Pape Info Point Jury Panel!

Tomás Balparda, Balparda Brunel Oficina de Arquitectura (BBOA)
Sevince Bayrak, SO?
Fernando Brunel, Balparda Brunel Oficina de Arquitectura - BBOA
Ivi Diamantopoulou, New Affiliates, Syracuse University
Dan Dorocic, ON/OFF
Lydia Kallipoliti, ANAcycle thinktank.
Marco Lavit, Atelier LAVIT
Lara Sappa, Officina82, StarsBOX®
Cristina Verissimo, CVDB arquitectos

Tomás Balparda is an architect and co-founder of Balparda Brunel Oficina de Arquitectura (BBOA), established in 2012 in Rosario, Argentina. He graduated from the Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño (UNR) and completed a postgraduate degree in Architecture and Technology at the University Torcuato Di Tella. Balparda was awarded a Chevening scholarship for his MSc in Sustainable Building Design and Performance, graduating with merits from Kingston University London. His work focuses on collective and individual housing projects, with BBOA receiving international recognition, including the International Architecture Grand Prize ADUS Saint-Gobain + FPAA (Paris, 2021) and a nomination for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (Chicago, 2022). Balparda's projects have been featured in prominent publications and exhibited at venues like the Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2022, he taught at the Universidad Abierta Interamericana in Argentina and the CEDIM School of Design in Monterrey, Mexico.

Sevince Bayrak is an architect, writer and co-founder of SO?, a studio working on architecture and urbanism, based in Istanbul. SO? was a finalist for The Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Awards 2019. She has a book published about the evolution of squares and urban landscape in Istanbul, titled “Bir meydan öyküsü, Beyazıt”, adapted from her PhD research, in 2019. She was the author of the cover story of National Geographic TR’s December 2019 issue, titled “Istanbul 2100”.

Fernando Brunel is co-founder of Balparda Brunel Oficina de Arquitectura - BBOA, an architecture studio established in Rosario, Argentina in 2012. The practice is mainly focused on the realization of collective and individual housing projects. The office has been nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (Chicago, 2022) and the selection as one of the Argentine studios to participate in the BAL - Bienal de Arquitectura Latino Americana (Pamplona, 2021). Its work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice, 2021), at the Fundación Caja Navarra (Pamplona, 2021) at the Centro de Creación Contemporánea MATADERO (Madrid, 2022), among others. Fernando completed his postgraduate degree at the European University of Valencia. He is currently a professor at the Universidad Abierta Interamericana in Argentina and the CEDIM School of Design in Monterrey (Mexico).

Ivi Diamantopoulou is an architect, educator, and co-founder of New York-based New Affiliates, where she explores how architecture is shaped by, and shapes, local economies and dynamic systems through its practice and form. Diamantopoulou is a registered architect in New York and Greece with over a decade of experience in realizing built work between Europe and the United States. Her work with New Affiliates has been recognized with awards including the Architectural League Prize, the AIANY’s New Practices Award, and an Arnold W. Brunner Grant, as well as featured in T Magazine, Metropolis, Hyperallergic, Dwell, Die Zeit, and Architect Magazine, among others. She is also an Assistant Teaching Professor of Architecture and Director of the New York City Architecture Program for Syracuse University. Diamantopoulou has previously taught design and theory at courses at schools including Princeton University, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College, where she was the Andrew Mellon Endowed Chair in Environmental Architecture. She holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, where she was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for excellence in design and a Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship, as well as a Diploma with honors in Architecture and Engineering from the University of Patras in Greece.

Dan Dorocic is a member of design & architecture collective ON/OFF.  Through his involvement with ON/OFF, he has been focusing on mobile architecture, publishing, and pedagogical workshops. Dan also works on more traditional architecture projects and has curated several exhibitions, run workshops and taught in architecture departments in Germany and Norway.  ON/OFF is a network of designers, architects, curators, filmmakers, and urbanists. Our curiosity lies in the city and its processes. This complexity offers the basis for experiments into our contemporary condition and gives us the opportunity to question, to tune into, and to discover new realities. With each project we draw on our combined experiences and unique skills to investigate and affect the city’s lived dimension. We primarily conceive of tools and structures both physical, social, and fictional - which enable shared engagement with the citizens of the place where the experiments are carried out.

Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, scholar and an Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union in New York. She is the author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds (2018), the editor of EcoRedux; Design Remedies for an Ailing Planet (AD 2011) and the Head Curator of the upcoming Tallinn Architecture Biennale. She holds a SMArchS from MIT and a PhD from Princeton University. Kallipoliti has previously taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University and Columbia University. She is the principal of ANAcycle thinktank.

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.

Lara Sappa is Co-Founder of studio Officina82, based in Garessio, Italy. Lara obtained her artistic degree at Liceo E. Bianchi in Cuneo, Italy and graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Turin, Mondovì campus with a master’s degree in Environment and Landscape. In 2007 she founded Studio Officina82 with Fabio Revetria. The studio deals in an interdisciplinary way with microarchitecture, restoration, landscape design and exhibit design. In 2019 she founded the StarsBOX® brand, together with Fabio. She was a councilor of the Order of Architects of Cuneo from 2018 to 2021. She is also involved in Selucente, a restoration project of an alpine village.

Cristina Verissimo is co-founding partner of Lisbon-based CVDB arquitectos and chief curator of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022. She is also an assistant professor at the School of Architecture at Dalhousie University, Canada.