Three FA teachers in the final of the Architect of the Year competition

The title of Architect of the Year is awarded annually to a personality who has made a significant contribution to the development of architecture and its reputation through outstanding achievements or long-term work. The last recipient of the award was Ivan Kroupa in 2023. This year's ten nominations were decided by the winners of previous years of the competition - architects Petr Stolín, Stanislav Fiala and Ladislav Kuba with Tomáš Pilař.

Vojtěch Sosna is nominated together with Jakub Straka and Jáchym Svoboda as part of the Atelier bod architekti team, which they founded together in 2015. They have completed projects such as the new town hall for Prague 7 or the sports hall in Modřice, whose designs were the result of winning architectural competitions. The competition will also result in a multifunctional house in Slivenec, a solution for the underpasses of the railway station Prague Main Station, a set of residential buildings in Kutná Hora and a multifunctional house V Botanice in Prague's Smíchov district.

Tomáš Hradečný is one of the former trio of the HŠH studio, with whom he realized the winning designs of architectural competitions – Jiřské náměstí at Prague Castle and the Archdiocesan Museum in Olomouc. In 2015, he founded the IXA studio, whose pilot projects include modifications to the monastery in Emmaus, the Wikov MGI complex and Vrbatova bouda. In his lecturing and publishing activities, he deals with public space, landscape, and monuments. Recently, he has attracted attention with an extraordinary work - the Memorial of the Three Resistances - a successful mummification of Josef Mašín's family farmhouse, where he has shown how broad the concept of architecture can be.

Roman Koucký began working for Martin Kotík and Ivo Oberstein at the Prague City Design Institute. Also, he worked as an assistant professor at the School of Architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts under Emil Přikryl. In 1991, he founded an architectural office, and a year later, he co-founded the publishing house Zlatý řez. Since 2012, he has been the head of the Metropolitan Plan Office and, subsequently, the director of the Urban Planning Section at the Institute of Planning and Development of the Capital City of Prague. He was also the Director of the Prague City Planning and Urban Development Department. Alone or with his collaborators, he has worked on more than 200 projects of various kinds - for example, Besídka and Fárům dům and náměstí in Slavonice or large bridge projects in Ústí nad Labem, České Budějovice and Prague.

Other nominees for the final round of the competition are Lukáš Ehm and Tomáš Koumar from the EHL & KOUMAR ARCHITEKTI studio and the Ellement architects team - Jitka Ressová, Kateřina Kočová, Helena Víšková and Jan Pavézka.