Jury

To create architecture that is aesthetically pleasing and technically resolved to meet sustainable development goals while meeting with the time, quality and cost targets. 

Darian Lu is a practicing architect in New York. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture from Iowa State University, and her Master of Architecture from Columbia University in New York City. She is passionate about multi-disciplinary, research-based design, and focuses on crafting transformational workplaces, and designing precedent-setting hospitality and residential spaces. Her work is characterized by close attention to materials, and art integration within architecture. With an emphasis on the individual's experience, Darian is able to bring a small-scale focus to the design of large-scale projects. She practiced with W Architecture, Skidmore Owings Merrill, and most recently with WeWork. She and her team's work were featured in Architecture Digest, Arch Daily, Fox Business, Forbes, and numerous others. 

 KA-TEAM

Residential architecture in difficult conditions
Along with nature
Sustainable Architecture

Gaetano De Francesco is the founder of DFR Architecture, a based in Rome design practice that investigates the contemporary condition of inhabited territory searching strategies and space solutions to make it livable, loveble, inclusive and resilient.

He is Phd in Architecture - Theories and Project at Department of Architecture and Project - Sapienza University of Rome, where make activities of research and teaching assistance and he is Authorized Rhinoceros Trainer and Adjunct Professor at Quasar Design University in Rome.

I dream of Parametric sheep 2.0

Hermann Kamte is an award-winning Cameroonian Architect. He is the Founding Associates and the Creative Director at HKA | Hermann Kamte & Associates.

In 2016, He started after earned Master’s Degree in Architecture with « Distinction » at the prestigious EAMAU (École Africaine des Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme).

Through a series of award-winning design, Hermann has developed a reputation for designing project that are as programmatically and technically innovative as they are ecofriendly, Marketable, serviceable, affordable, sustainable and ecological conscious.

Hermann has received numerous awards and honors, including the WAFX Prize’s Cultural Identity Prize in 2017 at the World Architecture Festival, the Gold in Architectural Design at the American Prize of Architecture and the The Inaugural Archi. Awards Africa “Premiere” held by African Union of Architects (AUA) in 2018.

Alongside his architectural practice, Hermann have contributed and have been feature to international press such as “The Architectural Review” “Business Day” and “Financial Times”. He is becoming a frequent public speaker and has spoken in venues such as CTBUH, ARCHITECTURE ZA and LAFARGEHOLCIM FOUNDATION.

I make spaces and places with an emphasis on color, texture, and form.

Prof. Architect ETSA Sevilla and TU Wien, partner of ftca architectos & asociados and ftca s.r.o. researcher and Director of ACCA magazine for architectonic graphics. ftca.es

Architecture

Interior Design

Furniture Design

Research Materials

3D Design