Vello Asi student award for Sven Samyn
On Friday, December 8, 2023, the architectural awards of the year were handed out and the best architectural works and makers were recognized at a festive award ceremony in Lillepaviljon.
The architecture endowment fund of the Estonian Cultural Capital, the Estonian Architects’ Union, the Estonian Interior Architects’ Union, the Estonian Landscape Architects’ Union and the architecture magazine MAJA awarded a total of 14 laureates this year – the authors of the most outstanding achievements and works in the field of Estonian architecture.
The Estonian Association of Interior Architects issued two annual awards and a student award named after Vello Asi.
The laureate of the Vello Asi student award was Sven Samyn, a 3rd-year interior architecture student at the Estonian Academy of Arts. According to Jüri Kermik, professor of the interior architecture department of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Sven is one of those good interior architecture students for whom studies have never been limited to just keeping up with the class schedule and showing their face in lectures. Sven has been able to develop active communication and a chain of events, during which the learning-teaching process turns into an interesting dialogue. It is in Sven’s nature to look for opportunities to create spatial added values through professional skills and creative means. It offers positive surprises to fellow students, lecturers and Sven himself.