European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture | Mies van der Rohe Award 2022

Announcement of the New Calendar and Process of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2022

Press Release 

The European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced a change of calendar for the next European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award that will be postponed until 2022 due to international concern about the spread of the coronavirus.

As a result of the situation and its restrictions, the organizers have been forced to make this joint decision, the same that has happened with other international events in which the Prize is also involved and that have also been postponed. The safety of all the personnel involved in the award is a priority at this time.

“The rigour of the judging process involves a group of Jury members personally coming from different countries to personally visit the finalist works, spread across the European territory, and this does not seem possible to happen during the first months of 2021”.
Anna Ramos, director of Fundació Mies van der Rohe

The selection process of the Prize 2022 will be organized in an exceptional way as to include all the relevant works and to ensure its rigor and excellence. According to this decision this edition will be divided into two phases:

1st phase → First list of nominated projects (includes those works finished between October 2018 and October 2020)

The group of independent experts and the associations of architects have already sent the proposals of candidate works to participate in what was initially to be the EU Mies Award 2021. All these projects are currently under review to confirm that all the requirements are correct, and the official announcement of this list will be published in January 2021.

2nd phase → Second list of nominated projects (includes those works finished between November 2020 and April 2021)

The nominators will be asked to add other works finished between November 2020 and April 2021 to complete the second phase. As a result, the EU Mies Award 2022 will count with works finished between October 2018 and April 2021. The works nominated in the second phase and that will complete the final list of works to be considered by the Jury, will be announced in September 2021.

The winners will be awarded during the EU Mies Award Day in May 2022, which will consist of the Awards ceremony, an exhibition, talks and the presentation of the catalogue. During that week, visits to the shortlisted Works will also take place. The travelling exhibition will start its travel in June 2022.


New Calendar:

January 2021
announcement of the EU Mies Award 2022 works nominated in the first phase

September 2022
announcement of the EU Mies Award 2022 works nominated in the second phase

January 2022
announcement of the Shortlisted Works

February 2022
announcement of the 5 Finalist Works

April 2022
announcement of the Winners

May 2022
EU Mies Award Day with the Awards ceremony, exhibition and visits to shortlisted works; presentation of publication and start of the travelling exhibition.

Contacts
Fundació Mies van der Rohe

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