The chairman of the jury of the Czech Architecture Prize 2018 is Roger Riewe

The judges of the 3rd year of the Czech Architecture Award (ČCA) have elected a chairman from their ranks, which has become Roger Riewe, a German architect with an unusually broad scope. In addition to his own building design, he also engages in urban planning and the development of education and research not only in Austria but also in Poland, Korea, and Rwanda.

Roger Riewe (* 1959 Germany) studied architecture at RWTH Aachen. In 1987, he co-founded the architectural office Riegler Riewe Architekten with Florian Riegler, which operates to this day in Styria, Austria. The office later expanded its branches to Berlin and Katowice, Poland. Concurrently with his professional career, Roger Riewe is also involved in academia. He has served as a visiting professor at dozens of schools, including Czech Technical University in Prague in 1996, and became the head of the Institute of Architecture at the Technical University in Styria in 2001.

Among his completed works are MED CAMPUS in Styria (under construction), the cultural center of St. Agnes in Berlin (2015), the Silesian Museum in Katowice (2014), laboratories for Boehringer Ingelheim in Biberach, Germany (2009), the main train station in Innsbruck (2005), for which he received the Brunel Award 2008, the Technical University in Styria (1998), which brought him to the finals of the Mies van der Rohe Award, and the repeatedly awarded pavilions at the exhibition center in Styria (2003). In 2016, he received the AIT Award 2016 at the international exhibition of the best architecture and interior design.

Riewe has also been actively involved in Austrian professional associations – he was the vice-chairman of the Central Association of Austrian Architects in Styria ZV-Steiermark and a member of the Architekturstiftung Österreich foundation, serving as a delegate in the technical committee for urban construction in the EU-funded research program COST. In the Czech Republic, he was the chairman of the jury for the international architectural competition "The Future of the Center of Brno" two years ago, seeking urban solutions for the new Brno train station located beneath Petrov.

International expert jury of the ČCA
The work of 145 submitted projects by Czech architects will be evaluated by a prestigious seven-member international jury. Its members include the chairman Roger Riewe, Austrian architect Carlo Baumschlager, architect Zsolt Gunther, who is among the most significant Hungarian architects, Slovak architect Andrea Klimko, Polish architect Robert Konieczny, representative of landscape architecture Yael Moria Klain from Israel, and Ivan Reimann, an architect of Czech origin working in Germany.

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