Jury
Andrzej Betlej
Andrzej Betlej – art historian, professor of the humanities, employed at the Jagiellonian University Institute of Art History. Director of the Jagiellonian University Institute of Art History in 2012-2016, director of the National Museum in Krakow in 2016-2019. His tenure coincided with the completion of the conservation renovation and the opening of a new exhibition at the Princes Czartoryski Museum, branch of the National Museum in Krakow. In 2020, he was appointed director of the Wawel Royal Castle – State Art Collections. During his tenure, Wawel Castle underwent an overhaul; the previously closed Royal Gardens and the Gereon Church were opened to the public, along with new permanent exhibitions – a result of completed investments – including the Crown Treasury, the Underground Wawel Castle, the Lapidarium and the Zwinger, as well as the Wawel Town in the Small Tower. His research interests focus on modern art, in particular on heritage preservation. At the Wawel Royal Castle, with the help of his Team, he has been nurturing the memory of the heritage of the past for more than six years by organising cross-sectional exhibitions (All the King’s Tapestries. Returns 2021 – 1961 – 1921, Image of the Golden Age), as well as engaging in a dialogue with the present, as evidenced by contemporary artistic interventions inspired by the art and history of Wawel Castle.
Denis Bocquet
Denis Bocquet, born in 1970 in the French Alps, has been a professor at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Strasbourg (France) since 2014, where he directs the master’s studies in urban planning. He is a graduate of École Normale Supérieure (1990-1994) and holds a degree in history from Sorbonne University and in urban planning from the University of Paris-Est. He worked as an assistant at the University in Aix-en-Provence, where he conducted research in history and urban planning at the French school in Rome (1999-2002), and was also a lecturer at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. He lectured at the Technische Universität Dresden (2007-2011) and the Technische Universität Berlin. He is the author of numerous articles and publications on European cities. He is the editor-in-chief of the Espaces et Sociétés journal.
Justyna Dziedziejko
A graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. She received first prize in the Concrete Architecture 2024 competition for her diploma thesis. A graduate of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Since 2018, she has been working at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology in the Department of Architectural and Urban Design. Since 2017, she has been a co-owner of the Warsaw-based landscape design studio topoScape. She is a winner of numerous competitions (together with the topoScape and Archigrest teams) for parks in Warsaw and Bieżuń, as well as a co-author of award-winning works in architectural competitions carried out in cooperation with: Archigrest, Grupa 5 Architekci, Bujnowski Architekci, TŁO-Michał Sikorski. She is also the author of the design for the “Akcja Burza” Park on the Warsaw Uprising Mound. The park received first prizes in the following competitions: European Prize for Urban Public Space 2024, European Garden Award 2025, and was the winner of three categories of the Architectural Awards of the Mayor of the City of Warsaw, including the Grand Prix of the competition, the Grand Prix of the Architectural Award of the weekly magazine “Polityka,” and first prize in the Polish Cement in Architecture competition. The park was also the winner of the Landezine International Landscape Award (LILA) international competition.
Urszula Forczek-Brataniec
A graduate of Cracow University of Technology, DSc (habilitation) in technical sciences specializing in landscape architecture, and Professor at Cracow University of Technology. Since 2007, a designer at eM4. Pracownia Architektury. Brataniec, specializing in public space and landscape architecture projects. Member of the Association of Polish Architects (SARP), Krakow and a certified SARP competition judge. Between 2016 and 2020, she served as Secretary General of IFLA Europe. Since 2016, a member of the Presidium of the Scientific Council of the Pieniny National Park and a long-standing board member of the Polish Landscape Architecture Association (SAK).
Curator of international landscape architecture exhibitions, including the Visegrad Group exhibitions CLAV 2012 and 2015, as well as the IFLA Europe exhibitions in 2018 and 2022. Author of landscape studies and analyses, and two monographs: “View from the Road: Landscape in Dynamic Perception” (2008) and “Visible Space: A Visual Analysis in Landscape Planning and Design” (2018), the latter awarded the Gaudeamus Prize.
Co-author of award-winning and published projects, including: Revitalization of the Old Town of Gorlice (Public Space 2014 Nomination, Landscape Architecture Europe 2015 publication); Educational Pavilion in Warsaw (City of Warsaw President’s Award in the Public Space category, Grand Prix of the Polityka Architectural Award, LILA AWARD shortlist 2021, 2024). Co-author of a project recognized in the Design Educates Awards in 2022 and 2023.
Bartosz Haduch
Bartosz Haduch – architect, academic teacher, publicist, winner of architectural competitions, awards and scholarships. He is the author of numerous publications (including in Wallpaper, Mark-Magazine, Domus and A&B) and books (“architectourism – Spain”, “Herzog de Meuron. Architects (and) artists”, “Jean Nouvel. Ar(t)chitecture”). He is also involved in photography – in 2016 he was one of the winners of the largest global competition in this field – Sony World Photography Awards. After studies and professional practice in the Netherlands, Spain and Austria, he started design studio in Krakow. Since 2009, he has been running the NArchitekTURA group, combining activities in the field of urban planning, architecture, landscape design, design and graphics. The most important projects of the studio include: arrangements for exhibitions of works by Rembrandt, Botticelli, Hokusai and Wyspiański, the Apartment of the Future in Dobrodzień and the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow. The Memorial Park of the Great Synagogue in Oświęcim, designed by the group, was among the 40 final European projects as part of the Mies van der Rohe Award 2022. In 2010, NArchitekTURA was recognized by Wallpaper* magazine as one of the thirty most interesting young studios in the world.
