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Stunning architectural visualizations win in the Render of the Year Award 2020

By Alexander Walter|

Thursday, Feb 11, 2021

OVERALL WINNER​: Winery in Alentejo by Jacinto Monteiro, also won another honorable mention in the EXTERIOR AWARD category

Good design is essential to good architecture. Pairing the vision with compelling visualization, however, will carry the message so much further. The annual Render of the Year Award seeks to highlight the best practitioners and students in their craft. 

The 2020 Award Jury was composed of industry veterans, including Anne-Marie Armstrong (Founder, AAmp Studio); Deborah Berke (Partner, Deborah Berke Partners); Alice Britton (Cofounder, Squint / Opera); Keely Colcleugh (Founder, Kilograph); Ivi Diamantopoulou (Cofounder, New Affiliates); Peter Guthrie (Founder, The Boundary); Alex Hogrefe (Partner, Visualizing Architecture Design Distill); Catherine Huang (Partner, Bjarke Ingels Group); Juan Rico (Cofounder, Methanoia); George Yabu + Glenn Pushelberg (Founders, Yabu Pushelberg).

Here are this year's winners and honorable mentions.

OVERALL WINNER

Winner: Winery in Alentejo by Jacinto Monteiro (cover image)

OVERALL WINNER, Honorable Mention: Saudade by Atelier Poem, Roman Joliy & Alice Cecchini
OVERALL WINNER, Honorable Mention: Raft Island by ​Alaina Temple & Daniel Temple (Notion Workshop), also won another honorable mention in the EXTERIOR AWARD category

Further Honorable Mentions: Platform for Imagined Ruins by Albert Orozco (see below as winner of the Young Designer Award category and another honorable mention in the Interior Award bracket)

YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD

​YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD, Winner: Platform for Imagined Ruins by Albert Orozco, also won honorable mentions in OVERALL WINNER and INTERIOR AWARD
​YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD, Honorable Mention: The Tipping Point by Enzo Pasqua
​YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD, Honorable Mention: Flooding as Commons: A Symbiotic, Reactionary Masterplan forEstuarial Living by Yip Siu
​YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD, Honorable Mention: The Hyperbolic Time Temple by ​Gianluca Sorteni & Giovanni Toselli

UNDERGRADUATE AWARD

​UNDERGRADUATE AWARD, Winner: Wrapped Tiananmen by Zhou Zhiheng
​UNDERGRADUATE AWARD, Honorable Mention: A Wood Cabin by A. Rabito by Giovanni Battista Croce
​UNDERGRADUATE AWARD, Honorable Mention: Heartbeat Gallery by Simone Andreatta
​UNDERGRADUATE AWARD, Honorable Mention: Old Futurism by Giovanni Battista Croce

INTERIOR AWARD

​INTERIOR AWARD​, Winner: Education Station: The Village by Michele De Lucchi (Amdl Circle) & Filippo Bolognese
​INTERIOR AWARD​, Honorable Mention: Education Station: The Tower by ​Michele De Lucchi (Amdl Circle) & Filippo Bolognese
​INTERIOR AWARD​, Honorable Mention: Renewed Palimpsest by Tae Hyung Lee & Ryan Henriksen

Further Honorable Mentions: Platform for Imagined Ruins by Albert Orozco (see above as winner of the Young Designer Award category and another honorable mention in the Overall Winner section)

EXTERIOR AWARD

​EXTERIOR AWARD​, Winner: Archive of Memories by Nicolò Garonzi
​EXTERIOR AWARD​, Honorable Mention: Sunday Afternoon by Daniel Markiewicz & Miroslava Brooks (FORMA Architects PLLC)

Further Honorable Mentions: 

  • Winery in Alentejo by Jacinto Monteiro, also the winner of the OVERALL WINNER category
  • Raft Island by Alaina Temple & Daniel Temple (Notion Workshop), also won another honorable mention in the OVERALL WINNER category

Check out the Director's Choice picks in the image gallery below.

Which of the winning renderings is your personal favorite? Let us know in the comment section below.

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  • Rick Long ·  Feb 12, 21 5:07 AM

    beautiful work.  I really like the “time temple” 

  • Michael Schwartz ·  Feb 12, 21 4:35 PM

    Interesting stuff! ArchViz is so wide open, lots of different styles and compositional techniques.

