HDA, in cooperation with the Province of Styria and the Regional Chamber of Chartered Engineering Consultants, is pleased to invite you to the exhibition opening of the Architecture Prize of the Province of Styria 2025. The curators, Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş (SO? architecture and ideas, Istanbul), and HDA programme coordinator Zerina Džubur will discuss the exhibition’s design and its core themes.
The Prize Bag: Double Lives of Architecture exhibition was developed within the framework of the Architecture Prize of the Province of Styria. Curated by Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş of the Istanbul-based studio SO? architecture and ideas, the exhibition and accompanying publication propose shifting our understanding of architectural prizes—seeing them as instruments for inquiry rather than final judgments. Moving beyond the award submissions, the exhibition asks what lies behind images of buildings where stories of life steadily accumulate. What happens between concept and completion, between drawing and everyday use? What remains invisible, yet decisive for lived reality?
Drawing on the architects’ previous curatorial work, Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture, buildings are understood as containers of stories—of collaboration, unpredictability, and transformation. Through visits to 14 shortlisted projects across Styria, in-depth conversation with international architectural theorist Hilde Heynen, and extensive material shared by the architectural offices who were shortlisted, Double Lives of Architecture reveals the messy, unpredictable, and deeply human processes behind built form. By assembling photographs, drawings, collages, construction documents, notes, and crisis moments, the exhibition traces the “double lives” of architecture: the tension between image and use, between idealized narratives and the realities of construction and adaptation over time. Rather than celebrating architecture as a finished object, The Prize Bag keeps the discussion open—inviting visitors to look closer and reconsider architecture’s multifaceted nature.
The Prize Bag: Double Lives of Architecture exhibition was developed within the framework of the Architecture Prize of the Province of Styria. Curated by Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş of the Istanbul-based studio SO? architecture and ideas, the exhibition and accompanying publication propose shifting our understanding of architectural prizes—seeing them as instruments for inquiry rather than final judgments.
The Architecture Prize of the Province of Styria 2025 was awarded to Architektursalon and su.n – spaceunit.net for the Salon Stolz. The curatorship was commissioned by the Styrian Provincial Government to the architectural office SO? architecture and ideas.
The new HDA format world_wide_wisdom invites international architects and thinkers to give keynote speeches and talks to accompany the exhibitions. As part of the exhibition BHP'24 on the road, the Istanbul-based architecture firm SO? architecture and ideas, curators of the Architecture Prize of the Province of Styria 2025, will provide insights into their positions and working methods.
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