Interntational VELUX Award 2014 for students of architecture
Facts about the jury
Jury quotes
All submitted projects for the International VELUX Award 2014 were evaluated by a distinguished panel of jury members assembled in close cooperation with the International Union of Architects (UIA). The jury members represent different cultural backgrounds, nationalities, approaches to architecture and diverse experience from teaching to practice and publishing.
The jury 2014 comprised:
Craig Dykers (USA), founding partner of Snøhetta with offices in Norway, Egypt,
England and the United States and world famous for projects like the Alexandria
Library in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo and currently the National
September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center and the new
Times Square Reconstruction. Craig Dykers served on the jury for the International
VELUX Award 2004.
Róisín Heneghan (Ireland), founding partner of Heneghan Peng Architects with worldwide activities and renowned for winning the world’s largest architectural competition for the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2003. Current projects of the practice include the Palestinian Museum on the West Bank of Palestine, the School of
Architecture and Library at the University of Greenwich in London and the Art Storage and Conservation Centre in Weimar, Germany. Róisín Heneghan served on the jury for the International VELUX Award 2006.
Magda Mostafa PhD (Egypt) is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at the American University in Cairo. Her research includes architectural design pedagogy as well as special needs design, with a focus on architecture for autism. She is currently a Special Needs Design Associate at Progressive Architects in Cairo. In
2011 she was elected Deputy Vice President for Region V in the UNESCO/UIA Education Commission and Validation Council and has represented UIA on various international competition juries. Magda Mostafa served on the jury for the International VELUX Award 2010.
Catherine Slessor (UK) is Editor of the Architectural Review. In a long career as architectural critic and writer she has also contributed to a variety of international architecture and design magazines, among them Architectural Record (USA), Arquitectura Viva (Spain), Arkitektur (Sweden), De Architect (The Netherlands) and
Bauwelt (Germany).
She has lectured in the UK, USA, South Africa, Spain and Argentina and has won the International Building Press award for Architectural Journalist of the Year three times.
Per Arnold Andersen, VELUX A/S, Denmark, is head of the Daylight, Energy and Indoor Climate Knowledge Centre in the VELUX Group. Per Arnold Andersen studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and graduat-

Interntational VELUX Award 2014 for students of architecture
Facts about the jury
Jury quotes ed in 1977. He has been working as practicing architect and planner for more than twenty years with projects in all scales, including integrated town renewal projects with specific focus on housing, resource consciousness and ecology in Denmark and
Germany. Per Arnold Andersen has been involved with the award and the jury meetings since 2004.
The jury meeting
The jury met in Copenhagen in June 2014 to go through the 802 entries. Craig
Dykers was elected chairman and the jury agreed unanimously on prize winners, special mentions and honourable mentions.
Jury impression
In general the jury found the quality of the projects high, well documented and beautifully rendered. They found it interesting to see how students increasingly look at social issues, issues of heritage, issues of public spaces, issues of social and political unrest, exploring the role of daylight and architecture in a wider context.
Craig Dykers:
“Light is a wonderful gift to all of us, young as well as old, and each of the students explored light in a unique and positive way that we can all learn from. The projects were very interesting and displayed a wide understanding of light across the globe.
Many projects looked at lesser known places, had a political attribute, understanding how light can affect political situations.”
Roísín Heneghan:
“The students entering this competition did a great job, very thoughtful. I applaud their interest in helping out beyond the design elements and that they actually want to make a contribution to the world outside of architecture. I think that is great.
Daylight is incredibly important in architecture. Important to our health, important to the energy use in buildings, it has to do with the quality of space - it is a fundamental element of architecture.”
Magda Mostafa:
“Daylight and architecture remain central as we move forward, particularly now when we are facing different crises – social, environmental, economic. It is important that we understand how daylight can enhance lives, save energy, can play a role in reviving, rehabilitating spaces, bringing new life to places in the city that are not being capitalized on. This is a great resource to move forward and daylight is important in this discussion. As a student moving into the professional world, the awareness of the possibilities of daylight is very important.”
Catherine Slessor:
“The projects were extraordinary creative and showed inventive ways to use light as a technological solution, but also the phenomenological aspects of light. The quality of the entries was high, the students did an awful lot of work and thought of the role of light in architecture like we have been doing back to the dorm of time. It

Interntational VELUX Award 2014 for students of architecture
Facts about the jury
Jury quotes was interesting to see this reworked in a contemporary setting. The amount of ingenuity in different contexts was extraordinary.”
The full jury report is available for download on iva.velux.com