Architizer’s Imaginative and prescient Awards is now accepting entries, with a Remaining Entry Deadline on July 14th, 2023. In response to the overwhelming recognition of our One Rendering, One Drawing and One Picture Challenges, we developed this awards program to acknowledge a few of the structure business’s most unsung inventive heroes. As with Architizer’s A+Awards, we’ve assembled a stellar, multi-disciplinary jury of architectural thought leaders from all over the world, permitting entrants to get their work in entrance of a few of the business’s main figures and see their work printed in print.
Enter the Imaginative and prescient Awards
In the identical democratic and really international spirit as Architizer’s A+Awards, the Imaginative and prescient Awards’ jury contains influential figures within the fields of structure, design, know-how, movie and past. Searching for ideas to ensure your entry stands out in entrance of the gang? Try our Editor’s Information to Successful Architizer’s Imaginative and prescient Awards. Now, with out additional ado, uncover the trailblazing consultants we’ve handpicked to assist choose the winners for this yr’s competitors.
Shajay Booshan
Affiliate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects
Shajay is an aspiring polymath. He’s an Affiliate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects the place he co-founded and heads the Computation and Design analysis group (ZHACODE, 2007). Shajay pursues his scientific pursuits in digital design and robotic fabrication as a PhD candidate on the Block Analysis Group (BRG, 2017) on the ETH, Zurich and beforehand as a M.Phil. graduate from College of Tub, UK (2016). He’s a graduate from and a studio-master on the post-graduate course of Design Analysis Laboratory on the Architectural Affiliation, London (AADRL, 2006). There, he explores the intersection of laptop graphics, video video games, metaverse know-how, city improvement and fashionable strategies of building.
Observe Shajay on LinkedIn.
Matthew Bannister
Founding father of DBOX
Matthew Bannister co-founded DBOX in 1996. In 2006 he was named considered one of ‘The World’s Prime Creatives Beneath 40’ by WallPaper* journal. In 2015 he was named considered one of ‘The 20 Greatest Energy Gamers in New York Metropolis Actual Property’ by the New York Put up. Beneath his management, DBOX has gained a number of awards together with the Emmy Award. For the final three years he has operated because the inventive director and a member of the lead architectural design crew for 4 Seasons Personal Residences Lake Austin, a 145 acres purely residential resort.
Matthew earned a Bachelor of Structure from Cornell College and a Masters of Structure from Princeton College. He has taught at each establishments.
Observe Matthew on LinkedIn, or head over to Instagram to take a look at his handles, @dboxglobal and @thebeautifulfear.
Katherine Chia
Co-Founding father of Desai Chia Structure
Katherine Chia FAIA is a founding principal of Desai Chia Structure. Since 1996, she and her companion & husband, Arjun Desai, have established the agency’s popularity for genuine design, creating inspiring environments expressive of sunshine, supplies, and areas that foster collaboration. Desai Chia’s initiatives have been printed extensively and obtained many accolades together with quite a few AIA Design Awards and American Structure Awards, quite a few Inside Design Better of Yr Awards, and an AIA Institute Honor Award. In 2018, ARCHITECT Journal ranked Desai Chia Structure #19 within the nation for Design. The e-book “The Ladies Who Modified Structure” by Princeton Architectural Press included Katherine and her work within the chapter titled “Elevating the Roof.”
Katherine grew up in New York State and Belgium. She earned her Grasp of Structure diploma from M.I.T. and obtained her Bachelor of Arts diploma from Amherst Faculty. Previous to founding Desai Chia Structure, she labored for Maya Lin on quite a few artwork and structure commissions. She is a Trustee Emerita of Amherst Faculty, a board member on the Middle for Structure, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Observe Katherine on LinkedIn.
Arjun Desai
Co-Founding father of Desai Chia Structure
Arjun Desai AIA is a founding principal of Desai Chia Structure. Since 1996, he and his companion and spouse, Katherine Chia, have established the agency’s popularity for genuine design, creating inspiring environments expressive of sunshine, supplies, and areas that foster collaboration. Desai Chia’s initiatives have been printed extensively and obtained many accolades together with quite a few AIA Design Awards and American Structure Awards, quite a few Inside Design Better of Yr Awards, and an AIA Institute Honor Award. In 2018, ARCHITECT Journal ranked Desai Chia Structure #19 within the nation for Design.
Arjun grew up in New Delhi and Mumbai, India. Previous to founding Desai Chia Structure, he labored at SHCA/NY on quite a few civic initiatives in New York and Washington, D.C. He earned his Grasp of Structure diploma from M.I.T. and obtained his Bachelor of Arts diploma from Bennington Faculty.
Observe Arjun on LinkedIn.
Andres Ramirez
Founding father of PLANESITE
Andrés F. Ramirez is a Colombian author, curator, filmmaker and cultural producer working within the realm of structure, city planning and media. He’s the co-founder and Managing Director of PLANE–SITE, an company dedicated to the manufacturing and dissemination of unique content material concerning the constructed surroundings. At PLANE–SITE, he leads a wide-range of initiatives –from exhibitions and publications, to design competitions and worldwide conferences. Andrés is at present pursuing a PhD in City Planning at UCLA.
Observe Andrés on LinkedIn.
