The Organizing Committee of the Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design has announced a new member of its jury, Swiss architect of Russian origin Jan Skuratowski.
“Golden Trezzini Awards catapults us back to the beginning of St. Petersburg. It takes us just milliseconds to make this 300 years’ long journey, as buildings by Domenico Trezzini have imprinted in our minds and become a part of St. Petersburg’s myths. The pioneering spirit of the early 18th century, when the city was coming into life and everything was vernal and unknown, can become one of the themes for the Awards. Back to the future! Memories of Trezzini is in a certain way our expression of gratitude to Switzerland and declaration of love to the European architecture,” Mr. Skuratowski said. “I work as an architect in Switzerland, Domenico Trezzini’s homeland, and follow dynamic construction activities at my Eastern home state with great interest. For me, being a part of the Awards is a movement from West to East, a contact with architectonics of today’s Russia.”
Jan Skuratowski, member of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA), was born in 1977 in Moscow, Russia. He studied at the University of Arts in Berlin, University of Applied Arts in Vienna and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (1997—2004). Mr. Skuratowski used to work for NPS Tchoban Voss, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Ortner & Ortner, Herzog & de Meuron, Grüntuch Ernst Architekten, Zvi Hecker Architect etc. He also works as a freelance reporter for various newspapers and magazines in Switzerland, Germany and USA.
Jan Skuratowski started his own architect bureau Jan Skuratowski Architektur in 2015. The company’s projects include Black Villa (House for an Art Collector, prototype, 2018), Art Rhein (project for video and sound installations on Rhein bridges, Basel, Switzerland, 2018), House M (villa in Möhlin, Switzerland, construction 2015—2016). Jan Skuratowski Architektur also participated in architects' competitions in Aigle, Sissach and Meyrin, Switzerland.
About the Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design
The Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design is called after Domenico Trezzini (1670—1734), the first architect of St. Petersburg, born in Switzerland. The Awards has been taking place since 2018, supported by the Consulate General of Switzerland in St. Petersburg and the Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of St. Petersburg.
Roger M. Kull, the Consul General of Switzerland in St. Petersburg, is the Honourary Chairman of the 2nd Open Golden Trezzini Awards Jury. The international part of the Jury, along with Mr. Skuratowski, also includes the President of the International Union of Architects (UIA) Thomas Vonier, a descendant of the 1st St. Petersburg architect Domenico Trezzini Lorenzo Trezzini, the co-founder of the architecture studio Holzer Kobler Architekturen Tristan Kobler and other experts.
Full list of the Golden Trezzini Awards 2019 Jury members: https://goldtrezzini.ru/jury2019-eng/.
Entries are now open for the Golden Trezzini Awards. The deadline to enter is October, 15.
All entries are posted at www.goldtrezzini.ru.
The motto of the Awards is ‘Real Estate As Art.’ The basic concern of the Awards is to expose architectural and designer projects which can be referred as artwork in terms of the artistic value. The best projects by competitors will be added to the collection of the Architectural Graphics Fund at the Museum of St. Petersburg History.
In 2019, the Awards has expanded, nominees from all over Russia being invited to join: developers and planners, architects and renovators, designers and decorators, as well as students of architectural universities and departments.
The competition features 18 nominations. Nominees are invited to join the competition free of charge. Projects fulfilled (and in case of implemented products – the ones commissioned) after January 1, 2017, within the Russian Federation are admitted. Special conditions apply to the «Best architectural project of a museum» nomination — projects from abroad as well as from Russia are admitted: https://goldtrezzini.ru/application-eng/.
The Awarding Ceremony is to take place on November, 27, 2019, in St. Petersburg, in the Atrium of the Commandant’s House in the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The State Museum of St Petersburg History is the general partner of the Awards.
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