With Architecture & Landscape as this year’s theme, participants in the Archifoto competition are presented with a vast field of exploration. However, it is challenging to address this theme through photography whilst avoiding clichés. This is precisely because the concept of landscape is no longer self-evident. Having become a catch-all term, it encompasses not only the aesthetic dimension, but also political, social, environmental and cultural realities. In the face of climatic, demographic and ecological changes, the concept of landscape has emerged as a strategic framework for thinking about cities and territories. So, how can we capture the relationship between architecture and landscape, reveal their similarities and differences, and demonstrate their ability to influence people and places?

The associations European House of Architecture – Upper Rhine and La Chambre are working together to enhance architectural photography. For every new edition of their festival Les Journées de l’architecture (The Days of Architecture), both associations care to offer a discovery of architecture through original photos and exhibitions, introducing to their audiences the work of international photographers.

In 2010, these two associations took the decision of expanding their fields of cooperation by launching the Archifoto– european awards of architectural photography contest. Archifoto aims to become a reference award by rewarding the photographers whose vision help us understand architecture, the urban landscape and the world…

The creative and documentary selection of Archifoto could become an original corpus about the complexity and the scale of architecture nowadays, seen through the eyes of those who live within.

Archifoto 2026 Theme: With Architecture & Landscape as this year’s theme, participants in the Archifoto competition are presented with a vast field of exploration. However, it is challenging to address this theme through photography whilst avoiding clichés. This is precisely because the concept of landscape is no longer self-evident. Having become a catch-all term, it encompasses not only the aesthetic dimension, but also political, social, environmental and cultural realities. In the face of climatic, demographic and ecological changes, the concept of landscape has emerged as a strategic framework for thinking about cities and territories. So, how can we capture the relationship between architecture and landscape, reveal their similarities and differences, and demonstrate their ability to influence people and places?