The founder and directors of AMDL Circle, Yama Karim and the Israeli architect, confirmed on the panel of the tenth edition of the Awards
The Longlist of the Archiproducts Design Awards 2025 has been revealed. However, the jury is still at work to determine the winners of this tenth edition of the prestigious award that celebrates design excellence worldwide.
In the international jury — composed of some of the most influential names in the world of architecture and design — architect and designer Michele De Lucchi, together with Angelo Micheli and Davide Angeli, respectively founder and directors of the renowned Italian studio AMDL Circle, have once again confirmed their participation, along with architect Yama Karim, senior leader at Studio Libeskind, and Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem.
Yama Karim, Pitsou Kedem and AMDL Circle
The winners, to be announced in November, will be celebrated during the exclusive annual night party in Milan, which will bring together jurors, designers, winning brands, press, and influencers.
AMDL Circle on the jury of the Archiproducts Design Awards 2025
AMDL Circle_Angelo Micheli – Michele De Lucchi – Davide Angeli_ph. Max Rommel
AMDL Circle is the multidisciplinary studio founded by Michele De Lucchi.
Internationally renowned for its humanistic and interdisciplinary approach, the studio offers clients projects that embrace architecture, interior design, product design, and graphics. It carries out ongoing research on the future of architecture and its responsibility in imagining projects that not only acknowledge change but, where possible, inspire it.
The Milan based studio has worked with both public and private organisations, collaborating with large corporations such as Deutsche Bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, Novartis, and UniCredit. It has also designed buildings and exhibition systems for institutions like the Neues Museum in Berlin, Triennale Milano, and Gallerie d’Italia in Milan, Turin, and Naples.
Gallerie d’Italia di Napoli, Ph. Luca Rotondo – Gallerie d’Italia di Torino, Ph. Marco Tacchini
Additionally, the studio has designed lighting, products, and furniture for Alessi, Artemide, Cassina, Hermès, Poltrona Frau, and UniFor.
Novartis Pavillon – Ph.Rasmus Hjortshøj
Founder – Michele De Lucchi, Managing Director – Angelo Micheli, Deputy Managing Director – Davide Angeli
Yama Karim on the jury of the Archiproducts Design Awards 2025
Yama Karim
Yama Karim is a senior leader at Studio Libeskind, guiding many of the firm’s most complex and large-scale projects.
His portfolio includes the master plan and redevelopment of Milan’s former fairgrounds, CityLife, as well as the World Trade Center master plan in New York and the Reflections and Corals residential developments in Singapore. He is also at the forefront of designing several high-rise towers, including the Artery Tower in Vilnius and the Baccarat Hotel in Dubai, along with the Albert Einstein Archives, a cultural landmark underway in Israel.
Reflections at Keppel Bay
Before joining Studio Libeskind’s New York office in 2003, Yama collaborated with Daniel Libeskind in Berlin throughout the late 1990s. He brought with him a wealth of experience, having previously served as a senior designer at Polshek Partnership (now Ennead Architects), where his projects included the Brown Fine Arts Center at Smith College in Massachusetts and the Heimbold Visual Arts Center at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He also contributed to the design of the Kaohsiung Port Terminal in Taiwan while at Reiser + Umemoto (RUR) in New York.
An experienced educator, Yama has taught full-time at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich and served as a visiting professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University (1995) and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design from the University of California, Berkeley (1991). A frequent speaker on architecture, urban planning, sustainability, and design, Yama is fluent in English and Farsi.
Pitsou Kedem on the jury of the Archiproducts Design Awards 2025
Pitsou Kedem
Pitsou Kedem founded Pitsou Kedem Architects Studio in 2000 after graduating from the AA Architectural association school of architect.
The studio has been operating for two decades and has been planning many and varied projects mainly in Israel, and recently around the world.
The studio lends its language to the modernist style and its work revolves around the period and design values of the modernist movement. In its the early years the studio engaged in constant dialogue and exploration with the core values of minimalism; reduction, disassembling the building materials, as a process of avoiding irrelevance in order to emphasize the central essence and theme, refinement and search for the essence of space. The process led to a tight, uncompromising architecture in search of absolute truth. This pursuit of simplicity produced sophisticated, accurate and unique results.
Most of the projects were characterized by simple, rectangular, repetitive geometric shapes that give a precise and fastened appearance. The fronts are uniform, monochromatic, devoid of decorations and overly sweeping gestures, with the main reference to light and movement as a basic motif. Through this language, there is a sincere attempt to put order in urban chaos.
Floating Roof House, Ph. Amit Geron
The studio has been busy in recent years in search of new materialism, a newer thought, an exit outside the boundaries of the seller. After years of abstraction of the materialism in order to avoid any distraction, that created the momentous moments the space user experiences, the studio began adding layers of materials while trial and error, thus creating more enigmatic and elusive building spaces, that cause greater curiosity.
Widespread use is made in the research of innovative materials, mainly in building envelopes. In an attempt to deepen the language and cast new content, the studio has in recent years worked with almost contrasting materials such as corten steel and exposed concrete, and thin aluminum, carbon and other innovative materials from the technological industries. The combination of materials and the combination of different languages and sometimes even different design schools created tension and drama in some of the projects.
HIBA Restaurant, Ph. Amit Geron
Today, after 25 years of work, when you can already look back at a relatively broad perspective on the studio’s body of work, it can be noted that many of the projects are characterized by a contrast between simple and clean outward masses, and complex and rich internal sections. In doing so, the studio manages to produce a unique and powerful experience.
Old Jaffa House 4, Ph. Amit Geron
The studio is planning projects on various scales. From designing interiors of restaurants, show rooms and living spaces through planning and designing private homes, to large residential and office buildings. In all projects, there is a brainstorming process between team members in an attempt to find the story and main idea that will create the design of the project. From the core of the idea, project’s language evolves. Overall thinking at all levels of planning gives a great deal of depth to the structures, with an emphasis on the context and integration of the structure into the urban fabric.
V Penthouse, Ph. Amit Geron
This year 2025 – is a landmark for the Studio – completing 25 years of creation and in celebration of this Anniversary, Pitsou Kedem in cooperation with the German Publication Hatje Cantz published his new book featuring “Twenty-Five Selected Projects”.
