And the CEBRA award 2025 goes to…
New architect Simone Gadegaard Andersen, a fresh graduate of Aarhus School of Architecture, receives the CEBRA award for her ambitious graduate project, ‘Haptic Gestures, Spatial Traces’.
A new generation of architects has just graduated from Aarhus School of Architecture. At the end of every graduating semester, the CEBRA award is presented to a graduate for a project that, in a convincing manner, through its entire course of study, has managed to challenge the field and boundaries of architecture. The project should be investigative and curious in its development, seeking to push the boundaries of the traditional approach to creating and perceiving architecture and space, as well as it should point to the future rather than the past.
The project ‘Haptic Gestures, Spatial Traces’ by Simone Gadegaard Andersen reconnects architecture with sensory and crafted qualities through a series of beautiful, experimental and tactile compositions.
The project departs from a critique of contemporary construction’s tendency to alienate the body and the senses by prioritising visual perception, digital optimisation and efficiency logics. Simone works with architecture at the intersection of body, material and spatial experience. Through tangible, craft-based experiments – such as sanding, assembling, casting, and modelling – she explores the weight, texture, temperature, and responsiveness of materials as they are processed. With steel rods, found objects and small castings, she composes haptic architectural works that engage both space and body in a sensory dialogue.
Simone works with architecture at the intersection of body, material and spatial experience. Through tangible, craft-based experiments – such as sanding, assembling, casting, and modelling – she explores the weight, texture, temperature, and responsiveness of materials as they are processed.
The project challenges how we understand and create space, insisting that architecture must be experienced with the entire body – not solely with the eye.
Simone Gadegaard Andersen receives the CEBRA award – Le Corbusier’s legendary eight-volume Oeuvre Complete, as well as our books “CEBRA files 04” and “We Build Drawings” – for her courageous and poetic approach to architectural creation, for her deep material sensibility and her artistic generosity. ‘Haptic Gestures, Spatial Traces’ offers an experimental and original proposal for how architecture can reclaim its sensory and existential dimension.
Congratulations on your achievements, Simone!
Visuals: ‘Haptic Gestures, Spatial Traces’
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