On 7 October 2016, Anna Artaker won BIG’s juried Kunst & Bau competition for the University of Graz library with her project entitled Perspectiva Practica.
The judges explained their decision as follows:
“Anna Artaker’s translation of a Renaissance illustration of perspective drawing adds another – surprisingly multi-layered – dimension to the underside of the new projecting structure of the university library. The perspective depicted in the image, which is a copperplate engraving that is massively enlarged and etched into the plaster, creates a strongly three-dimensional, dome-like effect. Artaker’s work is a reference to perspective and to science, while also calling to mind the foundation of Karl Franzens University in 1585.”