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Awarded Work
MUSAC – Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León
MUSAC - Museo de arte contemporáneo de Castilla y León
León, España
Luis M. Mansilla, Emilio Tuñón
Mansilla + Tuñón
On a vast urban plan, MUSAC draws the scenario for art with the same optimistic
attitude used by the Roman surveyors to sketch their cities in the landscape.
In contrast to other types of museums that focus on the exhibition of
frozen historic collections, MUSAC is a living space that opens its doors
to the wide-ranging manifestations of contemporary art. This is an art
centre that constructs a set of chessboards on which the action is the
protagonist of the space; a structure that develops from an open system,
formed by a fabric of squares and rhombi, and permitting the construction
of a secret geography of memory.
MUSAC is a new space for culture, regarded as something that visualises
the connections between man and nature.
A cluster of chained but independent rooms permit exhibitions of differing
sizes and types. Each of the jaggedly shaped rooms constructs a continuous
yet spatially differentiated area that opens onto the other rooms and
courtyards, providing longitudinal, transversal and diagonal views. Five
hundred prefab beams enclose a series of spaces that feature systematic
repetition and formal expressiveness.
Outside, the public space takes on a concave shape to hold the activities
and encounters, embraced by large coloured glass in homage to the city
as the place for interpersonal relationships. Inside, a large area of
continuous, different spaces, spattered with courtyards and large skylights,
shapes an expressive system that speaks to us of the interest shared by
architecture and art: the contemporary manifestation of the variable and
the perennial, of equality and difference, of universality and transience,
an echo of our own diversity and equality as people.
In its size, as a single-storey building with white concrete walls and
large coloured glazing seen from the outside, MUSAC strives to be a space
where art is at ease and helps to erase the boundaries between private
and public; between work and leisure; and between art and life.
MUSAC - Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León Credits
Client: Castilla y León Regional Goverment, Gesturcal
SA
Collaborators: Andres Regueiro, Ainoa Prats, Clara Moneo, Jaime Gimeno,
Katrien Vertenten, Luis Diaz Mauriño, Matilde Peralta, Ricardo
Lorenzana, Teresa Cruz
Technical Architects: Arcadio Conde, Juan Carlos Corona, Santiago Hernán
Consultants: JG Asociados
Structural Engineering: Gogaite / Alfonso Gomez Gaite
Construction Company: MUSAC UTE, FCC & TECONSA
Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón Curriculum Vitae
1990 Office of Mansilla+Tuñón established in Madrid
http://www.mansilla-tunon.com
Luis M. Mansilla
1959 Born in Madrid
1982 Diploma in Architecture, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
de Madrid (ETSAM)
1984 Prix de Rome, Academia Española de Bellas Artes, Roma
Since 1989 Professor, ETSAM
1998 Doctorate, ETSAM
1998 Visiting Professor, Städelschule, Frankfurt
2005 Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne (EPFL)
2006 Elliott Noyes Professor, Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Emilio Tuñón
1959 Born in Madrid
1981 Diploma in Architecture, ETSAM
Since 1986 Professor, ETSAM
1998 Visiting Professor, Städelschule, Frankfurt
2000 Visiting Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico
2005 Visiting Professor, EPFL
2006 Elliott Noyes Professor, GSD
Major Competitions
2002 1st Prize: Cantabria Museum, Vaguada de las Llamas, Spain
2002 1 st Prize: Royal Collection Museum, Madrid
2003 1st Prize: Masterplan of Valbuena Area, Logroño, Spain
2004 1st Prize: Lalín City Council, Spain
2005 1st Prize: Helga de Alvear Visual Arts Centre, Cáceres, Spain
Awards and Distinctions
2001 Premi FAD: Castellón Fine Arts Museum, Spain
2002 III Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura: Prize for Publications
- CIRCO
2003 Premio Nacional de Arquitectura Española: León Auditorium
2005 Premio ENOR: MUSAC
2006 Premio VIA
Major Works
1996 Zamora Museum, Spain
1998 Indoor Swimming Pool, San Fernando de Henares, Spain
2000 Castellón Fine Arts Museum, Spain
2002 León Auditorium
2002 Regional Documentary Centre, Madrid
Emerging Architect Special Mention
Faculty of Mathematics
Fakulteta za matematiko
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Matija Bevk, Vasa J. Perovic
Bevk Perovic arhitekti
The new building for the Faculty of Mathematics, built in the University
area of the city of Ljubljana, is not a building in a standard sense of
the word. It is, in fact, an addition, a three-storey slab built on top
of the existing two-storey building. The design concept is based on the
development of the idea of public spaces as a series of transparent 'rooms',
carved out of the building mass and hovering above the city.
At first glance a formally simple architecture is precisely formulated,
whether one looks at the programmatic organisation or at the tactile treatment
of surfaces. The elegant glass skin, screenprinted with different densities
of the same pattern, articulates the programmatic structure behind (different
densities of the pattern correspond to different lighting conditions).
