2025 Judges

140 judges representing 68 countries. Only at WAF are you judged by your peers, your heroes and the industry’s power players, all live at the festival. All finalists present their projects within their categories during the first two days. Category winners then go on to present to the Super Jury.

World Building Super Jury

Mohsen Mostafavi
Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design & Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Harvard University

Marcio Kogan
Founder
Studio MK27

Laurinda Spear
Founding Principal
Arquitectonica

Ma Yansong
Founder and Principal Partner
MAD Architects

Future Project Super Jury

Michel Rojkind
Founder
Rojkind Arquitectos

Fleur Watson
Curator / Associate Professor School of Architecture and Design
RMIT University

Cazú Zegers
Architect
Cazú Zegers Architecture Studio

WAF Interiors Super Jury

Nigel Coates
Director
World Festival of Interiors

Mike Stiff
Chairman
Stiff+Trevillion Architects

Adrien Gardere
Founder, CEO
Studio Adrien Gardere

Johnny Chiu
Founder
JC. Architecture & Design

Charu Kokate
Senior Partner
Safdie Architects

Landscape Super Jury

Kona Gray
Principal
EDSA, Inc.

Franziska Meisel
Global Director Landscape
Henning Larsen

Lily Jencks
Founder
Lily Jencks Studio & Keeper of Vision at The Cosmic House at the Jencks Foundation

Richard Maimon
Senior Principal
KieranTimberlake

Shortlist Judges

Andy Theobald
Partner
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Angie Jim Osman
Partner
Allies & Morrison

Angus Morrogh-Ryan
Director
De Matos Ryan

Annette Fisher
Founder
FA Global

Cindy Walters
Adjunct Professor of Architecture
Walters & Cohen Architects

Harry Charrington
Professor of Architecture
Architecture + Cities

Hazel Joseph
Director
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Jonathan Glancey
Architectural Critic and Writer

Layton Reid
Research Associate / Co-Founder
Desitecture

Linzi Cassels
Principal, Design Director
Perkins&Will

Lucy Tilley
Chief Executive Officer London Studio
Adjaye Associates

Mike Stiff
Founder
Stiff + Trevillion

Paul Hyett
Co-Founder
Vickery Hyett

Rob Gregory
Head of Campus Planning and Design
University of Bristol

Roger Zogolovitch
Founder
Solidspace Ltd

Category Judges

Founder Partner