The 2020 WAF Architecture Drawing Awards, in association with the Make Architects studio and the Sir John Soane's Museum, seeks to explore and reflect on current architecture in its natural environment, the drawing, and how it has progressed throughout the history.
The prize winners are.-
Overall Winner and Hybrid Category Winner: Apartment #5, a Labyrinth and Repository of Spatial Memories by Clement Laurencio, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (first image).
The prize winners are.-
Overall Winner and Hybrid Category Winner: Apartment #5, a Labyrinth and Repository of Spatial Memories by Clement Laurencio, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (first image).
Summary: "The dwelling, set in London, re-creates atmospheres of places remembered from a recent voyage to India. Separate pencil hand-drawings are digitally composed, corrupting and curating places into a labyrinth of spatial memories."
Jury comment: "This drawing creates a labyrinth of drawings, each with its own story. Familiarity and mystery are conveyed with a sensitive, confident technique of great skill and precision. There is nothing loud or colorful, only a realm of acutely observed detail with a powerful muted presence. You can really imagine being here."
Jury comment: "This drawing creates a labyrinth of drawings, each with its own story. Familiarity and mystery are conveyed with a sensitive, confident technique of great skill and precision. There is nothing loud or colorful, only a realm of acutely observed detail with a powerful muted presence. You can really imagine being here."
Lockdown Prize Winner and Hybrid Category Shortlist: Airplane Tower by Victor Hugo Azevedo and Cheryl Lu Xu, Robert A. M. Stern Architects
Jury comment: "We were captivated by the Airplane Tower drawing’s immediacy, wit and use of multiple perspectives while addressing serious questions around the pandemic, interlinking the environment and reuse agenda with the housing crisis and the many challenges faced by the travel industry."
Other shortlisted entries in the Hybrid Category are:
Hybrid Category Shortlist: Choate Colony Hall, Jeff Stikeman, Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
Hybrid Category Shortlist: Mechanical Theatre of Smash Palace, Jono Yoo, The University of Auckland.
Hybrid Category Shortlist: Mechanical Theatre of Smash Palace, Jono Yoo, The University of Auckland.
Hand-Drawn Category Winner: Dear Hashima by architect/artist Marc Brousse
Summary: "The drawing, one of a series, is intended to re-question the position of man within the city, based on the ideas of the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Ink/charcoal, invisible ink, using Traitillism as a method, whereby the line symbolizes life, space, thought and memory."
Jury comment: "All the judges were very impressed by the incredibly individual drawing technique used here, which is technically impressive and visually highly effective."
Jury comment: "All the judges were very impressed by the incredibly individual drawing technique used here, which is technically impressive and visually highly effective."
Other shortlisted entries in the Hand-Drawn Category are:
- Hand-Drawn Category Shortlist: Construction as Heritage: A Case for Discrete Industry, Joshua Bristow, London Metropolitan University (Unit 8, MArch)
- Hand-Drawn Category Shortlist: Polymorphous Spatical Monosodium Glutamate, Matthew Poon, UCL Bartlett X-25
- Hand-Drawn Category Shortlist: Polymorphous Spatical Monosodium Glutamate, Matthew Poon, UCL Bartlett X-25
Digital Category Winner: Re-Reading Metropolis by Chenglin Able, University of California, Berkeley
Summary: "The project adopts a 'frame within frame' quality to create tension between isolation and unity, between quiet residential and bright urban lives, and between infill and pavilion knitted to the frame of the surrounding context. The project is actively engaging new interpretations of iconic historical buildings and redefining the typology of a water temple."
Jury comment: "Layering drawing types - maps, plans, infrastructural systems and data entry, Re-Reading Metropolis suggests a fresh way to map an urban territory, both playful and precise."
Other shortlisted entries in the Digital Category are:
- Digital Category Shortlist: Here Everywhere: Orchard, Hans Villamayor
- Digital Category Shortlist: The Theatre of Fictions, A collaboration between Shahar Cohen & Jerram Rosen under Amaia Sanchez-Velasco for Hyperecologies III, University of Technology, Sydney
- Digital Category Shortlist: Fetching a Bucket of Steam, Jack Ingham, Newcastle University
- Digital Category Shortlist: Entombment of Fear / Nuclear-free Japan (Perspective), Swee Yong, Formwerkz Architects
- Digital Category Shortlist: The Theatre of Fictions, A collaboration between Shahar Cohen & Jerram Rosen under Amaia Sanchez-Velasco for Hyperecologies III, University of Technology, Sydney
- Digital Category Shortlist: Fetching a Bucket of Steam, Jack Ingham, Newcastle University
- Digital Category Shortlist: Entombment of Fear / Nuclear-free Japan (Perspective), Swee Yong, Formwerkz Architects
The 2020 jury panel included artists Ben Langlands & Nikki Bell; Gary Simmons, Main Board Director at William Hare Group; Ken Shuttleworth, Founder of Make Architects; Lily Jencks, Cofounder of LilyJencksStudio and JencksSquared; Louise Stewart, Curator of Exhibitions at Sir John Soane's Museum; Narinder Sagoo, Senior Partner at Foster + Partners; artist, Pablo Bronstein; and Paul Finch, Program Director of the World Architecture Festival.
The announcement of the winning entries in the panel video below.
