YOUNG SPIRIT OF NATURE WOOD ARCHITECTURE AWARD

Given to students of architecture, the purpose of the Award is to encourage students in the creative use of timber, to find and promote new and promising talent and to link the International Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award more closely to education in the use of wood as material in Finnish universities with architectural programmes.

The Young Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award is granted for an architectural Master’s thesis in which timber as material holds a central role. In 2010, the award sum is EUR 5,000 (five thousand), and it will be conferred in an Award Ceremony at the Sibelius Hall in Lahti on 10 September 2010. The award recipient will be announced in a press conference on 9 September 2010.

For selecting the recipient, the Wood in Culture Association has requested each Finnish university with an architectural Master’s programme to submit three candidates for the thesis to be awarded. The Jury will select the award recipient from among these.

The educational institutions that provide architectural education in Finland are the following:

The Aalto University School of Science and Technology
Department of Architecture

The University of Oulu, Faculty of Technology
Department of Architecture

The Tampere University of Technology
School of Architecture

Jury

The Board of Directors of the Wood in Culture Association has appointed a jury for the 2010 awards, consisting of the following:

Chair:

Matti Rautiola, Architect SAFA, Director General, Building Information Foundation RTS

Members:

Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Architect NAL, Editor-in-chief, Arkitektur -N, Norway

Samuli Miettinen, Architect SAFA, JKMM Architects

Unto Siikanen, Architect SAFA, Licentiate of Science (Architecture), Professor (Emeritus)

Secretary:

Päivi Ronkainen, M.Sc. (Agriculture and Forestry), Executive Director, Wood in Culture Association