Natalia Paszkowska (WWAA) and Karsten Huneck & Bernd Trümpler (office for subversive architecture) chaired by Nigel Coates, Head of Architecture Department, Royal College of Art.
WWAA
WWAA, founded by Natalia
Paszkowska and Marcin Mostafa in 2006, won the competition to design the Polish
pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Alongside commissions for housing
and interiors, the practice also undertakes graphic, furniture and clothing
design projects. The practice recently won a competition for a cultural centre
in a modernist housing estate in Warsaw, based around the concept of an urban
farm.
office for subversive architecture / KHBT
The office for subversive architecture / KHBT
is a cross discplinary studio founded in London in 2002 by Chilean-born Karsten
Huneck and his German partner Bernd Trümpler. Projects range in scale from the
makeover of a redundant railway signal box in London, to the creation of a
Kunsthülle in Liverpool and a large scale installation in a condemned swimming
pool in Leeds. The practice was awarded a special commendation in the 2009 UK Young
Architect of the Year Award.
Part of POLSKA! YEAR
Image: Polish Pavillion, World Expo 2010, courtesy of WWAA