Painter’s Lake House Jury Panel

Buildner is pleased to announce the jury for its Painter’s Lake House Competition! 

Sam Brown, O’DonnellBrown
Marta Frazão, Atelier Data
Benedikt Hartl, Opposite Office
Marco Lavit, Atelier LAVIT
Marta Maccaglia, Asociación Semillas
Francesca Perani, Francesca Perani Enterprise, RebelArchitette, cutoutmix
Filipe Rodrigues, Atelier Data
Tom Schroeder, Patkau Architects
Inês Vicente, Atelier Data

Sam Brown is co-founder of Glasgow-based O’DonnellBrown. ODB is a growing studio with a strong social conscience and a mission to bring about positive change. Sam oversees projects of various scales throughout the UK, including large-scale housing, commercial refurbishment and extension, master planning and education schemes. He also manages all areas of the practice. Prior to founding the studio, he was architecture team leader at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for seven years. There he was responsible for all projects, involving coordination, design management, client liaison, dispute resolution and consultant appointments, as well as project liaison, cost management and contract administration. During his time at Tower Hamlets, he also fulfilled the role of Client Design Advisor, attending regular project meetings to comment on design, check drawings and technical details, advise on any direct design queries and how best to resolve obstacles. Sam is also actively involved in architectural education, having filled the roles of Associate Lecturer, Study Support Tutor and Professional Practice Examiner at Central Saint Martins in London, and more recently as Studio Design Tutor at the University of Strathclyde. He currently teaches at Glasgow School of Art as a Studio Design Tutor. Sam has lectured around the UK at various education institutions, conferences and events and is also a judge for the Glasgow Institute of Architects’ annual design awards.

Filipe Rodrigues, Inês Vicente and Marta Frazão are Partners at Atelier Data, a Lisbon-based office. Its team believes that each project is the “engine” of its own investigation, allowing a critical, creative and innovative approach. Diagrammatic and elementary representations are both the outcome of a process and a means of diagnosis, research and communication of new solutions.

Benedikt Hartl leads the activist architecture studio Opposite Office. Opposite Office draws, writes, imagines and builds architectural stories. The (opposite) office was founded in 2017 and  is located in Munich. It is engaged in the fields of architecture, society and its interfaces. Opposite Office is an award-winning studio which works between reality and fiction. It seeks to re-imagine and rethink architecture within its social and spatial mission. Opposite Office is a politically and socially engaged practice that tries to contribute to the questions and challenges of our society. Its work has been published and exhibited worldwide.

Marco Lavit founded his architecture and design practice, Atelier LAVIT, in Paris in 2014. He studied architecture at Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris and at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He graduated at ESA in 2011 with a dissertation on wineries sustainable design. His studio covers a variety of projects that range from custom pieces, collectible design, limited editions pieces, industrial design, scenography, open air installations, interiors design, to houses and hotel design. In 2017 Atelier LAVIT realized an exclusive tree house, Origin, for the Park of Raray Castle, France, and a series of surprising, floating cabins for an hotel in Chateauneuf-du-Pape as well as some private suites such as Cabana in Ibiza. Ongoing projects such as private houses and eco-lodges hotels around Europe characterize continuous research on the theme of prefabricated wooden structures and intelligent design.

Marta Maccaglia is Founder of Peru-based Asociación Semillas. She deals with architecture projects, and has become a specialist in educational, academic and research spaces in the Peruvian Amazon emerging contexts’ and human settlements of Lima.  She is Professor at the architecture department of Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de América Latina (Ucal), finalist for the Dorfman Award of the Royal Academy 2022, AR-Emerging Award 2020, Winner of the 2019 Architecture Sans Frontiéres International Award, Winner of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2018, and honorary member of the Curry Stone Social Circle since 2017.

Francesca Perani is an architect and designer. Her work ranges from interior architecture to interactive design, from illustration to activism. In 2007 she established Francesca Perani Enterprise, an award winning studio she runs based in Bergamo, Italy. Material and visual experimentation, trial and error, emotional and communicative charge finds its expression in spaces, objects and graphics. The practice is driven by the power of shared creativity as an effective instrument to bring about change. She is also co-founder and curator of activist project RebelArchitette advocating for equality in Architecture through the open dissemination of 1000 female role models. And she is the founder of cutoutmix: an internationally popular free open platform as an answer to the growing need for more equal and diverse cutouts populating design renders.

Tom Schroeder is a senior architect with Patkau Architects and a guest critic / adjunct faculty at the University of British Columbia.  Tom has led teams of architects on a broad range of projects including some of the most distinguished and innovative academic, cultural, civic and residential projects in Canada. 

For the Painter’s Lake House Competition, Buildner seeks designs for a painters' residence to be located on the beautiful shore of Cernostes Lake, in one of Europe’s greenest countries, Latvia.