Shortlist Released for 2018 Young Talent Architecture Award


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The Fundació Mies van der Rohe has announced a list of 40 projects that will compete for the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) 2018. The award was established in 2016 to “support the talent of recently graduated Architects, Urban Planners and Landscape Architects who will be responsible for transforming our environment in the future,” and joins the Foundation’s European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award “in promoting high quality work amongst emerging and established architects through the acknowledgement of the value of good buildings.”

More than 330 projects were submitted from over 118 European, Chinese, and Korean architecture schools, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of 40 projects by an esteemed jury of architects and curators. The YTAA 2018 exhibition is a collateral event at the Venice Biennale, opening on May 24th at the Palazzo Mora, where 12 finalists will be announced. The names of the four winning schemes will become known on June 28th.

The shortlisted projects are:

Agua Espraida Urban Integration / Beatrice Gevi from University of Genoa


Agua Espraida Urban Integration / Beatrice Gevi from University of Genoa. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Agua Espraida Urban Integration / Beatrice Gevi from University of Genoa. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Benevolent Scarring / Sean William Murphy from University of Limerick


Benevolent Scarring / Sean William Murphy from University of Limerick. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Benevolent Scarring / Sean William Murphy from University of Limerick. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Between the Limit and the Trench / Margarita Zakynthinou-Xanthi, Elena Mylona, Zoi Tzoundidou from National Technical University of Athens


Between the Limit and the Trench / Margarita Zakynthinou-Xanthi, Elena Mylona, Zoi Tzoundidou from National Technical University of Athens. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Between the Limit and the Trench / Margarita Zakynthinou-Xanthi, Elena Mylona, Zoi Tzoundidou from National Technical University of Athens. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Build to make a change / Francesca Vittorini from Marche Polytechnic University


Build to make a change / Francesca Vittorini from Marche Polytechnic University. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Build to make a change / Francesca Vittorini from Marche Polytechnic University. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Ceramics – Design of a factory / Sina Pauline Riedlinger, Franziska Kauferle from Technical University of Berlin


Ceramics – Design of a factory / Sina Pauline Riedlinger, Franziska Kauferle from Technical University of Berlin. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Ceramics – Design of a factory / Sina Pauline Riedlinger, Franziska Kauferle from Technical University of Berlin. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

City of Fatigue / Joon II Myeong from Hanyang University


City of Fatigue / Joon II Myeong from Hanyang University. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

City of Fatigue / Joon II Myeong from Hanyang University. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Civic Games / Maeve Curley from University of Limerick


Civic Games / Maeve Curley from University of Limerick. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Civic Games / Maeve Curley from University of Limerick. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Confluence / Joshua Penk from the Architectural Association School of Architecture


Confluence / Joshua Penk from the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Confluence / Joshua Penk from the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Crafting the disused / Frederice Koch from Delft University of Technology


Crafting the disused / Frederice Koch from Delft University of Technology. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Crafting the disused / Frederice Koch from Delft University of Technology. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Deplorable Framework / Matthew Gregorowski from London Metropolitan University


Deplorable Framework / Matthew Gregorowski from London Metropolitan University. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Deplorable Framework / Matthew Gregorowski from London Metropolitan University. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Forms of defence / Enrico Miglietta from Polytechnic of Milan


Forms of defence / Enrico Miglietta from Polytechnic of Milan. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Forms of defence / Enrico Miglietta from Polytechnic of Milan. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Hong Kong – New New Territories / Caterina Barbon, Tommaso Petrosino, Matteo Vianello from IUAV University of Venice


Hong Kong – New New Territories / Caterina Barbon, Tommaso Petrosino, Matteo Vianello from IUAV University of Venice. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Hong Kong – New New Territories / Caterina Barbon, Tommaso Petrosino, Matteo Vianello from IUAV University of Venice. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

House, Kitchen, Garden in Alcacer do Sal / Pedro Frade from Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa


House, Kitchen, Garden in Alcacer do Sal / Pedro Frade from Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa . Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

House, Kitchen, Garden in Alcacer do Sal / Pedro Frade from Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa . Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Interstices of Urban Dualism in Maputo / Joao Pedro de Brito Oliveira from University of Lisbon


Interstices of Urban Dualism in Maputo / Joao Pedro de Brito Oliveira from University of Lisbon. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Interstices of Urban Dualism in Maputo / Joao Pedro de Brito Oliveira from University of Lisbon. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Kifufu Integrative School / Michael Schwarz, Paul Grofler from Vienna University of Technology


Kifufu Integrative School / Michael Schwarz, Paul Grofler from Vienna University of Technology. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Kifufu Integrative School / Michael Schwarz, Paul Grofler from Vienna University of Technology. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Last Landscape / Simone Marchetti, Sofia Paoli, Beatrice Maria Rogantini Picco from Polytechnic of Milan


Last Landscape / Simone Marchetti, Sofia Paoli, Beatrice Maria Rogantini Picco from Polytechnic of Milan. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Last Landscape / Simone Marchetti, Sofia Paoli, Beatrice Maria Rogantini Picco from Polytechnic of Milan. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Lasvit flagship store / Filip Galko from Czech Technical University


Lasvit flagship store / Filip Galko from Czech Technical University. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Lasvit flagship store / Filip Galko from Czech Technical University. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Manufaktur Schloss Welsberg / Stegan Prattes from Graz University of Technology


Manufaktur Schloss Welsberg / Stegan Prattes from Graz University of Technology. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Manufaktur Schloss Welsberg / Stegan Prattes from Graz University of Technology. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

May I use the front/backdoor? / Nele Bergmans from Catholic University of Leuven


May I use the front/backdoor? / Nele Bergmans from Catholic University of Leuven. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

