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The world’s best architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture graduation projects have been chosen and the task was not easy. The international panel of judges for Archiprix International, which consisted of Salvador Schelotto (Dean farq, UdelaR, Uruguay), Mario Schjetnan (Mexico), Anne Lacaton (France), Juan Herreros (Spain), and Sou Fujimoto (Japan), examined 218 submissions from 66 countries. They nominated 24 projects as finalists and from this selection they picked the projects that would ultimately win the Hunter Douglas Awards.

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This international event seemed to be an opportune time to ask architectural students from around the world a few questions.

Name/Age: Lucy Querales/25

School/Location: University of Simón Bolívar, Caracas; The Architectural Association, London

Course of Study: Sustainable Environmental Design Read more…

This international event seemed to be an opportune time to ask architectural students from around the world a few questions.

Matthew McFetrick (left) + Espen Folgerø (right)

Name/Age: Espen Folgerø/28

School/Location: Bergen School of Architecture, Bergen, Norway

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This international event seemed to be an opportune time to ask architectural students from around the world a few questions.

Name/Age: Boba Stanic/33

School/Location: Academy of Architecture Arnhem, Holland

Course of Study: MA of Architecture

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Over two-and-a-half days the Hunter Douglas Excursion in conjunction with the Archiprix awards has shown 200 architects around the capital of Argentina. The planning for these outing takes over a year to orchestrate. Imagine this many persnickety architects—all with their own interests and agendas—being led on tours in alien surroundings. It’s seriously like herding cats.

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This international event seemed to be the opportune time to ask architectural students from around the world a few questions.

Name/Age: Catherine Blum/27 (almost 28, her birthday is April 8 )
School/Location: HSR Hochschule für Technik/Rapperswil, Switzerland
Course of Study: Landscape Architecture

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Every two years the world’s best graduation projects in architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture are presented at Archiprix International (this year 218 entered from 66 countries). Now in its fifth year, Archiprix International, which originated as a competition for only Netherlands-based schools more than 30 years ago (and still exists today), heads to Montevideo this week where the winners will be announced. While only a few of the finalists will receive awards, all of the 80 Uruguay-bound students will gain some valuable experience. They get an opportunity to participate in workshops led by former Archiprix winners, for instance.

This year’s theme, Port-City-Water-World, has the students working in teams to discuss the missed opportunities and future strategies to make Montevideo an important port harbor in Latin America. Lectures from local architects and faculty from the Universidad de la Republica Uruguay will give them the information they’ll need to work with (More to follow on the keynotes and results in an upcoming blog).

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