Built space
First category – Built space – refers to built projects completed between July 2020 – July 2022, including interventions (reconversions or extensions) on existing buildings with or without heritage value, from domains such as:
- housing: single-family or collective;
- commercial: commercial buildings, offices, mixed-use or industrial buildings;
- services: hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs, wellness or recreation buildings;
- institutional: public institutions or public interest buildings that are part of the following domains: socio-cultural (education / health / social assistance / sport and youth), national defense (military units / specialized educational units), public order (police units / firefighter units), public authority (central administration public institutions / local institutions – city halls, prefectures, courts), tourism (touristic information centres / tourism institutions), other domains (environment protection institutions, water management, research institutions);
- cultural: libraries, museums, theatres, cinemas, churches;
- heritage: rehabilitation, reconversion, restorations or consolidation projects.
For this category, participants can submit only built and implemented projects and not proposals which are only at the design phase.
Architects that have the right to practice in accordance with the laws of the country where they work, as well as collectives coordinated by them are eligible.
In this category, one can submit works either located in DKMT1 Euroregion, or belonging to authors that have a permanent residence in DKMT Euroregion.
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euros, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros have been considered.
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT1). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
1 The DKMT euroregion is an European region of collaboration (DKMT indicates the territories contained between the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa rivers) which currently includes Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad and Hunedoara counties from Romania, Csongrád and Bács-Kiskun counties from Hungary and the Vojvodina province from Serbia.
Jury
András Cseh
András Cseh is an architect, educator, researcher and writer with a strong focus on learning spaces and spatial education. He is the co-founder of CAN Architects, who are working on revolutionising school architecture in Hungary based on multidisciplinary research and participative design. András has been teaching architecture for all ages: at Széchenyi István University for architecture students and as the founder of CAN EDU for children and educators, while developing spatial learning toolkits and transforming national education legislation. His buildings and learning initiatives received multiple national and international awards. In the past decade András has developed a spatial conscious BSc program for kindergarten and elementary school educators at Pannon University that starts in 2022. Currently he is working on the introduction of outdoor learning spaces and methods at CAN’s Basalt School project. Also the winner of the first prestigious Beta Architectural Writing Prize in 2016.
Bogdan Ciocodeică
Bogdan Ciocodeică is an architect and designer that graduated from University of Architecture and Urbanism "Ion Mincu", Bucharest. Since 2015 he has been setting up his own architecture office, where he focuses on interior architecture product design, public space interventions and event design. The style he approaches is minimalist eclectic, a mix of simplicity, clean lines and statement pieces. The proposed approach is very personal and intimate, which puts the beneficiary of the designed space at its centre and allows the project to evolve over time, even after the design process is over. His work has been featured in numerous architectural publications and websites: Zeppelin, IGLOO, Archdaily, Yatzer, Designboom, Frame, AD, Elle Decor. Bogdan Ciocodeică is the winner of several architectural competitions and has been awarded prizes and nominations at the Bucharest Architecture Annual, Beta and BIG SEE.
Evelina Ozola
Evelina Ozola is a Latvian architect, urbanist, and writer. In her new role as Riga City Chief Designer she is working together with politicians and design professionals to update old policies and create new tools for public space development and management. In 2018, Evelina co-curated Together and Apart, the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice architecture biennale. She has worked as an architect and urban designer at MADE arhitekti in Riga and SVESMI in Rotterdam, and co-founded the tactical urbanism collective Fine Young Urbanists that has come up with attractive and thought-provoking methods of prototyping street space and involving the society in the design process. Next to design work, Evelina regularly contributes to online and printed publications, and since 2013 she oversees FOLD, an online magazine for creative industries in Latvia. Evelina is passionate about communicating urban design issues and ideas to the broader public. Her academic work — at Umeå School of Architecture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and Riga Technical University International Summer School — helped explore this, too.
Mark Randel
Mark is the owner of Studio Mark Randel, a Boutique Berlin based architectural practice in its formative years, developing an architectural language by exploring the qualities that makes a space a place. The studio is currently working on residential projects in Munich, Ibiza, Berlin and Greece. Before starting his own architectural practice, Mark worked 23 years for David Chipperfield Architects. He started in the London office where he played a key role in winning the competition for the “Neues Museum” on Berlin's Museum island in 1997. He was a founding member of the Berlin office, where he designed museums, towers, retail spaces and residential projects. In 2002 he started the DCA office in Shanghai. He remained with the office till the end of 2018 - the last seven years as a Design Director and Partner. Mark was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1967 and studied architecture at the University of Arts in Berlin and at the Politecnico in Milano, Italy.
