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
Benevolent Scarring / Sean William Murphy from University of Limerick
Between the Limit and the Trench / Margarita Zakynthinou-Xanthi, Elena Mylona, Zoi Tzoundidou from National Technical University of Athens
Build to make a change / Francesca Vittorini from Marche Polytechnic University
Ceramics – Design of a factory / Sina Pauline Riedlinger, Franziska Kauferle from Technical University of Berlin
City of Fatigue / Joon II Myeong from Hanyang University
Civic Games / Maeve Curley from University of Limerick
Confluence / Joshua Penk from the Architectural Association School of Architecture
Crafting the disused / Frederice Koch from Delft University of Technology
Deplorable Framework / Matthew Gregorowski from London Metropolitan University
Forms of defence / Enrico Miglietta from Polytechnic of Milan
Hong Kong – New New Territories / Caterina Barbon, Tommaso Petrosino, Matteo Vianello from IUAV University of Venice
House, Kitchen, Garden in Alcacer do Sal / Pedro Frade from Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa
Interstices of Urban Dualism in Maputo / Joao Pedro de Brito Oliveira from University of Lisbon
Kifufu Integrative School / Michael Schwarz, Paul Grofler from Vienna University of Technology
Last Landscape / Simone Marchetti, Sofia Paoli, Beatrice Maria Rogantini Picco from Polytechnic of Milan
Lasvit flagship store / Filip Galko from Czech Technical University
Manufaktur Schloss Welsberg / Stegan Prattes from Graz University of Technology
May I use the front/backdoor? / Nele Bergmans from Catholic University of Leuven
Media Monastery / Christopher Weir from Ulster University
NEUE BAUIAKADEMIE BERLIN – a club for the former & future architecture / Hendrick Brinkmann from Berlin University of the Arts
Old Brickyard – Landbad Bordenau / Nick Chadde from Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar
Perdido (Lost) –P.R.U.S. of Madrid / Julio Gotor Valcarcel from Polytechnic University of Madrid
Powerful spaces / Diogo Veiga from Porto University
Public Bath / Leslie Rahel Majer from Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar
Rhizome / Arianna Fornasiero, Paolo Turconi from Delft University of Technology
San Junipero / Ara Gonzalez Cabrera from Polytechnic University of Madrid
Sominedepotet, As Found / Greta Caterina Malavolti from Polytechnic of Milan
Stadium Strahov / Veronika Indrova from Czech Technical University
Symbiosis in Hutong: Community Center in Historic District / Mengjia Liu from Tsinghua University
The Agonistic City / Benjamin Wells from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
The Bank of England: a dialectical project / Leod Stolte from Delft University of Technology
THE CITADEL OF TIDES / Marie Moors from Hasselt University
The Common House / Jacob Hoppner from University of Stuttgart
The Fallen Monuments of Egerkingen / Eva Lanter from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
The Permanently Temporary / Viktória Sándor from University of Applied Arts Vienna
Thick brick building in Munich / Mari Brorsen, Max Panhans, Vanessa Salm from Technical University of Munich
Towards a new individual place: A self-sufficient community / Guillem Pascual Perello from Polytechnic University of Catalonia
TRIADI / Paul Thynell from Aalto University
Urban Safari / Sungbum Heo from Hanyang University
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.