General fact sheet

• Concepts with focus on sunlight as a natural source of light and energy
• The contribution of daylight to high visual quality and interior comfort that support people’s lives and living conditions
• The rethinking of daylight in urban or suburban living context
• The importance of sunlight and daylight for sustainable architecture that takes into account the rhythm and balance of nature
• Abstract concepts like daylight vs. artificial light, day vs. night, in vs. out etc.

The Award is not restricted to the use of VELUX products.

About participation
The Award is open to any registered student of architecture – individual or team – all over the world. Every student or student team must be backed and granted submission by a teacher from a school of architecture.

About the jury
The 2012 jury has been appointed, comprising:

• Alvaro Siza, Portugal, considered his country’s greatest living architect. Over the last five decades Álvaro Siza has assembled a body of work that ranks him among the greatest architects of his generation. His works are internationally renowned for their coherence, clarity, and what Siza calls ‘simplism’ - a quality that recognizes the complexity and contradictions of a project without trying to impose artificial control over them.
• Brigitte Shim, Canada, has been a professor, since 1988, at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. Brigitte Shim is also a principal in Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, Toronto, formed in 1994.The firm is primarily known for their unparalleled ability to engage light, water and the Canadian landscape into each project so that the result is a magically seamless integration of architecture, landscape and furniture. The works by Shim-Sutcliffe have been published widely in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
• Francis Kéré, Burkina Faso/Germany, self-employed planner and lecturer at the Technische Universität Berlin. The focus of Kéré’s work is climatic adaptation, low building costs and self-building. His first project, a primary school in his home village Gando was finished in 2001 and received the Aga Khan Award for its exemplarity as well as its concise and elegant architecture using basic, constructive instruments.
• Peter Stutchbury, Australia, is emerging as one of the leaders of a new generation of Australian architects. He is recognised for his innovative approach to sustainability and design. As principal of the firm Peter Stutchbury Architecture he has practiced independently since 1981 producing a wide variety of award winning projects that have been exhibited, published and acclaimed all over the world.
• Per Arnold Andersen, Denmark, architect and head of Daylight, Energy and Indoor Climate Department in the VELUX Group. He has been working as practicing architect and planner for more than twenty years before he joined the VELUX Group in 1999. Since 2004 he has taken part in the planning of the International VELUX Award for Students of Architecture.

About winners and prizes
The total prize money is 30,000 Euro. The jury will award a number of prize winners and honourable mentions. All projects will be exhibited at velux.com/iva after the announcement of the winners at the Award event in October 2012.

• Magda Mostafa (Egypt) representing UIA on the jury and elected jury chairman at the jury meeting
• Momoyo Kaijima (Japan), founding partner of Atelier Bow-Wow
• Will Bruder (USA), founding partner of Will Bruder + Partners
• Nathalie de Vries (The Netherlands), founding partner of MVRDV
• Stefano Musso (Italy), professor and representing EAAE on the jury
• Jesper Salskov Jensen (Denmark), representing The VELUX Group on the jury