Simultaneously, seemingly random prints appear as if they are forming
together an independent overall surface of the building. Only the public
and communal spaces of the school have a glass skin without a printed
pattern, thus establishing a dialogue between the interior and the city
beyond.
Faculty of Mathematics Credits
Client: University of Ljubljana
Collaborators: Maja Valic, Nika Prešeren, Robert Loher
Structure: Elea iC / Angelo Žigon, Marko Pavlinek, Jana Pribakovic
Mechanical: Celarc / Tomi Celarc
Electrical: Eldata / Borut Glavnik
Management: Loka Invest
Construction Companies: GPG (General Contractor), Reflex (Elevation)
Matija Bevk and Vasa J. Perovic Curriculum Vitae
1997 Office of Bevk Perovic Arhitekti established in Ljubljana
http://www.bevkperovic.com
Matija Bevk
1972 Born in Ljubljana
1999 Diploma in Architecture, Fakulteta za Arhitekturo, Univerza v Ljubljani
Vasa J. Perovic
1965 Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1992 Diploma in Architecture, Arhitektonski Fakultet, Belgrade
1994 Master of Architecture, Berlage Institute, Amsterdam
Major Competitions
1998 2nd Prize: National Opera and Ballet, Ljubljana
1998 2nd Prize: City Museum, Ljubljana
2002 1st Prize: Social Housing, Maribor, Slovenia
2005 1st Prize: Nonprofit Housing Brdo, Ljubljana
2006 2nd Prize: Social Housing Polje II, Ljubljana
Awards and Distinctions
2005 Prešeren Award – National Prize for Culture: Works 2002-05
2005 Plecnik Prize for Architecture: Social Housing Polje, Ljubljana
2005 Piranesi Award: Social Housing Polje
2006 Golden Pencil, Slovenian Chamber of Architects: Student Housing Poljane,
Ljubljana
2006 Kunstpreis Berlin Förderungspreis 2006, Akademie der Künste,
Germany
Major Works
2003 Royal Dutch Embassy Residence, Ljubljana
2004 House SB, Ljubljana
2005 Social Housing Polje, Ljubljana
2006 House H, Ljubljana
2006 Student Housing Poljane, Ljubljana
finalists
In addition to the MUSAC, the jury of the European Union Prize
for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2007, chaired
by architect Ricky Burdett and formed by Peter Cachola Schmal, Beth Galí,
Bettina Götz, Luis Fernández Galiano, Ellen van Loon, Mohsen
Mostafavi, Francis Rambert, Dietmar Steiner and Lluís Hortet as
secretary, selected six other finalists as candidates for the Award, one
of the most important and prestigious on the international architecture
scene. This selection is a faithful reflection of the principal objective
underlying the Award, namely to acknowledge excellent and innovative projects
characterised by high-quality construction.
Sines Arts Centre, Sines, Portugal
Centro de Artes de Sines
Francisco Aires Mateus, Manuel Aires Mateus / Aires Mateus e Associados
Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Ben van Berkel / UNStudio
America’s Cup Building, Valencia, Spain
Edifici Veles e Vents
David Chipperfield / David Chipperfield Architects
Fermín Vázquez / b720 Arquitectos
Phæno Science Centre, Wolfsburg, Germany
Zaha Hadid / Zaha Hadid Architects
School for Management, Bordeaux, France
Pôle universitaire de sciences de gestion
Anne Lacaton, Jean Philippe Vassal / Lacaton & Vassal Architectes
National Choreographic Centre, Aix-en-Provence, France
Centre chorégraphique nationale
Rudy Ricciotti / Rudy Ricciotti architecte
Sines Arts Centre
Centro de Artes de Sines
Sines, Portugal
Francisco Aires Mateus, Manuel Aires Mateus
Aires Mateus e Associados
The Art Centre is situated at the start of the main street linking the
town of Sines to the sea and marking the traditional entrance to the historic
nucleus. The wide-raging programme - including exhibition rooms, a library,
theatre and a documentation centre - calls for the whole site to be occupied,
enveloping the street below ground level and adapting its exterior volume
to the monumental scale of the castle walls. The four modules are set
out on the upper floors in parallel bands interspersed with patios. The
decks were hung from a bridge-like structure supported on the perimetral
walls alone. This system allows a spatial configuration on the basement
level that is adapted to the dimensions of the common areas and at street
level it guarantees an unbroken view across the inside of the building,
thereby including its activities in the daily life of the town.
