Featured Jury
Architecture
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Julian Weyer MAA Partner, CF Moller
Julian Weyer
MAA Partner, CF Moller
Julian Weyer was born in Berlin, and has lived in Denmark since 1975, where he finished his studies at the Aarhus School of Architecture in 1994. Since then, he has lectured at the School of Architecture, and worked professionally as an architect, before becoming a partner of C.F. Møller Architects in 2007. Julian Weyer has extensive experience in the field of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design, including numerous competition wins and award-winning designs. He is working on projects in Denmark, Germany and the UK as well as worldwide. He is also a frequent lecturer worldwide, and author of articles and book publications. Awards include the Civic Trust Award, RIBA International Award, Aarhus Municipality Architecture Award, Residential of the Year WAN AWARD, Worldwide Brick Award and the Danish Academy Council prize. He is working on projects in Denmark, Germany and the UK as well as worldwide.
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Annabelle Selldorf Principal, Selldorf Architects
Annabelle Selldorf
Principal, Selldorf Architects
Annabelle Selldorf is the Principal of Selldorf Architects. Born and raised in Germany, she received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute and a Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University in Florence, Italy. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the Board of the Architectural League of New York, the World Monuments Fund, the Chinati Foundation, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. In 2017, Ms. Selldorf was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three years after receiving the organization’s prestigious Award in Architecture. She is also the recipient of the 2016 Medal of Honor from the American Institute of Architecture New York Chapter.
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Gary Handel Founding Partner, Handel Architects
Gary Handel
Founding Partner, Handel Architects
Gary Handel FAIA is the Founding Partner and Managing Principal of Handel Architects. Since starting the practice in 1994, Mr. Handel has overseen its growth to a firm of over 150 architects, designers, and planners around the world. The firm is a leader in the fields of mixed-use and sustainable buildings, designed to support urban density, and is known for projects including the Dream Downtown Hotel, the World Trade Center Memorial, the Millenium Tower, and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington DC. Handel has served on the Boards of the Friends of the High Line and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and received numerous honors for his contributions to New York’s built environment.
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Carol Ross Barney Founder, Ross Barney Architects
Carol Ross Barney
Founder, Ross Barney Architects
Carol Ross Barney is a Chicago architect and principal designer at Ross Barney Architects, which she founded in 1981. With a career spanning over 40 years, she has made significant contributions to the profession, particularly in the design of the public realm. She became the first woman to design a federal building when commissioned as architect for the Oklahoma City Federal Building, which replaced the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Ross Barney's other projects include the JRC Synagogue (LEEDPlatinum), James I Swenson Civil Engineering Building (LEED Gold), Chicago Riverwalk, and the CTA Morgan Street Station. In 2017, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago chapter of the AIA.
Technology & Innovation
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Carlos Banon Co-Founder and Director, AIRLAB SUTD
Carlos Banon
Co-Founder and Director, AIRLAB SUTD
Carlos Banon is an Architect specialised in Digital Processes and Advanced Manufacturing methods. He is Director and Co-founder of AIRLAB Singapore, Partner of Subarquitectura Architects, and Assistant Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He holds a M.Arch. with Extraordinary Distinction. He also held visiting professorships at MIT and EPFL. His research projects span from 3D Printing in the built environment (3DPA), Geometric Exploration for Sustainable Space Making (GESSM), Artificial Intelligence in structural design, and Affordable Housing. His work has been selected for the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2018 and 2020, and has won international awards such as Design of the Year Prize by the London Design Museum, the Gold and Silver Medal given by the International Paralympic and Olympic Committees, two Spanish Biennial Prizes, the Mies Van der Rohe Prize nomination, the German Design Award 2020, four SG Marks (Singapore Good Design), two Singapore Design Awards Finalist, and selected as one of the Iconic designs by the German Design Council in 2020. His recent work is nominated to the Singapore PD*A President Design Award 2020.
