The 2025 Imaginative and prescient Awards are actually open and the Closing Entry Deadline on July eleventh is quick approaching. Because the boundaries of architectural visualization proceed to develop, so too does the Imaginative and prescient Awards jury. This yr, Architizer welcomes a powerhouse panel of visible storytellers — founders, administrators, artists, and educators — who’re redefining how structure is seen earlier than it’s constructed. From cinematic renderings to conceptual portraits, their work demonstrates that nice visualization isn’t just about realism, however about resonance: the power to seize a sense, provoke a response, and talk a narrative that transcends the web page or display.
Begin Imaginative and prescient Award
Spanning international studios, main practices, and award-winning impartial platforms, this jury brings a uncommon mixture of artistic rigor, technical mastery and cultural perception to the desk. Their affect is shaping the visible language of the constructed atmosphere — and now, they’ll assist choose the subsequent era of visionary image-makers on the 2025 Architizer Imaginative and prescient Awards.
Alex Hogrefe
Creator of Visualizing Structure and Co-Founding father of Design Distill
Alex is the creator of visualizingarchitecture.com, an internet site that explores architectural graphics and representational methods. He’s additionally the co-founder of Design Distill, an Architectural 3D rendering studio situated in Boston that focuses on extremely diversified initiatives starting from massive metropolis and college grasp planning photos right down to bespoke inside areas. Today when he isn’t in his Boston workplace, Alex could be discovered up on the Maine coast creating his carpentry expertise.
Keely Colcleugh
Founder and CEO at Kilograph
Keely is the founding father of Kilograph and Kilograph SL. She is a designer with greater than 20 years expertise within the fields of architectural design, visible results, model design and exhibition design. Keely is member of the chief committee on the A+D museum, previous president of the ASAI and serves on the juries of Architizer and the Structure Grasp Prize awards yearly
Mengyi Fan
Director of Visualization at SHoP Architects
Mengyi is at present the Director of Visualization at SHoP Architects. She has labored in a number of roles of experience within the architectural area with a deal with the New York metropolitan space, starting from lighting design for main infrastructural initiatives to creating exhibitions that make the most of social media as a design instrument.
For the previous 13 years at SHoP Architects, Mengyi has performed a task in virtually each undertaking on the agency, utilizing visualization and rising know-how as design instruments to appreciate SHoP’s architectural imaginative and prescient. Notable initiatives embody Barclays Middle, 111 W57th Avenue and Brooklyn Tower in New York, Uber’s new headquarters in San Francisco, and Detroit Hudson’s downtown revival.
She can be a co-organizer of 3DNY, working along with structure, visualization and VFX studios to advertise variety and facilitate conversations amongst completely different fields.
Filip Kurasz
Founding Accomplice | Artwork Director at ELEMENT and Co-Founding father of World Visualization Competition (WVF)
Filip Kurasz is a dynamic artistic, juggling roles as an artist, artwork director, and architect. Impressed by childhood passions and fueled by an entrepreneurial spirit, has co-guided ELEMENT Studio to the forefront of Archviz over the previous decade and now grew to become a proud co-founder of the World Visualization Competition – WVF. His knack for pushing boundaries earned him titles like Architectural Visualizer of the 12 months 2023 and nods from the Architizer A+Awards. When he’s not crafting masterpieces, Filip enjoys tackling impediment races and discovering pleasure in household adventures. At all times striving for the subsequent artistic problem, he brings a contact of lightheartedness to every little thing he does.
Jakub Figel
Founding Accomplice at ELEMENT and Co-Founding father of World Visualization Competition (WVF)
Jakub Figel is a powerhouse connecting the worlds of artwork and structure. His entrepreneurial drive leads him down unconventional paths, co-founding the World Visualization Competition (WVF) and spearheading ELEMENT Visualization Studio to grow to be a recognizable determine in Archviz for over a decade. Jakub’s achievements embody prestigious titles like Architectural Visualization Studio and Visualization of the 12 months 2023 and a Particular Point out on the Architizer A+ Awards.
Carlotta Cominetti
Co-Founding father of VirginLemon
Carlotta is the Co-founder and CEO of Virginlemon, a visible communication studio specialised in structure, winner of the first Architizer One Rendering Problem. She holds a Bachelor of Structure diploma from Politecnico di Milano in Italy. In 2013, she moved to Paris to start her profession and labored for a number of design corporations as idea developer and 3D artist. Since then she collaborates every day with Architects, builders and artists worldwide to create expressive photos and animations, and joined international CGI occasions as a speaker on the subject of narrative in architectural visualization.
Simone Lapenta
Design Director and Director of Visualization for RIOS
Simone Lapenta is a Design Director and the Director of Visualization at RIOS, a worldwide design collective primarily based in Los Angeles. On the intersection of design and digital storytelling, Simone brings visions of unbuilt locations to life, crafting putting narratives that seamlessly mix a refined digital aesthetic with evocative realism. Initially from Rome and with over 15 years of expertise, Simone weaves cultural resonance and technical readability into each picture. His work reveals the essence of an area earlier than it’s constructed, inviting viewers to expertise the way it will appear and feel and strengthening the aesthetic language and expressive energy of architectural interventions.
Duy Phan
Senior Visualizer at ERA-co
Duy is an artist primarily based in Melbourne, Australia. Born and raised from the Mekong Delta area of Vietnam, Duy brings a novel perspective to his work, which focuses on capturing the essence of unbuilt structure via portraiture.
Duy’s dedication to his craft is clear in his experimentation with completely different methods and types, as he strives to maintain up with the trade’s prime performers. Duy’s arduous work has garnered him quite a few prestigious trade awards and accolades. He’s additionally enthusiastic about sharing his wealth of information and experience, serving on critique panels on the College of Melbourne and delivering insightful visitor lectures at RMIT College.
Through the week, Duy works as an illustrator at ERA-co, the place he makes use of his experience to deliver new and thrilling concepts to life. When he’s not arduous at work, Duy enjoys exploring the attractive parks and gardens of Victoria, in addition to sustaining a wholesome work-life steadiness to gasoline his creativity.
Linna Choi
Founder/Accomplice at OUALALOU+CHOI
Linna Choi is a co-founding Principal of OUALALOU + CHOI, an structure and concrete design observe with studios in Paris and Casablanca. Linna holds a Grasp in Structure diploma from the Harvard Graduate College of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Structure from Yale College. She has served as a studio professor on the MIT College of Structure and Planning, Rhode Island College of Design, Rice College, and the Università Iuav di Venezia College of Structure.
Linna is the recipient of quite a few design awards, together with the Rice Design Alliance Highlight Prize, In/Arch Award, WA Award, AR Rising Structure Award, and was named as one of many “100 Architects of the 12 months” by the Korean Institute of Architects. Along with her companion Tarik Oualalou, Linna has printed a monograph of the workplace’s work entitled “Territories of Disobedience” which examines the workplace’s physique of labor prior to now twenty years.
Architizer’s Imaginative and prescient Awards are again! The worldwide awards program honors the world’s greatest architectural ideas, concepts and imagery. Begin your entry forward of the Closing Entry Deadline on July eleventh.