    Really like the Winery in Alentejo (Overall Winner), both substance and style. Also really enjoy Education Station: The Village. Very cool looking, aspirational space.

  • Thomas Dingbat ·  Feb 13, 21 11:42 AM

    These are all great. Flooding as Commons my favorite

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    George Dodds ·  Feb 17, 21 2:27 PM

    We seem to have arrived at a point in the architectural academy when drawings of places, spaces, or objects intended for potential occupation, have lost their relevancy, or their imperative, giving way to drawings of drawings of drawings.

    Yet, unlike the photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy, wherein the maker clearly knows what s/he is doing -- that with each iteration, there is something lost -- in the world of "render," not so much. When students of architecture, uninitiated to the essential techniques of drawing and visualization and unschooled in the difference between copying the world of things as opposed to drawing-out a world one imagines, -- when introduced to drawings as images to be imitated, a rabbit hole of sorts is often created and difficult to avoid. 

    A "render" is NOT a PERSPECTIVE, but it ought to be.


    For example, all of these "renders" are photomontages, yet NONE of them state as much in their captions, which is disconcerting. And no, a collage is not the same as a photomontage, but the terms are often thrown around interchangeably by architectural faculty, and therefore, their students. No, it's not a
    poe-tae-toe, poe-tah-toe, thing. They are fundamentally different. The
    former eschews visual or material coherence, the later depends upon
    it.


    The curious thing I see in these varied images is that they all seem as if they could have been created by the same hand, or, of course, no hand at all.

    At the turn of the previous century, Wright in the United States and Muthesius in Germany, both argued (with several caveats) in favor of mechanization being re-conceived as an extension of the hand of the maker. In these images, however, we have the work of handless makers with eyes that seem to visualize the image of an image. This is the World of Simulacrum -- a representation for which there is no original. I'm not sure it should be celebrated so uncritically. Much is lost in that photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy.

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Stunning architectural visualizations win in the Render of the Year Award 2020

By Alexander Walter|

Thursday, Feb 11, 2021

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OVERALL WINNER​: Winery in Alentejo by Jacinto Monteiro, also won another honorable mention in the EXTERIOR AWARD category

Related

competition ● render of the year award ● arch out loud ● rendering ● visualization

Good design is essential to good architecture. Pairing the vision with compelling visualization, however, will carry the message so much further. The annual Render of the Year Award seeks to highlight the best practitioners and students in their craft. 

The 2020 Award Jury was composed of industry veterans, including Anne-Marie Armstrong (Founder, AAmp Studio); Deborah Berke (Partner, Deborah Berke Partners); Alice Britton (Cofounder, Squint / Opera); Keely Colcleugh (Founder, Kilograph); Ivi Diamantopoulou (Cofounder, New Affiliates); Peter Guthrie (Founder, The Boundary); Alex Hogrefe (Partner, Visualizing Architecture Design Distill); Catherine Huang (Partner, Bjarke Ingels Group); Juan Rico (Cofounder, Methanoia); George Yabu + Glenn Pushelberg (Founders, Yabu Pushelberg).

Here are this year's winners and honorable mentions.

OVERALL WINNER

Winner: Winery in Alentejo by Jacinto Monteiro (cover image)

OVERALL WINNER, Honorable Mention: Saudade by Atelier Poem, Roman Joliy & Alice Cecchini
OVERALL WINNER, Honorable Mention: Raft Island by ​Alaina Temple & Daniel Temple (Notion Workshop), also won another honorable mention in the EXTERIOR AWARD category

Further Honorable Mentions: Platform for Imagined Ruins by Albert Orozco (see below as winner of the Young Designer Award category and another honorable mention in the Interior Award bracket)

YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD

​YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD, Winner: Platform for Imagined Ruins by Albert Orozco, also won honorable mentions in OVERALL WINNER and INTERIOR AWARD
​YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD, Honorable Mention: The Tipping Point by Enzo Pasqua
​YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD, Honorable Mention: Flooding as Commons: A Symbiotic, Reactionary Masterplan forEstuarial Living by Yip Siu
​YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD, Honorable Mention: The Hyperbolic Time Temple by ​Gianluca Sorteni & Giovanni Toselli

