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Bast (France)
Founded in Toulouse in 2013, the practice doesn’t follow a formal method, but instead develops in an evolutionary process that defines the identity of the French office.
COMUNAL: Taller de Arquitectura (Mexico)
The Mexico City-based firm, founded by Mariana Ordóñez Grajales in 2015, combines architecture and engineering combining technologically innovative building systems with regional resources. In 2017, the team was joined by architect Jesica Amescua Carrera.
gru.a (Brazil)
Based in Rio de Janeiro, the studio has been developing intersectional projects and works between the fields of architecture and visual arts since 2013. Parallel to their office practice, the members of gru.a engage in academic research and teaching.
Lacol (Spain)
A cooperative of architects working in Barcelona since 2014, towards social transformation and urban movements, using architecture as a tool to transform the city through the active participation of citizens.
LANZA Atelier (Mexico)
Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo understand architectural design as a constantly fluctuating process subject to various forces. Along these ideals, they founded LANZA Atelier in 2016, a project that believes in building a contemporary space whose energy can last forever.
Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco (USA)
Architect, curator and scholar, based in New York, currently getting his PhD at Princeton. His practice, which combines design, curatorship and theory, analyses the role that architecture, urbanism and spatial politics can play in post-pandemic cultural discourse.
Norman Kelley (USA)
Founded by Carrie Norman and Thomas Kelley in 2012, the studio works between New Orleans and Chicago, re-examining the relationship between architecture and design.
Sauermartins (Brazil)
With the aim of developing projects of various scales and programmes that improve reality, Cássio Sauer and Elisa T Martins set up this architecture studio in Porto Alegre.
SUPERVOID Architects (Italy)
Based in Rome, it was founded in 2016 by Benjamin Gallegos, Gabilondo and Marco Provinciali, following several projects around the world. Supervoid's work focuses on space as a material and cultural construction.
The Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Début Award was created in 2013 to celebrate and showcase new voices and approaches to the architecture practice. This recognition contributes to the young talents' creative, intellectual, and professional growth at a crucial and potentially transformative stage in their career. The contest is open to architects under 35 years of age or to any architectural firm with an average age of up to 35 years.
The Début Award is granted after an independent selection in two separate stages. Firstly, through a call for self-proposals. In the meanwhile, dozens of international architects are invited to nominate those they consider worthy of the prize. The set of proposals is then made available to the jury, which selects the list of finalists and the winning studio.
For more information, please visit the Open call page.
Ana Dana Beroš
Anna Ramos Sanz
Fosco Lucarelli
Go Hasegawa
Joaquim Moreno
Mariabruna Fabrizi
Sofia von Ellrichshausen
Ana Luiza Nobre, Anastassia Smirnova, André Tavares, Ariadna Cantis, Arturo Scheidegger, Dalila Rodrigues, Deniz Ova, Emilia Giorgi, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Fabrizio Gallanti, Fernanda Fragateiro, Filipa Oliveira, Hanna Dencik Petersson, Hanna Harris, Herbert Wright, Ilka Ruby, Ivan Blasi, James Taylor-Foster, Jimenez Lai, João Belo Rodeia, Josephine Michau, Juan Coll-Barreu, Kaye Geipel, Kenneth Frampton, Leonor Cintra Gomes, Luís Santiago Baptista, Marianne Burki, Mimi Zeiger, Moisés Puente, Nathalie Weadick, Ning Ou, Pedro Baía, Ricardo Gomes, Ruzica Saric, Saimir Kristo, Taro Igarashi, Tatiana Bilbao, Tetsuo Kondo, Tim Abrahams, Victoria Thornton