Four winners selected for TRANSFER Architecture Video Award

The TRANSFER Architecture Video Award announced the winners of its third edition as part of the Écrans Urbains 2024 film festival held last month in Lausanne, Switzerland. 

Organizers share: "The TRANSFER Architecture Video Award is an international biennial prize launched in 2019, to recognize the most innovative short films in the field of architecture, city or landscape. The Award aims to explore the potential of the short video format, linked to the contemporary digital means of communication, as a tool for analysis, expression and critical reflection on our built environment."

The first three editions of the Award have seen the submission of 450 videos from more than 50 different countries. This year’s competition was judged by MoMA’s Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Martino Stierli, and seven others. Their decisions to award four ex-aequo winners and two honorable mention films were based on each submission’s demonstrated capacity for architectural analysis and documentation. 

WINNERS

Wrapping a Room by Ana Herreros, The Berlage, Netherlands, 2021

Material World - STEEL: Iron Tail, Iron Tale by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Severin Barenbold, Elif Erez, Shira Grosman, US, 2021

Robin Hood Gardens: A Brief History by Joe Gilbert, UK, 2021

Subdivided Lives: Portraits from the Kathmandu Valley by Joshua Bolchover and Kent Mundle (District Development Unit), Nepal, 2024

(Joshua Bolchover was previously the sole winner of the 2021 TRANSFER competition.)

HONORABLE MENTIONS

SONOROUS – Kampus Südpol Musik by Dominik Gehring & Tobias Kaufmann, Switzerland, 2022

Scenes of a House by Studio GROSS, Japan, 2022