Meet the Judges and Host

Our 2011 judging panel will comprise of a number of key individuals drawn from various areas of the international architectural design and construction community including:

Chairman of the Judges:


Irving Brauer
Irving Brauer is the principal of Brauer Associates, a highly focused team of marketing specialists with over 25 years’ experience in enabling and assisting clients to enter or expand their position in the building specification market.

He has received the Hanover Good Design product award and has been Chair of the South London Society of Architects. Irving is currently a member of the NGCC steering committee and Chair of the PIA.

Judges:

Phil Holden
Phil is the Managing Director of Pascall+Watson architects and holds the position of Non Executive Director of the Royal Institute of British Architects Professional Services Board.  In the 11 years of being MD Phil has led the practice to develop into an internationally renowned firm with offices in London, Ireland and Abu Dhabi and one of the top 25 architectural practices in the UK.  He is an accomplished designer and an expert in framework relationships and supply chain management, with years of experience with clients across the transportation, education and commercial sectors. 

Lucy Bullivant
Lucy Bullivant is an architecturalcurator, critic and author. She was elected for an Honorary Fellowship of RIBA in 2010. A cultural historian with a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, she began her twenty-three year career working as an art curator and director of open art exhibitions. In the early 1990s she was Heinz Curator of Architectural Programmes at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Lucy has worked internationally with leading museums, galleries, cultural institutions, publishers and corporate bodies since 1987. Many speculative exhibition and conference projects have been realised as a result of her fundraising work.

Lucy is a widely respected and internationally read critic and author in the field of architecture and urban design. She advocates higher design standards and experimental multidisciplinary strategies countering the negative effects of globalisation, and lectures and chairs events internationally on these issues. Lucy has curated a wide range of ground-breaking and successful exhibitions - some global touring projects such as Space Invaders, for the British Council, London, and Kid size: the material world of childhood, for Vitra Design Museum, Germany - conferences and talks including Softspace, 4dspace, Spaced Out III, the Archis series and Shared Territories. Featuring exceptional practitioners from a range of disciplines, her exhibitions and conferences deal with topics including architecture’s role as a social art, models of best practice in the emerging field of responsive environments, new design strategies for housing, the design of children’s environments within and beyond the Western world, inclusive design and the work of emerging architectural practices.

Her latest book, Masterplanning Futures, to be published by Routledge by 2011, analyses the ideals and processes of contemporary masterplanning globally, with research supported by CABE and other bodies. Responsive Environments: architecture, art and design (V&A Contemporary, 2006), explores the hybrid discipline of interactive architecture and design, complementing 4dsocial and 4dspace, two popular publications she guest edited for AD in 2005 and 2007. Anglo Files, her extensive analysis of young UK architects and their cultural and political context was published in 2005 by Thames & Hudson, Princeton Architectural Press and DVA (in a German edition). She contributes to Domus, The Plan, Architectural Review, Architecture Today, Volume, Architectural Record and Indesign, some of the world’s most authoritative international architectural magazines.

Paolo Brescia
Paolo is partner of OBR Open Building Research established with Tommaso Principi after working together for Renzo Piano. Paolo and OBR develop their experimental line through the participation in international projects involved in public and social programs in newly advanced urban development countries. Their research is focused on urban design promoting the sense of community and the individual identities. Paolo links his working experience with the academic world as guest professor at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Helsinki Aalto University, Academy of Architecture of Mumbai.

He was awarded by the RIBA with the honorable mention AR Awards for Emerging Architecture and by Triennale di Milano with the honorable mention for the gold medal for Italian architecture under 40.

In 2011 he received in Rome the Ance premium for the best realized project designed by young architect and was the overall winner of the LEAF Awards in London 2011.