Why take part in the 5th Edition awards? 

a. ISARCH is conceived as a platform for the promotion and recognition of university projects on an international scale.
b. The three winning projects will receive prizes worth a total of €6,000.
c. By promoting this platform, the ISARCH Awards intend to provide students with a gateway to the professional and corporate world.
d. As part of its interest in promoting the winning projects, ISARCH is in contact with various specialised journals and websites in order to secure their publication. All selected works will be published on ISARCH's various platforms and on its website.
We count on the support of recognized architecture firms as a jury. Some of them are involve more directly granting internship participants.

OMA
Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli

Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli joined OMA in 2007 and is based in Rotterdam. Pestellini's work and research at OMA/AMO has a focus on design, preservation, scenography, and curation. He currently leads the transformation design of the 16th century Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice, and developed Monditalia, a multi-disciplinary exhibition focused on Italy, at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Herzog & De Meuron
Tomislav Dushanov

Associate HERZOG & DE MEURON Tomislav started his collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron in 2005, and became Associate in 2008. As a Project Manager he worked on a series of international projects, starting with the competitions for the Rio Manzanares urban design competition in Madrid, Spain and Espacio Goya in Zaragoza, Spain., followed by the urban study for Lyon, La Confluence, France, and the master plan for Skolkovo University District near Moscow, Russia. He led the project for Museu Blau, Museu de Ciències Naturals, in the transformed Forum 2004 Building in Barcelona, Spain (2012). Tomislav Dushanov is currently in charge of two Brazilian projects, notably Herzog & de Meuron's first commissions in South America: Natal – Gymnasium at Mãe Luiza in Natal (planned completion 2013) and the Cultural Complex Luz in São Paulo, comprising the São Paulo Dance Company, a Music School, and several venues for dance, opera, theatre, and music performances (planned completion 2016).

Kengo Kuma & Associates
Diego López Arahuetes

Diego López Arahuetes - Project Director. 2007-2011 Project Manager at Kengo Kuma & Associates Tokyo 2011- Project Director at Kengo Kuma & Associates Paris 1996 Junior Architect at Santiago Calatrava, Paris Projects in charge Kengo Kuma & Associates 2008 Urban landscape design and public equipment in Johor, Malaysia. Competition 1st prize 2008- Granada Performing Arts Center, Spain. Competition 1st prize 2010-2013 Aix-en-Provence Conservatory. Competition 1st prize Paris office 2011- . Project Director. 2011- Office Housing and Retail complex in Lyon. Competition 1st prize 2012- Albert Kahn Museum, Paris. Competition 1st prize 2012- Angers Congress Center, France. Competitive dialogue, 3rd phase 2013- KKAA lecturer at Coimbra and Tubingen Universities.

Cesar Pelli
William E. Butler AIA, LEED AP Principal

Butler joined the firm in 1979. His work has included buildings for institutional and commercial clients as well as master plans for both academic campuses and commercial developments. As principal in charge, he has led some of the firm's largest cultural projects in recent years, including Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin, and the Minneapolis Central Library.

Ateliers Jean Nouvel 
Emmanuel Blamont.

Senior Design Partner and Director of External Relations AJN - 1978 to 1984: assistant and project manager for Jean Nouvel on more than sixty projects. - 1985 to 1990: associate partner of "Jean Nouvel et associés ". Paris.- - coordinates the "Ta Rebocado" project for the urbanization of the Candeal shanty town, awarded in 2002 by the United Nations-HABITAT. - June 2003, lives and works in Paris: “Senior Design Partner”, AJN.

Makoto Fukuda

Project Director in Toyo Ito Architects and EMBT (Miralles-Tagliabue) Architect and Designer. Master MFA Architecture (1994) National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo. After collaborating in the offices of Arata Isozaki and Kijo Rokkaku in Japan, he joined the office of Enric Miralles in Spain in 1996. Now he is working as a project director , mainly in projects concerning public buildings and green spaces such as Santa Catarina market hall in Barcelona (built), a library building in Palafolls (built) in Spain, an unique urban furniture Lungomare and recently he worked for the Spanish Pavilion for Expo Universal in Shanghai 2010. At the same time he has been collaborating with Toyo Ito Architects Associates since 2005 in several projects such as Fira Barcelona, exhibitions halls, hotels, auditoriums and urbanisations. He often works for the exhibitions designs such as Exposición "El Mar perdido" directed by Isabel Coixet en Roca Gallery Barcelona, Madrid and Lisboa and Limits. Exposición y Conferencias en el COAC (Col.legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya) Barcelona and Exhibition "From I to J" in El centro de Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona.

Iñaki Ábalos

(San Sebastián, Spain, 1956) since 2013 Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Iñaki Ábalos is a Chaired Professor of Architectural Design at the ETSAM (since 2002) is a Ph.D. in Architecture (1991). He was Kenzo Tange Professor (2009), Design Critic in Architecture (2010-2012), Professor in Residence (2012-) and since 2013 Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). He is a founding member of Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos (since 2006), Ábalos & Herreros (1984-2005), and the director of the Laboratorio de Técnicas y Paisajes Contemporáneos (LTPC, since 2002).

RCR Arquitectes

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta became architects found the architecture firm RCR ARQUITECTES. They got many awards, such as National Culture Award for Architecture 2005 of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Chevalier of the order from arts et des lettres 2008 de la République Française, honorary member of the AIA American Institute of Architecture 2010, International Award 2011 "Belgian Building Awards", honorary members by the RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects 2012 and etc.

Ricardo de Ostos - NaJa & deOstos

Ricardo de Ostos is co-founder of London based NaJa & deOstos, an architectural studio exploring symbiotic relations between emerging cultural patterns and architectural narratives. With a strong innovative digital design focus including popular participation they create an interactive architecture, in both small and large-scale projects, through critical and challenging speculation. NaJa & deOstos have run workshops and lectured widely in countries like Brazil, Russia, Korea, USA, Turkey and throughout Europe. Since 2012 they are involved in the development of the European Design Innovation Policy.

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