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Neri Oxman Designer and Professor, MIT Media Lab
Neri Oxman
Designer and Professor, MIT Media Lab
Neri Oxman is an American–Israeli architect, designer, and professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she leads the Mediated Matter research group. She is known for art and architecture that combine design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. Many of Oxman's projects use 3D printing and fabrication techniques. They include the Silk Pavilion, spun by silkworms released onto a nylon frame, Ocean Pavilion, a water-based fabrication platform that built structures out of chitosan, G3DP, the first 3D printer for optically transparent glass, and collections of 3D-printed clothing and wearables worn in couture shows and performances. She has held exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, and Boston's Museum of Science, is a senior fellow in the Design Futures Council, and was the recipient of a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2018.
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Yves Behar Founder, Fuseproject
Yves Behar
Founder, Fuseproject
Yves Behar is the founder of fuseproject, the San Francisco and New York based design and branding firm he established in 1999. He is also Chief Creative Officer at Jawbone, where for the last 11 years his products, brand and communications work has helped the company become a leader in wearable and audio consumer electronics. Behar is also the Creative Co-Founder of OUYA, an open sourced gaming platform, and is Co-founder of start-up August, a next generation home entry system. His other collaborations with renowned partners such as Herman Miller, GE, Puma, PayPal, SodaStream, Samsung, Issey Miyake, Prada and many others have received international acclaim.
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Sydney Mainster Vice President of Sustainability, The Durst Organization
Sydney Mainster
Vice President of Sustainability, The Durst Organization
Sydney Mainster serves as the Vice President of Sustainability for The Durst Organization - a 100-year-old family-run Real Estate company based in New York City. She brings over 13 years of professional and academic Architecture, Design and Construction experience to her role. Her current passion is defining strategies to transform the building product industry and resultant material waste streams. Prior to joining the Durst Organization in early 2014, she served as Adjunct Faculty and Director of the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Materials Resource Center. She moved to Austin, TX after earning a Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2010, and after spending the summer teaching design as an Architecture Studio Instructor for the GSD’s Career Discovery program. Between her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley (BA in Architecture; Minor in Structural Engineering) and graduate school, as well as post-GSD, she worked at a variety of construction industry-related jobs in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Boston, New York City, London, and Austin. She has professional experience working in Architecture, Structural Engineering, Construction, Academia, and as a Green Building Consultant to Texas and New York developers.
Interior Design
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Andrew Cogan Chairman, Knoll
Andrew Cogan
Chairman, Knoll
Andrew Cogan is Chairman of the Board of Knoll, Inc. the renowned producer of office systems, seating, tables, desks, textiles and other home accessories by visionary architects such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Harry Bertoia, Eero Saarinen, Frank Gehry, and Sir David Adjaye. Cogan previously served as President and CEO of Knoll from 2001 to 2018, part of a 25+ year career at Knoll and other international manufacturers working in the commercial interiors industry. Cogan also serves as Director of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and of the American Woodmark Corporation. Over 40 Knoll designs can be found in the permanent design collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Cheryl Durst Vice President and CEO, IIDA
Cheryl Durst
Vice President and CEO, IIDA
As Vice President and CEO of the International Interior Design Association, Cheryl Durst is an innovator and visionary driver of progress in the Interior Design industry. Since joining the IIDA in 1997, Durst has helped grow the organization to 15,000 members across 58 countries, curates and publishes Perspective, the association’s thought-leadership journal, and directs all IIDA programs, including more than a dozen global design competitions, which recognize worldwide excellence in interior design. She was inducted into Interior Design magazine’s Hall of Fame in 2016.
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David Rockwell Founder and President, Rockwell Group
David Rockwell
Founder and President, Rockwell Group
David Rockwell is founder and president of Rockwell Group, an award-winning, 250-person cross-disciplinary design practice based in New York City, Madrid and Shanghai. Known for its large-scale interior and hospitality projects, the firm has worked on a broad range of projects, including restaurants, hotels, airport terminals, hospitals, museums, and Broadway sets. Rockwell’s honors include a 2016 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design, the AIA New York Chapter President's Award, the 2008 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Interior Design, the Presidential Design Award; and induction into Interior Design magazine’s Hall of Fame. Rockwell Group was named by Fast Company 2008, 2014 and 2015 as one of the world’s most innovative design practices.
