An expert panel of judges, will provide 60% of the final score. The panel will determine the assessment criteria for the winning works, which will be included in the minutes listing the prizes awarded. The judges' decision shall be final. The general public may also assess the entries by voting on the IS ARCH website and their opinions shall make up the remaining 40% of the score.
The first registration period of IS ARCH Awards is near ending.
Jury members
BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE
Benedetta Tagliabue is an known italian architect, who lives in Barcelona since more than twenty years ago. Borned in Milan, she improved her architecture studies in Venice and New York. In 1991 she started the collaboration with Enric Miralles with whom formed Miralles Tagliabue EMBT studio in 1994, based in Barcelona and in Shanghai since 2010. She finished Spanish Pavilion in Shanghai Expo 2010 and was awarded with the prestigious RIBA International Award for the Best International Building in 2011.
In her more famous projects there are the Edimburg Parliament, the Diagonal Mar Park and Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona. Her work has been exhibited in MOMA, Pompidou Center and Venice Biennal.
Benedetta Tagliabue currently is teacher in Harvard University and makes lectures in architecture fórums and universities around the world.
KOJI TSUTSUI
Koji Tsutsui worked under Tadao Ando on projects such as housings for the Great Hanshin Earthquake, museums and schools. After leaving Tadao Ando's office, he establishes Koji Tsutsui Architect & Associates and opens Tokyo office in 2004 and San Francisco office in 2010. He has been designing numerous projects around the world while observing economic and architectural developments in multiple countries. He adopts local cultures and building technologies into his design to create a new generation of lasting sustainable architecture. His notable projects include: School & Home for HIV Orphans in Uganda, Haiti Monastery, Industrial Designer House, InBetween House and Case Study House in California. Currently, he is making proposals for 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Relief Projects in Japan.
While receiving numerous awards and publications over the years, his office was selected as one of the top emerging architecture offices in the world by Architectural Record Design Vanguard in 2011. Also in the same year, InBetween House received awards & recognitions such as the Villa Category Winner in World Architecture Festival 2011 in Barcelona, Architectural Record - Record House 2011 and AR House Awards 2011.
FERNANDO MARQUEZ CECILIA
Fernando Márquez Cecilia is licenced in Architecture and Urbanism by the ETSAM in 1980. He formed with Richard Levene, in 1982, EL CROQUIS architecture studio and editorial. Since then, they edited and directed EL CROQUIS architecture magazine, and Architecture Library theory and test books collection.
In 1999 they inaugurated El Croquis Architecture Gallery, in El Escorial, as the place where the most important projects in construction process in Spain were exhibited. In 1990, he published, along to Richard Levene and Antonio R. Barbarín, Contemporary Spanish Architecture 1975/1990.
He was teacher taking part in Project Department on Architecture and Art School at UEM and was responsible, since 2000 to 2010, teaching "Architecture and Art XX Century History".
