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Dezeen Awards 2022 Judges Announced

The judges for Dezeen Awards 2022 have started to be announced. They include architects Sou Fujimoto and Benedetta Tagliabue, industrialist Alberto Alessi and visual artist Charlotte Taylor.

The Dezeen Awards is open for submissions through June 8, with discounted entry fees in effect through March 30. The NPO Aoyama Design Forum (ADF) proudly supports the awards again this year as a media partner.

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In its fifth year, the programme has become the ultimate award for architects and designers, with winners selected by a prestigious international judges.

Read on for the first to third of the announcements introducing the 93 industry experts who will judge your entries this year.

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto is a judge
Japanese architect Fujimoto will be judging the architecture categories for the fifth edition of Dezeen Awards.
Joining him is Italian architect Tagliabue, who co-founded international studio Miralles Tagliabue EMBT in 1994, now Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT.
Zahira Asmal is an urbanist whose work addresses inequality in South Africa. She founded The City, a research and placemaking agency based in Cape Town, and is also on the architecture panel at Dezeen Awards 2022.

Architect and Groupwork founder Amin Taha will be judging the architecture categories

Amin Taha is an architect and educator who founded Groupwork: an employee ownership trust of architects based in London.
He will be on the architecture jury this year alongside Assemble co-founder Paloma Strelitz, who has recently launched sustainable workplace startup Patch.
Joining them is Gonzalo Hererro Delicado, an architect, educator and curator whose work explores connections between ecology and digital culture through architecture, art and design.

Interior designer and visual artist Charlotte Taylor is on the interiors jury this year

The work of London-based visual artist and interior designer Charlotte Taylor spans both physical and digital realms.
She's judging the interior categories alongside Harry Nuriev, founder of Moscow-based interior and design firm Crosby Studios.

Nthabi Taukobong is judging the interior categories

Father and son Sanjay and Sanchit Arora are the founder and head architect of Renesa, an architecture and interior design studio based in New Delhi.
Joining them on the interiors jury is interior designer Nthabi Taukobong, founder of Ditau Interiors in Johannesburg.
Also on the panel are Alex Holloway and Na Li, who founded the London-based interior practice Holloway Li in 2015.

Paula Scher will be judging design categories for Dezeen Awards 2022

Judging the design categories this year is globally acclaimed graphic designer Paula Scher. Scher has been a principal of international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991.
She is joined by Alberto Alessi, director of renowned Italian homeware design company Alessi.
Also on the panel are multimedia artist Rosey Chan, and Rolf Hay of Danish contemporary furniture brand Hay, which he founded with his wife Mette in 2002.
Dezeen Awards 2022 will be judged by a panel of 93 industry-leading professionals. The media and sustainability categories will have their own judging panels, which will be announced soon.

Architect Tosin Oshinowo is a Dezeen Awards 2022 judge

Judging the architecture categories this year is Italian architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri, known for his vertical forests and new book Green Obsession.
Joining him is Nigerian architect and CM Design Atelier founder Tosin Oshinowo (pictured), and Mexican architect Rozana Montiel of Estudi de Arquitectura.
Also on the panel is Joseph Henry, urbanist and co-host of architecture diversity platform Sound Advice, who is also ambassador to the London School of Architecture and advisor to urban research group Theatrum Mundi.

Architect and designer Fabio Novembre has joined the team of Dezeen Awards judges

Italian architect and designer Fabio Novembre is also a judge for the architecture categories of Dezeen Awards 2022, alongside French-Canadian designer Willo Perron of Perron-Roettinger.
They are joined by Portuguese architect Marianna Pestana, who co-founded London-based collective The Decorators and works to improve spaces in the public realm through multidisciplinary interventions.

Co-founder of Neri&Hu Rossana Hu will sit on the Dezeen Awards 2022 jury

Rossana Hu is a Chinese architect and co-founder of multidisciplinary architecture studio Neri+Hu, and she is judging the interiors categories at Dezeen Awards this year. The Shanghai-based practice won architecture studio of the year at Dezeen Awards 2021.
Joining her is Polina Sandström of Swedish architecture and interior design practice ASKA.
Also on the panel is Vincent De Graaf of Chinese studio Aim Architecture, and Li Xiang of architectural design studio X+Living.

Alia Al-Senussi is one of the judges for the design categories

Judging the design categories at Dezeen Awards 2022 is princess Alia Al-Senussi. Al-Senussi grew up between Egypt and America, and now works with art institutions around the world to help achieve social change through art.
She is joined by Dezeen Awards 2021 emerging studio of the year winners Priyanka Sharma and Dushyant Bansal of Studio Raw Material. The India-based duo creates furniture and objects from marble offcuts.

Architect and furniture designer Moran Munyuthe has also joined the judges for Dezeen Awards 2022

Also on the panel is Argentinian graphic designer Mario Eskenazi, whose studio is based in Barcelona.
Joining him is Kenyan architect and furniture designer Moran Munyuthe of Saba Studios. Munyuthe works with local craftsmen on Lamu Island to create handmade contemporary furniture informed by Swahili design.
Dezeen Awards 2022 will be judged by a panel of 93 industry-leading professionals. The media and sustainability categories will have their own judging panels, which will be announced soon.

Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari is judging the architecture categories at Dezeen Awards 2022

Lari, the first woman to qualify as an architect in Pakistan, is known for heritage conservation and for designing low-carbon housing for survivors of natural disasters. She is the co-founder and CEO of the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan.
She is judging the architecture categories alongside Chinese architect Zhang Ke, and Karanja and Mutegi of Kenyan architecture studio Cave Bureau.

Noelia Monteiro of Brazilian practice Estudio Flume is on the interiors panel this year at Dezeen Awards

Ukrainian architect Slava Balbek is the founder of international architecture and interior design studio Balbek Bureau.
He is judging the interiors categories at Dezeen Awards 2022 along with Ksenia Starikova of Design Hotels.
Joining them is Brazilian architect Noelia Monteiro of Estudio Flume (pictured), and Los Angeles based spatial and interior designer Adi Goodrich, who co-founded creative studio Sing Sing.

Marcel Wanders and Gabriele Chiave of Marcel Wanders Studio are judging the design categories at Dezeen Awards 2022

Wanders and Chiave of Amsterdam design practice Marcel Wanders Studio are judging the design categories at Dezeen Awards 2022.
They are joined by furniture and object designer Bohinc, and Naomi Davenport of London Craft Week.
Also on the panel is curator Meneesha Kellay, who has recently been announced as co-curator of the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.
Joining her is Nigerian designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello of Nmbello Studio and Chinese designer Min Wang, who is the dean of Central Academy of Fine Arts Design College in China.

Also judging your designs at Dezeen Awards 2022 is Dominique Petit-Frère, the founder of Ghana-based spatial design studio Limbo Accra.

Dezeen Awards 2022 will be judged by a panel of 93 industry-leading professionals. The media and sustainability categories will have their own judging panels, which will be announced soon.


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