European Prize for Architecture

European Prize for Architecture
First awarded 2010
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The European Prize for Architecture is an architecture prize awarded annually by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture. It was established by Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, the Finnish-Lithuanian-American architect, design critic, artist, poet, and museum chief of The Chicago Athenaeum.[1]

“The Prize, according to Narkiewicz-Laine, “was established to continue and celebrate Europe’s ongoing contribution to world history and culture and to encourage our present generation of practitioners to embrace the true art of architecture together with its humanistic and social pursuits in order to make our European cities and nations true centers of advanced culture and civilization." “Throughout the centuries, Mr. Narkiewicz-Laine adds, “Europe has given the world its most important practitioners from Phidias, Vitriuvius, Michelangelo, da Vinci, and Palladio to the early modern masters, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius, and Eliel and Eero Saarinen. Those architects have developed numerous philosophies and visionary approaches to building, engineering, and planning that have grown from the need to invent or express a time and place in Europe’s rich history. Classicism, Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Beaux-Arts, Constructivism, Art Deco, DeStijl, and Modernism have all resulted as an expression of clearly stated European values and ideals and have given form and shape to the most famous cities in the world.” .[2][3]

Recipients

YearRecipientCountry
2010Bjarke Ingels Denmark
2011Graft architects Germany
2012TYIN Tegnestue Norway
2013Marco Casagrande Finland
2014Alessandro Mendini Italy [4]
2015Santiago Calatrava Spain
2016Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Germany
2017Manuelle Gautrand France
2018Sergei Tchoban Germany  Russia

Host Cities

Each year's results are announced during a ceremony that is hosted in a different European or South or North American city each time. So far, the European Prize for Architecture ceremonies (and accompanying events) have been hosted by:

YearCityCountry
2010Madrid Spain
2011Buenos Aires Argentina
2012Istanbul Turkey
2013Buenos Aires Argentina
2014Milan Italy
2015New York City United States

1. The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies 3. Good Design

See also

List of architecture prizes

References

  1. ↑ http://www.europeanarch.eu/european-prize-for-architecture-nominations/
  2. ↑ "European Prize for Architecture" (PDF). European Prize for Architecture. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  3. ↑ "Lene Tranberg, Hon. FAIA". AIA. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
  4. ↑ http://europeanarch.eu/events.html

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