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Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost Artistic Director at Dominique Perrault Architecture
Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost
Artistic Director at Dominique Perrault Architecture
Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost is a French architect and designer. She began her career at Zaha Hadid Architects before joining Dominique Perrault Architecture (DPA) in 1989. She works as an independent designer, in collaboration with Dominique Perrault and as DPA’s artistic director since the early 2000s. Besides overviewing the design process of the firm’s projects, a large part of her interior, lighting and furniture design is created in synergy with the buildings. Some of the most iconic ones are the French National Library in Paris and both the refurbishment of the Dufour Pavilion and the design of the Alain Ducasse’s Restaurant in the Palace of Versailles. More recent projects include the 5th extension of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and the Yvon Lambert Bookshop in Paris. She has also extensively experimented with metallic mesh, thanks to a long-term partnership with the German manufacturer GKD. Her patterns have been used in architectural settings, as well as in her design products. Her numerous design products have been edited by companies such as Sammode, Fontana Arte, Sawaya & Moroni, Poltrona Frau, Olivari, FSB and DCW Editions, for whom she created three collections of indoor and outdoor lamps.
Index of Jury
Name | Title, Company | |
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Aaron Harcek | Design Principal, HDR | |
Abby Albers | Design Architect, Urban Improvement Construction | |
Adam Glickman | Partner, Glickman Schlesinger Architects | |
Agathe Ceccaldi | Lead Project Designer, The Fractal Group | |
Alan Calixto | Interior Design Director, Architecture Plus Information | |
Alf Naman | Founder, Alf Naman Real Estate Advisors | |
Allan Chochinov | Editor in Chief, Core77 | |
Allison Morra | Associate, Erdy McHenry Architecture | |
Amanda Ferber | Founder, Architecture Hunter | |
András Török | Summa Artium, director | |
Andrew Chaveas | Architect, SITIO | |
Andrew Shea | Principal, MANY Design; Assistant Professor of Integrated Design, Parsons the New School for Design” | |
Andrew B. Cogan | CEO and Chairman, Knoll | |
Anina Weber Bach | Senior Architectural Designer, XTEN Architecture | |
Anita Helfrich | Associate, Handel Architects | |
Anita Sircar | Project Director – Davis, Carter, Scott | |
Ann Schiffers | Sr. VP Specific Sales, USAI Lighting | |
Annabelle Selldorf | Principal, Selldorf Architects | |
Anthony Frisenda | Architect, Biber Architects | |
Ari Grazi | President, INDIEWALLS | |
Attila Saghi | CEO / Head of Development, SZ-Epitok / Varosliget | |
Ben Flanner | President, Director of Agriculture, Brooklyn Grange | |
Ben van Berkel | Founder/Principal Architect, UNStudio | |
Bernard Zyscovich | Zyscovich Architects, Founder & CEO | |
Bob Borson | Founder; LifeofanArchitect.com; Architect, Malone Maxwell Borson Architects | |
Brian Korte | Partner, Clayton & Little Architecture | |
Brian Leary | President, Commercial And Mixed Used, Crescent Communities | |
Bruno Gabbiani | President, ALA | |
Caleb Mulvena | Cofounder and Principal, Mapos Architects | |
Cameron Irwin | Associate, LMN Architects | |
Cameron Sinclair | Founder, Small Works | |
Cara Soh | Senior Architect, Quinn Evans Architects | |
Carl Gustav Magnusson | Founder, Carl Gustav Magnusson Design LLC | |
Carlo Ratti | Director, MIT Senseable Cities Lab; Founding Partner, Carlo Ratti Associati | |
Carol Ross Barney | Design Principal, Ross Barney Architects | |
Carolina Vaccaro | Principal, Architect and Design Professor, Temple University | |
Catherine Dannenbring | Director of Sustainability, Skanska USA | |
