International Jury Blue Award 2012
Honorary President of the Jury.
Sir Michael Hopkins founded his Practice Hopkins Architects in 1976.
He has been awarded a CBE and Knighted for Services to Architecture.
Sir Michael Hopkins won the RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture in 1994 together with Patty Hopkins.
He is a Royal Academician, a recent Trustee of the British Museum and a past President of the Architectural Association.
Hopkins Architects fully supports and promotes sustainability within our practice and our projects. We acknowledge the effect that climate change is having on our current and future lives, the need to protect our environment, enhance social cohesion, and ensure financial security for the present and future generations. We strive to minimise our own impact on the environment by making sustainability a fundamental part of the way we operate and approach the design and delivery processes of our developments. We are committed to developing designs that reconcile ethical concerns with our clients' priorities. April 2011
Urban Planner and Director of Pavillon de l´Arsenal Paris.
President of the International Union of Architects.
Council member of the French Order of Architects.
Practicing architect in Strasbourg.
The world has finite resources and we don't have any other choice than share those resources. Otherwise we can build as many protection walls as we want, there are more and more poor people who will irremediably knock down those walls some day. April 2011
Nikos Fintikakis, architect, studied at the National Technical University of Athens and post–graduated at the Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh. He is senior partner and managing Director of “SYNTHESIS AND RESEARCH Ltd” G. Albanis-N. Fintikakis and partners Architects - consulting engineers.
He is member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, of the Association of Greek Architects and of the Greek Consulting firms Association (HELLASCO) and Director of the U.I.A. work programme “ARES” on Architecture and Renewable Energy Sources.
Nikos Fintikakis has been awarded many prizes and Medals in Greek and International Architectural Competitions as well as Research Projects of the EU. He has participated in many Architectural Exhibitions in Greece and Internationally. He has also given lectures to Research Centres, Universities and International Scientific Fora. His architectural work is specifically related in the fields of Bioclimatic - Environmental Architecture, Archaeology, Urban Planning, Administration Centers, Cultural Centers, Educational Projects, Tourism and Leisure Projects, and major Infrastructure Transportation Projects with the use of Renewable Energy Sources. He has numerous publications in Greek and International Architectural magazines and press. He is coordinating many Greek and European public and private projects and Research Programs.
He has participated, as member of the jury, in many National and International Architectural Competitions.
Today, every conversation about architecture and urban planning contains, to a smaller or larger extent, the topic of natural environment in relation with energy-saving issues. In developed countries, environmental design is used as a means to retain the existing quality of living while minimizing the negative effects of human activity on the environment (innovative technology/ecological materials), whereas in developing countries, it is used as means to deal with more fundamental issues such as housing and infrastructure, aiming at an improvement of the existing living conditions (economical solutions/ecology). In each of these cases, architecture is called upon in order to provide solutions for a more sustainable development. In that framework, UIA-ARES Int. WP plays a major role in the promotion of energy-efficient design with the use of renewable energy sources (RES).
Therefore, the training and further education of architects and engineers must be related to future needs and should take place within mutually related systems on various levels, using the facilities provided by the new media. Schools, universities, and professional associations are called upon to develop relevant options.
The Blue Award initiative is playing a major role in this topic, and the dissemination of the results through the UIA-ARES website will substantially help the global architectural community to integrate sustainability and renewable energy sources in future design. March 2011
Dominique Gauzin-Müller is a French architect, author and journalist living since 1986 in Stuttgart. She shares her passion for wooden construction and sustainability in architecture and urbanism through conferences and workshops at international level. Dominique Gauzin-Müller has written about 150 articles for architectural reviews and has published seven books, which are translated in several languages: e.g. Sustainable architecture and urbanism, Wood Houses and Sustainable living. Since 2007 she is redactor in chief of EcologiK, a French magazine about sustainable architecture and urbanism.
Sustainable architecture! What to some militants has become a fundamental value of existence remains for others a form of communication, a marketing tool for greenwashing projects. For persons involved in building, the concept of sustainability encompasses many aspects with differing focal points, including energy, natural materials and social factors. Some associate sustainable building with low-tech and do-it-yourself (DIY) construction comprised of timber and loam, others with high-tech installations and nanomaterials. The solution will probably be found in a respectful balance between bioclimatic principles and resource-saving innovations. The path to a sustainable architecture leads to a multi-disciplinary and integrative planning based on a holistic approach. The Blue Award supports this search for intelligent solutions in a responsible architecture. March 2011
Studies of Urban and Regional Planning, Dortmund University, Graduation with honors in 1991.
From 1991 to 1997 collaborator in the office for urban planning and urban research, Zlonicky-Wachten-Ebert, Dortmund.
Rudolf Scheuvens founded his own practice in partnership with Kunibert Wachten, Office for urban und spatial planning (scheuvens + wachten), Dortmund, in 1994.
1994-1999 Scientific assistant at the Dortmund University of Technology, Prof. Peter Zlonicky.
2001-2007 Professor for Urban Development and History of City Planning & Architecture, University of Applied Sciences, Hannover, Institut of Architecture.
2007-2008 Professor for Urban Development and History of City Planning & Architecture, University of Applied Sciences, Oldenburg, Institut of Architecture
since 2009 Full Professor at the Department of Local Planning, Vienna University of Technology
since 2007: Member of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Spatial Planning (DASL)
since 2009 Vice-Chairman of the Vienna Real Estate Advisory Council
since 2009: Member of the Association of Town- and Spatial Planners (SRL)
since 2010 Chairman of the Advisory Board „Aspern Seestadt“, Vienna
2011 Reviewer of the „Foundation for Accreditation of Study Programmes in Germany“ (AQAS)
Creating concepts und strategies for a sustainable development is based on the willingness to think, research and develop ideas outside the box. Experience shows that the collaboration of different disciplines lead to innovative planning ideas. This is one of the greatest challenges of the Blue-Award for me. May 2011
Founder and managing director of the research and consulting company “raum&kommunikation”, member of the experts board of the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund
Information
No person from the organizational staff is to participate in the jury.
The preliminary evaluation is to be carried out by an assigned team of examiners.
