International Jury
European Prize for Urban Public Space 2010

JURY


PRESIDENT OF THE JURY

Rafael Moneo

Rafael Moneo		 A Spanish architect of great international prestige, he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1996, the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2003, and the Gold Medal of Spanish Architecture. He is a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
Notable among his buildings are the Kursaal Auditorium and Congress Centre in San Sebastian (1999), the extensions to the Prado Museum of Madrid (2007), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, (2000) and the LISE (Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering) Building at Harvard University, Cambridge (2007).
Rafael Moneo combines his work as an architect with teaching, giving lectures and writing as a critic. He is presently Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. A co-founder of the review Arquitecturas Bis, he frequently publishes in specialist journals and is author, inter alia, of the book Inquietud teórica y estrategia proyectual en la obra de ocho arquitectos contemporáneos (2005), which was published in several languages, including English (Theoretical Anxieties and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects).

JURY MEMBERS

Severi Blomstedt

Severi Blomstedt		 Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (Helsinki) where he was formerly director of exhibitions, he presided over the jury in the competition for the Finnish Pavilion at EXPO 2010 Shanghai and has been a member of other juries, for example that of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award and the European Architectural Photography Prize. He has served as president of the Finnish Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York and as vice-president of the commission of the Japan Finland Design Association.
 


Ole Bouman		 Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute and former editor-in-chief of the periodical publication Volume, he has been curator for a series of events promoting the reconstruction of public space in cities affected by different kinds of disasters, for example Ramallah, Mexico City, Beirut and Pristina, as well as for exhibitions for the Triennale of Milan and Manifesta 3. He is co-author of the encyclopaedia The Invisible in Architecture and co-editor of Al Manakh and also writes for such publications as the newspaper De Groene Amsterdammer, The Independent, Artforum and Domus. He has taught Design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has given lectures at several universities.
 


Sarah Mineko Ichioka		 Director of The Architecture Foundation and co-director of the London Festival of Architecture, she was also a consultant for the exhibition Global Cities in The Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern and associate research fellow for the project Urban Age, which investigates the future of global cities. In the Tenth Venice Biennale, she was content coordinator of the exhibition Cities, Architecture and Society and co-editor of the catalogue. Notable among her writings is her contribution to the book The Endless City.
 


Francis Rambert		 Architecture critic and director of the Institut Français d’Architecture at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, he has been editor of the column “Architecture” in the cultural supplement of Le Figaro and was one of the founders of the review D’architectures, while also publishing a great number of articles in specialist reviews, in particular Connaissance des Arts, for which he writes on a regular basis.
Notable in his experience as an exhibition curator is his work in the exhibition of projects concerning the future of the metropolis of Paris, Le Grand Pari(s), and in the French Pavilion in the 11th Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008 where the theme was GénéroCité, le généureux vs le générique. His most recently published book is Architecture Tomorrow (2005).
 


Dietmar Steiner		 Director of Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna) since 1993, he was commissar in 2002 for the Austrian project at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. He is also president of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums and a member of the consultative committee of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe, while also serving as consultant architect on a number of juries. He writes assiduously for a range of publications on architecture and urban development, among them the Italian review Domus.
 


Peter Cachola Schmal
 Director of Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM (German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt). Architect and Critic. He has been a member of various juries, such as the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Architectural Photography Prize – and organizes own competitions at the DAM, such as the DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany, the DAM Architecture Book Award and the International Highrise Award. The range of exhibitions and programs at the DAM include topics as “New Urbanity – the European City in the 21 Centruy”, “Urban Green – Contemporary European Landscape Architecture” and projects with international partners such as “Patent Construction - New Architecture made in Catalonia”, “Becoming Istanbul”, “Megacity Network – Korean Contemporary Architects” and “M8 in China - Contemporary Chinese Architects”. He was the General Commissary of the German Contribution to VII. International Architecture Biennale Sao Paulo 2007.

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