Archiprix 2025 – Introducing the Nominees 

Exhibition Archiprix 'Open Work'. Image: Sabine van der Vooren

Archiprix 2025 brings together the most promising graduation projects from master’s programs in Architecture, Urban Design, Interior Architecture, and Landscape Architecture across the Netherlands. To guide visitors and readers through the wide variety of topics explored, the Archiprix 2025 exhibition was curated around five central themes: Rising Tides, In pursuit of Home, Slow Down, Urban Collages and the Responsive City. Each theme is introduced in a short video, offering insight into the perspectives, processes and ambitions behind the projects. 

Watch the full video series here: Archiprix 2025 Theme Videos – YouTube Playlist 

Rising Tides  

How do we stay afloat with rising sea water levels? How can we manage salination and growing freshwater shortages? While the relationship between humans and water is rapidly changing, these five projects explore innovative ways to live in harmony with the unpredictable forces of seas, wetlands and rivers. 

• Charlotte Delobbe – Living with Drought-Prone Landscapes   
• Jelmer van Teunissen – Muddying the Waters   
• Mattia Graaf – Resilient Waters   
• Minnari Lee – The Creature: A New Form of Infrastructure  
• Simone Hermans – De Wadloper  

In Pursuit of Home 

What makes a house a ‘home’? How does one ‘return to home’ after fundamental changes in one's context or habitat? These four designers delved into the many meanings of finding refuge, of settling in, of belonging and rooting. Is ‘home’ a town, a community, a (personal) journey? Or perhaps a connection to the landscape?  

• Grisha Kirby – The House of Lost Steps   
• Nasma Al-Shutfa – I Am Grateful (?)  
• Renan Dijkinga – (Be)coming Home   
• Vincent van Spaendonk – Remind Me of Remeți   

Slow Down

What small and thoughtful design choices can help us feel grounded in a particular locality? These projects address the accelerating pace of society by aiming for moments of tranquility and reflection. They invite us to (re)align with different temporalities: to the rhythms of the seasons, to our ancestors, to a slower pace of living. Enabling us to reconnect to ourselves, each other and the larger cycles of life.   

• Anouk van Strien – Dorpelijkheid   
• Daan de Jong – Everywhen   
• Junran Zhao – De-Ageing Eden  
• Marek Boekholt – Een Waarachtig Plan  
• Nino Vogels – From Humus to Human   
• Onno van Ark – In de Harmonie der Dingen Ontplooi Ik   
• Yana Pencheva – A Broken House  

Urban Collages  

The formation of our built environment has stories to tell, but they are often overlooked. How can we consider and conserve the existing built fabric in order to (re)align with societal changes? Five designs anticipate present and future paradigm shifts by rediscovering, exposing and revaluing hidden memories, patterns, histories, and communities.   

• Ayla Stomp – Onvoltooid gebouwd: Een herwaardering van de bestaande stad  
• Camiel Mourisse – In Search of the Urban Ensemble in Fragmented Environments  
• Guido van Laar – Proud to be Suburban  
• Nikolay Pyatov – Enfilade: Cooperative Transformation of Post-War Neighborhood  
• Sophie Twarog – Le Terrain des Retrouvailles  

The Responsive City  

Are there limits to the ongoing sprawl of our cities? These five design projects sensitively deal with the natural elements in the further development of cities. They explore the influences of a changing climate on our daily life. How can we work together, and respond to the wind, water and animals, instead of keeping them at bay?   

• Iaroslava Nesterenko – Low-Tech Haven   
• Job Abbink – Predators in the City  
• Minke van Asperen – Cool Down  
• Rachel Borovksa – Wind Woven  
• Roos te Velde – Regrowth  

The jury has reviewed all projects, and the results will be revealed during the Archiprix 2025 Award Ceremony on 14 June 2025. 

Stay tuned as we share more insights from this year’s participants, and explore the full video series to hear directly from the designers.