2024/25 Jury

Maurice Cox is an American architect and urban planner. He served as Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia from 2002 to 2004 and faculty at the University of Virginia. Cox is a former design director at the National Endowment for the Arts and a two-term City Councilor. In August 2012, Cox left Charlottesville for New Orleans, where he accepted the position of associate dean of community engagement at the Tulane University School of Architecture. In February 2015, he was named as director of planning and development for the city of Detroit. In August 2019 he was named Commissioner of Planning and Development for the City of Chicago, where he served until 2023. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Cox holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Cooper Union in New York City and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Detroit Mercy.

Sofia von Ellrichshausen is an Argentinian architect, artist, and educator. In 2002, together with Mauricio Pezo, she founded the art and architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen, based in a farm at the foot of the Andes Mountains. She holds a degree in architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she was distinguished with the FADU- UBA Honors Diploma. She is the Louis Kahn Visiting Professor at Yale University and has also taught, among other institutions, at the University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, Harvard University, and Illinois Institute of Technology.

Mauricio Rocha Iturbide founded Taller Mauricio Rocha in 1991. Taller works aim to develop a contemporary architecture sensitive to the context and the environment, with dignity and quality of the spaces as a constant. The firm produces public and private projects of multiple scales, as well as museography, ephemeral architecture, and art interventions. Rocha has received major awards individually and with the firm, including, most recently, the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.

Giovanna Borasi has been Director and Chief Curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture since 2020. She studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano (1996), and has held editorial positions at Lotus International, Lotus Navigator, and Abitare. Joining the CCA in 2005 as Associate Director, Programs, before becoming Curator, Contemporary Architecture in 2011 and Chief Curator in 2014, Borasi has led major exhibitions, documentary films, and publications. Her work explores processes that push the boundaries of the practice and definition of architecture.

Gregg Pasquarelli, FAIA is a founding principal of SHoP Architects. He has been at the center of this collaborative and innovative practice by creating new models for design, master planning, construction technology, and real estate development.  Gregg has led many of the firm’s most complex, dynamic, and globally recognized award winning projects, Gregg has been a professor of architecture for more than 25 years at Columbia, Yale, and UVA.  He received his M. Arch from Columbia’s GSAPP and is a lifetime honoree Academician in the National Academy of Design.The diverse and trendsetting work of SHoP has been widely celebrated with a variety of honors, among them the Smithsonian’s National Design Award for Architecture, the Chicago Atheneum’s Firm of the Year Award, and their designs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.