Judges

Geir Brendeland founded Brendeland & Kristoffersen with Olav Kristoffersen in 2003. Based in Trondheim in Norway, the practice’s most recent projects include Hage, a garden in Lund, Sweden, that will become the heart of a future piece of city.

The practice was a finalist in the AR Emerging awards in 2005 – in which they received an honourable mention for their timber Svartlamoen housing project in Trondheim – as well as in 2008.

Brendeland is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and is frequently a visiting critic at several international architecture schools.

Noura Al Sayeh-Holtrop is an architect and curator based in Bahrain. She was the co-curator of ‘Reclaim’, Bahrain's first participation at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010 that was awarded a Golden Lion, and the Deputy Commissioner General for ‘Archaeologies of Green’, Bahrain’s National Pavilion at the Expo Milan 2015, awarded a Silver Medal for Best Architecture and Landscape. Since 2015, she heads the ‘Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy’ UNESCO World Heritage project, which has been awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the 2019 cycle.

She has built a number of temporary and permanent installations, and worked as an architect in Jerusalem, Amsterdam and New York. She is currently at the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) as Advisor for Heritage Projects, where she is responsible for overseeing the planning and implementation of cultural institutions and museums, as well as advising on urban rehabilitation strategies and creation of public space. She holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and is a board member of the Palestinian Museum in Beirzeit, Palestine.