Our annual Archinect readers’ predictions for this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize have once again spurred a lively discussion forum thread full of guesses as to which architect will become the 53rd official laureate when the prize is announced on Tuesday, March 5.

Last year, our social media polls had the eventual winner, David Chipperfield, over a group of frontrunners that mostly carried over to 2024, namely Jeanne Gang, Kengo Kuma, and Bjarke Ingels.

Alejandro Aravena (also the 2016 Pritzker laureate) is the jury chair for the sixth consecutive year, joined by the prize’s Executive Director Manuela Lucá-Dazio; Columbia GSAPP professor Barry Bergdoll; Yale SoA dean Deborah Berke; retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; the critic and Brazilian Ambassador to India André Aranha Corrêa do Lago; and the 2010 and 2012 laureates Kazuyo Sejima and Wang Shu.

Here's what some of the commenters in the discussion thread predicted:

ae_0 listed "H arquitectes, Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica, Barclay Crousse, Aires Mateus, Alberto Kalach, and Atelier Bow-Wow" as their favorites.

archimetaform quipped: "Urbanization must experience a new renaissance and blur the boundary between city and nature. I vote for HERMANN KAUFMANN. He is a pioneer and master of working with WOOD."

ill_will commented in favor of Austin Maynard Architects.

Responding to Moshe Safdie's name, keepbuilding wrote: "considering the current israel-hamas war... hmm."

Conversely, ae_0  and archiarchi agreed on Eyal Weizman and Forensic Architecture's deserving recognition in light of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Palestine.

koratheexplorer wrote in favor of SelgasCano.

Kengo Kuma's name was also favored by ae_0, who wrote: "one would've thought he'd already won."

Thomas Heatherwick was picked as a likely winner by 2005bmw325i, who also lists Christ & Gantenbein, Christian Kerez, Neri & Hu, Johnston Marklee, and Kuma as potential winners.

Got a hunch who will win the Prize this year, or who should win it? Let us know in the comments, and stay tuned for the results next week when the 2024 Pritzker Prize announcement goes live!