Archisearch.gr is delighted to be invited as an independent expert – nominator at the Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. Our editorial team will nominate 5 buildings constructed from 1/1/2013 to 31/12/2014, for the Prize Jury`s consideration.
The buildings may be located in Greece or designed by Greek architects in Europe.
If you wish to submit a building for consideration, please send 4 high-resolution images (including drawings), a short description (max. 300 words), dates of design and construction as well as your contact details to [email protected], until September 25th, 2014.
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona has begun the organisation of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015.
This biennial award recognises and commends excellence in the field of architecture and draws attention to the important contribution of European professionals in the development of new ideas and technologies. The Architecture Prize objectives aim at promoting and understanding the significance of quality and reflecting the complexity of Architecture’s own significance in terms of technological, constructional, social, economic, cultural and aesthetic achievements. Architecture’s significance – linked with the construction market – has a social Impact and transmits a cultural message. Quality therefore refers to universal values of generic buildings, independent from their programmes: the essence of things rather than their formal values.
Candidates for the Prize are put forward by the architect’s associations that form part of the Architect’s Council of Europe (ACE), other European national architects’ associations, a broad group of independent experts from all over Europe, and the Advisory Committee.
For each biennial edition, the jury singles out two works from among these proposals, one to receive the Prize, and the other to receive the Emerging Architect Special Mention, both in recognition of their conceptual, technical and constructional qualities.
The 2015 edition of the Prize will include new activities:
The most ambitious one is the “Young Talent Internship” which will award the author of the best project from a recently graduated architect with the possibility of collaborating with the Winner, a Finalist or the Emerging Architect Special Mention winner during one year.
Once the Jury makes the shortlist of projects in early January 2015, the “Online Opinion Forum” will be set. This tool will be used to discuss the quality of the nominated projects and therefore the quality of European architecture at an international scale.
The “2015 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Trailer Exhibition,” will include information of the Prize and the Finalist projects. It will be supplied in a PDF format via internet to facilitate the dissemination of the aims and results of the Prize through institutions and universities from all over the world. These aims can be summarised in the importance of quality in architecture to improve social welfare. By printing and exhibiting or projecting the exhibition it will be possible to show the work that represents these qualities.
The ceremony, the exhibition and the publication will become activities that encourage public participation, strengthen creativity and set a critical attitude towards architecture with the opinion of those stakeholders who are involved in the construction process.
The Prize will be organised by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe: Giovanna Carnevali, Director; Ivan Blasi, Coordinator of the Prize; the Prize team with Jordi García as Secretary Executive; and the support of the Advisory and the Steering Committees and the European Commission.
Best,
The Archisearch team.
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