The jubilee 10th year of the Kaplicky Internship competition, which is intended for students and recent graduates of architectural fields of Czech universities, this year prepared for the winner a three-month paid internship in the prestigious New York studio Studio Libeskind.
For the third time, the Kaplicka Internship competition is connected with a renowned competition Exhibition of theses The Czech Chamber of Architects, which is entering its 25th year this year. Students of the last years of architectural fields of Czech universities and recent graduates with their diploma thesis on any topic can apply. Those who fill out the application form on the website diplomacan apply for the prize at the same time Chapel Internship. Login is in progress until July 31finalists are then selected during August and September. Ceremonial announcement the competition will take place on December 2 at CAMP in Prague.
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The winner of Kaplicka Internship 2023 Anna Jelínková
The winners of previous years had the opportunity to go on an internship to the studios of famous names such as Zaha Hadid Architects, Allies and Morrison or Eva Jiřičná Architects. Winner of Kaplicka Internship 2023 Anna Jelínková is preparing for an internship at Büro Ole Scheeren in Berlin after the holidays.
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Jewish Museum in Berlin
Dream internship in New York
This year’s winner will receive a three-month paid internship at the prestigious New York studio Studio Libeskind. Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind he became famous, among other things, for the design of the Jewish Museum in Berlin or the buildings that replaced the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.
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The new World Trade Center complex in lower Manhattan
“We are thrilled that we could participate in the Kaplicky Internship project, which bears the name of such a great architect. It is a particularly great honor to be at the jubilee 10th year and to support young talents in the spirit of visionary Jan Kaplický’s legacy“, he stated Yama Karim from Studio Libeskind, who will also sit on this year’s jury. As a designer, he participated in the biggest projects of Studio Libeskind, including the Albert Einstein Museum in Jerusalem, the unconventional complex of six wavy high-rise Reflections in Singapore, or the giant Memory Foundations project, in which the Ground Zero area was given a new look at the site of the former “twins” in New York.
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The unconventional complex of six undulating high-rise Reflections in Singapore
The Kaplicka Internship competition is organized by the Bakala Foundation in cooperation with Design Museum in London and Kaplicky Center foundation fund as of 2015.”This year’s win is a dream come true for every architecture student. We are extremely happy that we were able to establish cooperation with the Libeskind Studio, and in this way we are further advancing the prestige of the competition,” said the director of the Bakala Foundation Vaclav Pecha.
Source: Dům&Zahrad editorial office, www.bakalafoundation.org
