Jury

Giuseppe Parisi (*1989) graduated in the Architecture and Interior Design department of Aversa, Italy. He founded an Interdisciplinary Office after several experiences with different national and international practices in his hometown. The approach of his work explores the relationship between the Sense, the Form and the Materials. The goal of his idea is to achieve beauty characterized by few targeted choices. The areas of his work include design on various scales, from private houses to residential complexes, planning and requalification of public buildings, offices and accommodation facilities. In 2018 he received the NIB Under 36 Architecture Award and today he is among the young emerging italian architects.

Architectural Education to be meaningful for society

Large scale Urban Design & Educational Campuses.

Turning human feelings into architecture through detailing, to create an overwhelming space.

Contemporary design analogy in the midst of arid environments. Perceiving architecture as means of inspiration and excitement through multi-disciplinary projects

My focus are public and private interiors. In design process I value authencity.

Olivier Leclercq
Architect, urbanist
Vice President of the House of Architecture Ile de France.
I studied architecture at UCL in Tournai (Belgium), at TU Karlsruhe in Germany, and urban planning at ENSA Lille. In parallel, I learned photography at the House of Culture Tournai. In 1997, I worked in London and Warsaw for the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
I worked for two years in Abidjan as an architect, partly for humanitarian projects.
I live and work in the Paris region, associated with Cyrille Hanappe to form AIR architecture office in 2001. We realize mixed urban projects, innovative housing, public buildings and integrate co-design with inhabitants in all our projects.
Since 2016, I am also Secretary General of Actes & Cités, an association for slum clearance and refugee reception.
In parallel, I continue a research at Ecole d’Architecture de La Villette about the valorization of the land by the users expertise in operations of urban prefigurations.

interactive and kinetic design

Nicolas Turchi is a designer currently working at Zaha Hadid Architects and a Digital Futures PhD scholar at Tongji University. Nicolas holds a Master in Architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Bologna. He has worked for several firms including Eisenman Architects, Xefirotarch, Mario Cucinella Architects and 5+1AA. Nicolas is particularly interested in emergent technologies and how they affect the theoretical aspect of the discipline. Nicolas has also been studying the relationship between architecture and philosophy and graduated with a thesis on Time and Space in architecture, influenced by the thoughts of Henri Bergson and Edmund Husserl.

As an architect I have been always looking for new trends and ideas in architecture, how technology is changing and evolving architecture helping us to see project with a new perspective.

Saimir Kristo, Ph.D. is an architect and urban designer, Vice-Dean and lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture and Design at POLIS University. Saimir is also an alumnus of the International Visitor Leadership Program organized by the State Department of the U.S.A and a member of civil society. He is active in engaging communities and developing a common platform for discussion in the field of architecture and urban planning. He is the curator of Tirana Architecture Week 2014 - [En] Visioning Future Cities and Tirana Design Week 2015 – Design NOW, following his experience in several Urban Regulatory Plans in Albania. Keynote speaker in several conferences and member of international award juries.  He is a board member of A10 new European Architecture Cooperative in the Netherlands, Future Architecture Platform project manager for Albania and organizer of PechaKucha Night Tirana. His research activities extend out of Albania with books and various publications in international journals.