"The Créateurs Design Awards (CDA) announced Xu Tiantian, Founder and Principal Architect of DnA_Design and Architecture, as the recipient of the 2026 edition of Le Prix Charlotte Perriand. The award celebrates architects whose work embodies innovation, social responsibility, and a deep engagement with community and place. The architect was recognized for her transformative work bridging urban and rural communities through innovative design interventions."
"Le Prix Charlotte Perriand honors architects who embody the spirit of Charlotte Perriand's legacy: a commitment to innovation, social responsibility, and design that serves humanity. The award recognizes practitioners whose work transcends aesthetic achievement to create meaningful impact on communities and the built environment. It is bestowed by the Créateurs Design Awards, a global peer-to-peer recognition program celebrating excellence in architecture, design, interior design, photography, journalism, digital art, curation, and landscape architecture. With over 300 jurors across 55 countries, the CDA has honored creatives such as Tadao Ando, Virgil Abloh, and Norman Foster."
"Xu Tiantian is the founder and principal architect of DnA_Design and Architecture. She holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Tsinghua University. Since founding DnA in the early 2000s, she has focused on projects that engage local communities, cultural heritage, and the landscape, integrating architecture into existing social and ecological systems to create interventions that strengthen rather than disrupt."
Xu Tiantian received the 2026 Le Prix Charlotte Perriand from the Créateurs Design Awards (CDA) for architectural work that bridges urban and rural communities. The prize recognizes innovation, social responsibility, and design that engages community and place. Xu's projects focus on cultural preservation and rural revitalization through interventions that integrate architecture with social and ecological systems. She founded DnA_Design and Architecture in the early 2000s and holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Tsinghua University. The CDA is a global peer-to-peer recognition program with over 300 jurors in 55 countries. Previous recipients of the prize include Frida Escobedo, Jeanne Gang, Kazuyo Sejima, and Ryue Nishizawa.
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