YTAA Shortlist Announced

The biennial award was launched in February to "support the talent of recently graduated architects, urban planners and landscape architects who will be responsible for transforming our environment in the future." European schools registered and then nominated the diploma projects from the 2015-2016 academic year in architecture, urban design and/or landscape architecture. In determining the shortlist, the jury* reviewed the 211 submissions that came from 268 students representing more than 100 schools and 86 European cities. (Future awards may grow the participation beyond Europe.)

World-Architects is a Founding Partner of YTAA, so we have set up a page highlighting the shortlisted projects. Further, finalists have received project pages, which are linked in the list below (be sure to click on these links to see the projects but also hear the authors talk about them in short videos). The three winners will receive a profile on World-Architects, in addition to the 5,000€ prize, participation in the EU Mies Award exhibition, a software license from sponsor Vectorworks, and furniture from sponsor USM for designing their work space.

The YTAA awards ceremony will take place at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale in Venice on 28 October 2016, when the jury will announce and award the three winners among nine finalists drawn from the shortlist. The ceremony coincides with the Shaping European Cities debate, a collateral event of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Details on the event and registration for the debate and ceremony are here.

The 30 shortlisted projects arranged alphabetically by last name:

• "Subversions Minhocão" by Laura Abbruzzese (University of Ferrara)
• "The English Mall // The Comercial Garden" by Miriam Alonso Barrio (Madrid School of Architecture)
• "CHT-AHM" by Almudena Ballarín (Madrid School of Architecture)
• "Living in offices. The alive triangle of Bordelongue in Toulouse" by Jaufret Barrot, Cinthia Carrasco (Toulouse University)
• "A Symbiotic Relation of Cooperative Social Housing and Dispersed Tourism in Havana Vieja" by Iwo Borkowicz (Catholic University of Leuven)
• "S'lowtecture: housing structure" by Tomasz Broma (Wroclaw University of Technology)
• "Living in a cultural environment" by Claudia Carreras Oliver (Ramon Llull University)
• "Butterfly Landing" by Maria Cerdá (International University of Catalonia)
• "Dialogues between city and landscape" by Matteo Cervini, Eleonora Loca (Polytechnic of Milan)
• "Bagwall Handbook: An Architectural Approach to Humanitarian Crisis" by Andrea Chiabrera, Attilio Delucchi Baroni (University of Genoa)
• "GeoFront" by Policarpo del Canto Baquera (Madrid School of Architecture)
• "A City of Opportunities" by Francesca Esposito, Violetta Gambino, Francesca Icardi, Marina Mori (University of Genoa)
• "The Munch Atelier: Common Ground" by Vincent François (Catholic University of Leuven)
• "The reuse of the neglected areas and the rebirth of the city" by Fabrizio Furiassi ("La Sapienza" University of Rome)
• "Greenwich Archipelago Village" by Ioana Gherghel (University of Westminster, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment)
• "Las Delicias Center for the Elderly" by Blanca Gómez Gálvez (Malaga University)
• "Genesis of a place towards the project" by David Gonçalves Monteiro (Porto University)
• "Carp fishing in the market of Tokyo" by Izaskun Gonzalez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
• "Borrowed Scenery: Miyato Salt Farm Onsen" by Shenpei Ha (London Metropolitan University)
• "Linear Landscapes" by Silvia Lucchetta (IE School of Architecture & Design)
• "Vallecas 2058" by Erika Mazza, Roberto Bonutto (Polytechnic School, University of Genoa)
• "Radius" by Julian Meisen (UdK Berlin College of Architecture, Media and Design)
• "Sacred" by Pia Mendaro Larramendi (Madrid School of Architecture)
• "Sand Motor in Costa Brava" by Daniel Mira García (Madrid School of Architecture)
• "A theatre for la fura dels baus" by Ivo Oberholzer (Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture)
• "Brewing Democracy: The assembly of Le Balai Citoyen in Ouagadougou" by Lorenzo Perri (Architectural Association School of Architecture)
• "Little Hamburg Hybrid Housing" by Michał Sapko (Silesian University of Technology)
• "Death and Life of a small French city" by Alice Villatte, Alix Sportich du Réau de la Gaignonnière (School of architecture of Marne-la-Vallée)
• "Storm surge zones - An architectural intervention" by Alexis Valencia Cordova (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
• "Revisited Waters" by João Veríssimo (University of Lisbon)

*The members of the Jury who selected the shortlisted projects:

• Jose Luis Vallejo, Architect, Principle at Ecosistema Urbano, Madrid (President)
• Inge Beckel, Architect, Editor at the Swiss-Architects.com eMagazine, Zurich
• Michał Duda, Architecture Historian, Curator at Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw
• Juulia Kauste, Sociologist, Director at Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki
• Triin Ojari, Architect, Director at Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn