Norman Foster Foundation Kharkiv Freedom Square Revival Jury panel!

Norman Foster, President at Norman Foster Foundation
Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP Founding Principal, TenBerke Architects; Dean and J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture, Yale School of Architecture
Vishaan Chakrabarti, Founder and Creative Director, PAU
Beatriz Colomina, Director of Graduate Studies, PhD Program, School of Architecture, Princeton University
Anupama Kundoo, Architect and Professor at TU Berlin
Maksim Rozenfeld, Associated Professor, PHD in Architecture. Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Kharkiv National University V. N.
Stuart Smith, Director at Arup Berlin
Dr. (h.c.) Brinda Somaya, Founder and Principal Architect, Somaya and Kalappa Consultants (SNK)
Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA, FRAIC, OAA, SIA Founding Partner, Safdie Architects
Ihor Terekhov, Mayor of Kharkiv

Norman Foster is the President of the Norman Foster Foundation, which promotes interdisciplinary thinking to help new generations of architects, designers, engineers and urbanists to anticipate the future. He devotes much time to the study of cities and their future, leading the United Nations (UN) Forum of Mayors. Norman Foster is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Foster + Partners, a global studio for architecture, urbanism and design rooted in sustainability. Since the 1960s, he has promoted sustainability through his practices with green buildings around the world—airports, museums, hospitals, corporate headquarters, public buildings, skyscrapers and major works of infrastructure. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1999, was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1997 and was granted a Life Peeragein 1999.

Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP, is an architect, educator, and founder of the New York-based architecture firm TenBerke, known for significant works such as the Residential Colleges at Princeton University, the Cummins Indy Distribution Headquarters, the Rockefeller Arts Center at SUNY Fredonia, the Yale School of Art, and the 21c Museum Hotels across the South and Midwest. In 2017, her firm received a National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Deborah is the J. M. Hoppin Professor and Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, the first woman to hold this position, and has been a Yale professor since 1987. She received the Topaz Medallion, the highest honor in architectural education, and was the inaugural recipient of the Berkeley-Rupp Prize at the University of California, Berkeley, for advancing the position of women in architecture and emphasizing sustainability and community. Deborah serves on the jury for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design, and is a board member of the James Howell Foundation and an advisor to the Norman Foster Foundation. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and The City University of New York, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from RISD in 2005.

With over thirty years of proven experience authoring and implementing visionary urban architecture, Vishaan Chakrabarti is the Founder and Creative Director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism | PAU, where he leads the firm’s growing global portfolio of cultural, institutional, and public projects including Indianapolis’ new multi-modal Wave Bridge, the redesign of New York’s Penn Station, the design of the FAA’s new sustainable air traffic control tower prototype, which will be adapted to replace over 100 aging towers in regional and municipal airports across the nation, the expansion of Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery, Philadelphia’s Schuylkill Yards, Ford Motor Company’s Michigan Central Station project in Detroit’s Corktown, Princeton’s Hobson College, and a unique urban village in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as well as serving as the Collaborating Architect on the recently announced JP Morgan Chase World Headquarters. Vishaan is also the author of the book, A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America and the upcoming The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy. He was the William W. Wurster Dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, a professor at Columbia University for a decade, and served as the Director of City Planning in post-9/11 New York.

Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture, art, technology, sexuality, and media. She is the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of Architecture and the Founding Director of the interdisciplinary Media and Modernity Program at Princeton University. Her books include Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (1994), Domesticity at War (2007), Clip/Stamp/Fold (2010), Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (2016), X-Ray Architecture (2019), and Radical Pedagogies  (2022). Her exhibitions include Clip/Stamp/Fold (2006), Playboy Architecture (2012), Radical Pedagogies (2014) and Sick Architecture (2022). In 2016 she was co-curator of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial. She is Doctor Honoris Causa by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 2020 she was awarded the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for her contributions to the field of architecture.

Anupama Kundoo graduated from University of Mumbai in 1989 and received her PhD degree from TU Berlin in 2008. Her research-oriented practice started in 1990 in Auroville has generated people centric architecture based on spatial and material research for low environmental impact while being socio-economically beneficial. Her body of works was recently exhibited as a solo show 'Taking Time' at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. She has taught Architecture and Urban Management at various international universities strengthening her expertise in rapid urbanization and climate change related development issues including at Yale University and Columbia University. She is currently Professor of Architecture at T.U. Berlin and the Norman Foster Visiting Professor at Yale University. She received the RIBA Charles Jencks award for her contribution to architectural theory, the 2021 Auguste Perret Prize for architectural technology, the 2021 Building Sense Now global award of the German Sustainable Building Council DGNB, and the Global Award for Sustainable architecture under UNESCO patronage in 2022. Her studios are based in Berlin in Germany, Mumbai and Pondicherry in India. Kundoo’s rigorous research and experimentation in new materiality for architecture is the result of questioning basic assumptions, construction habits that humanity has adopted during the long process of industrialization. Rather than focussing on shortage, she sought abundance through investing in human resources and human resourcefulness, such as ingenuity, time, skills, care and sense of community.

