Award-giving ceremony in Kunsthalle, Budapest and exhibition in the Kós Károly hall of AHA

Text: Edit Pálinkás

Architectural Photography Award 2017 launched on June 15, 2017 by the Association of Hungarian Architects and the Hungarian Architecture magazine invited photographs from all over the world in two categories: open and professional. The main objective of this contest was to encourage and inspire thinking about our man-made environment via architecture-related photographs.
The entries received (single images or photo series) have been evaluated by the international jury on a specially designed online interface. The jury evaluated the overall performance of the photographers based on their submitted works. Based on the evaluation of the international jury 10-10 finalists were selected, of whom 1-1 category winner was announced.
The award-giving ceremony was held in Kunsthalle, Budapest on 22 November with the inaugural speech of András Krizsán DLA, President of AHA and Josef Schulz photographer (jury member). The photos of the winners and the shortlisted as well as the certificated of merits has been exhibited in he Kós Károly hall of AHA from 27 November until 20 December, 2017. The exhibition is to be moved on to Bratislava, Prague and Krakow at the beginning of the year 2018.