Milka Gnjato
As one of the founding partners and Creative director, Milka has been leading the development of Zabriskie practice toward one of the most successful and recognizable in Serbia. Her focuses are in the domain of the improvement of design methodology and its results, throughout experiments in design processes, extensive exchange of opinions, and interdisciplinary cooperation. She strongly believes, that every answer for design is to be found in context – physical, theoretical, social, cultural, historical. Re-establishing the continuity of inherited values is one of hers most important engagement topics. The uniqueness of results of contextual interpolation is recog¬nizable in projects lead by her, such as Kindergarten “Tesla – science for life”, Office building “Mia Dorćol”, Residential complex “Merin Hill”, Office building “BBC business center”. Designs led by her won several awards, among them Annual award of Union of Serbian Architects, 2020, 2014, Grand Prix – Salon of Architecture in 2014, and nomination for „EU Mies Award“ 2013, 2015, 2020. Since 2021. She is member of steering committee of Belgrade Association of Architects.
Interior space
Second category – Interior space – refers to interior design, interior lighting design, scenography (performance spaces) completed between July 2020 – July 2022;
For this category, participants can submit only built and implemented projects and not proposals which are only at the design phase.
Professionals from domains such as architecture, interior design, furniture design, lighting design, decorative arts, scenography, design, with diplomas or certificates approved by their country of origin and domain’s professional organizations are eligible;
In this category, one can submit works either located in DKMT1 Euroregion, or belonging to authors that have a permanent residence in DKMT Euroregion
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euros, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros have been considered.
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT2). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
1 The DKMT euroregion is an European region of collaboration (DKMT indicates the territories contained between the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa rivers) which currently includes Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad and Hunedoara counties from Romania, Csongrád and Bács-Kiskun counties from Hungary and the Vojvodina province from Serbia.
Jury
András Cseh
András Cseh is an architect, educator, researcher and writer with a strong focus on learning spaces and spatial education. He is the co-founder of CAN Architects, who are working on revolutionising school architecture in Hungary based on multidisciplinary research and participative design. András has been teaching architecture for all ages: at Széchenyi István University for architecture students and as the founder of CAN EDU for children and educators, while developing spatial learning toolkits and transforming national education legislation. His buildings and learning initiatives received multiple national and international awards. In the past decade András has developed a spatial conscious BSc program for kindergarten and elementary school educators at Pannon University that starts in 2022. Currently he is working on the introduction of outdoor learning spaces and methods at CAN’s Basalt School project. Also the winner of the first prestigious Beta Architectural Writing Prize in 2016.
Bogdan Ciocodeică
Bogdan Ciocodeică is an architect and designer that graduated from University of Architecture and Urbanism "Ion Mincu", Bucharest. Since 2015 he has been setting up his own architecture office, where he focuses on interior architecture product design, public space interventions and event design. The style he approaches is minimalist eclectic, a mix of simplicity, clean lines and statement pieces. The proposed approach is very personal and intimate, which puts the beneficiary of the designed space at its centre and allows the project to evolve over time, even after the design process is over. His work has been featured in numerous architectural publications and websites: Zeppelin, IGLOO, Archdaily, Yatzer, Designboom, Frame, AD, Elle Decor. Bogdan Ciocodeică is the winner of several architectural competitions and has been awarded prizes and nominations at the Bucharest Architecture Annual, Beta and BIG SEE.
Evelina Ozola
Evelina Ozola is a Latvian architect, urbanist, and writer. In her new role as Riga City Chief Designer she is working together with politicians and design professionals to update old policies and create new tools for public space development and management. In 2018, Evelina co-curated Together and Apart, the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice architecture biennale. She has worked as an architect and urban designer at MADE arhitekti in Riga and SVESMI in Rotterdam, and co-founded the tactical urbanism collective Fine Young Urbanists that has come up with attractive and thought-provoking methods of prototyping street space and involving the society in the design process. Next to design work, Evelina regularly contributes to online and printed publications, and since 2013 she oversees FOLD, an online magazine for creative industries in Latvia. Evelina is passionate about communicating urban design issues and ideas to the broader public. Her academic work — at Umeå School of Architecture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and Riga Technical University International Summer School — helped explore this, too.
