The Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial / Edition #4 Jury Panel!

Flora Lee, MAD Architects
Ondřej Chybík, CHYBIK + KRISTOF
Olha Kleytman, SBM studio
Paul Monaghan, AHMM
Peter Newman, artist
Vincent Panhuysen, KAAN Architecten 
James Whitaker
Wu Ziye, Mix Architecture

Flora Lee is an Associate Partner of MAD Architects. She has helped develop and realize a number of MAD’s major international projects, including: 8600 Wilshire in Beverly Hills; Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles; Campinas Art Gallery of Brazil; East 34th in NYC; UNIC Residential in Paris; and the Conrad Hotel in Beijing.

Ondřej Chybík is co-founder of the studio CHYBIK + KRISTOF, based in Prague, Brno and Bratislava. He studied Architecture and Urban Design at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, at TU Graz, Austria, and at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His work was exhibited at the MoMA NYC as part of the Uneven Growth exhibition. He worked at the Viennese studio, PPAG. He taught at the Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology, and the Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Technical University of Liberec, CZ and he was a guest critic at among others the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has been part of the international juries of architectural competitions or prizes of architecture. Together with the studio he has received several awards, including the 2019 AR Design Vanguard, and took part in the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial with the OUT-HABIT project.

Olha Kleytman is Founder of SBM studio based in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Born in 1969, she is a holder of two degrees from Karazin Kharkiv National University and Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv. She is a prominent member of the ‘Union of Architects of Ukraine’ and has been working on a number of key projects all over the country. In 2002 Olha founded SBM, which deals with architecture and urban design. SBM became a prize winner at a number of local and international competitions. Shortly after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Olha co-founded ‘Through the War’ – an NGO, providing humanitarian aid to the elderly, as well as supporting the defenders of Kharkiv. She remains the head of the organization and its active member till this day.

Paul Monaghan is Director at AHMM in London. His projects at all scales have been recognised as exemplars of outstanding design, collaborative creativity, applied technology, research and sustainability, such as North London Hospice and Kentish Town Health Centre. His current and recent key projects include the redevelopment of Television Centre in west London; New Scotland Yard for the Metropolitan Police; and Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre. Paul led AHMM’s work on the RIBA Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School in south London, as well as two other Stirling-shortlisted buildings. In addition to his project work, Paul is an active speaker, teacher and juror. He is a visiting professor at the Bartlett and Sheffield schools of architecture; he has also been Vice Chair of the CABE Schools Design Review Panel and is on the CABE National Design Review Panel. He has been chair of the Young Architect of the Year awards, chaired the RIBA awards panel until 2010, and was a judge for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2016. Paul recently received an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Sheffield, and has been appointed the Liverpool City Region Design Champion.

Peter Newman is a London-based British artist working in a variety of media to make artworks exploring a human relationship to space and modernity. He attended Goldsmiths College, University of London. Since graduating, he has had solo exhibitions in London, Brussels, Hamburg, New York, Chicago and Tokyo. He has exhibited in Trafalgar Square, the Royal Festival Hall and the Hayward Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy.  His work was projected onto the exterior of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, in Kanazawa, Japan for the inaugural exhibition. There are permanent installations of his Skystation sculpture / bench at Canary Wharf and Nine Elms in London.

Vincent Panhuysen founded KAAN Architecten with Kees Kaan and Dikkie Scipio in 2014. Panhuysen began training at the Amsterdam Technical School for Wood and Furniture Crafts, continuing his studies at the School of the Arts in Utrecht and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture. This unique education allows him to control the entire building process, from concept to detail. He is a frequent international lecturer focusing on themes of contextuality and dialogue with the surroundings. For his unique and careful guidance in the renovation of the Provinciehuis of North-Brabant, Vincent Panhuysen was awarded the "Commissarispenning", a medal of merit from the Commissioner of the King Wim van de Donk, in 2015. KAAN Architecten is a Dutch architectural firm based in Rotterdam, São Paulo, and Paris, with over 30 years of experience in a wide range of scales and typologies. It has completed projects such as the recent visitor center to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands. 

James Whitaker is founder of London-based Whitaker Studio. James is a registered architect and studied architecture at The University of Edinburgh, where he also taught animation and multimedia. He has worked in London and Hong Kong in the studios of Thomas Heatherwick and Ron Arad on a variety of projects, big and small. James's photography work has been exhibited widely and published internationally, from the BBC Culture Show to Architecture New Zealand. Whitaker Studio’s Joshua Tree Residence was the most popular project on Dezeen in 2017.

Wu Ziye is co-founder of Nanjing, China-based Mix Architecture and Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Wu Ziye founded Mix Architecture with Zhou Suning and Tang Tao in 2016. The studio is committed to exploring the possibility of architecture in various contexts to respond to the most primitive emotional and spiritual needs of human beings. The design of Mix connects imagination and reality. Through the exploration of the spirit of the site and the sensitive creation of material construction, it enters into the deep consciousness of the space situation, allowing people, architecture and nature to have an internal integration. Wu Ziye and the works of Mix Architecture have won several important architectural awards including Finalist LEAF Awards 2018, The AMP Award landscape design of the year 2018, A’DESIGN AWARD Platinum Award 2019, the Hong Kong A&D Awards 2020,and Architizer A+Awards 2022.