And the winners are... Winners of the Young Talent Architecture Award 2020

05/10/2020. 17th International Architecture Exhibition, Biennale Architettura 2021. [VEN] Italy 22.05 > 21.11 2021
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The third edition of the Young Talent Architecture Award counted with 382 Graduation Projects that competed to win the YTAA 2020. 478 students of 155 Schools (architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture) registered from 36 different European countries including Brazi l, Chile and Mexico participating as Guest Countries.

The YTAA 2020 exhibition will open on May 22, 2021 at the European Cultural Centre - Palazzo Mora in Venice, as a Collateral event of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

As in the previous editions, the YTAA results will be presented in a traveling exhibition that will start its journey in universities worldwide in November 2020 and the exhibition in Venice during the Biennale Architettura 2021.

“Architecture remains one of the rare expressions in everyday life that provides a continuous experience of those other worlds and their distinct forms of organization and value, and simultaneously lays claim on a future that architecture’s particular techniques of projection allow. Architecture is a plastic practice, exactly positioned to enact alternatives: to produce holes in the world, stage breakouts, and release the virtuality captured in the real. The world “as it is” never constitutes a sufficient condition for architecture. And if you propose to “do” architecture – whether producing it, exhibiting it, or writing about it – that should not go without saying.”

Chicago critique Robert Somol.

Winners of the Young Talent Architecture Award 2020. Image courtesy of YTAA 2020

Winners of the Young Talent Architecture Award 2020. Image courtesy of YTAA 2020

Oasi by Álvaro Alcázar Del Águila, Roser Garcia, Eduard Llargués, Sergio Sangalli

Off the Grid by Willem Hubrechts

Stage for the City by Monika Marinova

Three places to inhabit the mountain range in the Maule region by Maria Jesús Molina, Pía Montero, Antonia Ossa

Winners of the Young Talent Architecture Award 2020. Image courtesy of YTAA 2020

Yulgok street by JiSoo Kim

The Wall by Peiquan Ma, Yuan Liu, Jing Cheng, Yuxuan Liang, Zi’ang Li

Mending the gap: Landscape conservation for the island of Aliabet by Shreeni Benjamin

Mrs. Viviane Hoffmann, Deputy Director-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission, on behalf of Mrs. Mariya Gabriel, EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Education and Youth, announces the Winners of the Young Talent architecture Award (YTAA) 2020 and of the Asia Edition of YTAA 2020.

The announcement is part of the YTAA Day celebrated online with the winners, the jury members and the network involved in its organization and development, on the World Architecture Day and the World Habitat Day.

The 4 Winners of YTAA 2020 are:

- “OASI” by Álvaro Alcázar Del Águila, Eduard Llargués, Roser Garcia, Sergio Sangalli from the Vallès School of Architecture of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona (ES).

- “Off the Grid” by Willem Hubrechts from the Faculty of Engineering Science of the University of Leuven (BE).

- “Stage for the City” by Monika Marinova from The Sir John Cass School of Art Architecture & Design of the London Metropolitan University in London (UK).

- “Three places to inhabit the mountain range in the Maule region” by Pía Montero, Maria Jesús Molina, Antonia Ossa from the School of Architecture of the University of Talca in Talca (Chile).

The 3 Winners of the Asia Edition of YTAA 2020 are:

- “Yulgok street” by JiSoo Kim from the Hanyang University School of Architecture in Seoul (Korea).

- “The Wall” by Peiquan Ma, Yuan Liu, Jing Cheng, Yuxuan Liang and Zi’ang Li from the School of Architecture at Tianjin University in Tianjin (China).

- “Mending the gap: Landscape conservation for the island of Aliabet” by Shreeni Benjamin from the Faculty of Architecture of the CEPT University in Ahmedabad (India).

Anna Ramos, director of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Georg Pendl, president of the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE) and Ilaria Valente, president of the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), congratulated the winners, finalists, shortlisted and participants and highlighted the essential role of education in a continuously changing world.

“There has been a very high level and scope in all the submissions. As a jury, we were impressed on how students are not afraid to tackle the most important issues such as climate change, migration, water usage, transformation of long-term projects such as nuclear waste sites and also sensitive briefs for burial sites and religious worship. Other more straight forward briefs were also tackled, being robustly researched and beautifully illustrated, showcasing considered solutions. All finalist and winner projects are excellent and deserving and the YTAA provides you all, as emerging architects, a wonderful platform to start an ambitious career where you will have the opportunity to translate and design spatial environments that our communities and planet deserve. I wish everybody a prosperous future, while staying critical, staying speculative and acting creative.”

Words from Martine De Maeseneer about the Winners and participants, Chairwoman of the YTAA Jury 2020.

YTAA is an inherent part of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award (EU Mies Award), organised by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe with the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, in partnership with the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) and the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE-CAE); World Architects as a founding partner; the European Cultural Centre as a partner in Venice; sponsored by Jung, Jansen and Regent; and with the support of USM. These partners will allow the YTAA Winners to become part of a network with the architects and critics involved in the EU Mies Award.