Buildner is excited to announce its regional and international guest jury panel for the Tili Wine Italy Guest Homes Competition!

Marshall Blecher, MAST
Ivi Diamantopoulou, New Affiliates, Syracuse University
Jaya Kader, KZ Architecture
Nicole McIntosh,  Architecture Office
Silvana Ordinas, Peter Pichler Architecture
Andreas Profanter, noa* network of architecture
Sara Ricciardi, Sara Ricciardi Studio
Lera Samovich, Fala Atelier
Lara Sappa, Officina82, StarsBOX®

Marshall Blecher is Co-founder of MAST, a maritime architecture studio based in Copenhagen. His portfolio includes Copenhagen Islands, a cluster of roaming artificial islands designed in collaboration with Studio Fokstrot, set to be built in Copenhagen's harbor as a public park.

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.

Jaya Kader is the Founding Principal of Miami-based KZ Architecture. Born and raised In San Jose Costa Rica, Jaya Kader spent 15 years in Boston before moving to Miami. She earned a Master of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1988 and is currently a member of its Alumni Council. Throughout her professional tenure, and under the tutelage of world renown mentors, Jaya has worked on numerous projects including public libraries, schools, municipal centers, houses of worship, residences and resorts. Jaya has been an advocate for sustainable design since the inception of her practice. She is a member of the International Living Future Institute and the US Green Building Council as well as a LEED accredited professional - one of KZA’s projects was the first LEED certified residence in Miami. Jaya is a social entrepreneur with a keen interest in using design as a tool for much needed transformation in the world.  Her sustainable projects and initiatives highlight the power of design to help manifest sustainable practices that address environmental, social, humanistic and economic concerns.

Nicole McIntosh is the Co-Founder of the Swiss-American design practice Architecture Office. The office works on a variety of scales and typologies. Recent work has been exhibited at the Yale Architecture Gallery, the Kunsthaus Glarus, and the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Architecture Office’s contribution to design and research has been recognized by the Architectural League of New York with the Young Architects Prize, ACSA Faculty Design Award, and the Swiss Art Awards. Together with Jonathan Louie she co-edited the book “Swissness Applied – Learning from New Glarus.” She has taught at numerous Universities in Switzerland and the United States.

Silvana Ordinas is Founder and Partner of Peter Pichler Architecture, based in Milan, Italy, a studio that has completed projects such as the Future Space Pavilion for the 2018 Salone del mobile in Milan. Silvana was born in Mallorca, Spain. She holds an Executive Master degree in Marketing and Sales from SDA BOCCONI School of Management in Milan and ESADE Business School in Barcelona. She studied Tourism at the Universitat de les Illes Balears.

Andreas Profanter graduated in architecture at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and worked as an architect at various studios, including the studio of Arch. Renzo Gennaro in Bolzano and the studio of Arch. Edouard Francois in Paris. In 2013 he returned to Bolzano, where he started working at noa* network of architecture and moved on to become a partner in 2015. He is a member of the Order of Architects and Planners of Bolzano.

Sara Ricciardi is the Founder and Creative Director of Sara Ricciardi Studio, based in Milan. After studying production design in Milan and working abroad, Sara opened her workshop where, collaborating with Italian artisans, she creates evocative objects that have a dramatic effect on their environment. She works in product design and social design and her powerful pieces have been displayed in exhibitions and used in performances. Her constant research draws inspiration from life and nature around her and from the beauty of materials and their colors.

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.

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.

The Tili Wine Italy Guest Homes competition is a collaboration with Tili Vini Italy, a boutique winery that produces a range of high-quality organic wines. All the wine produced in the winery is done so using organic and sustainable methods, without using any chemicals and investing in new technology that reduces the amount of CO2 produced. Competition participants are being asked to design a collection of five guest homes located on the property that could accommodate up to five couples at a time.

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