KOGAA won the Design Vanguard 2021 award
KOGAA is an international example of a studio that creates principles for built environments, committed to projects with a positive impact on users, communities, and local contexts. As a result, it has become one of the ten winners of the Vanguard Design Award 2021 for the best emerging architectural firms from around the world.
The American architecture and design magazine Architectural Record has been showcasing emerging talented architects from around the globe through the Design Vanguard awards since 2000. Design Vanguard focuses on firms younger than 10 years that actively employ innovative approaches to shaping built environments.
In its article, Architectural Record highlights, for example, how KOGAA approached its work during the pandemic, where unlike many American firms that implemented mandatory work-from-home policies, the architects at KOGAA were able to come closer together. “Our studio is more like an extended family, and we mostly work together in the creative environment of our studio,” says Tomáš Kozelský, who co-founded the studio in 2015 with Alexandra Georgescu and Viktor Odstrčilík. Currently, KOGAA consists of 12 members of an international team with branches in Prague and Brno.
KOGAA fulfills its work with the concept of quality of life in cities. The main tool of this work is designing substance for built environments. Sometimes it concerns function, program, or typology of users; other times, the essence may lie in the presence of a historical element. Among the main themes KOGAA addresses are the conversion of inactive structures (projects such as The Distillery, KUMST, DADA Distrikt, Lyceum,...), recycling urban infrastructure, and adaptation to climate change.
Among the studio's other major achievements are the nomination for the Dezeen Awards 2020, presentation and mentoring during the Guerilla Tactics 2019 conference at RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), placement in the Top Ten Emerging Architectural Practices 2018 by Archipreneur magazine, and representing the Czech Republic at the Concentrico 2020 architecture festival in Logroño, Spain.
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The American architecture and design magazine Architectural Record has been showcasing emerging talented architects from around the globe through the Design Vanguard awards since 2000. Design Vanguard focuses on firms younger than 10 years that actively employ innovative approaches to shaping built environments.
In its article, Architectural Record highlights, for example, how KOGAA approached its work during the pandemic, where unlike many American firms that implemented mandatory work-from-home policies, the architects at KOGAA were able to come closer together. “Our studio is more like an extended family, and we mostly work together in the creative environment of our studio,” says Tomáš Kozelský, who co-founded the studio in 2015 with Alexandra Georgescu and Viktor Odstrčilík. Currently, KOGAA consists of 12 members of an international team with branches in Prague and Brno.
KOGAA fulfills its work with the concept of quality of life in cities. The main tool of this work is designing substance for built environments. Sometimes it concerns function, program, or typology of users; other times, the essence may lie in the presence of a historical element. Among the main themes KOGAA addresses are the conversion of inactive structures (projects such as The Distillery, KUMST, DADA Distrikt, Lyceum,...), recycling urban infrastructure, and adaptation to climate change.
Among the studio's other major achievements are the nomination for the Dezeen Awards 2020, presentation and mentoring during the Guerilla Tactics 2019 conference at RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), placement in the Top Ten Emerging Architectural Practices 2018 by Archipreneur magazine, and representing the Czech Republic at the Concentrico 2020 architecture festival in Logroño, Spain.
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