Press release February 2015

Press release - February 2015
Archiprix 2015 – announcement of the nominated projects

For the eight edition of the Archiprix International 21 graduation projects are nominated for the Hunter Douglas Awards. The announcement of the winners takes place in Madrid on 8 May 2015.
This edition of the Archiprix International is organised together with ETSAM | UPM - Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Biennially Archiprix International invites all schools worldwide in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture to select their best graduation project. For this edition a record number of 351 schools from 87 countries submitted their best graduation project.
The jury made up by architect Eduardo Arroyo, Luis Fernández Galiano (editor Arquitectura Viva), architect Anupama Kundoo, Zhenyu Li (dean CAUP Tongji University) and landscape architect Catherine Mosbach met at ETSAM and nominated 21 projects for the Hunter Douglas Awards.

The winners of the Hunter Douglas Awards are announced at the Award ceremony in Madrid on May 8th 2015.

NOMINATIONS for the Hunter Douglas Awards (in alphabetical order)
Pedro Pitarch Alonso > Archipelago Lab
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Madrid Spain

Adriana Debnárová > Architecture and Extreme Environment
Vysoka skola vytvarnych umeni, Academy of Fine arts and Design, Department of Architecture, Bratislava Slovakia

Frances Cooper > Architecture of the Synthetic the Spectacular and Belligerent
University of Auckland, School of Architecture and Planning, Auckland New Zealand

Ana Cristina Duarte > Architecture of transdisciplinarity
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitectura, Lisboa Portugal

Daniela Mitterberger > Category Four
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute for Art and Architecture, Vienna Austria

Santiago Benenati, Javier Tellechea > COOP
Universidad de la Republica - Uruguay, Facultad de Arquitectura, Montevideo Uruguay

De Peter Yi > Cultivate Collective
Rice University, School of Architecture, Houston United States

Verónica Francés Tortosa > Diary of an architect
Universidad de Alicante, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Alicante Spain

Egor Orlov > Future of an architecture space
Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering, Architecture, Kazan Russia

Patrícia Cioffi de Mattos > Handbook of Public Spaces- Belo Horizonte
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG, Escola de Arquitetura, Belo Horizonte Brazil

Jaqueline A Lessa > Landmarks: a nautical path through the Patos' Lagoon
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS, Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Porto Alegre Brazil

Zita Csaba > Pilgrim Center at Vértesszentkereszt
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture (ÉPK), Budapest Hungary

Nick Elias > PoohTown
University College London, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Building, Environmental Design and Planning, London England

Filippo Doria > Recording and Projecting Architecture
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Delft Netherlands

José María Martín Padrón, Ana Caracuel Urbano > Red Meat
Universidad Europea de Madrid, Escuela Superior de Arte y Arquitectura, Madrid Spain

Gabriel Munoz Moreno > Re-Generator
Universidad CEU San Pablo, Escuela Politécnica Superior, MADRID Spain

Silvia Asuni > The Regional University
University of Cagliari, Facoltà di Ingegneria e Architettura, Cagliari Italy

Haitham Nabil > The Scar City
Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà di Architettura e Societá, Milan Italy

Anders Sletten Eide, Mattias Fredrik Josefsson > Treasury of Deserted Backdrops
Bergen School of Architecture - BAS, Faculty of Architecture, Bergen Norway

Pablo Menéndez Paunero > Vibrations, context and complexity
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Las Palmas De Gran Canaria Spain

Domingo Arancibia > Wicker Factory
Universidad de Chile, School of Architecture, Santiago Chile

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Archiprix International has its seat located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Archiprix is supported by Creative Industries Fund NL, HunterDouglas