Chee Pearlman | Design Curator | |
Cheryl S. Durst | Executive Vice President and CEO, IIDA | |
Christopher Tepper | Founder, NYC Aids Memorial | |
Cliff Kuang | Director of Product Innovation, Fast Company | |
Craig Schwitter | Principal, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers | |
Cristiano Luchetti | American University of Sharjah, Assistant Professor | |
Daniel Barasch | Co-founder, The Lowline | |
Dave Eisenberg | Founder, Floored | |
David Von Spreckelsen | President, Toll Brothers City Living in New York City | |
David Rockwell | Principal, Rockwell Group | |
Dr. Angelika Taschen | Publisher, Taschen Books | |
Dror Benshetrit | Principal, Studio Dror | |
Edwin Heathcote | Architecture & Design Critic, The Financial Times | |
Efrain Cano | Designer / Project Lead, Outside Architecture | |
Enrico Zanolla | Founder, Enrico Zanolla Design Studios | |
Eric Spencer | MAD architects, Director | |
Erin Foxworthy | Project Architect, Finkle + Williams Architecture | |
Erla D Ingjaldsdóttir | Principal, Minarc | |
Eugene Pinchuk | Founder, FEEEL Design | |
Evan Loomis | Co-Founder, ICON | |
Evie Soileau | Architect II, LSM | |
Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost | Artistic Director at Dominique Perrault Architecture | |
Gary Handel | Partner, Handel Architects | |
Gil Even-Tsur | GE-T Architects. Founder & Design Director | |
Glen Cummings | Partner, MTWTF | |
Grace Eun | Architect | |
Grace Anne Friedhoff | Assistant Project Manager, ENV | |
Gunter Henn | Chairman, Henn Architekten | |
Gustavo Zamir Garcia | Partner, M Architects | |
Hao Phung | Architectural Designer, Valerio Dewalt Train | |
Harish Ratna | TateHindle, Director | |
Ian Collings | Co-Founder, Fort Standard | |
Ivan Lopez | Designer / Project Manager, Alvidrez Architecture | |
Ivy Lee | Managing Director, Leigh & Orange | |
Janice Chu | Project Architect, ENV | |
Jared Della Valle | Project Architect, ENV | |
Jason Forney | Principal, Bruner/Cott Architects | |
Jason Schupbach | Director – The Design School, Arizona State University | |
Javier Artadi | artadi architects | |
Jeffrey Deitch | Founder, Deitch Projects | |
Jerry Waters | Principal, ZGF Architects | |
Joan Blumenfeld | Firmwide Interior Design Director, Perkins+Will | |
Joe Yacobellis | Director of Design, Mojo Stumer Associates | |
John Wissinger | Design Director, AECOM | |
Jonathan McDowell | Director, Matter Architecture Ltd | |
Jonathan D. Solomon | Director of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects, UCLA | |
Joshua Gilpin | Architect, EOP Architects | |
Julian Weyer, MAA | Partner, CF Moller | |
Justin Piercy | Senior Associate, Jim Jennings Architecture | |
Karim Rashid | Designer | |
Katie Hoke | Principal & Owner, Hoke Ley | |
Katina Max Kremelberg | Project Architect, Architecture Plus Information | |
Kenneth Namkung | Senior Associate, Studio Link-Arc LLC | |
Kenniche Le Nouene Jasmine | JKLN ARCHITECTE | |
Kim Herforth Nielsen | 3XN Architects, Founder & Creative Director | |
Kimball Hales | Senior Project Manager, Finkle + Williams | |
Kyle Mastalinski | Designer, Ziger|Snead Architects | |
Laura Kirar | Founder, Laura Kirar Design | |
Lauren Schlesigner | Partner, Glickman Schlesinger Architects | |
Lauren Sherman Hiatt | Architect, The Beck Group | |
Lawrence B. Kim | Director, A+U LAB / Professor, Pusan National University | |
Lesa Rozmarek | Architect, PBDW Architects | |
Louis R Pounders | Design Architect, ANF Architects | |
Luca Donner | Principal, Donner Sorcinelli Architecture | |
Lucas Gray | Partner, Propel Studio | |
Lynda Whittle | Vice President of Marketing, Allsteel | |
Marianne Goebl | Managing Director, Artek | |
Mark LaVenture | Associate, LMN Architects | |
Mark Yoes | Founding Principal, WXY Studio | |
Matt Shaver | Architect, Refine by UIC | |
Matthew LaBrake | Design Director, Blaze Makoid Architecture | |
