Dimitrios Grozopoulos scoops first prize in the hand-drawn category at the inaugural Architecture Drawing Prize

Landscape Architect Dimitrios Grozipoulos has won first prize at the inaugural Architecture Drawing Prize, in the ‘hand-drawn category. 

Dimitrios’s drawing ‘Scenarios for a Post-Crisis Landscape’ was commended by the judges as “having a haunting quality beyond that of most images of post-industrial landscapes, portrayed with an extraordinary control of line.”

Dimitrios Grozipoulos, said; “For me drawing is about capturing the essence of a place with all its spatial and immaterial qualities. It should help people free their mind of any preconception of architecture, form, design, lines and colours. It should make us dream.”

He continued “My drawing depicts a brownfield site in Piraeus (Greece), with a strong industrial character used as a test bed for the project. The proposal (particularly through the drawing) seeks to highlight the importance of the remnant abandoned factory as a modern ruin, and also to reactivate the site through small-scale interventions spread as fragments into the landscape.”

Curated by MAKE architects, Sir John’s Museum London and the World Architecture Festival, the Architecture Drawing Prize is an international competition that recognises and celebrates drawing’s significance as a tool in capturing and communicating ideas. 

166 entries were judged by a panel of leading industry figures including Narinder Singh Sagoo, Partner at Foster + Partners, Make Architects founder Ken Shuttleworth, Sir John Soane’s Museum senior curator Owen Hopkins and WAF curator Jeremy Melvin. 

The results will be publically announced at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin in November, where each winner has been invited to attend.

The winning and shortlisted entries will be exhibited at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London from 21 February – 14 April 2018.

Back in June this year, Dimitrios was also highly commended in the London National Park City competition, an international ideas contest set by the National Park City Foundation, to transform London into a National Park City.