Maxim Rosenfeld is an architectural historian with a PhD in Architecture. He serves as an Associate Professor at both the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts and Kharkiv National University named after V.N. Karazin. As a local historian and architectural journalist, he has authored monographs on the history and architecture of Kharkiv and has led video projects exploring the evolution of architecture and design. Renowned as a popular guide in cities like Kharkiv, Berlin, Munich, and Barcelona, Maxim is a passionate popularizer of the history of architecture, design, and graphic arts. Maxim plays a key role as a leading expert in the strategic group for Kharkiv, collaborating with the Norman Foster Foundation under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe to shape the city’s future.

Stuart Smith is a Director of Arup leading the Structural team in Germany and the Global Circular Economy Skills Leader responsible for growing and developing capabilities for decarbonising the built environment using circular principles. Working as structural engineer for Arup based in Berlin, he has been engaged in the design of some of the world’s most challenging building projects including CCTV with OMA in Beijing and Perez Art Museum Miami with Herzog & de Meuron. Stuart has collaborated on projects worldwide of various scales and typologies from artist installations to major urban masterplans. He is a member of the Board of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction and an Academic Chair at the Norman Foster Institute for Sustainable Cities.

Brinda Somaya is an architect and urban conservationist who founded Somaya and Kalappa Consultants (SNK) in 1978 in Mumbai, India, after completing her Bachelor of Architecture from Mumbai University and a Master of Arts from Smith College in Northampton, MA, USA. She was conferred an Honorary Doctorate from Smith College in 2012 and, in 2014, received the Indian Institute of Architects’ Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement. From 2016 to 2021, she served as Chairperson of the Board of Governors at the School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada, an Institute of National Importance. She was a board member of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction from 2017 to 2024 and was recognized as one of the ‘75 Indian women in STEAM’ on India’s 75th Anniversary of Independence in 2022. In January 2023, she received an Honorary Doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University (JNAFAU) in Hyderabad. Additionally, she holds the title of A.D. White Professor-at-Large emerita at Cornell University, U.S.A. Throughout her career, spanning over four decades, Brinda has successfully integrated architecture, conservation, and social equity into projects ranging from institutional campuses and the rehabilitation of an earthquake- torn village to the restoration of an 18th-century cathedral, demonstrating that progress and history can coexist harmoniously. She firmly believes that “The Architect’s role is that of guardian – hers is the conscience of the built and un-built environment.”

Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author with a distinguished sixty-year career dedicated to socially responsible design through a comprehensive and humane philosophy. His extensive body of work includes cultural, educational, and civic institutions, as well as neighborhoods, public parks, housing, mixed-use urban centers, airports, and master plans for both existing communities and new cities across North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia. Safdie has received numerous accolades, including the Companion of the Order of Canada, Gold Medals from both the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the American Institute of Architects, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.

Igor Terekhov graduated from the Kharkiv Engineering and Construction Institute in 1990, with a specialty on “Industrial and civil construction” under a “construction engineer” qualification. He obtained a Masters and PhD in Public Administration in 2006 and 2007 respectively, from the Kharkiv Regional Institute of Public Administration of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine. He worked in the private sector before transitioning to public service on the managing positions of the leading enterprises in Kharkiv. From 1999 to 2006, he served in the Department for Economy and Communal Property of Kharkiv City Executive Committee as the head of divisions for entrepreneurship and consumer markets. In 2007 he was appointed as the Deputy Head Kharkiv Regional State Administration. From 2010 to 2015 he was Deputy Mayor of Kharkiv for the development and maintenance of the city’s life-sustaining activity, and between 2015 and 2020 he was appointed as the First Deputy Mayor of Kharkiv. He won the subsequent Kharkiv mayoral election in October 2021, and officially became the new Mayor of Kharkiv on November 11, 2021. Has numerous distinguished national and international awards for the social and economic city development. In 2022 was awarded by the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine with the medal for the defence of the Hero City Kharkiv and Order of the President of Ukraine “For Courage”.