Master jury

Emre Arolat is the design partner of EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture, founded with Gonca Paşolar in 2004 as the continuation of an architectural practice that began when he started as an associate designer at his parents’ studio, Arolat Architects, in 1987.  Since that time, he has completed an extraordinary body of work. EAA is now an internationally recognised practice with offices in New York, London and Istanbul.  It works on a wide range of projects, from urban master plans and airports to residential and cultural buildings and workplaces.

Mr. Arolat teaches and lectures widely both within Turkey and internationally. In 2017 he was Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture, where he taught an Advanced Studio during the fall semester.  He has lectured at La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris (2017), at the Pratt Institute in New York (2014), and taught a studio at The Berlage Institute in Delft (2014).  Mr. Arolat was the co-curator, in collaboration with the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), of the first Istanbul Design Biennale in 2012. He was awarded a professorship by International Academy of Architecture in 2015.

EAA received international attention early on with the Minicity Theme Park (2004), which was selected by the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture. Many international awards have followed, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2010 for the Ipekyol Textile Factory in Edirne. EAA’s work has been published in the monograph Context and Plurality (Rizzoli), edited by Philip Jodidio and Suha Özkan.  EAA’s projects have been shown in various exhibitions at institutions, including the Design Museum, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London.  In 2012 and 2016, they were presented at the International Architecture Biennale in Venice.  Mr. Arolat served on the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Master Jury in 2016 and as a Steering Committee member in 2019.

Luis Fernández-Galiano is an architect, a professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid’s Universidad Politécnica, and the editor (since 1985) of the journals AV/Arquitectura Viva. He writes for the Spanish newspaper El País, where from 1993 to 2006 he was in charge of the weekly architecture page. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando) and the Royal Academy of Doctors (Real Academia de Doctores de España), and an International Fellow of the Royal Istitute of British Architects.He has served as the Cullinan Professor at Rice University, Franke Fellow at Yale University, a visiting scholar at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and a visiting critic at Princeton, Harvard and the Berlage Institute. Fernández-Galiano chaired the international architecture congresses “More for Less” (2010) and “The Common” (2012). He was president of the jury in the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale, expert and juror of the Mies van der Rohe European Award, and has served on numerous competition juries internationally. He has curated several exhibitions including El espacio privado, Extreme Eurasia (in Tokyo and in Madrid), Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth and Jean Prouvé: Industrial Beauty (the last two with Norman Foster), as well as Spain mon amour (in the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale and in Madrid) and The Architect is Present. Among his books are La Quimera Moderna, Fire and Memory, Spain Builds and Atlas, Architectures of the 21st Century, a series of four volumes.

Lesley Lokko is an architect and academic, and the author of nine best-selling novels. She is Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg where she heads the Graduate School of Architecture. She has a BSc(Arch) and M Arch from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and a PhD in Architecture from the University of London in 2007. She has taught at numerous schools of architecture including Iowa State University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Bartlett School of Architecture, Kingston University, London Metropolitan University and the University of Greenwich, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town, and visiting professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Westminster. Lokko is the editor of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and is a frequent contributor to discourses around identity, race, African urbanism and the speculative nature of African architectural space and practice. She was a founding member of ThirdSpace, a UK-based collective that researched the relationship between architecture, globalisation and cultural identity, and was a co-founder of the current Master’s programme at the University of Westminster, Architecture, Cultural Identity and Globalisation (MACIG) with Samir Pandya. She is a regular juror at international competitions and symposia. In 2004, she made the successful transition from academic to novelist with the publication of her first novel, Sundowners (Orion 2004), and has since then followed with nine further best-sellers, which have been translated in fifteen languages.

Dominique Perrault is a French architect and planner and the founder of Dominique Perrault Architecture in Paris. He studied architecture at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and town planning at the Ecole Supérieure des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, he also has a postgraduate degree in History from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He gained international recognition after winning the competition for the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 1989 (completed in 1995) at the age of 36, for which he received the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1997. This project marked the starting point of many other public and private commissions abroad. Perrault’s large and distinguished body of work includes The Velodrome and Olympic swimming pool of Berlin (1999); the extension of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (2008); the campus of Ewha Womans University in Seoul (2008); and the Fukoku Tower in Osaka (2010). Perrault is Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne (Switzerland), and lectures widely in France and abroad. In 2012 he became member of the Conseil scientifique de l’Atelier International du Grand Paris. Perrault was awarded the Gold Medal by the French Academy of Architecture in 2010 and in 2015 he was awarded with the Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture for his achievements by the Japan Art Association.