The aim of the competition is to convey a critical view of faculty teaching. An expert independent jury awarded the best projects and studios in the architecture categories, covering the fields of Architecture and Urbanism, Landscape Architecture and Design. Every faculty student who submitted a semester studio project automatically participated in the contest.
In order to allow for greater coherence between the jury and the students, the Association decided to amend the concept of the announcement of the results and to abandon the elite concept of the competition centred on the formal gala and focused on making Olověný Dušan a more friendly event, providing a space for sharing the practical experience of the jury through a day of full lectures before the announcement of the winners.
"We had hoped that the situation would allow us to organise this event in physical form and on the faculty grounds, but the covid era did not favor our idea," says the organizer of the competition and chief of the association, Emma Wald. "We saw moving the contest to an online environment as a challenge and an opportunity to invite architects and designers from abroad, who are not so limited by having to appear in person in Prague," adds Emma Wald. This year's Olověný Dušan was online, and it was without limits.
The lectures, prepared for students and the wider public by an international jury, can be viewed on the event's Facebook page.
As in 2019, the Centre for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP) of the Prague Institute of Planning and Development provided the grounds for the final announcement of the results, from where the event was streamed live.
Results of Architecture category
Filipa Dias (stu.dere / Portugal), Benjamin Iborra (Mesura / Spain), Rozálie Kašparová (IPR Praha), Marek Obtulovič, (ODDO architects / Vietnam) a Andrej Olah (Grau Architects / Slovakia) accepted an invitation to join the panel for the Architecture category.
The jury has even nominated two landscape studios - the studio Sitta-Chmelová and the studio Salzmann-Bečvářová - for the shortlist, the Olověný Dušan prize from this pair being won by the studio Salzmann-Bečvářová, who is only a second year at the faculty.
From the dozens of nominated individual projects, Jan Trpkoš took the statuette with his project Troj.(o)ko.lí Memorial landscape old plaska road. It links significant sites in the landscape through new, defunct or existing structures and seeks dialogue between spiritual and agricultural landscapes.
Results of Design category
The jury for the design category included Simon Busse (Germany), Iza Rutkowska (Poland) and pair Adam Tureček and Kristina Ambrozová (AAKK Forever). Together they nominated two studios: the studio Streit-Polák and the studio Fišer–Nezpěváková, the winner of which was the studio Fišer–Nezpěváková, which this semester was dedicated to designing objects made of 3D printing technology for concrete and to designing seating furniture for the Andreu World International Design Contest 2020.
As the winning individual project in the design category, the jury chose Rope_ky - shoes made from a single piece of rope by student Tadeáš Cienciala. “These are shoes that you will be able to make yourself to your own specifications,” says Tadeáš Cienciala. Rope_ky have a lightweight sole elegantly connected at four points. They are compact and flexible, the author has increased the contact area at the base and there is space for the thumbs thanks to the ends of the rope in the flanks.
All nominations can be found in our Gallery section of the Competitions or on the website of the competition, which contains records of all the lectures as well as details of the winning projects.
The record of the announcement of the results of Olověný Dušan 2021 is available here.
Winning Project in the Architecture category by Jan Trpkoš: Troj.(o)ko.lí Memorial landscape old plaska road
