Annual International Architecture Competition

Museum of Emotions

Edition #8

Jury panel

Xinyue Geng

Xinyue Geng

KPF

United States

Xinyue Geng is a graduate of Cornell University and an architect at KPF - Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York. With international experience, her work spans supertall landmarks and cultural complexes, including the North Bund Center in Shanghai and the OPPO Intelligent Manufacturing Campus. She has received numerous international awards, including the Architecture MasterPrize and French Design Awards. She is a member of both AIA and the Architectural Society of China. A LEED Accredited Professional, she contributes to the development of national green building standards through CECS, advancing sustainable design and performance. As an interdisciplinary innovator, Geng explores the intersection of architecture and emerging technologies, including parametric generative design and digital fabrication. Her experimental works have been exhibited in London, Los Angeles, Guangzhou, and Taipei, and she has collaborated on projects with organizations including the United Nations Democracy Fund.

 

Johana Mendoza

Johana Mendoza

Olson Kundig

United States

Johana Mendoza Rodriguez, AIA International Associate, is an Ecuadorian architect and architectural illustrator based in Seattle, United States. She serves as an Architectural Designer at Olson Kundig, contributing to complex residential and cultural projects through design development, research, and advanced visual representation. Her independent body of architectural illustration has gained international recognition, with work featured in leading design publications and awarded in global competitions. Operating at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and narrative, her work explores how spatial atmosphere and human presence shape meaningful environments. Johana has been invited to serve as a juror for multiple international architecture competitions, bringing a perspective that values conceptual clarity, contextual intelligence, and visual precision. Through both professional practice and representation, she advocates for architecture that is environmentally responsive, culturally grounded, and rigorously conceived.

 

Noa Raviv

Noa Raviv

artist

USA

Noa Raviv is an artist and designer based in New York. Her background is in fashion and art and her practice spans sculpture, installation, textiles, and text. Her work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Mingei Museum in San Diego, the Israel Museum and Hansen House in Jerusalem, and the Holon Design Museum. She has lectured at institutions including the Anchorage Museum, Glasgow School of Art, RSID in Toronto, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Parsons School of Design, SVA, Shenkar College, and the MODA Design Museum in Atlanta. Her work has been featured in publications such as Vogue, The Cut, BBC, Wired, Nylon, Dezeen, Fast Company, TimeOut, and The Met Museum’s Manus x Machina catalog.

Eleni Soussoni

Eleni Soussoni

Yellow Cloud Studio

United Kingdom

Eleni Sousoni is the director and co-founder of Yellow Cloud Studio, an award winning, design-led architecture practice based in London, working on residential, commercial and cultural projects internationally. The studio aspires to create an architectural language that is grounded on the seamless symbiosis of form and function, using natural light and materiality as the main tools. She is an associate lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts, teaching Design Studio with a focus on conceptual development that prioritises spatial experience. She is currently part of the Architectural Association’s Summer School, Urbanity from the Ocean, focusing on the coastal development of the Cycladic archipelagos. Her studio's ongoing academic research on visual immersive technologies as an emerging design tool, titled Embodied Vision, has been presented on various university platforms. She is passionate about new sustainable materialities, narrative studies, the political role of architecture and the complex contextual theoretical frame that informs quality design.

 

Wu Ziye

Wu Ziye

Co-founder of Mix Architecture

China

Wu Ziye is co-founder of Nanjing, China-based Mix Architecture and Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Wu Ziye founded Mix Architecture with Zhou Suning and Tang Tao in 2016. The studio is committed to exploring the possibility of architecture in various contexts to respond to the most primitive emotional and spiritual needs of human beings. The design of Mix connects imagination and reality. Through the exploration of the spirit of the site and the sensitive creation of material construction, it enters into the deep consciousness of the space situation, allowing people, architecture and nature to have an internal integration. Wu Ziye and the works of Mix Architecture have won several important architectural awards including Finalist LEAF Awards 2018, The AMP Award landscape design of the year 2018, A’DESIGN AWARD Platinum Award 2019, the Hong Kong A&D Awards 2020,and Architizer A+Awards 2022.

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