Copenhagen based JULIEN DE SMEDT is the co-founder of PLOT and an internationally acclaimed architect. He is recognized for his ability to always take a fresh look at things. His works challenge conventions and many have been awarded. At only 29 years old he won the Golden Lion for world's best concert hall at the Venice Biennale.

JULIEN DE SMEDT / JDS ARCHITECTS ON THEIR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Our projects are humanly designed, politically engaged, financially viable, and structurally realistic.

JULIEN DE SMEDT ON NEW NORDIC DESIGN
Nordic design has evolved in the past five years from a veneration of the simple and pure lines of the classics to something more fluid - through its involvement of multicultural issues, political presence and opportunist productive methods. Its outcome has become something more eclectic and colourful, while the consistency of the classics is still oddly maintained, as if it were genetic.