The Genoa-based architect will join this edition’s Panel of Judges, which brings together some of the most talented architects in Europe today.

Francesca Torzo is widely celebrated for her thoughtful and poetic approach to architecture, as seen in her award-winning projects such as the Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design, and Architecture in Hasselt, Belgium, which has received international acclaim for its blend of innovation and timeless craftsmanship.
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Francesca Torzo has run her small, dedicated studio in Genoa since 2008, designing building projects in Europe and China as well as art installations, furniture, and everyday objects. Teaching and academic research, as well as close collaboration with craftsmen are important influences in her work. Francesca Torzo studied architecture at TU Delft, ETSAB in Barcelona, AAM in Mendrisio, and IUAV in Venice, then worked with Peter Zumthor, among others.

She has been a professor at Bergen School of Architecture since 2017 and at Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio since 2020. In 2019 she was appointed as Chairman of the Maarten Van Severen Foundation in Ghent. Torzo was represented at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale with her extension of Z33 House of Contemporary Art in Hasselt, which was a recipient of the International Piranesi Award in 2018, the Premio Italiano di Architettura and the Moira Gemill Prize for Emerging Architecture in 2020, and was among the awarded five finalists of the Mies van der Rohe Award 2022.