Mark Randel
Mark is the owner of Studio Mark Randel, a Boutique Berlin based architectural practice in its formative years, developing an architectural language by exploring the qualities that makes a space a place. The studio is currently working on residential projects in Munich, Ibiza, Berlin and Greece. Before starting his own architectural practice, Mark worked 23 years for David Chipperfield Architects. He started in the London office where he played a key role in winning the competition for the “Neues Museum” on Berlin's Museum island in 1997. He was a founding member of the Berlin office, where he designed museums, towers, retail spaces and residential projects. In 2002 he started the DCA office in Shanghai. He remained with the office till the end of 2018 - the last seven years as a Design Director and Partner. Mark was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1967 and studied architecture at the University of Arts in Berlin and at the Politecnico in Milano, Italy.
Milka Gnjato
As one of the founding partners and Creative director, Milka has been leading the development of Zabriskie practice toward one of the most successful and recognizable in Serbia. Her focuses are in the domain of the improvement of design methodology and its results, throughout experiments in design processes, extensive exchange of opinions, and interdisciplinary cooperation. She strongly believes, that every answer for design is to be found in context – physical, theoretical, social, cultural, historical. Re-establishing the continuity of inherited values is one of hers most important engagement topics. The uniqueness of results of contextual interpolation is recog¬nizable in projects lead by her, such as Kindergarten “Tesla – science for life”, Office building “Mia Dorćol”, Residential complex “Merin Hill”, Office building “BBC business center”. Designs led by her won several awards, among them Annual award of Union of Serbian Architects, 2020, 2014, Grand Prix – Salon of Architecture in 2014, and nomination for „EU Mies Award“ 2013, 2015, 2020. Since 2021. She is member of steering committee of Belgrade Association of Architects.
Public space
Third category – Public space – refers to projects / works completed between July 2020 – July 2022, such as:
- built projects completed including landscape design, revitalisations / restructuring of certain urban / rural areas, public squares, pedestrian areas, parks, temporary public spaces, installations, pavilions designed by architects, urbanists or landscape architects which have the right to practice in accordance with the laws of the country where they work, as well as collectives coordinated by them;
- master plan projects, territorial planning, urban strategies etc., that were finished between July 2020- July 2022, completed, or in course of execution; designed by architects, urbanists or landscape architects which have the right to practice in accordance with the laws of the country where they work, as well as collectives coordinated by them;
- works of art belonging to public space made by artists from domains such as architecture, plastic arts, visual arts, decorative arts, design etc.
In this category, one can submit works either located in DKMT1 Euroregion, or belonging to authors that have a permanent residence in DKMT Euroregion.
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euros, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros have been considered.
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT3). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
1 The DKMT euroregion is an European region of collaboration (DKMT indicates the territories contained between the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa rivers) which currently includes Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad and Hunedoara counties from Romania, Csongrád and Bács-Kiskun counties from Hungary and the Vojvodina province from Serbia.
Jury
András Cseh
András Cseh is an architect, educator, researcher and writer with a strong focus on learning spaces and spatial education. He is the co-founder of CAN Architects, who are working on revolutionising school architecture in Hungary based on multidisciplinary research and participative design. András has been teaching architecture for all ages: at Széchenyi István University for architecture students and as the founder of CAN EDU for children and educators, while developing spatial learning toolkits and transforming national education legislation. His buildings and learning initiatives received multiple national and international awards. In the past decade András has developed a spatial conscious BSc program for kindergarten and elementary school educators at Pannon University that starts in 2022. Currently he is working on the introduction of outdoor learning spaces and methods at CAN’s Basalt School project. Also the winner of the first prestigious Beta Architectural Writing Prize in 2016.
