Entries in The Architectural Photography Awards 2022 will be reviewed by a panel of architectural photography experts. The panel judges and the WAF delegates are architectural professionals, many being involved in the process of commissioning photography.
Property expert, writer & broadcaster Kunle Barker began his construction career whilst studying for a MA at the University of Leeds. In 2004, Kunle set up Illustrious Homes, an award-winning Construction and Design Management Company, specialising in delivering high profile projects. To date, Kunle has delivered over a thousand residential refurbishments, education and sports centre refits, and countless high-end private renovations. Kunle & Illustrious Homes have won many awards including ‘2018 Property Expert of the year’ and ‘Design & Build company of the year’. As one of the country’s leading construction and housing experts, Kunle has also consulted with the government, meeting with Secretary of State Matthew Hancock to discuss the countries construction challenges. From a broadcast perspective, Kunle’s expertise has seen him co-present high profile TV formats alongside Alan Titchmarsh and work with Sarah Beeny. He is also a regular host and speaker at Grand Designs & UK Construction week alongside Kevin McCloud and is part of the expert line up for Ideal Home Show with Charlie Luxton & Phil Spencer. Kunle writes a regular construction and building Q&A column for Grand Designs Magazine and is a monthly columnist at Architects Journal. He is also COO of Melt Property and the non-executive director of Studio Anyo. Most recently, Kunle has presented Grand Designs Live from Home, an Instagram Live show over 16 Episodes, alongside working with the team at Grand Designs live 2021 to curate the content for this year’s event. Kunle lives in North West London with his wife and two children.
The 1980s marked a key change in the visibility of the architect to the general public. Richard Bryant was the one photographer present to interpret the work of rising stars of architecture and to disseminate his pictures globally. Working around the world with architects such as Tadao Ando, Foster + Partners, Frank Gehry, von Gerkan Marg, Zaha Hadid, Richard Meier, Stirling & Wilford and Richard Rogers. Richard was the first photographer of architecture to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In recent years Richard's clients have included Pentagram and extended to international brands including Armani, Bulgari and Gucci.
Photo: Lynne Bryant
Konrad Buhagiar is an executive director of award-winning architecture firm AP Valletta in Malta. He is the recipient of the 2021 President’s Prize of the Malta Architecture and Spatial Planning Award (MASP).
Konrad has been responsible for many restoration and rehabilitation works in historic buildings including St John's Co Cathedral in Valletta and urban sites. He has lectured at the University of Malta and internationally, including Canterbury University College of Creative Arts, U.K., the University of Aix-Marseille, France and at the University of Tor Vergata, Rome. He has published numerous historical and academic articles and is the chief editor behind AP’s ‘A Printed Thing’ and ‘Founding Myths of Architecture’ publications. Konrad has been Chairman of both the Heritage Advisory Committee and the Valletta Rehabilitation Committee.
Katy leads Foster + Partners’ Communications team, overseeing all aspects of the practice’s communications activity including PR and exhibitions, marketing, graphics, image archive, book and journal libraries and research. After gaining a degree in Communication Design in 1981 she joined the practice in the same year heading the communications team from 1983 when it started to enjoy global recognition. She was made partner in 2004, and senior partner in 2017.
Stewart Hicks is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an Associate Dean of Physical Resources and Planning in the College of Architecture Design and the Arts. He is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company and creator of the YouTube channel Architecture with Stewart. The channel features weekly 10-15 minute videos that explore a wide range of architectural topics with curiosity and humor.
Farshid Moussavi, OBE, RA, is an internationally acclaimed architect and Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she trained. Prior to founding FMA, her London-based practice, she was co-founder of Foreign Office Architects (FOA). She has published, with Harvard University : The Function of Ornament (2006), ...of Form (2009), and... of Style (2014). She was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2015, and was appointed Professor of Architecture in the RA Schools in 2017. In the Queen’s Birthday Honors of 2018 she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to architecture. She was the chair of the Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004, and a member of its steering committee between 2005 and 2015. She has served as a trustee of several organizations, including the Whitechapel Gallery and The Architecture Foundation in London between 2009 and 2018, and, since 2018, the Norman Foster Foundation and New Architecture Writers (NAW), which focuses on black and minority ethnic emerging writers who are under-represented in design journalism and curation.
Photo: Anne Purkiss
Vicky Richardson is a London-based architectural curator with a wide range of experience in the UK and overseas. In April 2021 she joined the Royal Academy of Arts and has since curated the exhibitions ‘John Hejduk: London Masque’ and ‘Light Lines: the Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet’.
Vicky was previously Head of Architecture, Design and Fashion at the British Council and Commissioner of the British Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale where she led an international programme. She has a great interest in China, and co-founded the Lantao UK Fellowship in 2019 to encourage cultural exchange between British and Chinese designers and architects.
Vicky began her career as a journalist and editor, and has also taught in UK schools of design and architecture. Previous roles include Associate Director of London School of Architecture, Honorary Treasurer at the Architectural Association, Editor of Blueprint and Deputy Editor of RIBA Journal. She is an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA and has been named by Debretts as one of 20 most influential people in British architecture.
Photo: Marco Kesseler
Renowned for his experience in brand strategy and visual identities, John Rushworth has worked for companies across a broad range of sectors including hospitality, luxury goods, finance, property, transport, education and start-ups. He has an in-depth approach to design, working closely with all of his clients to draw out a brand’s key attitudes, which form the basis of graphic solutions that are both strategically focused and visually compelling.
Over the past three decades John has created major projects for Kings College London, Craft’s Council, Krug, Coutts, Ten Trinity Square, One & Only Resorts, Bulgari, World Chess, Dorchester Collection, Armani Hotels, Café Royal, Marbella Club, Great Western Railway, Index Ventures, Canal & River Trust, Rathfinny Estate and Harrods.
John’s fusion of commerce and aesthetics has led him to form long relationships with his clients to support the worldwide management of their brands. These include Polaroid Corporation, The Savoy Group, Bertazzoni and Rocco Forte Hotels.
John graduated from the Preston College of Art and started his career at Conran Design Group before joining Pentagram in 1983. In 1987 he became Pentagram’s first associate and in 1989 was the first employee to be invited to become a partner of the firm.
John is a prominent figure in the design community. He has been member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 1994 and a Director of the Outset Contemporary Art Fund since 2012. His work has been exhibited worldwide and has received many international awards including a gold medal at the Lahti Poster Biennale and multiple D&AD silver pencils. He has been an external assessor at Falmouth College of Art and the University of Lancashire.
Patrik Schumacher is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects. He studied philosophy, mathematics and architecture in Bonn, Stuttgart and London and received his PhD at the Institute for Cultural Science in Klagenfurt. In 1996 he founded the Design Research Laboratory at the AA in London where he continues to teach. Since 2007 he is promoting Parametricism as epochal style for the 21st Century. In 2010/12 he published “The Autopoiesis of Architecture” in two Volumes and recently guest-edited AD - Parametricism 2.0, emphasizing the societal relevance of Parametricism. His current research and design interest is focused on the metaverse and the integration of real and virtual communication spaces.
Learn moreLiu Xinghao is an architectural photographer based in Chongqing, China. He is the founder of INSPACE studio, with an aim to reveal "the reality and delight of Architecture through my lens." In 2021 he was the overall winner of the Architectural Photography Awards, with his image of Raffles City, Chongqing, by Safdie Architects.