Drawing lies on the coronary heart of structure — not solely as a technical software, however as a car for concepts, environment, and hypothesis. The 2025 Architizer Imaginative and prescient Awards jury celebrates that energy, assembling a cohort of celebrated architects, illustrators and educators who’ve every solid a definite visible language. From conceptual sketching to narrative-driven renderings, their work reminds us that the hand — whether or not digital, analog or someplace in between — stays important in shaping how we think about area.
By way of a long time of follow and pedagogy, these jurors have helped elevate drawing as a standalone architectural act. They may assist choose essentially the most compelling visible entries within the 2025 Architizer Imaginative and prescient Awards — works that transcend conference and reveal the poetic, political and private dimensions of design.
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Steven Holl
Founding Principal of Steven Holl Architects
Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington. He graduated from the College of Washington and pursued structure research in Rome in 1970. In 1976, he joined the Architectural Affiliation in London and in 1977 established STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS. Thought-about certainly one of America’s most influential architects, he’s acknowledged for his capability to mix area and light-weight with nice contextual sensitivity and to make the most of the distinctive qualities of every mission to create a concept-driven design. He focuses on seamlessly integrating new tasks into contexts with specific cultural and historic significance.
Steven Holl has realized tasks each in the USA and internationally. He has obtained the 2016 VELUX Daylight Award in Structure, the 2014 Praemium Imperiale Worldwide Arts Award for Structure, the 2012 AIA Gold Medal, the 2010 RIBA Jencks Award, and the primary ever Arts Award of the BBVA Basis Frontiers of Information Awards in 2009.
Steven Holl is a tenured Professor at Columbia College’s Graduate Faculty of Structure, Planning and Preservation. He has additionally taught on the College of Washington, Pratt Institute, and the College of Pennsylvania.
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Daniel Libeskind
Founder and Principal Architect at Studio Libeskind
Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind is a globally acknowledged determine in structure and concrete design. Guided by a deep ardour for music, philosophy, and literature, Libeskind creates structure that’s emotionally resonant, revolutionary, and sustainable. As Principal Design Architect of Studio Libeskind, he leads a multidisciplinary follow engaged in a variety of tasks worldwide. The studio’s portfolio contains museums, live performance halls, conference facilities, college campuses, inns, purchasing complexes, and residential towers.
Libeskind can also be a distinguished voice within the discipline, ceaselessly talking at universities {and professional} conferences on the artwork and impression of structure. His work and concepts have been featured in quite a few exhibitions and publications, shaping modern architectural discourse and influencing the evolution of cities and cultural areas. He has obtained quite a few accolades for his contributions, together with the Goethe Medal, the Hiroshima Peace Prize, the Dresden Peace Prize, and the European Union Prize for Civil Rights.
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Sabina Blasiotti
Artistic Director of Sabi House
Sabina Blasiotti is a London-based architect with roots in Abruzzo, Italy, the place she grew up. Sabina graduated from the Bartlett Faculty of Structure UCL and certified with the Architectural Affiliation AA in London. Earlier than founding Sabi House, she labored at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in London and Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA) in Tokyo, contributing to main tasks comparable to CityLife’s Portico in Milan and the Hoshino Resort in Yufuin.
Her work at Sabi House is a testomony to her instinct, intensive analysis and fervour for difficult norms to search out new methods of residing. Her most up-to-date analysis delves into the function of radical creativeness in design to form improvements that unlock options to immediately’s challenges.
Sabina’s work spans training, structure, furnishings design and illustration. She has obtained awards from Architizer, the RIBA and Azure Journal, amongst others. Her work has been exhibited on the Salone del Cell in Milan, the Royal Academy, the RIBA and Sir John’s Museum in London and printed in Architizer, Metropolis, Axis Journal and the RIBA Journal.
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Dan Hogman
Architect at SmithGroup
As an architect, artist, and educator, Dan has developed the capability to mix digital and conventional media in creating architectural ideas and has exhibited with the SFMOMA, the AIA, and quite a few non-public galleries. Aside from his multidisciplinary design follow, Dan serves as school on the AAU San Francisco, the place he teaches design and drawing studios.
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Thomas Schaller
Artist at Schaller Architectural and Tremendous Arts
Thomas W. Schaller is an internationally acclaimed artist, architect, and creator based mostly in New York Metropolis. In 2024 he was named the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award in Tremendous Arts by the Institute of Classical Artwork and Structure, the 2024 Raphael Award, winner of the Ogden Pleissner Award by each the American Watercolor Society and the Salmagundi Artwork Membership, and First Place Award winner in Watercolour Worldwide. A two-time winner of the celebrated Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize, he additionally gained the First Place Award within the Architizer One Drawing Competitors. He’s the creator of three books, together with the AIA Award-Successful Structure in Watercolor. His newest, Architect of Mild is printed by Penguin Random Home. His best-selling DVD, The Energy of Design is printed by Streamline Media. And his interactive on-line mentorship program “Design and the Energy of Creativeness” is hosted by Terracotta LLC. Tom is a signature member of many artwork teams world wide and is represented by Gallery 71 in New York Metropolis.
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Natasha Sandmeier
Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCLA
Natasha Sandmeier is an educator and leads the postgraduate Leisure Studio at UCLA Structure & City Design, and is Program Director of the MS.AUD. Her tutorial work and analysis straddles the worlds of structure and visible storytelling. She was the Govt Director of the A+D Museum, Los Angeles from 2022-24. She is the creator and editor of Little Worlds (London, 2014); a monograph of tasks and essays re-examining the function of the architect inside modern architectural tradition. Natasha is an architect (NL registered) and founding associate of Workplace UR (OUR).
Bless Yee
Mission Architect at DLR Group
Bless Yee was the Non-Scholar Grand Prize Winner of 2020’s One Drawing Problem, and was one of many winners of Dezeen’s 2021 Redesign the World competitors. She is an architect, artist, and educator based mostly in Washington, D.C. At present, Bless is an Mission Architect within the Cultural & Performing Arts Sector at DLR Group and is an adjunct professor at Parsons the New Faculty for Design. She has additionally labored at Snøhetta, Handel Architects, and Pei Cobb Freed & Companions. In her private work she is creating strategies of layering hand drawing and bodily fashions with digital instruments to depict compelling narratives of social points.
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From conceptual work to images and movies to drawings and extra, Architizer’s 2025 Imaginative and prescient Awards places the highlight on architectural illustration. The clock is ticking — submit your work forward of the Prolonged Entry Deadline on August 1st.
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