Bogdan Ciocodeică
Bogdan Ciocodeică is an architect and designer that graduated from University of Architecture and Urbanism "Ion Mincu", Bucharest. Since 2015 he has been setting up his own architecture office, where he focuses on interior architecture product design, public space interventions and event design. The style he approaches is minimalist eclectic, a mix of simplicity, clean lines and statement pieces. The proposed approach is very personal and intimate, which puts the beneficiary of the designed space at its centre and allows the project to evolve over time, even after the design process is over. His work has been featured in numerous architectural publications and websites: Zeppelin, IGLOO, Archdaily, Yatzer, Designboom, Frame, AD, Elle Decor. Bogdan Ciocodeică is the winner of several architectural competitions and has been awarded prizes and nominations at the Bucharest Architecture Annual, Beta and BIG SEE.
Evelina Ozola
Evelina Ozola is a Latvian architect, urbanist, and writer. In her new role as Riga City Chief Designer she is working together with politicians and design professionals to update old policies and create new tools for public space development and management. In 2018, Evelina co-curated Together and Apart, the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice architecture biennale. She has worked as an architect and urban designer at MADE arhitekti in Riga and SVESMI in Rotterdam, and co-founded the tactical urbanism collective Fine Young Urbanists that has come up with attractive and thought-provoking methods of prototyping street space and involving the society in the design process. Next to design work, Evelina regularly contributes to online and printed publications, and since 2013 she oversees FOLD, an online magazine for creative industries in Latvia. Evelina is passionate about communicating urban design issues and ideas to the broader public. Her academic work — at Umeå School of Architecture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and Riga Technical University International Summer School — helped explore this, too.
Mark Randel
Mark is the owner of Studio Mark Randel, a Boutique Berlin based architectural practice in its formative years, developing an architectural language by exploring the qualities that makes a space a place. The studio is currently working on residential projects in Munich, Ibiza, Berlin and Greece. Before starting his own architectural practice, Mark worked 23 years for David Chipperfield Architects. He started in the London office where he played a key role in winning the competition for the “Neues Museum” on Berlin's Museum island in 1997. He was a founding member of the Berlin office, where he designed museums, towers, retail spaces and residential projects. In 2002 he started the DCA office in Shanghai. He remained with the office till the end of 2018 - the last seven years as a Design Director and Partner. Mark was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1967 and studied architecture at the University of Arts in Berlin and at the Politecnico in Milano, Italy.
Milka Gnjato
As one of the founding partners and Creative director, Milka has been leading the development of Zabriskie practice toward one of the most successful and recognizable in Serbia. Her focuses are in the domain of the improvement of design methodology and its results, throughout experiments in design processes, extensive exchange of opinions, and interdisciplinary cooperation. She strongly believes, that every answer for design is to be found in context – physical, theoretical, social, cultural, historical. Re-establishing the continuity of inherited values is one of hers most important engagement topics. The uniqueness of results of contextual interpolation is recog¬nizable in projects lead by her, such as Kindergarten “Tesla – science for life”, Office building “Mia Dorćol”, Residential complex “Merin Hill”, Office building “BBC business center”. Designs led by her won several awards, among them Annual award of Union of Serbian Architects, 2020, 2014, Grand Prix – Salon of Architecture in 2014, and nomination for „EU Mies Award“ 2013, 2015, 2020. Since 2021. She is member of steering committee of Belgrade Association of Architects.
Graduation projects
The Graduation projects category refers to architecture, urbanism, or interior design final projects, realized during the 2020-2021 or 2021-2022 academic years;
Graduates from DKMT1 Euroregion’s higher education institutions, like architecture, urbanism, or interior design universities / faculties / departments are eligible.
In this category, one can submit works either located in DKMT Euroregion, or belonging to authors that have a permanent residence in DKMT Euroregion.
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euros, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros have been considered.
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT4). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
1 The DKMT euroregion is an European region of collaboration (DKMT indicates the territories contained between the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa rivers) which currently includes Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad and Hunedoara counties from Romania, Csongrád and Bács-Kiskun counties from Hungary and the Vojvodina province from Serbia.
Jury
András Cseh
András Cseh is an architect, educator, researcher and writer with a strong focus on learning spaces and spatial education. He is the co-founder of CAN Architects, who are working on revolutionising school architecture in Hungary based on multidisciplinary research and participative design. András has been teaching architecture for all ages: at Széchenyi István University for architecture students and as the founder of CAN EDU for children and educators, while developing spatial learning toolkits and transforming national education legislation. His buildings and learning initiatives received multiple national and international awards. In the past decade András has developed a spatial conscious BSc program for kindergarten and elementary school educators at Pannon University that starts in 2022. Currently he is working on the introduction of outdoor learning spaces and methods at CAN’s Basalt School project. Also the winner of the first prestigious Beta Architectural Writing Prize in 2016.