Michael Green | Principal, Michael Green Architecture | |
Michael Westrate | Designer, Ziger/Snead Architects | |
Michele Busiri-Vici | Founding Principal, Space4Architecture (S4A) | |
Mikkel Bøgh | Chief Operating Officer | |
Michael Luft-Weissberg | Architect / Project Manager, WorkshopAPD | |
Monika Haefelfinger | Principal, XTEN Architecture | |
Nancy Usrey | Director of Strategy, HNTB Corporation and President, Society for Marketing & Professional Services | |
Natalie Telewiak | Pincipal, Michael Green Architecture | |
Neri Oxman | Architect and Designer, MIT Media Lab | |
Nick Moshenko | Designstor. Founding Partner | |
Noah Bently | Architect, Valerio Dewalt Train Associates | |
Pippo Ciorra | Senior Curator, MAXXI Architettura | |
Primo Orpilla | Founder and Partner, O+A | |
Prof. Dr. Andres Lepik | Direktor, Architekturmuseum, Universität München | |
Rachel Gutter | SVP, Knowledge, U.S. Green Build Council | |
Rachel Shechtman | Founder, Story | |
Rahul Srivastava | Founder, Urbanology | |
Ralf Groene | Head of Industrial Design, Microsoft | |
Randy Sabedra | Founder, RS Lighting Design | |
Randy J. Hunt | VP Design, Etsy | |
Rankin | Photographer and Director, Rankin Photography | |
Renato Benedetti | Director, Benedetti Architects | |
Rick Fedrizzi | President, CEO, and Founding Chair USBGC | |
Robert Hammond | Co-Founder, Friends of the High Line | |
Robert Ivy | Executive Vice President Chief Executive Officer, AIA | |
Robin Chase | Founder, Zipcar | |
Ronan Bouroullec | Partner, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Design | |
Ronen Bekerman | Founder & Editor, Architectural Visualization | |
Roo Rogers | Partner, fuseproject | |
Rory McGowan | Director, ARUP | |
Rosalie Genevro | Executive Director, The Architectural League NY | |
Rosemarie Allaire | Rosemarie Allaire Lighting Design – Principal | |
Roy Kim | Chief Creative Officer, Douglas Elliman Development Marketing | |
Ryan Lintott | Founder,A Better Way To Do | |
Sabah Al Abbasi | Chief Creative Consultant & Editor-in-Chief, Shawati | |
Salomon Frausto | Head of Education, The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design | |
Sam Jacob | Principal, Sam Jacob Studio for Architecture and Design | |
Samuel Medina | Web Editor, Metropolis | |
Sarah Filley | Cofounder and Executive Director, Popuphood | |
Sarah Ichioka | Director, The Architecture Foundation | |
Scott Burnham | Urban Strategist, Reprogramming the City | |
Sebastian Errazuriz | Artist, Designer, Entrepreneur | |
Serena Losonczy | Associate Partner, PBDW Architects | |
Seth Weissman | Founder, Weissman Equities | |
Shaun Osher | Founder and CEO, CORE | |
Sheila Kennedy | Professor of the Practice of Architecture, MIT | |
Shelley Penn | Former National President, Australian Insitute of Architects | |
Silvia Kuhle | Founding Partner, Standard Architecture | |
Simon Bird | Director, LOM Architecture and Design | |
Simon Goetz | Partner, Milkshake Studios | |
Sinem Marrone | GAD FOUNDATION/GAD ARCHITECTURE &PR DIRECTOR | |
Sommer Mathis | Editor, The Atlantic Cities | |
Soon Woo Kwon | Principal, Samoo Architects and Engineers | |
Stefano Boeri | Principal, Stefano Boeri Architetti | |
Stephanie Wexler | Interior Designer, Archimania | |
Sue Tatge | VP, Director of Media, Wray Ward | |
Sung Jang | Product Designer, Sung Jang Laboratory | |
Susanne Seitinger PhD | City Innovations Manager, Philips Color Kinetics | |
Sydney Mainster | Vice President of Sustainability, The Durst Organization | |
Tatiana Viana de Barros | Editor in Chief, BERLOGOS Magazine | |
Teran Evans | Global Brand Experience Design Director, PepsiCo | |
Van Chu | Architect, Architecture Plus Information | |
Wang Yan | Principal, GOA | |
Wenjun Zhou | Founder and Director, 524 Studio | |
Wilfred Hernandez | Junior Architect, The Fractal Group | |
Yichen Lu | Principal, Studio Link-Arc | |
Yves Behar | Founder; CCO, Fuseproject |