Drawing of the Year 2021: The Jury

The Aarhus School of Architecture proudly presents the jury for Drawing of the Year 2021.

Thomas Bossel

Thomas Bossel is characterized by his unique drive, sense of humor and an always positive mindset. He has a “can-do” attitude. Besides working at his own studio, PAX architects, he also works as an artist.

Since his graduation from Aarhus School of Architecture in 2011, Thomas worked at Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects for 7 years, where he was promoted as Senior Associate and nominated as Next generation Design Leader.

2020 has in many ways been a year of challenges around the world, but also a year full of new potential. That has led to the start of PAX architects, a small studio focusing on simple concepts that plays with materiality, light and experiences – architecture should be experienced with your senses.

Throughout his life art and architecture has played a big role. Drawing was a big force from his early childhood, which became his passion that undoubtedly has brought him into the world of architecture.

“A collage is just as personal as your own signature. Not only composition and style, but also the media source – where and how does the author pic or make its content? What I find extremely interesting about collage is that the source can be taken from various medias. They can be of different age, different style, different scale, or even “homemade”, is it all “homemade” or from other authors’ hands? The balance in these considerations are very independent, and makes this theme so unique and fascinating.”

Clement Luk Laurencio

Of Filipino origins, Laurencio was born in France where he is currently based. He received his B.Arch ARB/RIBA Part 1 from the University of Nottingham (UK) and his M.Arch ARB/RIBA Part 2 from the Bartlett School of Architecture. He has worked for Bernard Tschumi Architects in New York and has also worked in Geneva, Switzerland.

Now, Laurencio works as a Visiting Critic (mainly for the University of Nottingham), and has been an Invited Critic for schools such as the Pratt Institute (New York) and Ravensbourne University London. He also furthers his drawing practice, Drawing (Spatial) Fictions, where his works have won numerous international architectural drawing competitions (DOTY ’20 and Architecture Drawing Prize ’20) and have appeared in galleries and printed publications worldwide. He injects his strong belief in the human-centric approach at the heart of the practice’s Scandinavian design principles into each of his projects.

Laurencio is interested in the intangible qualities of space. His spatial fictions explore and reveal the atmosphere, emotion, and poetic nature of place. Each drawing (or series of drawings) is imbued with its own story; a narrative which breathes life into the architecture and arouses the viewer’s imagination.

The drawings and accompanying stories are spatial fictions which do not end at the edge of the paper: the viewer’s interpretation and imagination opens up new internal narratives. His drawings are frozen daydreams, waiting for the viewer to dwell within them.

Trine Berthold

Trine Berthold (DK), arkitekt, chefkonsulent i Kongelundens Sekretariat, tidligere prorektor ved Arkitektskolen Aarhus.

Kasper Heiberg Frandsen

Kasper Frandsen’s high design skills cultivated over his 18-year career at Schmidt Hammer Lassen is matched by his keen ability to inspire and guide the next generation of architects. Kasper’s definitive style is woven throughout his projects in Scandinavia and across Europe, including the library, healthcare, masterplan, and all-timber office projects he currently oversees.

Kasper co-authored the studio’s strategic creative management process that informs Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s conceptual work. To that end, he has been instrumental in the competition phase of a variety of projects both domestically and abroad and has lead the development of the firm’s healthcare portfolio.

He injects his strong belief in the human-centric approach at the heart of the practice’s Scandinavian design principles into each of his projects.