Bogdan Ciocodeică
Bogdan Ciocodeică is an architect and designer that graduated from University of Architecture and Urbanism "Ion Mincu", Bucharest. Since 2015 he has been setting up his own architecture office, where he focuses on interior architecture product design, public space interventions and event design. The style he approaches is minimalist eclectic, a mix of simplicity, clean lines and statement pieces. The proposed approach is very personal and intimate, which puts the beneficiary of the designed space at its centre and allows the project to evolve over time, even after the design process is over. His work has been featured in numerous architectural publications and websites: Zeppelin, IGLOO, Archdaily, Yatzer, Designboom, Frame, AD, Elle Decor. Bogdan Ciocodeică is the winner of several architectural competitions and has been awarded prizes and nominations at the Bucharest Architecture Annual, Beta and BIG SEE.
Evelina Ozola
Evelina Ozola is a Latvian architect, urbanist, and writer. In her new role as Riga City Chief Designer she is working together with politicians and design professionals to update old policies and create new tools for public space development and management. In 2018, Evelina co-curated Together and Apart, the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice architecture biennale. She has worked as an architect and urban designer at MADE arhitekti in Riga and SVESMI in Rotterdam, and co-founded the tactical urbanism collective Fine Young Urbanists that has come up with attractive and thought-provoking methods of prototyping street space and involving the society in the design process. Next to design work, Evelina regularly contributes to online and printed publications, and since 2013 she oversees FOLD, an online magazine for creative industries in Latvia. Evelina is passionate about communicating urban design issues and ideas to the broader public. Her academic work — at Umeå School of Architecture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and Riga Technical University International Summer School — helped explore this, too.
Mark Randel
Mark is the owner of Studio Mark Randel, a Boutique Berlin based architectural practice in its formative years, developing an architectural language by exploring the qualities that makes a space a place. The studio is currently working on residential projects in Munich, Ibiza, Berlin and Greece. Before starting his own architectural practice, Mark worked 23 years for David Chipperfield Architects. He started in the London office where he played a key role in winning the competition for the “Neues Museum” on Berlin's Museum island in 1997. He was a founding member of the Berlin office, where he designed museums, towers, retail spaces and residential projects. In 2002 he started the DCA office in Shanghai. He remained with the office till the end of 2018 - the last seven years as a Design Director and Partner. Mark was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1967 and studied architecture at the University of Arts in Berlin and at the Politecnico in Milano, Italy.
Milka Gnjato
As one of the founding partners and Creative director, Milka has been leading the development of Zabriskie practice toward one of the most successful and recognizable in Serbia. Her focuses are in the domain of the improvement of design methodology and its results, throughout experiments in design processes, extensive exchange of opinions, and interdisciplinary cooperation. She strongly believes, that every answer for design is to be found in context – physical, theoretical, social, cultural, historical. Re-establishing the continuity of inherited values is one of hers most important engagement topics. The uniqueness of results of contextual interpolation is recog¬nizable in projects lead by her, such as Kindergarten “Tesla – science for life”, Office building “Mia Dorćol”, Residential complex “Merin Hill”, Office building “BBC business center”. Designs led by her won several awards, among them Annual award of Union of Serbian Architects, 2020, 2014, Grand Prix – Salon of Architecture in 2014, and nomination for „EU Mies Award“ 2013, 2015, 2020. Since 2021. She is member of steering committee of Belgrade Association of Architects.
Initiatives / Experiments / Visions
The category Experiments / Initiatives / Visions refers to completed or speculative projects realized between July 2020 – July 2022 including:
- cultural / architectural education / participative initiatives / public policy projects etc. made by the professional body1, administration2 or by the civil society3;
- speculative architectural projects that interpret the role of architecture (thoughts on the future of architecture): visions / strategies / theories / programs / competitions that are made by architects or urbanists which have the right to practice in accordance with the laws of the country where they work, as well as collectives coordinated by them;
In this category, one can submit works either located in DKMT4 Euroregion, or belonging to authors that have a permanent residence in DKMT Euroregion.
