Sille Pihlak is an Estonian architect, honoured with the Young Architect Award 2017. She studied at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in the United States and graduated from University of Applied Arts Vienna, in Austria. She holds an interior architecture bachelor and in 2020 she defended her doctoral degree at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Believer in the “inevitable sustainability of architecture“, she is one of the key initiators on urbanizing and automating timber architecture in Estonia. She practiced as a design architect in Morphosis Architects Los Angeles and Coophimmelb(l)au Vienna before founding the architectural office PART together with Siim Tuksam in 2015. In 2016, she started an environmental architecture studio in the Estonian Academy of Arts, and since then she has been a co-curator of Open Lecture Series and participated in various Government initiated Expert Groups.