We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to one of our Honorable mention winners for our "Legendary Bird Home / Edition 2"competition – Daniele Pepe and Barbara Wielebska from Netherlands!
Daniele Pepe and Barbara Wielebska from Netherlands
aitects is a Dutch design studio founded in 2021 in Haarlem by Daniele Pepe. Collaborating with my architect wife Barbara Wielebska, we decided to record our love for each other and architecture in our name - ai (爱) is love in Chinese - since we met and spent many beautiful years living in Shanghai.
As aitects we have designed single family houses and large scale commercial renovations. Before founding aitects Daniele has designed mainly large scale mixed-use, renovations and commercial buildings, while Barbara has been involved in hospitality, mixed-use and public architecture at all scales and had leading roles in sustainable design.
Architecture today should be tackling climate change issues and not focusing only on appearance: we can have beautiful buildings that are extremely energy efficient without having to greenwash them. Architects need to guide industry and clients towards a more sustainable and holistic vision of construction to build together tomorrow’s future.
We like to feel challenged by a competition to think creatively and with less constraints than in everyday practice.
Give it a try! It will push you to do something different and – even if you don’t win – you’ll be rewarded by having acquired some new skills!
Design guest homes for an organic winery in Italy
Design affordable housing in Las Vegas
Design a picturesque painters' residence
Design a new concept of small-scale home
Use architecture to create different emotional states
Design a pavilion to exhibit rammed earth as a building material
Share your views on architecture competitions
Design THE architect's t-shirt!