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euros, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros have been considered.
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT5). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
1 Professional body meaning a series of practitioners responsible with the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: architects, urbanists, landscape architects, engineers (structural, installations, electric, traffic etc.), restorers, contractors, including IT specialists, that have the right to practice in accordance with the laws of the country where they work.
2 Administration meaning all those community members and state employees that have the responsibility of managing the present and future built environment.
3 Civil society refers to all the society members that are not part of the professional body, nor of the administrative body, that both influence and are influenced daily by the built environment (associative apolitic groups realised in accordance with the laws of the country of their origin, that intervene along with the decision factors or state institutions to influence them in order to protect the rights and interests of the citizen groups they represent).
4 The DKMT euroregion is an European region of collaboration (DKMT indicates the territories contained between the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa rivers) which currently includes Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad and Hunedoara counties from Romania, Csongrád and Bács-Kiskun counties from Hungary and the Vojvodina province from Serbia.
Jury
András Cseh
András Cseh is an architect, educator, researcher and writer with a strong focus on learning spaces and spatial education. He is the co-founder of CAN Architects, who are working on revolutionising school architecture in Hungary based on multidisciplinary research and participative design. András has been teaching architecture for all ages: at Széchenyi István University for architecture students and as the founder of CAN EDU for children and educators, while developing spatial learning toolkits and transforming national education legislation. His buildings and learning initiatives received multiple national and international awards. In the past decade András has developed a spatial conscious BSc program for kindergarten and elementary school educators at Pannon University that starts in 2022. Currently he is working on the introduction of outdoor learning spaces and methods at CAN’s Basalt School project. Also the winner of the first prestigious Beta Architectural Writing Prize in 2016.
Bogdan Ciocodeică
Bogdan Ciocodeică is an architect and designer that graduated from University of Architecture and Urbanism "Ion Mincu", Bucharest. Since 2015 he has been setting up his own architecture office, where he focuses on interior architecture product design, public space interventions and event design. The style he approaches is minimalist eclectic, a mix of simplicity, clean lines and statement pieces. The proposed approach is very personal and intimate, which puts the beneficiary of the designed space at its centre and allows the project to evolve over time, even after the design process is over. His work has been featured in numerous architectural publications and websites: Zeppelin, IGLOO, Archdaily, Yatzer, Designboom, Frame, AD, Elle Decor. Bogdan Ciocodeică is the winner of several architectural competitions and has been awarded prizes and nominations at the Bucharest Architecture Annual, Beta and BIG SEE.
Evelina Ozola
Evelina Ozola is a Latvian architect, urbanist, and writer. In her new role as Riga City Chief Designer she is working together with politicians and design professionals to update old policies and create new tools for public space development and management. In 2018, Evelina co-curated Together and Apart, the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice architecture biennale. She has worked as an architect and urban designer at MADE arhitekti in Riga and SVESMI in Rotterdam, and co-founded the tactical urbanism collective Fine Young Urbanists that has come up with attractive and thought-provoking methods of prototyping street space and involving the society in the design process. Next to design work, Evelina regularly contributes to online and printed publications, and since 2013 she oversees FOLD, an online magazine for creative industries in Latvia. Evelina is passionate about communicating urban design issues and ideas to the broader public. Her academic work — at Umeå School of Architecture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and Riga Technical University International Summer School — helped explore this, too.
Mark Randel
Mark is the owner of Studio Mark Randel, a Boutique Berlin based architectural practice in its formative years, developing an architectural language by exploring the qualities that makes a space a place. The studio is currently working on residential projects in Munich, Ibiza, Berlin and Greece. Before starting his own architectural practice, Mark worked 23 years for David Chipperfield Architects. He started in the London office where he played a key role in winning the competition for the “Neues Museum” on Berlin's Museum island in 1997. He was a founding member of the Berlin office, where he designed museums, towers, retail spaces and residential projects. In 2002 he started the DCA office in Shanghai. He remained with the office till the end of 2018 - the last seven years as a Design Director and Partner. Mark was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1967 and studied architecture at the University of Arts in Berlin and at the Politecnico in Milano, Italy.
