The judges

• Louisa Hutton RA (chair)

  Louisa Hutton OBE RA is co-founder of Sauerbruch Hutton. With projects all over Europe, the practice gained international renown for its early and comprehensive engagement with sustainability in architecture and urbanism. Sauerbruch Hutton were awarded the Erich Schelling Prize in 1998, the Fritz Schumacher Prize for Architecture in 2003, the International Honour Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2010,  the Gottfried-Semper-Award in 2013 and the German Architecture Award 2015. Alongside running her practice, Hutton taught at the Architectural Association and was a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a member of the Curatorial Board of the Schelling Architecture Foundation, and was a Commissioner at CABE as well as a member of the first Steering Committee for Germany’s Bundesstiftung Baukultur. Hutton was elected as a Royal Academician in 2014.

• Richard Rogers RA

  Richard Rogers RA is the founder of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. He has designed numerous high-profile architecture projects including the Pompidou Centre in Paris (1977), Lloyds Building (1984), the European Court of Human Rights Building in Strasbourg (1995), the Millennium Dome (1999), and Cardiff’s Senedd (2005). He has been recognised with a number of awards for his work including the RIBA Royal Gold Medal (1985), the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale (2006) and the Pritzker Prize (2007). His work has also won the RIBA Stirling Prize twice – first for the Barajas Airport Terminal in 2006 and then again for a Maggie’s Centre in London in 2009. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1984. Rogers was Chairman of the Tate Gallery and Deputy Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, and is currently an Honorary Trustee of MOMA in New York. He recently published his memoir A Place for All People which documents his life, projects and ideas for a better society.

• Mohsen Mostafavi

  Mohsen Mostafavi is Dean and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. An architect and educator, his work focuses on modes and processes of urbanization and on the interface between technology and aesthetics. Formerly the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University, as well as Chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, Mostafavi serves on the steering committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Smith College Board of Trustees, and has served on the design committee of the London Development Agency (LDA) and the juries for the RIBA Gold Medal and the Mies van der Rohe Prize for Architecture. His books include Ecological Urbanism (co-edited 2010 and recently translated into Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish), Architecture is Life (2013), Nicholas Hawksmoor: The London Churches (2015), Portman’s America & Other Speculations (2017), and Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political (2017).

• Conrad Shawcross RA

  Conrad Shawcross RA is a sculptor whose work explores subjects that lie on the borders of geometry, philosophy, and physics. Recently Shawcross has developed the scale of his practice, accomplishing major projects in architectural spaces, such as St Pancras Railway Station, and his monumental architectural intervention The Optic Cloak, at the Greenwich Peninsula. Between 2009 and 2011 Shawcross was Artist in Residence at the Science Museum in London, and in 2012 he was one of three contemporary artists invited to create works inspired by Titan’s masterpieces as part of a collaboration with the National Gallery and The Royal Opera House. His work has been exhibited across the world including solo exhibitions at The Palais de Tokyo, Pace Gallery in New York, the Careyes Foundation in Mexico and ARTMIA in Beijing.

• Razia Iqbal

  Razia Iqbal is a BBC news presenter. She is currently one of the main presenters of Newshour – BBC World Service’s flagship daily current affairs programme – and also regularly presents The World Tonight on Radio 4. She has also presented a number of the institution’s other shows including Front Row, Woman’s Hour, and Talking Books. She was the BBC’s arts correspondent for more than a decade, covering arts and culture for both radio and television news. In 2017, Iqbal was awarded a RIBA Honorary Fellowship for her work on Dream Builders, a series interviewing leading architects including the late Zaha Hadid RA, Norman Foster RA, Richard Rogers RA, and David Adjaye RA.

• Joseph Grima

  Joseph Grima is the co-founder of experimental architecture and research studio Space Caviar which uses built work, exhibitions, publishing, writing and film to investigate and document contemporary models of habitation alongside social and political practice. He is the creative director of the Design Academy Eindhoven, and was curator of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015), the Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk, Belgium (2014), and the first Istanbul Design Biennial (2012).