The winner of the Kaplický scholarship is going for an internship in London

The winner was decided by a jury consisting of architect Glenn DeRoche from Adjaye Associates, director of the Design Museum in London Deyan Sudjic, architect and architectural historian Zdeněk Lukeš, architect and university educator Michal Kohout, and honorary jury member Eliška Kaplický Fuchsová.

Like the winners of the previous three years, who completed their internships at Eva Jiričná Architects, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Allies & Morrison, Petr Kousal will also spend three months gaining new experiences in London. At Adjaye Associates, known for its projects for cultural and educational institutions, he will have the opportunity to try working in a top-tier studio with an international footprint and projects on four continents.

The recent graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Technology in Brno impressed the jury with his design for a pavilion at the Brno Exhibition Centre. "Petr chose a relatively complex project, which he managed to handle in all aspects. He professionally and in detail designed not only the pavilion itself but also its functioning within the exhibition centre and the entire urban plan," said Glenn DeRoche, a member of the jury, regarding the jury's decision.

The pavilion design consists of two separate exhibition halls, where various events of a cultural, social, educational, or sporting nature can take place simultaneously. The halls are also connected by an elevated atrium with greenery, from which one can walk into a relaxation zone with a café.

The winner of the Kaplicky Internship is selected through a competition for architectural work on a free topic, which can be participated in by students in their final years of architecture and civil engineering faculties from selected universities.

In recent years, Adjaye Associates has become one of the prominent architectural firms with a global presence. The architectural studio, with branches in London, New York, and Accra (Ghana), and realizations on four continents, has gained a reputation especially for its buildings for cultural and educational institutions. Examples include the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, which won two design awards in 2017, and the Graduate School of Management in Moscow. The studio's founder, Sir David Adjaye, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people of 2017.