Milka Gnjato
As one of the founding partners and Creative director, Milka has been leading the development of Zabriskie practice toward one of the most successful and recognizable in Serbia. Her focuses are in the domain of the improvement of design methodology and its results, throughout experiments in design processes, extensive exchange of opinions, and interdisciplinary cooperation. She strongly believes, that every answer for design is to be found in context – physical, theoretical, social, cultural, historical. Re-establishing the continuity of inherited values is one of hers most important engagement topics. The uniqueness of results of contextual interpolation is recog¬nizable in projects lead by her, such as Kindergarten “Tesla – science for life”, Office building “Mia Dorćol”, Residential complex “Merin Hill”, Office building “BBC business center”. Designs led by her won several awards, among them Annual award of Union of Serbian Architects, 2020, 2014, Grand Prix – Salon of Architecture in 2014, and nomination for „EU Mies Award“ 2013, 2015, 2020. Since 2021. She is member of steering committee of Belgrade Association of Architects.
Essay
In the context of Beta 2022, the 6th category, Essay encourages a theoretical and critical discourse surrounding this year’s theme – City, as a common good1.
Through the proposed theme, we try to investigate the personal relationship that each of us has with the urban space in which we live and manifest.
Around this general theme, various topics worth debating can be tackled such as:
- the relationship between citizens and urban space
- who can generate, or should generate urban space, and how?
- the knowledge civilians have regarding how public space can be used;
- is legislation tangible enough so it can be used by anyone?
- who is establishing/ or should establish how the public space should be used
Competitional category 6. Essay is open to all those interested in theoretical and critical discourse.
Those that are active in the domains of architecture and urbanism (architects, urbanist, academics, students of architecture and/or urbanism universities / faculties / departments) or other related fields (sociologists, psychologists, critics, theorists, philosophers, activists etc.), are eligible.
For category 6. Essay 2022 edition, the competition will take place in two phases:
> phase I – abstract submission, 28th of July;
> phase II – essay submission by the selected authors, 28th of September;
In this category, one can submit works either located in DKMT2 Euroregion, or belonging to authors that have a permanent residence in DKMT Euroregion.
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euros, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros have been considered.
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT6). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
1 Through the proposed topic, category 6. Essay is connected to the main exhibition Another Breach in the Wall – the focal point of the biennial, which aims to make visible the network of documental acts that stand behind the production of contemporary urban space.
2 The DKMT euroregion is an European region of collaboration (DKMT indicates the territories contained between the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa rivers) which currently includes Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad and Hunedoara counties from Romania, Csongrád and Bács-Kiskun counties from Hungary and the Vojvodina province from Serbia.
Jury
Cecilie Sachs Olsen
Cecilie Sachs Olsen is a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research at Oslo Metropolitan University. Her award-winning work revolves around developing creative methods for urban research and exploring how artistic practice can be used as a framework to analyse and re-imagine urban space and politics. Cecilie was the chief curator of Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019, which explored ‘the architecture of degrowth’ and how alternative social and spatial structures may question the supremacy of economic growth as the basis of contemporary societies. She is also the co-founder of the urban performance collective, zURBS and the artist duo SACHS/WESTERDAHL. Cecilie has led a series of urban research and art projects around Europe and has published widely in international journals. Recently she was awarded the Taylor and Francis prize for ‘Outstanding monograph in the social sciences’ for her book ‘Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City’ (Routledge, 2019).
Chiara Dorbolò
Chiara Dorbolò is an architect and researcher. Based in Madrid, she works as a writer, curator, designer, and educator. She studied at La Sapienza University in Rome, and at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. Since 2017, she is a contributing editor at Failed Architecture, for which she curated the special series A City of Our Own: Urban Feminism for the 99%, and the project Stories on Earth, for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. In addition to writing and giving workshops, she teaches architecture practice and theory. In 2019 she was among the recipients of the Talent Development Grant from the Creative Industries Fund NL, and in 2021 she curated the Architecture Bookfair. Her book Liminal Spaces. Seven Spatial Stories to Return Home was published in 2023 by Onomatopee. As an architect, she collaborated with various offices in the Netherlands, and in 2020 together with Gregorio Pecorelli and Tobia Davanzo she won the first prize at the competition AAA Architetticercasi.