James Whitaker
Founding father of Whitaker Studio
James Whitaker is the founding father of the self-named Whitaker Studio. Primarily based out of London, Whitaker Studio designs one-of-a-kind buildings and grasp plans for purchasers all over the world. Whitaker Studio’s work has been printed broadly and their Starburst Home in California is presumably the world’s best-known unbuilt home.
Previous to organising Whitaker Studio James labored as an architect for Thomas Heatherwick and Ron Arad in London and Hong Kong, on quite a lot of internationally famend initiatives, each huge and small. He has additionally labored as a photographer and a digital artist.
Observe James on LinkedIn.
Xuanru Chen
Co-Founder and Architect at ZJJZ Atelier China
Xuanru Chen, graduated from the College of Michigan with a grasp’s diploma in structure, has been working in Shanghai as an architect since 2011. In 2017, she co-founded ZJJZ with Sean Shen and Yu-ying Tsai. The studio focuses on design options for various areas, whereas finding out the inventive makes use of of the area. Its areas of experience embody cultural and public initiatives equivalent to artwork galleries, libraries, neighborhood facilities and motels. ZJJZ has additionally performed an energetic function within the rural improvement of China.
Marc Tsurumaki
Founding Principal of LTL Architects
Marc Tsurumaki is principal and founding companion of LTL Architects, a New York-based design intensive structure agency based in 1997. LTL Architects engages a various vary of labor, turning the constraints of every mission into the design trajectory by exploring opportunistic overlaps between area, materiality, kind, and program. In 2019, the agency was chosen because the AIA New York State Agency of the Yr, and its three companions have been inducted into the Inside Design Corridor of Fame. LTL’s work has been acknowledged extensively together with the Nationwide Design Award and inclusion within the everlasting collections of the Museum of Fashionable Artwork, the San Francisco MoMA and the Carnegie Museum of Artwork. Marc Tsurumaki is a licensed architect and obtained a Bachelor of Science in Structure from the College of Virginia and a Grasp of Structure from Princeton College.
Marc is an Adjunct Affiliate Professor of Structure at Columbia College’s Graduate Faculty of Structure, Planning, and Preservation and has taught at a number of establishments, most just lately because the Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale College. Marc is the writer with Paul and David Lewis of 5 books together with the just lately printed Handbook of Biogenic Home Sections, a comply with as much as their best-selling Handbook of Part which addresses questions of embodied carbon and the architectural potentials of plant and earth primarily based supplies. He’s at present the President of the Board of Administrators of Storefront for Artwork and Structure.
Thomas Phifer
Accomplice at Thomas Phifer and Companions
Since founding Thomas Phifer and Companions in 1997, Thomas Phifer has accomplished an enlargement of the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, an enlargement of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, the USA Courthouse in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, the North Carolina Museum of Artwork in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion at Rice College in Houston, Texas, an out of doors efficiency pavilion in Austin, and quite a few homes within the Hudson River Valley of New York State. Ongoing initiatives embrace the Museum of Fashionable Artwork and TR Warszawa Theatre in Warsaw, Cine Colombia headquarters in Bogotá, a pupil heart and an Worldwide Research Middle for Indiana College in Bloomington, and the South Battery Park Metropolis Resiliency Undertaking in Decrease Manhattan. Thomas Phifer can be engaged in non-public residences in Portugal, Texas, Maine and New York. Since 1997, Thomas Phifer and Companions has obtained 4 Design Excellence awards from the Basic Providers Administration and greater than thirty honor awards from the American Institute of Architects, in addition to quite a few nationwide and worldwide citations. His initiatives have been printed and exhibited extensively in the USA and abroad.
A monograph on the work of Thomas Phifer and Companions was launched in 2010 by Skira Rizzoli. Thomas Phifer obtained the distinguished Rome Prize in Structure from the American Academy in Rome in 1995 and was awarded the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2004. He was elected as an Academician of the Nationwide Academy of Design in 2011. In 2013, Mr. Phifer obtained the Arts and Letters Award in Structure from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2016, he was honored by the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects with the President’s Award and by the Sir John Soane’s Museum Basis. He additionally gave the 2016 keynote lecture on the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. In 2019, he was awarded the Nationwide Design Award in Architectural Design from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. In 2022, he was elected as a lifetime member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Phifer is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the board of the Architectural League of New York. In 2022 the Clemson College of Faculty of Structure introduced a newly endowed fellowship for traditionally underserved and underrepresented college students.
The Thomas Phifer Fellowship will assist tuition within the Faculty of Structure for 2 graduate college students for 2 years in an effort to extend entry and broaden a extra various pathway throughout the career of structure in South Carolina. Thomas Phifer has served as a visiting professor at quite a few structure faculties, together with the Columbia Graduate Faculty of Structure, Planning and Preservation, Cooper Union, College of Southern California, College of Texas, College of Pennsylvania, and Cornell College Faculty of Structure, Artwork, and Planning. Mr. Phifer has been appointed the William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design and the Louis I Kahn Visiting Professor of Architectural Design, each on the Yale Faculty of Structure. Mr. Phifer obtained his Bachelor of Structure in 1975 and his Grasp of Structure in 1977, each from Clemson College. In 1977 he studied on the Clemson Structure Middle in Genoa, Italy.
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