Changing habits
Applications for the Prix AMO 2025 award are open until 30 June 2025 (follow this link to find out more). Since 2019, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui has been a partner of the award, and are now presenting a series of articles to explore the six categories that have established this award’s reputation. The first category to be examined is the one rewarding the boldest implementation.
Since 1983, the AMO / Architecture et Maîtres d’Ouvrage association has celebrated the strong conviction that a project is never the work of a single person. It is always the result of dialogue. One year after its establishment, the association has launched its architecture prize to celebrate the most inspiring collaborations.
In 2018, the award underwent a transformation. Under architect Martin Duplantier’s leadership, the traditional categories have given way to more sensitive and open themes such as metamorphosis, audacity, urban catalysts, productive places, inventive typologies and Franch-European dialogues.
Now, with Céline Bouvier and Matthias Navarro taking over as co-presidents, the Prix AMO is evolving once again. While dialogue remains at its heart, transitions – ecological, social, economic and territorial – are becoming a central criterion.
From 2025 onwards, the AMO Prize will be awarded to those who transform, not just build. Those who repair, invent and connect. Of all the projects submitted, only one will be awarded the Prix AMO: the project that best embodies the award’s ambitions, transcending its own category.
Prize for the most creative typology, reinventing uses.
In a world that is constantly changing, space can no longer be limited to fixed functions. It must anticipate, accommodate and adapt. The prize for the most creative typology celebrates this ability to invent new, hybrid, reversible, evolving forms — in short, typologies in motion.
Here, architecture becomes exploration. A third place between public and private, a volume able to change its use according to the time of day or the season, a modular space designed for sharing or retreat… These projects question our habits and open up the field of possibilities. They affirm that a place can be multiple, and that a programme is never set in stone.
This prize honours not just the originality of a gesture, but the power of an idea: the idea that a space can accommodate much more than it was designed for. That it can repair damaged social links, respond to invisible forms of living and invent new common spaces. In short, that it can change our expectations and re-enchant our daily lives.
In a world where the boundaries between times, uses and lives are becoming porous, typological creativity is no longer a luxury. It’s a necessity. It’s a way of responding, through space, to the emerging needs of our society: working anywhere other than in an office, living differently from a solo or extended family, creating places that are porous, welcoming and open to the unexpected.
And what if the city of tomorrow were not so much about the square metres gained as the formats reinvented? The prize for the most creative typology sends a clear message to the profession: the future belongs to those who redesign uses, even more than plans.
Rediscover below the winning project in 2024 of the Prix for the most creative typology (the Us Métro Bizot sports center designed by Think Tank architects for RATP Realestate) and follow this link to read the booklet containing all the 2024 awards.
