​AA nominates Sindi Dojaka and Thomas Faulkner for AJ Student Prize

The AA has nominated undergraduate Sini Dojaka and postgraduate Thomas Faulkner for this year’s Architects’ Journal Student Prize.

Dojaka’s project, In-between the Grid: Housing in the Gaps of Barcelona Blocks, aims break up repetition by offering a way to experience the everyday more consciously, challenging the rules of the grid and essentially creating ‘the unfamiliar’.

Faulkner’s project, The Art of Getting By: From Domestic Abuse to Social Housing, responds to the rise in domestic abuse due to lockdowns and the increase of home working post-pandemic and asks how architecture can support recovery after abuse.

Image: The Art of Getting By: From Domestic Abuse to Social Housing, (still)) 2022. Courtesy of Thomas Faulkner