Pavilion Of Humanity: First Contact / Edition #2 Jury panel!

Buildner is pleased to announce the jury panel for the second edition of its Pavilion of Humanity / Edition #2 competition!

Gonca Arik, Tabanlıoğlu Architects
Xuanru Chen, ZJJZ Atelier
Mark Dytham, Klein Dytham architecture (KDa)
Astrid Klein, Klein Dytham architecture (KDa)
Bartosz Haduch, NArchitekTURA
Sebastian Letz, Milla & Partner
David Telerman, Atelier David Telerman
Peter Walker, Cumulus Studio
Kenrick Wong, OOA - Orient Occident Atelier

Gonca Arik is a Senior Associate at Istanbul-based Tabanlıoğlu Architects. She part of the team supporting all projects via planning, organizing and conducting research and producing content visually and verbally in various phases from the beginning until their completion. She is also coordinating exhibitions and installations. Working meticulously with curators and designers, she supports evolution of the conceptual frameworks and manages the projects’ execution, as well as planning all related events.


Xuanru Chen is a lead architect at Shanghai-based ZJJZ Atelier. ZJJZ’s projects have garnered numerous recognition, such as its Woodhouse Hotel being listed as one of the top 10 Chinese architecture projects by Dezeen in 2019.

Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham are founders of Tokyo-based Klein Dytham architecture (KDa), a multi-disciplinary design practice known for architecture, interiors, public spaces and installations. Established in 1991, today KDa is a multi-lingual office with an international reputation and a high-profile client list. Representative works are Daikanyama T-SITE／Tsutaya Books (2011), GINZA PLACE (2016) and Open House (Bangkok, 2017), PokoPoko Clubhouse／Risonare Nasu (2020), Cartier Facade Osaka (2021) and some of the winning awards include American Retail Environment Awards, D&AD Awards, World Architecture Festival Awards, Wallpaper* Design Awards and Design for Asia. In 2003 Mark and Astrid devised PechaKucha Night as an event for Tokyo designers to meet and share their work – it has now grown into an international network with events running in over 1,200 cities around the globe, inspiring creatives worldwide.


Bartosz Haduch is an architect, academic teacher, publicist, winner of numerous architecture competitions, awards, and scholarships. Following his studies and internships in Holland, Spain and Austria, he launched his own studio in Krakow, Poland. Since 2009, he has run the interdisciplinary collective NArchitekTURA, which combines urban planning with architecture, landscaping and design. In 2010, the Wallpaper* magazine named NArchitekTURA one of the world’s thirty most intriguing young studios. In 2021 The Great Synagogue Memorial Park in Oswiecim, designed by the practice, was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award.


Sebastian Letz is a Partner at Milla & Partner, in Germany. He is an architect and creative director. His work combines architecture, design, communication and media to create integrative scenographies and spatial experiences, with a focus on unique brand and thematic stagings as well as custom-tailored visitor experiences.


David Telerman is founder of studio Atelier David Telerman. He was born in 1990 in Belgium and studied History of Art at the Paris-Sorbonne University (B.A. 2011) and Architecture at the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris (M.S. 2017). His studio is working on various scales with a constant set of preoccupations with geometry, volume, light and the strong belief that each project should express and reveal the inherent truth of the place it occupies. This approach materialized with the McNeal 020 project completed in 2020 in Southern Arizona, near the border of Mexico. The architecture refers to the vastness of the American desert, its position and geometry revealing specific characteristics of the surrounding landscape. He founded in 2021 with Shaoshu Zhang a new Paris-based practice Objects of Intention.


Peter Walker is a Director and Principal Architect at Sydney-based Cumulus Studio. Peter is a past winner of the Timber Design Association’s Timber Awards, the Tasmanian Emerging Architect Prize and a graduate of the RAIA/Dulux Study Tour program for Emerging Architects.


Kenrick Wong runs OOA - Orient Occident Atelier, a Cambodian architectural studio which focuses on discovering, researching and utilizing the interdependence of “objects” and connections with surrounding space as design inspirations.