Lead Dušan 2023 - competition results

The 30th edition of the largest student architectural and design competition in the Czech Republic this year was won by the projects 7000t of tomatoes by Timotej Hlaváček and Anti-parking Barrier by Tereza Cvrčková.
The award for the best architectural studio was received by the Kuzemenský - Kunarová studio, whose students focused on Housing in Vršovice. The Streit, Polák studio won the design category with two assignments, Belt and Seating furniture made of bent steel tubes.
The announcement of the results took place once again at the Faculty of Architecture, where an exhibition will also be on display in the piazzetta in front of the building. The exhibition will be accessible 24/7, as it is located in a public space, for the following two weeks - until March 30, 2023.


Winners were selected by two juries in two categories. In the first category, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the jury included Jan Hora, Alžběta P. Brůhová, Štefan Polakovič, Martina Forejtová, and Tomáš Kosnar. The jury's selection was framed primarily by experiences from the academic environment.

Timotej Hlaváček, studio Valouch, Stibral - 7000t of tomatoes

"In the Valouch-Stibral studio, they decided to explore whether logistic halls can be conceived more comprehensively. Instead of mono-functional boxes, multifunctional structures. Timotej Hlaváček answered this question, in our opinion, very thoughtfully. He was not drawn to seek how to live in the hall but came up with a truly clever and mutually complementary combination of uses. He proposed to set up greenhouses on the roofs of the halls. Instead of the sun warming the hall, it warms the greenhouses. He leaves the hall, which we need, on agricultural land, but builds a hydroponic greenhouse on its roof, which returns agricultural use to the place." summarized the qualities of the winning project juror Tomáš Kosnar.

Kuzemenský, Kunarová Studio - Housing Vršovická

"The work of the aforementioned studio is always somewhat familiar to us, experienced. As if we suddenly found ourselves in a place where more toner had been used, as if the assessed projects had been addressed longer than those in other rooms. From the studio, there comes a third pressure of information, ease, processed width of coverage, verification of various newly formed relationships in the respective solution, searching and naming - a new perspective on today's notion of the quality of everyday life.. A complex, excellent job of the leadership with the participants throughout the work." commented Štefan Polakovič the studio Kuzemenský - Kunarová, which dominated this year's edition.

The jury appreciated the diverse approaches to design and the visual presentation of the studios, while also pointing out the lack of collaboration between students in studios and between disciplines, and the rigidity of typological assignments. What they consider the best at the faculty is ZANs (the subject Basics of Studio Design, studios in the first year) and they comment that after that, the joy of creation noticeably fades from the projects.


In the Design jury were Barbora Kolerusová, Karolína Jeřábková, and Tomáš Bárta.

Tereza Cvrčková, studio Fišer, Nezpěváková - Anti-parking Barrier

"It has become a good rule that quality urban furniture tends to have a clean and maximally utilitarian design. In this layer of public space, we therefore encounter predominantly serious objects that diligently fulfill their functions and do not smile much. The question of humor is a sensitive topic in this layer. For us, however, Ms. Cvrčková's work is a joke that public space can bear and, moreover, that it needs. Unforced, clever, requiring a response." thus characterized the winning proposal juror Barbora Kolerusová.

Streit, Polák Studio - Design of a belt with an emphasis on the buckle, Seating furniture made of bent steel tubes

"The space in the Streit studio is pleasantly divided according to the theme of the assignment, specifically into the assignment of a belt with an emphasis on the buckle for the bachelor's program and seating furniture made of bent metal for the master's program. All belt projects are very fresh, and it is nice to see that each student envisions something different under the term 'belt' and these ideas are supported by the studio's leadership. We were pleasantly surprised that there was also a proposal where the bent tube is only a functional detail, although the assignment itself evokes more seating furniture, where the tubes are the main supporting element." these are the words of juror Karolína Jeřábková.

However, the jury also expressed critical views on the insufficient promotion of the exhibitions and the very limited access of students to workshops, which they believe has a direct impact on the studio results of the students.

The announcement took place at the Faculty of Architecture on Thursday, March 16th from 8:00 PM, and an accompanying exhibition will be held in the pre-space of the faculty until March 30, 2023.

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