May I use the front/backdoor? / Nele Bergmans from Catholic University of Leuven. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Media Monastery / Christopher Weir from Ulster University


Media Monastery / Christopher Weir from Ulster University . Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Media Monastery / Christopher Weir from Ulster University . Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

NEUE BAUIAKADEMIE BERLIN – a club for the former & future architecture / Hendrick Brinkmann from Berlin University of the Arts


NEUE BAUIAKADEMIE BERLIN – a club for the former & future architecture / Hendrick Brinkmann from Berlin University of the Arts. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

NEUE BAUIAKADEMIE BERLIN – a club for the former & future architecture / Hendrick Brinkmann from Berlin University of the Arts. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Old Brickyard – Landbad Bordenau / Nick Chadde from Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar


Old Brickyard – Landbad Bordenau / Nick Chadde from Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Old Brickyard – Landbad Bordenau / Nick Chadde from Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Perdido (Lost) –P.R.U.S. of Madrid / Julio Gotor Valcarcel from Polytechnic University of Madrid


Perdido (Lost) –P.R.U.S. of Madrid / Julio Gotor Valcarcel from Polytechnic University of Madrid. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Perdido (Lost) –P.R.U.S. of Madrid / Julio Gotor Valcarcel from Polytechnic University of Madrid. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Powerful spaces / Diogo Veiga from Porto University


Powerful spaces / Diogo Veiga from Porto University. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Powerful spaces / Diogo Veiga from Porto University. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Public Bath / Leslie Rahel Majer from Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar


Public Bath / Leslie Rahel Majer from Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Public Bath / Leslie Rahel Majer from Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Rhizome / Arianna Fornasiero, Paolo Turconi from Delft University of Technology


Rhizome / Arianna Fornasiero, Paolo Turconi from Delft University of Technology. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Rhizome / Arianna Fornasiero, Paolo Turconi from Delft University of Technology. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

San Junipero / Ara Gonzalez Cabrera from Polytechnic University of Madrid


San Junipero / Ara Gonzalez Cabrera from Polytechnic University of Madrid. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

San Junipero / Ara Gonzalez Cabrera from Polytechnic University of Madrid. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Sominedepotet, As Found / Greta Caterina Malavolti from Polytechnic of Milan


Sominedepotet, As Found / Greta Caterina Malavolti from Polytechnic of Milan. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Sominedepotet, As Found / Greta Caterina Malavolti from Polytechnic of Milan. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Stadium Strahov / Veronika Indrova from Czech Technical University


Stadium Strahov / Veronika Indrova from Czech Technical University. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Stadium Strahov / Veronika Indrova from Czech Technical University. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Symbiosis in Hutong: Community Center in Historic District / Mengjia Liu from Tsinghua University


Symbiosis in Hutong: Community Center in Historic District / Mengjia Liu from Tsinghua University. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Symbiosis in Hutong: Community Center in Historic District / Mengjia Liu from Tsinghua University. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

The Agonistic City / Benjamin Wells from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts


The Agonistic City / Benjamin Wells from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts . Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

The Agonistic City / Benjamin Wells from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts . Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

The Bank of England: a dialectical project / Leod Stolte from Delft University of Technology


The Bank of England: a dialectical project / Leod Stolte from Delft University of Technology. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

The Bank of England: a dialectical project / Leod Stolte from Delft University of Technology. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

THE CITADEL OF TIDES / Marie Moors from Hasselt University


THE CITADEL OF TIDES / Marie Moors from Hasselt University. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

THE CITADEL OF TIDES / Marie Moors from Hasselt University. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

The Common House / Jacob Hoppner from University of Stuttgart


The Common House / Jacob Hoppner from University of Stuttgart. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

The Common House / Jacob Hoppner from University of Stuttgart. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

The Fallen Monuments of Egerkingen / Eva Lanter from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich


The Fallen Monuments of Egerkingen / Eva Lanter from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

The Fallen Monuments of Egerkingen / Eva Lanter from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

The Permanently Temporary / Viktória Sándor from University of Applied Arts Vienna


The Permanently Temporary / Viktória Sándor . Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

The Permanently Temporary / Viktória Sándor . Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Thick brick building in Munich / Mari Brorsen, Max Panhans, Vanessa Salm from Technical University of Munich


Thick brick building in Munich / Mari Brorsen, Max Panhans, Vanessa Salm from Technical University of Munich. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Thick brick building in Munich / Mari Brorsen, Max Panhans, Vanessa Salm from Technical University of Munich. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Towards a new individual place: A self-sufficient community / Guillem Pascual Perello from Polytechnic University of Catalonia


Towards a new individual place: A self-sufficient community / Guillem Pascual Perello from Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Towards a new individual place: A self-sufficient community / Guillem Pascual Perello from Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

TRIADI / Paul Thynell from Aalto University


TRIADI / Paul Thynell from Aalto University. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

TRIADI / Paul Thynell from Aalto University. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

Urban Safari / Sungbum Heo from Hanyang University


Urban Safari / Sungbum Heo from Hanyang University. Image via YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award

Urban Safari / Sungbum Heo from Hanyang University. Image via YTAA – Young Talent Architecture Award

This year’s jury included:

  • Salomon Frausto, Director of Studies at the Berlage, Delft
  • Martina Bauer, Architect and Senior Associate at Barkow, Leibinger, Berlin
  • Ana Betancour, Researcher, Professor, and Rector at UMA School of Architecture
  • Matilde Cassani, Architect on the border between architecture, installation and event design, Milan
  • Rainer Mahlamaki, Architect and Founder of Lahdelma & Mahlamaki Architects

More information can be found on the award website, here.

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