The 2025 Imaginative and prescient Awards at the moment are open and the Ultimate Entry Deadline is arising quick on July eleventh. This international awards program celebrates essentially the most compelling architectural visuals and concepts, from renderings and fashions to unbuilt tasks, pictures and extra. Entries are reviewed by a world jury of specialists shaping the way forward for design throughout disciplines and scales.
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Amongst this yr’s jurors are 12 standout agency leaders — principals, founders and design companions whose work has made a world impression. From boutique studios to internationally famend companies, they bring about deep perception and affect to the desk as they assist outline this yr’s most visionary architectural work.
Every of those jurors is a principal, founder, or design associate on the forefront of architectural observe and so they’re right here to pick out the boldest visible and conceptual work of the yr.
Lyndon Neri
Co-Founder, Neri&Hu Design and Analysis Workplace
Lyndon Neri co-founded Neri&Hu Design and Analysis Workplace with Rossana Hu in 2006, an inter-disciplinary architectural design observe primarily based in Shanghai. By way of his observe, Neri has strengthened a core imaginative and prescient: to reply to a world worldview incorporating overlapping design disciplines for a vital paradigm in structure, whereas believing strongly in analysis as a design instrument, as every challenge bears its distinctive set of contextual points.
Alongside his design observe, Neri has been deeply dedicated to architectural training, and has taught and lectured in quite a few universities. He was just lately appointed as Visiting College at Princeton College College of Structure, beginning spring semester 2024. He was appointed the Howard Friedman Visiting Professor of Follow on the College of California, Berkeley in 2023, the Design Critic in 2023 and the John C. Portman Design Critic in Structure in 2019 and 2021 on the Harvard Graduate College of Design, the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor in 2022 and Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor Chair in 2018 on the Yale College of Structure.
Neri can be Founding Companion of Design Republic in Shanghai since 2004, a design platform incorporating retail idea, design and cultural exhibitions, and training. In 2015, he was appointed because the Inventive Director of Stellar Works, and has been a board member of Roll & Hill LLC. in Brooklyn since 2010. Neri acquired his Grasp of Structure at Harvard College Graduate College of Design and his Bachelor of Arts in Structure on the College of California, Berkeley.
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Sanjay Puri
Principal at Sanjay Puri Architects
Sanjay Puri is the principal architect of Sanjay Puri Architects, a agency that was established in 1992 and has received over 360 worldwide awards. Sanjay graduated in 1988 from the Academy of Structure, Mumbai and has been on the jury of a plethora of competitions. Sanjay has been a speaker at quite a few architectural and design occasions in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Singapore, Barcelona, Venice, Milan and extra. With a present agency power of 108 architects and designers, Sanjay Puri Architects have ongoing tasks in 54 Indian cities at present. The present tasks embody grasp planning, structure, inside design, occasion design and product design throughout numerous typologies.
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Winka Dubbeldam
Principal Companion at ARCHI-TECTONICS NYC
Winka Dubbeldam, March, MsAAD, is the founder and associate of the WBE licensed New York agency Archi-Tectonics NYC, LLC with workplaces within the US, the Netherlands and China. Dubbeldam is broadly recognized for her award-winning work, acknowledged as a lot for its design excellence as for its use of good constructing programs, sustainable supplies, and revolutionary buildings. Archi-Tectonics has designed many mixed-use and residential buildings and business areas, together with aellness, artwork galleries and retail, together with the Ports1961 flagship shops in London, Paris and Shanghai amongst others. Archi-Tectonics received the Asian Video games Invited Design Competitors in Hangzhou China, with a 116 acre Eco park, 5 buildings, and a couple of hybrid stadiums, which opened in 2023, now after the video games it’s a cultural and recreation area for town of Hangzhou. The challenge has since garnered quite a few awards.
Dubbeldam was additionally the Chair [2013-23] and Miller Professor on the Weitzman College of Design’s Division of Structure and Director of the Superior Analysis and Innovation {ARI] Lab on the College of Pennsylvania the place she has gathered a world community of revolutionary analysis and design professionals. She beforehand taught on the graduate structure packages at Columbia, Cornell and Harvard Universities, and was named one of many Design Intelligence 30 Most Admired professionals of their Subject 2015. At present Dubbeldam is the Exterior Examiner on the Architectural Affiliation and Bartlett UCL London, and on the AIANY Committee, and on the jury for the ULI and PLAN Awards. This yr she was named Advisor to Bogotá’s Mayor for the Bogotá Structure Biennale 2025. She has spoken on innovation and sustainability internationally, together with a TED speak, the current UIA World Type for Architects in Copenhagen 2023, and at Cop 28 in 2023.
