Jury Chairman's Introduction
After the euphoria of the post-war architecture of the 1950s and 1960s, which transformed the ideals of the interwar avant-garde on a large scale, often without sufficient respect for the historical context and the possibilities of the limits of natural resources and ecological conditions, a critical reaction to this development gradually arose from the beginning of the 1970s. In 1972, the Club of Rome published the study "Limits to Growth", which drew attention to the dangers of this development, the consequence of which is the depletion of natural resources and the progressive pollution of our planet, which must be faced. These studies aimed at permanent sustainability soon began to resonate in architecture as well - in Germany since the turn of the seventies and eighties and manifested themselves, for example, at the IBA West Berlin exhibition or later at EXPO Hannover 2000. The "spiritus agent" of this trend was also prof. Thomas Herzog from TU Muenchen, who was also significantly involved in the transfer of discussions on sustainable development to the south of Europe and was instrumental in - in cooperation with Fassa Bortolo and under the patronage of the Faculty of Architecture in Ferrara - establishing the tradition of the International Prize for Sustainable Building competition and later competition of students' final projects of Italian schools, which was held this year for the sixteenth time. The composition of this year's jury with professors from Western and Central Europe and from India symbolized the global and current importance of this issue for the practice as well as for formation o architects and created the conditions for an open and critical discussion of student projects from various geopolitical angles and professional experience, the results of which we are now presenting to the public.
Vladimír Šlapeta
The Jury
Vladimír Šlapeta, chairman
Meghal Arya
Florian Musso
