The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced the category winners for the 2022 awards for architectural drawing, which included some submissions from students of architecture at Australian universities.
The Architecture Drawing prize was established in 2017 to celebrate the art and skill of architectural drawing, awarding prizes in three categories: hand-drawn, hybrid and digital. This year, the prize attracted 138 entries, with submissions received from architects, designers and students around the world.
The winner of The Architecture Drawing Prize 2022 hybrid category was “Fitzroy Food Institute” – a collaboration between Samuel Wen and Mike Ren, students at the Melbourne School of Design. The hybrid design details a dumpling institute that “deviates from the traditional orientalist attitude towards Chinese culture, while also examining ideas of globalisation and automation,” the statement read.
Juror Ken Shuttleworth, founder of Make Architects and one of the eight judges for the prize, said the subission was a “conceptually original and genuinely delightful entry”.
“Fitzroy Food Institute stands out for its well-considered and subtle use of colour,” said Shuttleworth on behalf of the jury. “It’s a very accessible drawing looking over a shared meal at a table; yet it is full of architectural interest featuring not only a plan, but sections and elevations as well as detail.”
“Mnemosyne”, 2523 mm x 1189 mm, Rhino and Photoshop. On exhibition at the World Architecture Festival, Lisbon.
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Meichen Duan, Shirley Ziyun Guo and Ionna Petropoulou
“Mnemosyne” by students at the University of Melbourne Meichen Duan, Shirley Ziyun Guo and Ionna Petropoulou, was also shortlisted for the Architectural Drawing Prize in the digital category. Created using Rhino and Photoshop, Mnemosyne is a “dramatic art institute” situated at the former Cable Tram Engine House.
Shortlisted drawings will be exhibited at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London from 8 February to 7 May 2023 and the overall winner for 2022 will be announced at the Museum’s Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition preview.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