The work is printed in quite a few worldwide structure and design periodicals, in addition to within the 4 monographs; Winka Dubbeldam, Architect (010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 1996), AT-INDEX (Princeton Press, NYC, 2006), Archi-Tectonics (DAAB publishers, 2010), and “Unusual Objects” with Actar, Spain [2021], with a brand new monograph with Park Books popping out this Fall.
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Suchi Reddy
Principal for ReddyMade
Suchi Reddy, FAIA, is an architect and designer exploring neuroaesthetics — the impression of design on notion and well-being. As founding father of Reddymade, she integrates neuroscience and structure to create environments that foster connection, relaxation, and empowerment. Guided by her philosophy, “type follows feeling,” her work spans public artwork, healthcare, and analysis on neurodiversity. Notable tasks embody A Area for Being, an set up with Google demonstrating consciousness. A professor at Columbia College and frequent lecturer on design and wellbeing, she champions design’s position in shaping empathetic, equitable, and enriching environments.
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Amaury Greig
Companion/Director of Operations, Renzo Piano Constructing Workshop
Amaury Greig earned levels in Geography from the College of Victoria BC, and in Political Science from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) earlier than finishing his research in Structure on the College of British Columbia. After gaining skilled expertise in Canada and France, he joined the Workshop in 2012, the place he performed a key position on the Paris Courthouse challenge, from design phases to its completion in 2017.
In 2016, Amaury served because the Lead Architect for the New Toronto Courthouse competitors, overseeing the challenge by way of to the ultimate supply. Over time, he has led high-profile competitions and tasks throughout Europe and North America.
In 2022, he was appointed Director of Operations taking over a firm-wide position overseeing the Workshop’s operations, communications, and enterprise improvement. Amaury was named Companion in 2024.
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David Godshall
Co-Founder and Principal at Terremoto
David Godshall is a panorama architect, horticultural theorist and the co-founder and design director of the TERREMOTO workplace in Los Angeles, which he based with Alain Peauroi in 2012. Over the previous twelve years, TERREMOTO has grown rapidly and established itself as a driving pressure on the earth of panorama structure. David’s strategic strategy to design is inherently rooted in philosophy and the concept ecology, horticulture and panorama have transformative bodily and non secular impacts upon people and non-humans. Comply with TERRMOTO on Instagram.
Olin McKenzie
Design Companion at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
As a designer, Olin McKenzie is influenced by his expertise of cities — the areas, patterns, and buildings that contribute to the novelty and marvel of city dwelling. His architectural sensibility is invested in restraint and readability, and by the idea that layered work might be most powerfully achieved by way of an financial system of design strikes.
When he joined SOM in 2006, Olin initially labored within the training sector, with tasks together with the Raffles American College in Iskandar, Malaysia, and pupil exercise and athletic amenities for Kuwait College. He went on to design dynamic and influential transportation tasks, together with Brightline, which encompasses three passenger rail stations in South Florida, and the Philadelphia thirtieth Avenue Station District Plan.
A human scale and distinct visible id are throughlines in Olin’s work. From the curving glass façade which masks the structural columns at Pendry Manhattan West to the domestically sourced timber screens that allow passive shading and air move on the Raffles American College, Olin is understood for locating surprising formal and materials options that enrich a constructing’s operate and environment. Comply with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill on Instagram.
Luca Bussolino
Companion, Head of Technique & Innovation at Carlo Ratti Associati
Luca is a skilled architect and licensed engineer. He accomplished his Grasp in Structure in September 2018, acquiring a double grasp diploma with honors at Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano. Luca joined CRA in December 2018. Since late 2019 he’s a part of the Technique and Innovation workforce.
In 2022 he turned Head of Technique and Innovation for the agency, managing the workforce in command of creating future tasks and the long-term technique of CRA – Carlo Ratti Associati. Throughout his research, he spent one yr in Paris, at ENSA La Villette, and a semester at TU Delft, in The Netherlands. He holds a post-degree Diploma in Innovation Administration from the extremely selective Alta Scuola Politecnica which led him to cope with themes starting from design pondering to business 4.0. In June 2019, he accomplished his second humanitarian challenge in Cambodia, managing the method from wants analysis to fundraising and constructing development of a multi-family home in Sihanoukville. Comply with CRA — Carlo Ratti Associati on Instagram.