Jakub Krzysztofik
Jakub Krzysztofik, architect and urban planner. He has been running his own practice since 2000 (3DARCHITEKCI.com). Chief designer of the urban concept for the Area Revitalization of the Center of Łódź (areas 1,2,4; approximately 67.5 ha). Author of a number of award-winning buildings, including: Stara Drukarnia office building, Słoneczne Tarasy apartment building, Laboratories of the Faculty of Environment of Lodz University of Technology, area revitalization project. After graduating from the Lodz University of Technology, he completed doctoral studies, conservation of monuments, marketing and management, and a philosophy course. Lecturer in practice and architectural theorist at the University of Łódź and the Art School of Design in Łódź, as expert in the field of public utility, operational urban planning, revitalization and investment management. Since 2019, the president of the Association of Polish Architects, Łódź Branch, he is a member of the SARP competition judges. Member of the program board of the International Congress Regeneration of Industrial Cities – Łódź. He publishes columns from the #PiszeKubaDoJakub series on the SNG Kultura website. From 2023, producer of architecture documentaries at Brick Trough Productions.
Grzegorz Lechowicz
Grzegorz Lechowicz – graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology. Between 1991 and 2008, he worked at the Studio Architektoniczne design office run by the late architect Wojciech Obtułowicz. Since 2008, he has been running his own design studio. He specializes in residential and public buildings designs, often subject to heritage protection. He is the co-designer of, among others, the Warsaw Rising Museum, court buildings in Cracow and Krosno, the Polish Pavilion at Expo 2000, the “Krakow” Library, the extension of the Museum of the Polish Post Office in Gdańsk, and the Fortress Road at Wawel Royal Castle. He is involved in the work of the professional association of architects as a secretary of the Regional Council and member of the problem-solving teams of the Małopolska Regional Chamber of Architects of the Republic of Poland.
Piotr Lorens
Prof. Piotr Lorens – Ph.D., DSc., urban planner. Gdańsk City Architect; Head of the Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology. Completed post-graduate studies (as a Fulbright Fellow) at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His professional interests include urban planning and regeneration processes, focusing on waterfront areas and public spaces. Active as a guest lecturer and visiting professor at numerous universities and conducting a professional career focusing on planning and managing urban regeneration projects. For many years involved in planning for the regeneration of the Young City in Gdansk – the large-scale urban project located on the site of the former Gdansk shipyard. Associated with international and Polish organizations: ICOMOS, TICCIH, ISOCARP, and Society of Polish Town Planners. Since 2020 – a member of the Committee of Architecture and Urbanism and since 2012 – of the Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning, Polish Academy of Sciences
Andrea Maffei
He graduated in Architecture in Florence and moved to Tokyo, where he worked with Arata Isozaki until 2004. Within the firm, he became an associate and responsible for Italian projects. During this period, he oversaw the design of the Turin Palahockey, a major project built for the 2006 Winter Olympics. It was conceived from the outset for post-Olympic use, along with the Olympic swimming pool and the Piazza d’Armi park. Today, the facility hosts concerts, conferences, and various events. In 2005, he opened his own firm, Andrea Maffei Architects, in Milan, developing numerous projects in Italy and abroad. He has been involved in the CityLife project, the transformation of the old Fiera di Milano, since the competition stage in 2004. Together with Isozaki, he designed the master plan for CityLife and the design of the Allianz skyscraper. With Isozaki, he also designed the new exit of the Uffizi Museum in Florence and the MABIC library in Maranello.
He has won several Italian competitions, including the new Bologna station (2008), the new headquarters of the Province of Bergamo (2009), the Novara football stadium (2019), a mixed-use tower in Pordenone (2020), and the Bovisio Masciago school (2023).
He has collaborated with the magazine Casabella since 1998, directed by Professor Francesco Dal Co, publishing numerous articles on contemporary Japanese architecture.
Paweł Senderek
He started his professional career in the 1990s, working for the Podhale waterworks and the Association of Communes of Upper Raba Catchment and Kraków, where he held the position of the Manager of the Investment Department and was responsible for implementing a program, worth more than PLN 500 million, to protect the primary source of potable water for a million residents of Kraków and neighbouring communes.
Associated with Kraków Water since 1999. Started working for the Company as the Manager of the Procurement and Contracts Department, and then gained experience holding positions including: Deputy Director for Investments and European Funds, President’s Representative for Procurement and Investment Project Preparation, and the Technical Director. In 2004, the Management Board of Kraków Water decided to appoint Paweł Senderek an independent proxy, a function he fulfilled until he was appointed (as a result of winning a competition in 2017) Vice-President of the Management Board.
