British architect Norman Foster will be joined by designers Joyce Wang and Michael Anastassiades as well as Italian author and curator Paola Antonelli to judge Dezeen Awards 2020.
Dezeen Awards 2020 is now open for entries until 9 June, with discounted entry fees available until 31 March.
Now in its third year, the awards programme has become the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers around the world.
London-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman, whose work includes colourful furniture and interiors, will be one of the Dezeen Awards 2020 judges.
He will be joined by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde, whose project Windvogel was crowned Dezeen Awards 2018 design project of the year.
New York-based designer Dror Benshetrit, who leads The We Company's future cities initiative, will be sitting alongside Roosegaarde and Furman to assess entries in the design categories. They will be joined by Stockholm-based designer Emma Olbers and founder of India Design Forum Rajshree Pathy.
American landscape architect Martha Schwarz and founder of UNStudio Ben van Berkel will judge the architecture project categories alongside London-based architect Arthur Mamou-Mani, who designed the 2018 Burning Man temple.
The 2020 jury also includes Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind, founder of London-based architecture practice WilkinsonEyre Chris Wilkinson and architectural historian Beatriz Colomina.
Brazilian architect Laurent Troost and founder of Studio Mackereth Sally Mackereth will judge the architecture categories alongside Norman Foster.
Architect Mariam Kamara, designer and founder of Faber Futures Natsai Audrey Chieza, and Warsaw Home & Contract founder Kasia Ptak are also among the first Dezeen Awards 2020 judges to be announced.
Brad Wray of Branch Studio Architects, whose project Piazza Dell’Ufficio won interior project of the year in 2019 will be participating as a judge for the interiors categories this year. He will be joined by Dubai-based interior designer Pallavi Dean and founders of Istanbul-based multidisciplinary design studio Autoban Seyhan Özdemir and Sefer Çağlar.
Fashion designer Ruchika Sachdeva and Singapore-based art and design advisor Talenia Phua Gajardo will join Antonelli and Anastassiades as judges for the design categories.
Dezeen Awards 2020 will be judged by a panel of a total of 75 industry-leading professionals.
We’ll be announcing more judges soon, so keep your eyes peeled!
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