UNDERGRADUATE AWARD

​UNDERGRADUATE AWARD, Winner: Wrapped Tiananmen by Zhou Zhiheng
​UNDERGRADUATE AWARD, Honorable Mention: A Wood Cabin by A. Rabito by Giovanni Battista Croce
​UNDERGRADUATE AWARD, Honorable Mention: Heartbeat Gallery by Simone Andreatta
​UNDERGRADUATE AWARD, Honorable Mention: Old Futurism by Giovanni Battista Croce

INTERIOR AWARD

​INTERIOR AWARD​, Winner: Education Station: The Village by Michele De Lucchi (Amdl Circle) & Filippo Bolognese
​INTERIOR AWARD​, Honorable Mention: Education Station: The Tower by ​Michele De Lucchi (Amdl Circle) & Filippo Bolognese
​INTERIOR AWARD​, Honorable Mention: Renewed Palimpsest by Tae Hyung Lee & Ryan Henriksen

Further Honorable Mentions: Platform for Imagined Ruins by Albert Orozco (see above as winner of the Young Designer Award category and another honorable mention in the Overall Winner section)

EXTERIOR AWARD

​EXTERIOR AWARD​, Winner: Archive of Memories by Nicolò Garonzi
​EXTERIOR AWARD​, Honorable Mention: Sunday Afternoon by Daniel Markiewicz & Miroslava Brooks (FORMA Architects PLLC)

Further Honorable Mentions: 

  • Winery in Alentejo by Jacinto Monteiro, also the winner of the OVERALL WINNER category
  • Raft Island by Alaina Temple & Daniel Temple (Notion Workshop), also won another honorable mention in the OVERALL WINNER category

Check out the Director's Choice picks in the image gallery below.

Which of the winning renderings is your personal favorite? Let us know in the comment section below.

RELATED COMPETITION RENDER OF THE YEAR
RELATED NEWS Winners of the WAF Architecture Drawing Prize 2020
RELATED NEWS Here are the 2020 Art of Building photography competition winners

Share

  • Follow

    4 Comments

  • Rick Long ·  Feb 12, 21 5:07 AM

    beautiful work.  I really like the “time temple” 

  • Michael Schwartz ·  Feb 12, 21 4:35 PM

    Interesting stuff! ArchViz is so wide open, lots of different styles and compositional techniques.

    Really like the Winery in Alentejo (Overall Winner), both substance and style. Also really enjoy Education Station: The Village. Very cool looking, aspirational space.

  • Thomas Dingbat ·  Feb 13, 21 11:42 AM

    These are all great. Flooding as Commons my favorite

  • George Dodds

    George Dodds ·  Feb 17, 21 2:27 PM

    We seem to have arrived at a point in the architectural academy when drawings of places, spaces, or objects intended for potential occupation, have lost their relevancy, or their imperative, giving way to drawings of drawings of drawings.

    Yet, unlike the photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy, wherein the maker clearly knows what s/he is doing -- that with each iteration, there is something lost -- in the world of "render," not so much. When students of architecture, uninitiated to the essential techniques of drawing and visualization and unschooled in the difference between copying the world of things as opposed to drawing-out a world one imagines, -- when introduced to drawings as images to be imitated, a rabbit hole of sorts is often created and difficult to avoid. 

    A "render" is NOT a PERSPECTIVE, but it ought to be.


    For example, all of these "renders" are photomontages, yet NONE of them state as much in their captions, which is disconcerting. And no, a collage is not the same as a photomontage, but the terms are often thrown around interchangeably by architectural faculty, and therefore, their students. No, it's not a
    poe-tae-toe, poe-tah-toe, thing. They are fundamentally different. The
    former eschews visual or material coherence, the later depends upon
    it.


    The curious thing I see in these varied images is that they all seem as if they could have been created by the same hand, or, of course, no hand at all.

    At the turn of the previous century, Wright in the United States and Muthesius in Germany, both argued (with several caveats) in favor of mechanization being re-conceived as an extension of the hand of the maker. In these images, however, we have the work of handless makers with eyes that seem to visualize the image of an image. This is the World of Simulacrum -- a representation for which there is no original. I'm not sure it should be celebrated so uncritically. Much is lost in that photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy.

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