Results of the seventh edition of the NIAiU Award competition - "Shared space is a value"
October 2024
organizerNational Institute of Architecture and Urbanism
descriptionOn October 18 of this year we learned the results of the 7th edition of the NIAiU Prize "Common space is a value" competition.
The purpose of the competition is to promote the best diplomas and motivate male and female students to take up the topic of common and public spaces or public facilities in their master's theses.
The award is given in two categories: design and theoretical.
In the design category, works in the fields of architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, spatial management, design, graphic design, historic preservation and related fields involving projects on public spaces were evaluated.
In the theoretical category, works describing phenomena occurring in public space, concerning public buildings, typology, history and socio-economic changes were evaluated.
This year's edition concerned theses defended in 2023/2024 (from May 1, 2023 to September 4, 2024).
The theses were evaluated by the Competition Jury composed of:
in the design category:
- Dr. Boleslaw Stelmach (director of NIAiU)
- Magdalena Federowicz-Boule
- Dr. Jerzy Grochulski
in the theoretical category:
- Dr. Tomasz Slawinski (deputy director of NIAiU)
- Tomasz Fudala (curator of the MSN)
- dr. hab. Marta Leśniakowska prof. IS PAN.
From among the submitted works, the Competition Jury decided to award the Main Prize in the practice category in the amount of PLN 10 thousand.
and the Grand Prize in the theory category also in the amount of PLN 10 thousand.
Two equal honorable mentions were also awarded in each category in the amount of PLN 5 thousand.
In the category of diploma design work, the Grand Prize went to Julia Wild
for her work titled "Land of the Borderlands. A project that shows that one should pay much more attention to the invisible", prepared under the direction of Dr. Jan Kubec at the Faculty of Architecture of the Silesian University of Technology.
In the theoretical master's thesis category, the Grand Prize was awarded to Magdalena Penther, author of the thesis "To live and to work-the mutual permeation of functions in contemporary residential space," prepared under the supervision of Dr. Mateusz Marczewski at the Faculty of Humanities, SWPS University of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