Ross Exo Adams
Ross Exo Adams is Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Architecture program at Bard College. He is the author of Circulation and Urbanization (Sage, 2019) and works more broadly on the intersections of architecture and urbanism with political geography and environmental humanities. His research has been published and presented widely and has received the support of fellowships and grants from MacDowell, the Royal Institute of British Architects, The London Consortium, among others. Prior to working at Bard, he taught at Iowa State University, the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, the Architectural Association, the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and the University of Brighton (UK).
Photography
In the context of Beta 2022, the category 7. Photography encourages a critical observation, expressed through the medium of photography, around the theme of the City, that is seen as a common good1.
During the 3 editions that took place between 2015-2017, the Octavian Radu Topai Award (PORT) aimed to pay homage to the young architect, as well as to question modern and contemporary Romanian architecture. Starting with the 2020 edition, we introduced a 7th category, Photography. This year, in Beta 2022, we want to take further the category dedicated to architectural photography, which will be opened to DKMT2 Euroregion.
The theme that studies the relationship between the citizens and urban space will be reflected in the way in which a photograph comes to express one’s vision over a subject, that in the end, through its expressiveness, shapes our perception of the relations between the user and urban space.
We want to see how the interaction between urban space and its users, can be interpreted by using photography in the freest and diverse manner possible, approaching topics like:
- capturing a subject that takes into account the general context;
- practices or acts through which citizens explore the city
- any other subjects that captures the relationship between citizens and urban space
Competitional category 7. Photography is open to all those interested in expressing their thoughts through photography, regardless of their professional background. You can submit only a series of 4 photographs. Those with a permanent residence in DKMT Euroregion are eligible and encouraged to participate.
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euros, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros have been considered.
To submit an entry for this category, it is mandatory to respect the provided layout (LAYOUT7). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
1 Through the proposed topic, category 6. Essay is connected to the main exhibition Another Breach in the Wall – the focal point of the biennial, which aims to make visible the network of documental acts that stand behind the production of contemporary urban space.
2 The DKMT euroregion is an European region of collaboration (DKMT indicates the territories contained between the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa rivers) which currently includes Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad and Hunedoara counties from Romania, Csongrád and Bács-Kiskun counties from Hungary and the Vojvodina province from Serbia.
Jury
Alexandra Țîmpău
Alexandra Țîmpău practiced architecture for 10 years before shifting her focus to architectural photography and documenting the built environment. Her training as an architect, greatly shapes the way she frames her subjects as well as the atmospheres she seeks in photography. The projects photographed vary in scale, location and aesthetics, from construction sites in full process, to indulgent mansions or large-scale developments. A desire to photograph architecture as process gave rise to her project "In Between", a series that aims to highlight the complex and ethereal beauty of the building site.
Miguel de Guzman
Miguel de Guzman is an Architect and Architectural Photographer. Founder-partner of ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzman + Rocío Romero) Architectural Photography + Film company, based in Madrid (Spain) and New York City (USA), whose work is commissioned by most important International Architecture Offices, Construction and Real Estate companies. ImagenSubliminal’s photographies has been published worldwide in print magazines as Architect, Dwell, El Croquis, Arquitectura Viva, A+U Japan, Domus, Casabella, Mark, C3, books and newspapers as The New York Times and El Pais. Also collaborates with online media as Archdaily, Dezeen, Designboom and Divisare. Their film work has been displayed at MAXXI Rome, Centre Pompidou Paris, and Architecture film festivals in Nueva York, Los Angeles, Budapest, Santiago de Chile and Seoul.
Miloš Martinović
Miloš Martinović is a photographer based in Belgrade, Serbia, specializing in architecture and interiors photography. He was born in 1985 in a small town of Kikinda, Serbia. At the age of 15, he decided (for reasons lost to his older self) he wanted to be an architect when he grew up. This decision led him to studying architecture at the University of Belgrade's Architecture school from 2004-2009. He then spent 8 years as an architect, working on various projects in Serbia and Russia. During this time, he bought his first dslr camera and soon realised he enjoyed photographing buildings more than he liked designing or building them. He got his first commissioned photographic work shooting projects he was working on. Architectural photography turned out to be a perfect mix of his interests towards both architecture and photography. In 2017 he decided to switch from architecture to working as a full time photographer. Since then, he has been shooting interesting projects all over Serbia and beyond, expanding his client list and enjoyed working in a professional field he is passionate about.