure and use meet. From transformed ateliers and the steel-framed Maison Morvan to the stone-and-timber Logements Beaunier, they design honest, sustainable collective housing.

Selected projects:
⚒Buet | France | 2023
⚒Beaunier | France | 2025
⚒Ateliers ENSA-Versailles | France | 2024

archi

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Grégoire Arthuis has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆Pre...
01/07/2026

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Grégoire Arthuis has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆

Presenting Grégoire, architect & civil engineer, co‑founder of Nu Architecture & Ingénierie (Paris, 2019). Trained at INSA Lyon and Paris‑Malaquais (2014), winner of the LafargeHolcim Europe (Next Generation) for his diploma.

He leads Nu’s bridges and footbridges across France and Europe, where technical constraints become site‑specific, poetic design. Nu won the 2022 Équerre d’Argent for the Brides‑les‑Bains footbridge.

Selected projects:
🌉Butterfly Footbridge | Angers, Pays de la Loire, France | 2025
🌁Burgundy’s Footbridge | Louhans, Burgundy, France | 2024
🌉Mirrored Footbridge | Brides les Bains, Savoie, France | 2023


🎉 We’re excited to announce that Eleni Pattichi has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆Meet ...
24/06/2026

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Eleni Pattichi has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆

Meet Eleni Pattichi,who graduated with honors from the National Technical University of Athens and earned a Master of Architecture & Urbanism from the AA Design Research Laboratory.Her award-winning work has been recognised by Architectural Review (MIPIM Future Projects), the Biennale of Young Greek Architects and ACIA-India, and she’s contributed to academia through Oikonet (Univ. of Cyprus) and AA Visiting Schools.

As co‑director of Pattichi & Tozaj — EP Architects with Taulant Tozaj, she creates designs rooted in social context, environment and technology. The practice has won 15 competition awards (including five first prizes) and delivers both public and private projects across Greece.

Selected projects:
⚒Social Housing in Pano Polemidia of Cyprus Land Development Corporation | Cyprus | 2023
⚒Elenio public primary school and kindergarten | Nicosia Cyprus | 2024
⚒Tilted Juxtapositions-Office building | Cyprus | 2025


🎉 We’re excited to announce that Vernes Causevic has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆Vern...
17/06/2026

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Vernes Causevic has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆

Vernes, co-founder of Project V Architecture, creates award-winning architecture rooted in sustainability, context, and craftsmanship. From Bosnia and Herzegovina to the UK and Western Balkans, his work explores how buildings and places can positively shape society and the planet!

Selected projects:
⚒Treehouse Apartment | Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2025
⚒Most Mira Peace Centre | Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2023
⚒Zemlja | Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina| 2023



Λιγότερα

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Julien Deloffre  has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆🎯Ju...
10/06/2026

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Julien Deloffre has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆

🎯Julien Deloffre is a Brussels‑based architect, urban designer, and co‑founder of l’atelier DEV, a practice that transforms contemporary urban environments by reclaiming oversized road infrastructures into high‑quality pedestrian public spaces. His context‑driven work—recognized by Brussels Architecture Prize nominations (2021, 2025) and the Green Solutions Awards’ International Grand Prize for Urban Renewal for Bon Air—spans architecture, urbanism, and landscape.

📍Previously a project leader at Ms‑a, he contributed to major squares, heritage sites, and award‑winning buildings such as the Navez corner.

Selected Projects:
⚒Bon Air – Masterplan and Creation of Six New Squares in a Garden City of Brussels | Brussels, Belgium | 2024
⚒Navez | Brussels, Belgium | 2023
⚒Ceria – Masterplan for the campus extension and construction of a vertical school in Brussels | Brussels, Belgium | 2024


🎉 We’re excited to announce that Jeanne Autran-Edorh  has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! ...
05/06/2026

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Jeanne Autran-Edorh has been named a winner of the Europe 40under40 Awards 2025–2026! 🏆

📍Jeanne, French‑Togolese architect and Studio NEiDA co‑founder, champions decolonial, regenerative design and circular material innovation; she co‑curated Togo’s 2025 Venice pavilion and teaches at KU Leuven.

Selected projects:
⚒️Adakpamé Guesthouse | Adakpame, Lomé, Togo | 2023
🏗Considering Togo’s Architectural Heritage | Venice Biennale, Italy | 2025
🎥The Falcon Cinema | Berekuso, Accra, Ghana | 2024


📍We’re thrilled to reveal the 2025–2026 Europe 40under40® winners — brilliant new voices in European architecture and de...
22/05/2026

📍We’re thrilled to reveal the 2025–2026 Europe 40under40® winners — brilliant new voices in European architecture and design. Their bold, thoughtful projects remind us that visionary creativity lights the way forward.

📍We’re also proud to partner again with leading European architects and academics whose expertise strengthens the programme.

📣Read the official press release here :https://europe40under40.com/press-release-2026/

Address

28 Butlers Court
Dublin

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+302103428511

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when 40under40 European Design Award posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organisation

Send a message to 40under40 European Design Award:

Shortcuts

Share