Description of project by Young Talent Architecture Award
The results of the third edition of the Young Talent Architecture Award, enriched in 2020 with a parallel award in Asia, will be presented as a Collateral Event of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, in an exhibition opening on 22nd May.
The exhibition will take place in Palazzo Mora (European Cultural Centre) and will show all the projects participating in the award with models and publications of the winning projects as well as photos, drawings, videos and images of all the shortlisted, finalist and winner works.
“We were all very much impressed by the level and scope of the submissions and not least by how the students were not afraid to tackle the big issues of climate change migration, not only through long-term projects such as nuclear waste sites but also through sensitive briefs for burial sites and religious worship. Other more straightforward proposals were also decently tackled and robustly researched, beautifully illustrated, showcasing considered solutions.”
Martine de Maeseneer, MDMA, YTAA 2020 chairwoman.
On 28th September, an event will bring together the 7 Winners and the ten jury members as well as representatives from the organising institutions, sponsors and supporters. The participants will engage in several conversations on some of today’s most talked about topics regarding architecture. The works selected for the exhibition are all excellent examples of the values of the New European Bauhaus, a movement to rethink and replan Europe which prioritises the environment through a cultural project in which design and sustainability are indissociable.
“As a jury we consider YTAA an open platform for discussion in a global and local scale. The selected projects move through different scales and geographical contexts and the question “How will we live together?” is the guiding thread for the development of proposals that operate in a diversity of ways and show how to face academic projects based on dialogue and cooperation, field research in non-hypothetic realities and inclusion of crossdisciplinarity fields.”
Momoyo Kaijima, Atelier Bow-Wow, Asia edition of YTAA 2020 chairwoman.
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 Vallés, 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 Walls” by Peiquan Ma, Yuan Liu, Jing Cheng, Yuxuan Liang, Zi’ang Li, Ran An, Dian Guan, Ke Mu, Wenshu Shi, Runfeng Wang, Zhixuan Wang, Zhixiang Yang from the School of Architecture, Tianjin University and Thomas Albert Stanislas Barouh, Albert Parera Sánchez, Clemens Pörtner, Julien Pierre Claude Palisse, Angel Andres Fernandez, Mar Bartolomé Narbón, Maria Tarruellai Serra, Silje Charlotte Damhaug, Anne Sofie Solberg, Alexander Karim Tamer Minge Salim, Olav Bog Vikane, Pia Straumsnes Tangen, Aino Sofia Hakulinen, Drenusha Blakcori, Mathilde Grindland, Iga Masełkowska and Saimi Inkeri Järvinen from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
“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).
The jury of the YTAA 2020 and the jury of the Asia Edition of YTAA 2020 are composed of renowned specialists representing diverse schools and trends in the fields of architecture and architectural critique and they will participate in the debate of the 28th September. The YTAA 2020 jury is composed by the chairwoman Martine de Maeseneer (Brussels), Oleg Drozdov (Kharkiv), Rosario Talevi (Berlin), Juliet Leach (London) and Bet Capdeferro (Girona). The Asia Edition of YTAA 2020’s jury is composed by the chairwoman Momoyo Kaijima (Japan), Minsuk Cho (South Korea), Chitra Vishwanath (India), Li Xiangning (China), Eduard Kögel (Germany/China).
