Following the announcement that RIBA House of the Year will be returning to Channel 4’s Grand Designs, meet the jury who will visit the shortlisted projects, and decide the winner later this autumn.
David Kohn (Chair)
David Kohn is the founding director of David Kohn Architects. The practice won RIBA House of the Year 2022 for Red House and the Manser Medal, Architect’s Journal’s House of the Year Award 2023, for Cowshed. Recent projects include a new quad for New College, Oxford and S.M.A.K. the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, Belgium. David teaches and lectures internationally on architecture and will be Visiting Professor at Yale University in 2026/27.
Livia Wang
Livia Wang is Creative Director of Van Gogh House London, where the eponymous painter lived in the 1870s, now a cultural centre hosting artist residencies, exhibitions and events. As a designer Livia has completed projects across China and the UK, within the realms of conservation, public art and exhibitions, most recently collaborating with Bamidele Awoyemi and Farouk Agoro as part of the collective ‘BAFALW’. She teaches Architecture at the University of Cambridge and has taught at the Royal College of Art and the University of Brighton.
Gill Lambert
Gill Lambert is an architect, maker and educator. She is director at AOC, a practice of architects and designers that use collaborative processes to create designs that are particular to their place, communities and cultures. Gill has designed and delivered a series of award-winning homes, including Studio House, Hampstead Heath, and Forest House, Waltham Forest, winner of NLA’s ‘Don’t Move, Improve!’ Unique Character Prize 2022. Her human-centred design approach extends to cultural and educational buildings, including the transformation of the former Museum of Childhood in London into Young V&A, winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024
Amalia Skoufoglou
Amalia is the co-founder of O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects, a London based architecture practice that places emphasis in finding imaginative, thoughtful solutions that aim to understand situation and context whilst interrogating the way we build today.
Prior to setting up practice in 2016, Amalia worked at deBlacam and Meagher in Dublin, David Chipperfield and Eldridge Smerin in London, where she gathered experience in the design and implementation of educational, heritage and housing projects.
In addition to practice, Amalia leads an architecture design studio at Kingston School of Art. Amalia is a graduate of the University of Portsmouth and the University of Cambridge.
