Nora Lau is a registered Architect in Germany, living and working in Munich, Berlin and Milan. She started studying architecture at University of the arts Berlin (UdK) in 2000. After further studies in Milan (2003-2004), the cooperation in the Berlin art group "bizzim" and working as a tutor at the chair of building design and construction of Professor Benedict Tonon at UdK Berlin (2005-2007), she graduated in 2007. Since October 2014 she is a research and teaching assistant at the chair of Architectural Design and Conception held by Professor Uta Graff at the Technical University Munich (TUM). Nora Lau is partner at "michelangelo acciaro architetti".
Technical University Munich (TUM), München, DE, research and teaching assistant at the chair of Architectural Design and Conception
Since October 2014 she is a research and teaching assistant at the chair of Architectural Design and Conception held by Professor Uta Graff at the Technical University Munich (TUM).
Besojlem Memorial Park, Lviv, Ukraine, 3rd Place, 3rd Place
THE JURY'S EVALUATION
The site is divided into three green areas, the plan forms of which are slightly distorted to emphasize its topography. Three paths cross the areas and are aligned in the directions of the Golden Rose Synagogue, the great city synagogue and the site of the Yanivsky concentration camp. the triangular area between the paths contains plates made of corten steel (a material that has deliberately rusted surfaces) in the form of headstones and set at angles. The 18 surviving original headstones that have been found are placed upright along the paths. Corten steel walls cross the site at varying heights, and can be used for seating, or to delineate diferent parts of the site. The jury appreciated the strong identity and artistic qualities of the project, which relate to the history of the place in a very expressive way. The combination of original tombstones placed upright amidst anonymous sloping rusty metal slabs is a deeply meaningful reference to lost identity. There were reservations about the metal walls that run across the space, which were thought inappropriate for a burial site and inconsistent with the jury’s criteria.
