Judges

Loreta Castro Reguera, co-founder of Taller Capital.

Mexican architect Loreta Castro Reguera co-founded Taller Capital with José Pablo Ambrosi in 2010. The practice is concerned with projects of social and environmental infrastructure, such as Parque Xicoténcatl, near Tijuana in Mexico, which doubles recreational spaces with a strategy for guiding water run-off. Castro Reguera was highly commended for the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture in 2023 and Taller Capital was highly commended in the AR Emerging awards in 2020.

Joseph Grima, co-founder of Space Caviar and creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven.

Joseph Grima is an architect, critic, curator and editor. He co-founded design studio Space Caviar with Tamar Shafrir in 2013, and has been the creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven since 2017. Space Caviar edited the book Non-Extractive Architecture, published in 2021 and SQM: The Quantified Home, reviewed by Jack Self in the AR in 2015.

Grima has previously been the editor of magazine Domus and the director of New York City-based art and architecture organisation Storefront.

Indy Johar, co-founder of Architecture 00 and Dark Matter Labs.

Indy Johar co-founded London-based practice Architecture 00 in 2005 with Alice Fung and David Saxby. Projects include two of the buildings that form part of the Greenwich Design District from 2021–2022, as well as the Foundry, a social justice centre in London which won the RIBA London Building of the Year in 2015.

In 2016, Johar co-founded the strategic design and research practice Dark Matter Labs, and is a founding director of open-source design companies WikiHouse and Open Desk. Johar is on the advisory board for the Future Observatory and has taught at various institutions, including the University of Bath, TU Berlin, UCL, Princeton and Harvard.