The Last Genocide Memorial Jury Panel

Buildner is proud to announce the The Last Genocide Memorial Competition Jury!

Kerem Cengiz, LWK + PARTNERS
Bartosz Haduch, NArchitekTURA 
Fernando Romero, FR-EE 
Kyle Schumann, After Architecture 
David Telerman, Atelier David Telerman 
Joseph Weishaar, Smith Dalia Architects 
Françoise N’Thépé, FRANÇOISE N’THÉPÉ ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

Kerem Cengiz is the Managing Director – MENA at LWK + PARTNERS. With a strong design-led background and technical and commercial aptitude, he has had over 25 years of international experience across all aspects of design and real estate development. Kerem aims to create developments that contribute in combining high urban design quality with assured commercial success through thought, innovation, strong leadership and effective management. He has addressed and participated in multiple international conferences, such as MIPIM, Cityscapes and The Big5 Dubai. Kerem also presents at universities and institutions and has led the formation of national architectural guidelines and regulatory publications.

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.

Fernando Romero, FAIA, is the Founding Principal of Fernando Romero Enterprise FR-EE. His work balances public and private interests as he seeks to redefine the norms of society by collaborating with global leaders on future ideas and initiatives. He is passionate about social change and sustainability. His projects aim to drive catalytic transformation that supports and drives growth in their communities. After working with Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas, he returned to Mexico in 2000 to establish his practice; he has since opened additional offices in NYC, Madrid and Shenzhen.

Kyle Schumann is Cofounder of After Architecture and Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. He is recipient of the Tennessee Architecture Fellowship, the RAMSA Fellowship, the Robert James Eidlitz Fellowship, and was named Next Progressive by Architect Magazine. His work explores how democratized and accessible technologies can empower designers to utilize nontraditional and irregular natural materials. 

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.

Joseph Weishaar, AIA is a project architect at Smith Dalia Architects. In 2016 Joe was selected through an international competition submission as the official Designer of Record for the National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC. From 2016 until early 2021, Joe owned and operated his own rendering and residential design firm in Washington, DC while design and construction of the memorial was underway. After the Memorial opened in April of 2021, Joe and his family moved to Atlanta, where he now enjoys a position at Smith Dalia Architects. In addition to the National WWI Memorial, Joe has been recognized in several other design venues. In 2011 he placed second individually in the Lyceum Fellowship Competition sponsored by the Lyceum Fellowship of Boston. In 2010 he was a part of the team that completed the HABS/HABER documentation of the Fay and Gus Jones Residence, which garnered the Peterson Prize for historic documentation from the Library of Congress. In 2016, Joe was named as one of Crain’s Chicago Business’ Emerging Voices as part of their “20 in Their 20s” series and has since been profiled in an array of media venues for his work on the National WWI Memorial. Joe has experience designing memorials, mixed-use developments, commercial build-outs, and single-family residences. 

Françoise N’Thépé runs Paris-based practice FRANÇOISE N’THÉPÉ ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN. Born in Douala, Cameroon, she obtained her Master of Architecture in Paris in 1999 and has been working as an architect for the last twenty years. With her well-established professional expertise and many years of experience, her work has been awarded with several prestigious prizes and distinctions.

For The Last Genocide Memorial competition calls for submissions for a memorial that honours the victims of genocides throughout history. It is being run in partnership with the City of Brampton Canada, Brampton Tamil Association (BTA), and Brampton Tamil Seniors Association (BTSA), groups currently calling for legislation to recognise the atrocities that took place in the Sri Lankan Civil War, in which thousands of civilians lost their lives.