Biennial exhibition “Zvilgsnis i save” (“Introspection”) is a traditional event of contemporary of Lithuanian architecture, organized by Architects Association of Lithuania for the 8th time.
The Aim
The aim of the exhibition-competition is to review and analyze current trends, to evaluate the quality of contemporary Lithuanian architecture, and to award the 5 best projects.
The Awards
5 winners – authors of the best projects – are awarded with a sculpture “1/5 Metre”.
The Exhibition
The exhibition presents architectural projects (implemented and not implemented projects as well as awarded competition entries), designed by Lithuanian architects in our country and abroad during 2017-2018.

The exhibition is open to the projects of various scale and program, such as multifunctional complexes, public/cultural buildings and spaces, administrative, commercial buildings, housing, individual houses and urban visions. Student’s graduation projects and interior projects are not accepted. The works, which had been presented in previous editions of “Introspection”, are excluded too (except for the objects which had been presented as non-implemented projects in previous editions of the exhibition).

All the participants are invited to submit any quantity of their projects, designed or implemented in 2017-2018 online.
The Jury
5 best projects were selected by an international jury:



ANNE MARIE GALMSTRUP
Denmark


PIOTR SMIERZEWSKI
Poland


SAIMIR KRISTO
Albania
Assessment Criteria
  • Clear concept, consistency and excellence of the design, harmony with the surroundings, appropriateness of the means (materials, textures, colors, details etc.), functionality;
  • Innovativeness, originality (presenting new typology, invention or use of new technologies, discoveries in architecture’s style, “placeness” of the design);
  • Impact on urban or natural environment (social, economical, environmental, visual, semantic aspects);
  • Rationality and feasibility of the design, quality of ideas’ implementation.
Event
Information about the event you can find in a section AWARDS
Book
80 projects selected by the Jury are be published in a printed book that was presented during the Awards event.
Download the pdf of the book (PDF, 10MB).
Contacts
Rūta Leitanaitė, curator – tel. +370 628 58160, e-mail. info@architektusajunga.lt
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