Architectural Visualization Award Jury Panel

Buildner is pleased to announce the jury panel for its first annual Architect’s Sugar Architectural Visualization Award!

James Biber, Biber Architects
Xuanru Chen, ZJJZ Atelier
Marcelo Coelho, Marcelo Coelho Studio, MIT Department of Architecture
Jan Clostermann, CLOU architects
Andrea Hansen-Phillips, Datum Digital Studio
Michael Meredith, Princeton University, MOS
Stephen Pimbley, SPARK Architects
Fabien Roy, Fabien Roy Studio
James Whitaker, Whitaker Studio

James Biber is an architect and partner in the firm Biber Architects, based in New York. He has completed projects including the USA Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015, the iconic Needle and Button kiosk for the Fashion Center BID in New York's fashion district, and the design of the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.

Jan Clostermann is the Founding Director of CLOU architects in Beijing, China. In the past 20 years the award-winning architect has conceptualised and delivered numerous high profile mixed-use and retail projects. CLOU architects is leading a new generation of creative yet commercially minded designers who promote architecture’s power to connect people.

Xuanru Chen is a lead architect at Shanghai-based ZJJZ Atelier. ZJJZ’s projects have garnered numerous recognition, such as its Woodhouse Hotel being listed as one of the top 10 Chinese architecture projects by Dezeen in 2019.

Marcelo Coelho is founder of Marcelo Coelho Studio and Head of Design at Formlabs and Faculty at the MIT Department of Architecture. Spanning a wide range of media, processes, and scales, his work explores the boundaries between matter and information, fundamentally expanding and enhancing the ways in which we interact and communicate. His work has been exhibited internationally, including places such as the Rio 2016 Paralympic Ceremonies, Times Square, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Ars Electronica, and can be found in museums, private collections, and millions of products sold all over the world. Recognition for this work include two Prix Ars Electronica awards, Design Miami/ Designer of the Future Award, Red Dot Design Award, and Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award. He holds a doctorate degree from the MIT Media Lab.

Andrea Hansen-Phillips is the principal of Datum Digital Studio, founder of the online journal Atlas of Visualization, and most recently, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee. Her work at Datum focuses on data visualization, mapping, and web applications for community and urban design projects, and her publications include Composite Landscapes (with Charles Waldheim), which won the 2015 ASLA Honor Award for Publications. Previously, she was faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she was chosen as the inaugural Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow.

Michael Meredith is Associate Dean and Professor at Princeton University. Along with his partner, Hilary Sample, Michael Meredith is a principal of MOS, an internationally recognized architecture practice based in New York. His writing has appeared in Artforum, LOG, Perspecta, Praxis, Domus, and Harvard Design Magazine. Meredith previously taught at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the Muschenheim Fellowship, and the University of Toronto.

Stephen Pimbley is a British architect based in Singapore and is the founding director of SPARK Architects. SPARK has developed an easily transportable 3d printed toilet module in support of the UN initiative to combat open defecation and the associated issues of hygiene and sanitation in India. SPARK’s concept converts human waste into biogas and via a micro combined heat and power unit, converts the biogas into electricity.

Fabien Roy is founder of Fabien Roy Studio. A swiss designer and architect, Fabien  graduated from University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Fribourg and ECAL / University of Art and Design, Lausanne. After working more than ten years as an architect, he set up his own studio dedicated to furniture and product design as well as interior architecture. Originally from and living in the Swiss Jura Mountains, he developed a strong connection with nature. His design looks upon societal and environmental matters responsibly. To achieve that goal, his work pushes the boundaries by evolving at the crossroads of interdisciplinary collaborations such as art, science, craft and new technologies. Winner of the Design Prize Switzerland, the James Dyson Award Switzerland and nominated twice for the Swiss Design Awards, his work has been exhibited around the world including Milan Design Week, Art Basel, Dubai Design Week, Dutch Design Week or Maison & Objet Paris.

James Whitaker is founder of London-based Whitaker Studio. James is a registered architect and studied architecture at The University of Edinburgh, where he also taught animation and multimedia. He has worked in London and Hong Kong in the studios of Thomas Heatherwick and Ron Arad on a variety of projects, big and small. James's photography work has been exhibited widely and published internationally, from the BBC Culture Show to Architecture New Zealand. Whitaker Studio’s Joshua Tree Residence was the most popular project on Dezeen in 2017. 

The Architect's Sugar Architectural Visualization Award seeks outstanding visualizations of all kinds. It is one of the Buildner’s ‘silent competitions’, in which participants must communicate without the use of any text solely through the use of visuals.