Archiprix presents the latest generation of graduates from Dutch master’s programmes in architecture, urban planning, interior design and landscape architecture. The central themes are ‘rethink and repair’, a plea for reconsidering systems and caring for what is already present.

From 26 entries, the jury selected six projects that demonstrate empathy, investigative skills and social engagement. The absence of grand visions is striking; instead, the designers demonstrate involvement with local communities, sustainability and the preservation of existing buildings and ecosystems.

The jury sees signs of a profession in transition in the selected projects. Designers do not opt ​​for large-scale disruption, but rather for restoring relationships between people, place and system. In this way, Archiprix contributes to a broader debate around design as an instrument for care, connectedness and sustainability.

Four winners

The jury awarded four first prizes to projects that push boundaries and powerfully redefine the role of spatial design:

Nasma Alshutfa (KABK): “I am grateful (?). A Journey to a Legal Refugee Status in the Netherlands” A personal installation about the Dutch refugee system. The designer shows the closed world of refugee centres and exposes their emotional impact.

Renan Dijkinga (AvB Amsterdam): “(Be)Coming Home”. A landscape design that connects ecology and local identity in southern Brazil. The project focuses on the local identity of the landscape in a feasible way, as a shared habitat for all life forms, in order to restore and strengthen the bond between man and land.

Daan de Jong (AvB Rotterdam): “Everywhen”. A radical urban experiment that explores a new design attitude and challenges the linear thinking inherent to the field, using the city of The Hague as the centre of political power in the Netherlands.

Ayla Stomp (AvB Rotterdam): “Unfinished built”. A plea to limit demolition by revaluing existing buildings in Rotterdam based on innovative value systems. The plan offers several tools to approach a repurposing process dynamically and to embrace subjectivity as a value.

Honorable mentions

Charlotte Delobbe (TU Delft): “Living with Drought Prone Landscapes”
Landscape design for Rwanda that responds to drought with locally supported solutions.

Vincent van Spaendonk (TU Eindhoven): “Remind Me of Remeţi”. A poetic and empathetic design about the living reality of Romanian migrant workers between home and home.

Read the full jury report