Jakob Sellaoui
Jakob Sellaoui is a US-born architect of Austrian and Algerian heritage who founded Studio Jakob Sellaoui in 2020. Within his practice the notion of collapse and crisis are reframed as opportunities for adaptation and change. The work explores the resulting spatial and material potentials he calls “Good-Enough Architecture”. Up to date the studio has realised projects in several scales and locations ranging from Nicaragua, Portugal, Austria, and the US.
He teaches at the Institute of Architecture and Design at the Technical University of Vienna and other non-academic institutions. Jakob Sellaoui holds a degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Monbukagakusho Fellow. His work has received several recognitions such as the Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky Grant, the AHEAD Award and Vienna’s Architecture Advancement Award amongst others. Recent exhibitions include “Weak Potentials” at MAGAZIN in Vienna, “New Austrian Architecture” at the Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo and “Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making” at the MAK Center Los Angeles.
EDUCATION
2015, MA
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture and Urban Design
Tokyo, Japan
2013, BA
Technical University of Vienna, Architecture
Vienna, Austria
JURY
Angelika Fitz
Lolita Jablonskienė
Jun Yang
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
FINAL PROJECT
