International Jury
European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012

Jury Composition


PRESIDENT OF THE JURY

Josep Llinàs

Josep Llinàs
 He has taught at the Barcelona School of Architecture, at the Vallès School of Architecture and at the Ramón Llull University. He has been a guest lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the École Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne and has given seminars in different Spanish cities as well as in Graz, Vienna, Paris, Bogotá and Nancy.
He has published studies on Josep Maria Jujol, José Antonio Coderch, and Alejandro de la Sota and has also worked with the latter on a number of projects. His work has been the subject of several monographic studies (most recently in El Croquis Nº 128) and he has received accolades and awards for his work.


JURY MEMBERS



   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.
 


  Juulia Kauste
 Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture since 2010. She was based in New York for a 20-year period serving since 1997 as Executive Director of the Finnish Cultural Institute where she produced and curated large scale international touring exhibitions in the fields of art, design and architecture. Her recent projects include such exhibitions as Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, Sauma: Design as Cultural Interface, F2F: New Media Art from Finland, Paper+Finland=Art, and Architecture in Between as well as a series of annual events under the title New Finnish Design organized in conjunction with the New York Design Week in 2008 - 2010.
 


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).
 


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, the House of the Year award – and organizes own awards at the DAM, such as the International Highrise Award, the DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany and the DAM Architecture Book Award. The range of exhibitions and programs at the DAM include topics as “New Urbanity – the European City in the 21 Century”, “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”, “M8 in China - Contemporary Chinese Architects”, “Iceland and Architecture?” and “WOHA – breathing architecture”. He was the Commissary of the German Contribution to VII. International Architecture Biennale Sao Paulo 2007.
 


Dietmar Steiner
 Director of the Architekturzentrum Wien since 1993. Until 1989 he held a teaching post in architecture history and theory at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Vienna. Dietmar Steiner has been. In 2002 he curated the Austrian contribution to the Architecture Biennial in Venice in his capacity as Commissioner.
He is a member of the advisory committee for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, the most significant European architecture award, as well as being president of ICAM – International Confederation of Architectural Museums – the umbrella organisation for architecture museums world-wide. In addition, Dietmar Steiner works as an architecture consultant on a number of juries and for a number of appraisals. His many years' editorial experience with the Italian journal 'domus' and many published articles on the topics of architecture and urban development are also among his activities.