"Architecture has the power to give back to communities" say Dezeen Awards judges
With one week to go until the Dezeen Awards winners are announced, members of the architecture master jury discuss how this year's entries reveal a newfound spirit of concern for both communities and the environment.
Architect and Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob stressed the potential of architecture being politically and emotionally engaged, rather than being purely about construction.
"Thinking about architecture as the production of walls is to limit its potential power on the world," Jacob said. "The fact that we can begin to think of it as a much broader, creative, politically and emotionally engaged practice is incredibly exciting."
Mexican architect Michel Rojkind chaired the Dezeen Awards architecture master jury
Jacob was a member of the architecture master jury along with Assemble co-founder Paloma Strelitz, Design Haus Liberty founder Dara Huang and architects Jürgen Mayer H and Michel Rojkind. The five architects spoke to Dezeen following the day-long master jury session held in London last month. Strelitz said that this year's crop of entries revealed an increasing interest in consulting the public on the use of buildings.
"Many people are asking the question of how a broader range of people can have more agency in how the built environment is produced and run," Strelitz said.
Dara Huang and Jürgen Mayer H were also among the architecture judges
Rojkind, the architecture master jury chair, reflected on the human component within a...
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