European Prize for Architecture

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European Prize for Architecture
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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]

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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
2010 Bjarke Ingels Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
2011 Graft architects Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
2012 TYIN Tegnestue Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
2013 Marco Casagrande Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
2014 Alessandro Mendini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy [4]
2015 Santiago Calatrava Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
2016 Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
2017 Manuelle Gautrand Flag of France.svg  France
2018 Sergei Tchoban Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
2019 Henning Larsen Architects [5] Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
2020 Wolfgang Tschapeller [6] Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
2021MECANOOFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2022 Christoph Ingenhoven [7] Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
2023Querkraft architektenFlag of Austria.svg  Austria

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
2010 Madrid Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
2011 Buenos Aires Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
2012 Istanbul Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
2013 Buenos Aires Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
2014 Milan Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
2015 New York City Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
2022 Athens Flag of Greece.svg  Greece

See also

References

  1. "The European Centre". Europeanarch.eu. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  2. "European Prize for Architecture" (PDF). European Prize for Architecture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  3. "Lene Tranberg, Hon. FAIA". AIA. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-01-08. Retrieved 2016-04-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "The European Centre".
  6. "The European Centre".
  7. "The European Centre". www.europeanarch.eu. Retrieved 2023-03-08.