The Saxon State Prize for Building Culture is awarded by the Saxon State Ministry for Infrastructure and Regional Development in collaboration with the Architects' Chamber of Saxony and the Engineers' Chamber of Saxony. The corresponding exhibition of the prize winners is shown at the ZfBK and then toured by the ZfBK throughout Saxony. Building projects that make an outstanding contribution to building culture in Saxony are honoured. This year, the competition focuses on one of the most important current requirements of construction: the efficient and sustainable design of buildings. In recent decades, high-tech solutions with complex technical equipment have primarily been used to reduce energy consumption. However, there is an increasing pursuit of low-tech approaches that utilise a technology-minimised construction method, natural principles of operation, and simple systems. The crucial question is not whether high-tech or low-tech points the way, but how both approaches can be synergistically connected. The State Prize for Building Culture 2026 honours and publicises building projects where the planners have particularly innovatively engaged with the tension between high-tech and low-tech. Projects that respond to the challenges of modern architecture and have produced forward-looking, transferable solutions for the "right" level of technical equipment and amenities will be awarded. The State Prize for Building Culture is financed on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament. The prize is a fixed component of the initiative "Building Culture Connects" alongside the State Prize for Rural Building.