We know the winners of this year's Dean's Awards

The Dean's Award is a new faculty competition that was announced this September. The faculty management firmly believes that it will gain a stable place and prestige among our students and teachers. The purpose of the competition is to highlight outstanding student work and achievements and to motivate students to improve the quality of their performances. The competition is also a tool for faculty leadership to reflect on the development and direction of teaching. Out of the many diverse student projects that emerge each semester at the faculty, the best ones were nominated for the competition. The faculty will present the winning works in various competitions and exhibitions.

A total of 150,000 CZK was distributed among the winners, individuals and teams.

Dean's Award for Semester Project

Category Urban Design and Landscape Architecture

Committee for the Dean's Award for Semester Project:

• Irena Šestáková
• Michal Kohout
• Ivan Plicka
• Marian Karel

Composition of the final committee that determined the ranking:

• Ladislav Lábus
• Irena Šestáková
• Irena Fialová
• Jan Jakub Tesař
• Martin Pospíšil

The committee did not select a winner in the Urban Desing and Landscape Architecture category.

Finalists

• David Knížek with his semester project Pankrác Odyssey developed under the guidance of Jan Sedlák.
• Dominik Rejthar with his semester project New Těšnov and Florenc developed under the guidance of Ivan Plicka.
• Soňa Stromšíková with her semester project The New Center of Most developed under the guidance of Ján Stempel and Jan Jakub Tesař.

Category Architecture

Winner

• Filip Bernard with his project Czech House in Taiwan, which he developed in the studio of Ondřej Císler and Lenka Milerová

In the justification of the nomination by the head of the studio, Ondřej Císler, it was stated that Filip Bernard has demonstrated a phenomenal performance in designing a representative architecture for Taipei, Taiwan. He created a number of interesting options and refined the selected one to the last detail. He brought a clean solution, an architecture that fits the purpose of the institution and allows the Czech Republic representation to function flawlessly in a foreign environment.

Finalists

• Jan Procházka with his semester project Community Centre Břevnov developed under the guidance of Irena Šestáková
• team of authors: Michaela Chmielová, Tomáš Kodet, Tomáš Vojtíšek, Anna Zíková, Alena Linková, Mikuláš Valdman a Jan Šefl with their project 3 High Seats developed under the guidance of Dalibor Hlaváček and Martin Čeněk
• David Budil with his semester project Ďáblice Workshops developed under the guidance of Michal Kuzemenský

In the category of Dean's Award for Semester Project, studio projects of all study programmes for the past academic year except ZAN, ATBS, BP and DP could be nominated, divided into three categories (Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Design). Each studio leader could nominate one work for the past academic year, exceptionally two works with justification. Experts appointed by the Dean could also nominate other works.

Dean's Award for Diploma Project

Committee for the Dean's Award for Diploma Project:

• Irena Fialová
• Dalibor Hlaváček
• Jan Němeček
• Tomáš Novotný
• Jaroslav Šafer

Winner

• Jan Pernekr with his project Bubeneč Shore, which he developed under the guidance of Boris Redčenkov, from whom, in addition to the nomination, he also received praise for the extraordinary amount of quality work done.

Finalists

• Jitka Rumlová with her diploma project Prague Rooftops developed under the guidance of Roman Koucký
• Natálie Kristýnková with her diploma project Czech House Taiwan developed under the guidance of Ondřej Císler
• Zdeněk Völfl with his diploma project New Central Station Prague - Opera developed under the guidance of Roman Koucký
• Jáchym Vacek with his diploma project Hermanův Městec - Urban Development developed under the guidance of Michal Kohout and David Tichý

In the category of the Dean's  Award for Diploma Project, each studio head from all fields of study could nominate a maximum of one diploma project for the past academic year, and each diploma project defence committee could also nominate one diploma project.

Dean's Award for Science and Reseachr

Committee for the Dean's Award for Science and Research:

• Martin Pospíšil
• Josef Chybík
• Petr Urlich

Winner

• Jan Petrš with his project Building Robotic Systems, which he developed in the studio of Miloš Florián.

In the justification for the nomination of this dissertation, it was stated that it is an exceptional work in our local scientific research and building-architectural space. The author's enthusiasm for current issues in applied computational design and mechanical robotics is also finding application in a top international academic environment. In his work, Petrš discusses reconfigurable and automated architecture in an informed and comprehensive manner, confronting and comparing it with various architectural manifestos and contemporary design approaches.

Finalists

• Markéta Vavrušková: Teaching Structures to Architects developed under the guidance of Martin Pospíšil
• Veronika Kastlová: Public Space Scene. Relationship between Architecture and Theater under the guidance of Vladimír Soukenka
• Milan Pitlach: O. M. Ungers - Kritická Studie under the guidance of Benjamin Fragner (the award was awarded in memoriam)

In the category of the Dean's Award for Science and Research, the best dissertations and scientific research papers, SGS projects and other standardised scientific research outputs could be nominated by supervisors, heads of departments involved in the doctoral study programme and doctoral dissertation defence committees.

Academic Community Award for Outstanding Achievement

Committee for the Academic Community Award for Outstanding Achievement:

• Jan Jakub Tesař
• Zdeněk Zavřel
• Petr Vorlík
• Michaela Brožová
• Jana Tóthová

The Academic Community Award for Outstanding Achievement was not awarded this year as only one candidate made it to the shortlist.

Nominations for the Academic Community Award for outstanding achievement in the field of academic performance and student activities or faculty representation were open to members of the FA management, the FA Council, the FA Academic Senate and members of the FA Scientific and Arts Council. Members of the academic community could submit nominations through members of the FA Academic Senate.