During the festive closing ceremony on 8 October, the nine participants for the National Archiprix 2025 were officially announced. The carefully selected projects, chosen by a jury, will compete in this prestigious competition for talented young designers. The National Archiprix annually showcases the best emerging design talent in the Netherlands and will be on display at our faculty in March.
After thorough jury deliberations, the following projects have been nominated:
- Roos te Velde, Regrowth (Urbanism)
- Junran Zhao, DE-AGING EDEN (Architecture, Complex Projects)
- Charlotte Delobbe, Living with drought prone landscapes ÖLandscape Architecture)
- Mattia Graaf, Resilient Waters (Architecture, Architecture and Dwelling Global Housing)
- Sophie Twarog, Le terrain des retrouvailles (Architecture, Interiors Building Cities)
- Nino Vogels, From Humus to Human (Architecture, Urban Architecture)
- Simone Hermans, De Wadloper (Architecture, Technologies and Aesthetics)
- Girsha Kirby, The house of Lost Steps (Architecture, Explore lab)
- Jelmer Teunissen, Muddying the waters (Architecture, Explore lab)
The nine projects were selected from 63 graduation projects from the 2023-2024 academic year. All these projects are from the master’s tracks Architecture, Urbanism, Building Technology and Landscape Architecture and impressed the jury. During the ceremony, the winners explained and presented their projects in front of all (online) attendees.
Curious to find out more about the nine selected projects? You can find the projects here.
An overview of all projects from the preselection can be found here.
Jury
The jury this year consists of:
- Dick van Gameren - Dean, Chairman of the Jury
- MaartenJan Hoekstra - Director of Education
- Lea Hartmeyer - Winnaar Nationale Archiprix 2024
- Els Bet - Urbanism
- Robbert Guis - Architecture
- Klaske Havik - Architecture
- Alex de Rijke - AE&T
- René van der Velde ÖLandscape Architecture