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WAF announces winners for the inaugural Architecture Drawing Prize

Germany Architecture News - Oct 27, 2017 - 14:41   14250 views

WAF announces winners for the inaugural Architecture Drawing Prize

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced winners for the inaugural Architecture Drawing Prize, which was created in recognition of the continuing importance of hand drawing, whilst also embracing the creative use of digitally produced renderings. 

Selected from a pool of 166 entries across the three categories - including Digital, Hand-drawn, and Hybrid - the Architecture Drawing Prize formed a shortlist composed of 38 accomplished entries from architects, designers and students hailing from 15 different countries around the globe. Sixty percent of the shortlisted entries were submitted by entrants aged 30 and under.

Momento Mori: a Peckham Hospice Care Home by architecture student Jerome Xin Hao Ng has been selected as the winner of the inaugural Architecture Drawing Prize curated by Make Architects, Sir John Soane’s Museum and the World Architecture Festival. Ng's drawing has also been named as the winner in the Hybrid category.

Submissions have been evaluated on the basis of their technical skill, originality in approach and ability to convey an architectural idea, whether for a conceptual or actual building project.

"A superbly conceived and executed perspectival view looking down through the building from roof level, praised for its technical skill and the sensitivity with which it depicted the spaces found in such institutions as settings for multi-generation social interaction," said Jeremy Melvin, Curator of World Architecture Festival (WAF).

Ng's drawing was produced as part of Ng’s final diploma project at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.

WAF announces winners for the inaugural Architecture Drawing Prize

Deep Water Purgatory by Christopher Wijatno, winner of the Digital category. Image courtesy of WAF

As winner of the category for Hybrid images, Ng’s drawing was selected for the top prize over the winners of the other two categories: Christopher Wijatno’s Deepwater Purgatory in the Digital category and Dimitrios Grozopoulis’ Scenarios for a Post-Crisis Landscape from the Hand-drawn category.

Wijatno depicted a prison moored like an oil rig in deep water, which judges felt evoked Piranesi and Dante. 

The Architecture Drawing Prize was judged by artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, Narinder Singh Sagoo, Head of Design Communication at Foster and Partners, Ken Shuttleworth of Make Architects, Owen Hopkins of the Sir John Soane’s Museum; and Jeremy Melvin of the World Architecture Festival.

WAF announces winners for the inaugural Architecture Drawing Prize

Scenarios for a Post-Crisis Landscape by Dimitrios Grozopoulis, winner of the Hand-drawn category. Image courtesy of WAF

Grozopoulis’ drawing was commended by judges as having a haunting quality beyond that of most images of post-industrial landscapes, portrayed with an extraordinary control of line.

"Drawing has always been a passion of mine, I imagine it is for most architects. So few drawings are realised as actual buildings, but this is a chance to celebrate the drawing as its own creation, its own piece of art. We hope that this shortlist will provide an exciting snapshot of creative thinking and excellence in drawing from around the world," said Ken Shuttleworth, Founder of Make.

"In the end three drawings emerged which we felt demonstrated a perfect unity of subject, technique and media - and these were our winners. The competition has shown that the art of architectural drawing is well and truly alive," said Owen Hopkins.

"A great drawing is the first step from beauty to immortality. The importance of drawing can't be exaggerated because it evidences aesthetic and conceptual perception at the most fundamental level," added Judges Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell.

The shortlisted entries will be displayed at the Architecture Drawing Prize stand at the World Architecture Festival which takes place in Berlin from 15-17 November 2017. All winning and commended entrants have been awarded a delegate pass to attend the event. 

There will be presentations for the category winners and exhibits of the shortlisted and winning drawings on the stand. The overall winner, Jerome Xin Hao Ng, will receive an award at the prestigious Gala Dinner, which closes the Festival on the evening of November 17th.

The winning and shortlisted entries will then be exhibited at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London from 21 February – 14 April 2018. 

The World Architecture Festival (WAF), celebrating its significant tenth anniversary year, is collaborating with World Architecture Community to create a global impact on the WAF's Awards programme and various keynote sessions, talks, conferences and live critics realized in front of an international judging panel of industry experts.  

World Architecture Community, in collaboration with WAF, offers to its Professional Members 10% discounted tickets over regular festival prices during registration! All you have to do is to upgrade your World Architecture Community membership to Professional here or visit your WAC Settings page and send us ([email protected]) an email to get your promo code for your WAF registration!

Top image: Memento Mori: A Peckham Hospice Care Home by architecture student Jerome Xin Hao Ng (UK), winner of the Architecture Drawing Prize, courtesy of WAF.

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