Katherine Chia
Co-Founding father of Desai Chia Structure
Katherine Chia FAIA is a founding principal of Desai Chia Structure. Since 1996, she and her associate & husband, Arjun Desai, have established the agency’s popularity for genuine design, creating inspiring environments expressive of sunshine, supplies, and areas that foster collaboration. Desai Chia’s tasks have been printed extensively and acquired many accolades together with quite a few AIA Design Awards and American Structure Awards, quite a few Inside Design Better of 12 months Awards, and an AIA Institute Honor Award. Architizer ranked Desai Chia as one of many prime 100 US structure companies, and Forbes ranked Desai Chia as one of many prime 200 US residential structure companies. In 2018, ARCHITECT Journal ranked Desai Chia Structure #19 within the nation for Design. The e book “The Ladies Who Modified Structure” by Princeton Architectural Press included Katherine and her work within the chapter titled “Elevating the Roof.”
Katherine grew up in New York State and Belgium. She earned her Grasp of Structure diploma from M.I.T. and acquired her Bachelor of Arts diploma from Amherst Faculty. Previous to founding Desai Chia Structure, she labored for Maya Lin on quite a few artwork and structure commissions. She is a Trustee Emerita of Amherst Faculty, a board member on the Heart for Structure, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Comply with Desai Chia Structure on Instagram.
Arjun Desai
Co-Founding father of Desai Chia Structure
Arjun Desai AIA is a founding principal of Desai Chia Structure. Since 1996, he and his associate & spouse, Katherine Chia, have established the agency’s popularity for genuine design, creating inspiring environments expressive of sunshine, supplies, and areas that foster collaboration. Desai Chia’s tasks have been printed extensively and acquired many accolades together with quite a few AIA Design Awards and American Structure Awards, quite a few Inside Design Better of 12 months Awards, and an AIA Institute Honor Award. Architizer listed Desai Chia Structure as one of many prime 100 US Structure companies, and Forbes listed the agency as one of many prime 200 US residential structure companies. In 2018, ARCHITECT Journal ranked Desai Chia Structure #19 within the nation for Design Excellence.
Arjun grew up in New Delhi and Mumbai, India. Previous to founding Desai Chia Structure, he labored at SHCA/NY on quite a few civic tasks in New York and Washington, D.C. He earned his Grasp of Structure diploma from M.I.T. and acquired his Bachelor of Arts diploma from Bennington Faculty. Comply with Desai Chia Structure on Instagram.
Sean Shen
Architect and Cofounder of ZJJZ Atelier China
Sean Shen, co-founded ZJJZ — a Shanghai primarily based structure design studio — with Xuanru Chen and Yu-ying Tsai in 2017. The studio focuses on design options for various areas, whereas learning the inventive makes use of of the area. Its areas of experience embody cultural and public tasks reminiscent of artwork galleries, libraries, neighborhood facilities and resorts. ZJJZ has additionally performed an lively position within the rural improvement of China. Comply with ZJJZ atelier on Instagram.
James Biber
Founder/Principal of Biber Architects
James Biber, an architect and creator, was a associate within the New York workplace of Pentagram for practically 20 years earlier than founding Biber Architects. His tasks are broad ranging each in scale and kind; from the Harley-Davidson Museum to the USA Pavilion on the 2015 Expo in Milan, from elaborate ocean entrance properties to a 100 sf cabin in upstate New York, and from structure to essays to books.
Whereas it usually takes extra time to publish a e book that to construct a constructing, Biber has been specializing in writing for the reason that pandemic, and certain will into the long run. After a lifetime of architectural work, solely attainable with the very best (and quite a few) collaborators, he derives monumental satisfaction from doing one thing fully solo, that may be accomplished just about anyplace and with no schedule or shopper! Comply with Biber Architects on Instagram.
Georg Windeck
Architect, Professor of Design & Building of Rhein Major College of Utilized Science
Georg Windeck is a German-American architect, working towards in New York and Berlin, with a deal with excessive finish residential and institutional tasks. He has been instructing at Cooper Union, SVA and IIT Chicago, and just lately acquired a place as chair of Design and Building at Rhein Major College in Wiesbaden, Germany. Comply with Georg on Instagram.
Architizer’s Imaginative and prescient Awards are again! The worldwide awards program honors the world’s finest architectural ideas, concepts and imagery. Begin your entry forward of the Ultimate Entry Deadline on July eleventh.
