Rifat Chadirji Prize 2026: The Right to Landscape

The Rifat Chadirji Award invites landscape architects, architects, and urban planners worldwide to propose a landscape led recovery vision for Sahl Al Khiam in Southern Lebanon. The valley, an agricultural lifeline endured occupation and recurrent bombardment, remains vital to the livelihoods, ecology, and identity of the Khiam community. Despite extensive damage, the Sahl survives as a rare space of continuity and refuge.

Proposals should demonstrate how recovery can balance nature conservation with economic regeneration, and community wellbeing with environmental health, through strategic and sustainable interventions that safeguard the long term ecological and spatial integrity of the valley.