The World Architecture Festival and Prize, together with co-curators Make Architects and Sir John Soane’s Museum, have announced Filipino Architect and Illustrator Eldry John Infante as the Overall Winner of the 2023 Architecture Drawing Prize. The awarded drawing, titled ‘(Re)membering the See Monster,’ is a mixed-media representation of a defunct oil platform. The image aims to invite conversations on the topic of reuse, going beyond the structure’s physicality.
According to the jury, Eldry John Infante’s drawing was praised for is cinematic narrative, featuring a collage-like composition of panels, all contributing to its storytelling. The hybrid drawing experiments with different representational conventions, utilizing both digital and hand-drawn techniques to create an engaging image, one which can serve as a starting point for conversations on the future of these impressive “sea monsters.”
The drawing has been previously selected as the Hybrid Category Winner, while Ben Johnson’s ink drawing of the Grundtvig Church in Copenhagen received the Hand-Drawn Category Award, and Eugene Tan’s drawing, ‘The Archatographic Map of the Incomplete Landscape on Pedra Branca,’ was recognized as the winner of the Digital Category.
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