Paweł Senderek graduated from the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at the Kraków University of Technology. He also completed the following postgraduate courses: Water supply and sewage disposal at the Kraków University of Technology, as well as Information security management, Contemporary concepts of enterprise management and Methods and techniques of process management at the Kraków University of Economics. He completed the MBA in Public Management studies organized by the Krakow Business School of the University of Economics in Krakow. He is authorized to sit on supervisory boards.
In almost thirty years of professional work, he gained and consolidated knowledge and experience in the operation of commercial code companies, enterprise management, as well as relations between the company and its market environment. He also has practical skills in planning and executing investment projects, technological process organisation, negotiations and resolving commercial disputes. He has represented Kraków Water multiple times in arbitration and mediation proceedings, including before the Court of Arbitration of the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw. He was involved in the effective sourcing of EU funds and funds from other external sources. He has been qualified and acted as the Measure Authorizing Officer multiple times.
In 2021, Paweł Senderek received the Honoris Gratia award from the Mayor of the City of Kraków for his outstanding contribution to the city and its residents, and in February 2023, the Drohobych City Council decided to honour him with a special medal for charity and supporting the residents of this city. He is a member of the Society of Kraków History and Heritage Enthusiasts founded in 1896.
Janusz Sepioł
Janusz Sepioł, born in 1955, architect, art historian, urban planner. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology and studied art history at the Jagiellonian University. He worked at the Cracow Development Office (BIURO ROZWOJU KRAKOWA) as the Provincial Architect and at the Housing and City Development Office. He served as the Deputy Marshal and then the Marshal of the Małopolska Province, as well as a senator of the Republic of Poland for two terms. From 2021 to 2024, he was the City Architect of Rzeszów, and since September 2024, he has been the Chief Architect of the City of Cracow. He is the author of numerous scientific and journalistic texts on architecture and urban planning, the author of ten books, as well as the co-author and editor of several others. He is a member of the Association of Polish Architects (SARP) and was awarded the honorary medal of the “Bene Merentibus” by the Association in 2016. His hobby is drawing architecture.
Vladimir Šlapeta
Vladimír Šlapeta, prof.Ing.arch.DrSc.
HonFAIA, HonFRIBA, BDA E.h.
Czech architect and architectural historian. He grown up in Olomouc as a son of architect Lubomír Šlapeta and graduated in architecture at the Czech Technical University ČVUT in Prague, he worked as an architect in Ostrava and served as Head of Architecture Section of the National Technical Museum in Prague /1973-91/, later as Dean of the Architecture Faculty ČVUT in Prague /1991-97,2003-06/ and of the Architecture Faculty BUT in Brno/2006-2010/. He was visiting scholar of the CCA Montreal /2000/ ,Fulbright scholar at the Cooper Union in NY /2013-14/, Fellow of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and he is author of many books and exhibitions on Czech and Central European modern architecture. 2016 he was awarded „Architext-Prize“ of the Architecture Biennale in Bukarest, 2021 „Bene merentibus“ medal of the SARP in Warszawa and 2023 „Jean Tschumi-Prize“ of the UIA World Congress in Copenhagen.
Dominika Tihanyi
Dominika Tihanyi, co-founded the office Újirány Group in 2000, which practise aims to reflect on new urban challenges drawn up by the ever changing world around us and to set up new directions and possibilities of development. As one of the members of Újirány group Dominika Tihanyi takes part in creating landscape design and public art works, takes part in international workshops (Frankfurt, Leipzig) and gives lectures in Hungary and abroad (Stockholm, Rapperswil, Kassel, RIBA, ICA – London).
She obtained her DLA at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, where she also teaches landscape architecture. Her research work deals with the social aspects of sustainability, focusing on the implementation of creative strategies and public art in the course of urban regeneration. The chain of public interventions to follow up this methodology was selected in the book Landscape Architecture Europe #4. She was also part of the jury of LAE#5.
Katarzyna Urbańska
Polish architect and engineer, conservator of heritage and monuments. Małopolska Provincial Conservator of Monuments since 2024. She graduated in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Cracow University of Technology (Politechnika Krakowska), subsequently completing postgraduate studies in Real Estate Brokerage at the AGH University of Science and Technology (Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza) in Krakow. Between 2006 and 2021, she worked at the Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Krakow. Her responsibilities included projects related to the revitalisation of historic buildings such as castles, palaces, churches and synagogues in the Małopolska province. She also supervised varoius conservation works in Krakow’s Old Town, Kazimierz and Stare Podgórze districts. During time at the office, she held various roles ranging from inspector and specialist to head of the Department for the Inspection of Immovable Monuments. Since 2021, she has worked at the Municipal Investment Board in Krakow as a senior specialist in the Cubature Investment Department. She supervised and coordinated investment processes. Since 26 January 2024, she has held the position of the Małopolska Provincial Conservator of Monuments in Krakow (Malopolski Wojewódzki Urząd Ochrony Zabytków).
