Filipino Nabs Shortlist Nod at the Architecture Drawing Prize

After Filipino-French architect-artist Clement Luk Laurencio soundly dominated last year’s edition of the Architecture Drawing Prize, another Filipino artist rises to challenge, representing the country in a competitive field of 60 entries from all over the world. Joining under the Hand-drawn – Student category, architectural designer and artist Eldry John Infante submitted a graphite rendition of Renzo Piano’s ‘The Bubble’ at the Fiat Lingotto Factory in Italy. He writes about his entry: “Sketching the Fiat factory offered me a better understanding of materials, structure, and methodology, and how, even decades apart, they can still come together harmoniously. Every line drawn offered me a peek behind the mind of the architect, a connection formed through this translation of three-dimensional form into paper.”

An avid sketcher and hobby photographer, Infante has previously illustrated for prestigious architecture publications such as BluPrint and has also figured in a profile feature in Kanto previously. He currently works as chief operating architect at KJHP Design Group, a boutique practice in Pampanga province, and is co-moderator and illustrator for Brutalist Pilipinas, a non-profit initiative championing the appreciation and preservation of Brutalist architecture in the Philippines.

While shortlisted entries are not in the running for the plum prize, the sizeable contingent of ASEAN entrants this year is an encouraging show of regional talent and competitiveness in a region that is not as well-represented and covered in architectural media. The region has made strides on the world stage for this year’s WAF with multiple Highly Commended honors and Category Wins; the Philippines has netted two Highly Commended honors from WAF first-time shortlisted practices: BUDJI+ROYAL Architecture + Design and Buensalido + Architects. Sudarshan Khadka and Alexander Eriksson Furunes also recently won the prestigious Peter Davey Prize at the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Awards 2020.

The finalists vying for this year’s Architecture Drawing Prize and the full shortlist follows. The winners will be announced online on Tuesday, 30 November, 17:00 GMT. •

Architecture Drawing Prize
2021 Finalists

Digital Category

Hand-drawn Category

Hybrid Category

Architecture Drawing Prize
2021 Full Shortlist

Digital

Collective Tower Hong Kong by Misak Terzibasiyan, UArchitects

Tessellation of Multi-Dimensional Reading by Lee Cherng Yih, Caleb Ong, Formzero

Digital – Students

The Urban Exchange Platform – Farian Anwar/ Callum Birchall by Farian Anwar N/A

Outlines of Nuclear Geography by Sabina Blasiotti 

Nuclear Shinto Sanctuary Construction by Sabina Blasiotti 

Decontamination of Reactor 1 and 2 by Sabina Blasiotti 

Enfilade of Theatricality: Towards a Queer Domesticity by Bryan Ho, Architectural Association School of Architecture 

Site[s] of Flux – Roaming Giant by Zachary Higson Szczepaniak Astridge

The Treachery of Matter by Weiqiao Lin Syracuse

Holiday Inn Beirut by Anthony Youssef, Carleton University

The Promenade through Enfield Town by Sachini Jayasena, University of Greenwich

The new community by Xiaoqian Yao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University  

Flood-responsive landscape performance by Dafni Filippa, The Bartlett School of Architecture

Beyond Kong by Yeu Ho Nam, The HK polytechnic university

Urban Sedimentology by Boji Hu Rogers Stirk, Harbour + Partners 

VERTI-CAN CITY by Haipng (Heffrence), Teow ALOT

Trans-Body Sistems by Diego Alonso Román González 

Afrorevivalism – The People’s Palace No.8 by Osehikhueme Etomi, Adamson Associates Inc

Living with objects by Amin Zargar

Archival Strike by Lauren Morgan, University of Technology Sydney

The Complete Map of Capital Beijing (2D) by 2021 Beijing Visiting Critic Studio

The Salt Institute by Catriona Bisset and David Gan, The University of Melbourne

Hand drawn

Treehouses Without Trees by Thomas W Schaller

Imaginary Cityscape by Thomas W Schaller

The History of Tower by Sergei Tchoban, Voss Architekten GmbH

Green square by Sergei Tchoban, Voss Architekten GmbH

Totalitarianism #5 by Sergei Tchoban, Voss Architekten GmbH

Manchester Courtyards; a proposal for Ancoats by Rory Chisholm, Donald Insall Associates

Hand-drawn – Students

Cannibalism City by Yafei Li, University of California, Berkeley

Lingotto Fiat Factory by Eldry John Infante, KJHP Architect

Memories of the Last Tree  by Olivia O’Callaghan, UCL

Container by Cheng Wei Lee

Palazzo Massimo Alle Colonne by Shiyan Chen Bates, Masi Architects

Living Scenario #3 by Tiantian Lou Tiantian, Jeff and Friends

San Giorgio Maggiore by Minty Sainsbury 

Public Space Design-Based on Alice through the looking glass by Maryanne Johnson

Reimagining Piranesi’s Prisons by Wing Sze Kung

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Reconfiguring Addis Ababa’s Narratives – Storytelling for Architecture by Antonio Paoletti Mecanoo

Hybrid

alchemy_(dis)section by Michael Chapman epis0de

FutureWork by Sam Ki Fletcher, Priest Architects

White Horses I by Anton Markus Pasing, remote-controlled

Urban Sanctuary by Laurie Chetwood, Chetwoods

Hybrid – Students

Sanctuary of Disney’s Unloved Childre by Xinze Seah, University College London

Wabi-Sabi by Cheng Wei Lee

Architectural blueprint intertwined with fiction and reality by Cheng Wei Lee

Jabberwocky by John Clayson, UCL

Smoked County Relish by Daniel Jansen Harianto Soegijapranata, Catholic University

Propulsive omnibus cluster of architectural dream logic by Azouz Manachou, University of Manitoba

The Great Wall of Kindness by Jess Yu, Plus Studio

The Counsellor by Sanne Mulder, Academy of Architecture

The Treachery of Matter by Weiqiao Lin Syracuse University School of Architecture

The Water Parliament – Bangkok City 2100 by Tyler Lim, National University of Singapore

London Under by Dafni Filippa, The Bartlett School of Architecture

A Sacred Coalescence of Synthesis, Tectonics & Celebration by Ujjayant Bhattacharyya, AVANI INSTITUTE OF DESIGN

The Complete Map of Capital Beijing (diorama) by 2021 Beijing Visiting Critic Studio Syracuse University

Wymering Manor: material assemblages by Belinda Mitchell, University of Portsmouth

Pathfinder by Tristan Taylor Fletcher, Priest Architects

(Un)homeliness by Boji Hu Rogers Stirk, Harbour + Partners

Coalescence; Between Humans, Nature & Architecture by Kira Bennett, Arts University Bournemouth