Jury

Architectural design

Vice President, AECOM Canada Architects Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Samuel Óghale Oboh (Sam) is a highly accomplished architect, resourceful leader and design management specialist committed to innovation, stewardship and achieving excellence for the greater public good. He is the 2015 President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) – the first Canadian of African descent to lead the 110-year-old professional organization.

Angelos Tzigkounakis was born in 1983. He studied BSc in Finance, holds an MSc in International Finance from the Westminster University of London, a Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing from the Athens University of Economics and Business and has successfully completed with partial scholarship the YALE School of Management publishing course Leadership Strategies in Print and Digital Media. In 2008 he completed his studies with an MA in Publishing (learning specialism magazine multi-platform publishing) and returned to Greece to join the leading Greek architectural publishing house "ek Architectural Publications Ltd".
Named the publishing house Editor-in-Chief in 2010, fired up his ambitions to present something fresh and new to the market, The result were shown via radical changes in the magazine’s overall design and style by heading up a complete rebranding and re-launching plan. This included working towards a more contemporary overall image and boosting the titles in an effort to reach a dominant position within the Greek market. At the same time, particular focus was given to looking outward (especially for the annual titles), expanding and growing in international markets and eventually managing to stream advertising revenue from foreign countries and multinational brands not affected by the Greek crisis. 
The rebranding plan included redesigning the logo and even re-naming the main monthly issue from while the redesign and re-launching of four annual editions involved an updated, bilingual format. 
In 2011 aiming to expand and evolve the annual editions Villas, Apartments, Maison de Campagne and the special editions MykonosVillas, ParosVillas and SantoriniVillas undertakes the further promotion of the magazines abroad with positive results. Currently these editions, bilingual and with international contents are being circulated apart from Greece in USA, Canada, UK, Cyprus, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, India, China and Taiwan.
Today, he holds the position of Editor in Chief for all the publications of ek Architectural Publications Ltd (monthly and annual), while he is in charge of the online portal www.ek-mag.com.

Marcelo Conrado Alejandro Waisman
Architect
Summary
More than 25 years of experience in Design and Construction, 15 as Manager of Retail Projects, Multifamily Homes, Hospitality and Office Buildings AAA. With more than 1,000,000 m2 projected from the beginning to the completion and start-up of the buildings. 10 years leading multidisciplinary teams, providing solutions and specific answers to the needs of the company's different internal clients. Analyzing new business opportunities in Real Estate, searching for opportunities and maximum optimization of profitability of newly acquired properties and permanent re- evaluation of the existing portfolio based on changes or adjustments to the new regulations. Application of Green Building criteria adapting buildings and projects, for its subsequent certification under Leed Standards.
Experience
Architecture Manager
IRSA COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES

Associate Professor
Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES
Education
Universidad Austral
• Seminar of Specialization in Real Estate
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
• Postgraduate in Architecture and Urban Design
Pratt Institute, NYC
• Seminar and Concurse of Urban Design "The Future of Coney Island", winner of the first prize
Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Buenos Aires
• Architect degree
Awards
HONORABLE MENTION "Artificial Paradise" Urban Studies and Architecture Studies USA/ITALY
FIRST PRIZE Project expansion of the Cemetery of Avellaneda
HONORABLE MENTION "The construction of Memory" Memorial for the Victims of the AMIA bombing
FIRST PRIZE "Urban Project for Coney Island" Pratt Institute, NYC

Reorientar la formación profesional y activa de los que elegimos ser arquitectos, para volvernos a la arquitectura real, esa que no permite la dominación y control de un sistema que destruye, la que deja de ser esclava del poder y economía de unos cuantos que solo quieren llenar sus bolsillos para tener más poder, la que se aleja de los sistemas autocráticos que nos convierten reproductores y repetidores de modelos incoherentes, consumistas y poco éticos.  

Este modelo hegemónico destructor que domina la imaginativa responsable, ética y consciente, anula nuestra responsabilidad como arquitectos; por lo que, es necesario distanciarnos de estos modelos para hacer evidente la responsabilidad que tenemos desde nuestra disciplina.

No se trata de reaccionar impulsivamente en una dirección contraria,  sino de deconstruir y volver a construir en base a estos saberes y conciencia, una nueva visión para construir un futuro diferente, uno que nos permita inteligentemente disminuir, retrasar y si es posible, erradicar, la destrucción que hemos generado, revertir aspectos de deterioro, contemplar a los usuarios, el contexto físico, buscando el confort como un modo de dignidad que arrope a cualquier usuario para que se integre y se incluya en la responsabilidad y cuidado de su entorno. Así como, erradicar la discriminación y marginación que hemos creado en función de prejuicios sociales que tienen que ver con las condiciones económicas, políticas, sociales y culturales. Si podemos revertir la idea de la arquitectura como meramente intelectual e instrumental, lograremos crear estrategias para formarnos profesionalmente con un sentido claro de responsabilidad ética en la que somos encargados de construir un futuro diferente, porque si no hay futuro, no hay arquitectura.