Portugal Elderly Home Jury Panel!

Buildner is pleased to announce the jury panel for its Portugal Elderly Home competition!

Andrea D'Antrassi, MAD Architects
Ricardo Gomes, KWY.studio
Samuel Gonçalves, SUMMARY
Tiago Krusse, Design Magazine
Marta Frazão, Atelier Data
Tudor Radulescu, KANVA
Catarina Ribeiro, merooficina
Lera Samovich, Fala Atelier
Inês Vicente, Atelier Data
Robert van Kats, bkvv architecten


Andrea D'Antrassi is an associate partner of MAD Architects in Rome. An Italian-born architect, Andrea is a registered architect in Italy and Switzerland. He received his Master’s Degree in Architecture from Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland. Since he joined MAD in 2010, he has been involved with Boncompagni Residential Development in Rome Italy, Huangshan Mountain Village Development, Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, and the recent Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. He also plays a key role in MAD’s conceptual design competitions.


Ricardo Gomes, partner of KWY.studio, was born in Portugal and studied architecture in Lisbon. Worked at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and with the artist Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. He taught architecture at the UDK in Berlin and art at DIS Copenhagen. He lives and works in Lisbon and Copenhagen.


Samuel Gonçalves is the founder of SUMMARY, an architectural practice based in Porto, Portugal. His work has been published and exhibited globally in several venues, such as the Venice Biennale, The Boston Society of Architects and the BAUHAUS Centenary. SUMMARY was selected as the 2020 “The Emerging Architect of the Year” by Dezeen readers.


Tiago Krusse is a professional journalist with more than 22 years of experience writing about design, architecture and art. He is Manager of the K Innovative Diffuser a digital media group that holds the publications Design Magazine, Design Magazine Brasil and architectura MAGAZINE.


Marta Frazão is a partner 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.

Tudor Radulescu is Partner and Co-founder of KANVA, a collective of dynamic architects. KANVA is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary architectural firm whose work is at the forefront of thinking, imagining, drawing and constructing collective space. KANVA has an approach that seeks to re-question and transform the built environment. The firm approaches each project as an opportunity to tell a story, to imagine a place and to expand the scope and dialogue between art and architecture. Tudor continually maintains the balance between the theoretical and practical aspects of the profession and has an approach that seeks to question and transform the built environment. He leads a team of a dozen architects, creating a unique portfolio of innovative projects. Each project is engaging, memorable and sensitive to the human experience and to contemporary culture. He regularly collaborates with accomplished professionals, experts and creators to lead interdisciplinary research in order to maximize the innovative potential and meaning of the projects. This innovation and collaborative process focuses on both a conceptual approach and the integration of new technologies.


Catarina Ribeiro is a co-founder of merooficina, a Porto-based office. Merooficina realizes projects as participatory and pragmatic processes, seeking to program ways of life and allow new appropriations. Its first project, a self-proposed commission for the shared work place ‘Oficina Comum’ was awarded an honorable mention in the João de Almada awards. The office has been involved in projects of diverse scales and programs, distinguished with first place awards for the ideas competition for an urban plan to regenerate the city of Vila Real and a competition to rehabilitate ilha das Antas, a small workers neighborhood in Porto. Merooficina’s work will be represented at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.


Lera Samovich is an architect at Fala Atelier in Porto, Portugal. She studied architecture at Moscow Institute of Architecture and Moscow Architecture School. Previously she collaborated professionally with Bureau Alexander Brodsky, Asse Architects and Nowadays Office in Moscow.


Inês Vicente is a partner 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.


Robert van Kats is an architect and partner at bkvv architecten, an architectural practice based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. bkvv designs, builds and develops projects in the Netherlands and in Africa.

The Portugal Elderly Home competition is a chance for participants to explore how architecture can offer support to those who need it most. How can architecture influence how a person moves through a home? How can it help people to feel safe, comfortable, and independent?