1988 Office of Aires Mateus & Associados established in Lisbon
http://www.airesmateus.com
Manuel Aires Mateus
1963 Born in Lisbon
1986 Diploma in Architecture, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade
Técnica de Lisboa (FAUTL)
1986-98 Professor, FAUTL
Since 1997 Professor, Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa
Since 1998 Professor, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL)
2001-06 Visiting Professor, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (AAM)
2002-06 Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University,
Cambridge
2005 Visiting Professor, Fakulteta za Arhitekturo, Univerza v Ljubljani,
Ljubljana
Francisco Aires Mateus
1964 Born in Lisbon
1987 Diploma in Architecture, FAUTL
1998-06 Professor, UAL
2001-06 Visiting Professor, AAM
2002-04 Visiting Professor, GSD
Major Works
2002 Commercial Centre Carmen Frova, Venice
2003 New Lisbon Central Library
2003 Hotel and Apartment Buildings, Dublin
2005 Hotel and Housing Facilities, Óbidos, Portugal
2006 Aquapura Touristic Resort, Otsevo, FYROM
Mercedes-Benz Museum
Stuttgart, Germany
Ben van Berkel
UNStudio
The Mercedes-Benz Museum intricately combines structure and content. The
Museum is specifically devised to showcase a collection in which technology,
adventure, attractiveness and distinction are merged. It is also a Museum
for people to freely move through. Lastly, it is a Museum for the city,
a new landmark to celebrate the enduring passion of Stuttgart’s
most famous inventor and manufacturer. The structure of the 25,000 m²
museum is based on a trefoil; both in its internal organisation and in
its outward expression this geometry responds to the car-driven context
of the Museum. In its materialisation the museum reproduces the values
that we associate with Mercedes-Benz: technological advancement, intelligence,
and stylishness.
1988 Office of UNStudio established in Amsterdam
http://www.unstudio.com
Ben van Berkel
1957 Born in Utrecht
1987 Diploma in Architecture, Architectural Association (AA), London
1991-93 Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York
1997-99 Master of Architecture, AA
2000 Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
2000-02 Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Princeton
2001 Professor of Conceptual Design, Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main
Major Works
1996 Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam
1998 Mobius House, Het Gooi, The Netherlands
1999 Het Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2002 Electrical Substation, Innsbruck, Austria
2004 Galleria Department Store, Seoul, South Korea
America’s Cup Building
Edifici Veles e Vents
Valencia, Spain
David Chipperfield / David Chipperfield Architects
Fermín Vázquez / b720 Arquitectos
The centrepiece of the reorganisation of Valencia's industrial port, the
Veles e Vents building provides a central base for all America's Cup teams
and sponsors, as well as being a venue for the public to view the races.
The 10,000 m² four-floor building is composed of a series of stacked
and shifting horizontal planes that provide shade and uninterrupted views
extending out to sea. The ground floor acts as the reception area for
the VIP facilities and has a canal-facing restaurant open to the public.
The first floor is public with retail facilities and a generous viewing
deck that connects to the park. The second and third floors house the
VIP facilities: including the restaurant 'Foredeck Club'. The building
is a concrete structure with deep cantilevered floor slabs creating the
unobstructed and shaded viewing decks that surround all the floors which
are connected with large external staircases and ramps.
1984 Office of David Chipperfield Architects established in London
http://www.davidchipperfield.co.uk
David Chipperfield
1953 Born in London
1977 Diploma in Architecture, Architectural Association, London
1987-88 Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1992 Visiting Professor, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
1993-94 Visiting Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne
1995-2001 Professor, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Stuttgart
2001 Mies van der Rohe Chair, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura
de Barcelona
Major Works
1997 River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, UK
2002 Ernsting Service Centre, Coesfeld-Lette, Germany
2005 Villaverde Social Housing, Madrid
2006 Des Moines Public Library, Iowa
2006 Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany
1997 Office of b720 Arquitectos established in Barcelona
http://www.b720.com
Fermín Vázquez
1961 Born in Madrid
1987 Diploma in Architecture, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
de Madrid
2001 Mies van der Rohe Chair, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura
de Barcelona
2003 Workshop Tutor, École d’Architecture et Paisage de Bordeaux
(with Xaveer de Geyter and Tania Concho)
Major Works
2001 MN19 Office Building, Barcelona
2004 Corporative Office Building for Indra’s Headquarters, Barcelona
2004 Fira Towers, Barcelona (with Toyo Ito)
2005 Agbar Tower, Barcelona (with J. Nouvel)
2005 Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia Extension, Madrid (with J. Nouvel)
Phæno Science Centre
Wolfsburg, Germany
Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid Architects
Located on a special site in the city of Wolfsburg the Phæno Science
Centre is both the endpoint of a chain of important cultural buildings
and a connecting link to the north bank of Volkswagen’s Autostadt.
Volumetrically, the building is structured so that it maintains a large
degree of transparency and porosity on the ground since the main volume
of the exhibition space is raised, thus covering an outdoor public plaza
with commercial and cultural functions residing in the structural concrete
cones. Multiple threads of pedestrian and vehicular movement are pulled
through the site both on an artificial ground landscape and inside the
building, effectively composing an interface of movement paths. The predominant
use of individually fabricated formwork elements and cast-in-situ concrete
have made possible the jagged angles, looming curves, fractured planes
and daring protrusions that characterise the building.
1979 Office of Zaha Hadid Architects established in London
http://www.zaha-hadid.com
Zaha Hadid
1950 Born in Baghdad, Iraq
1971 Diploma in Mathematics, American University, Beirut, Lebanon
1977 Diploma in Architecture, Architectural Association (AA), London
1977-86 Unit Master, AA
1987-93 Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York
1988-93 Kenzo Tange Chair, Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Since 2004 Professor, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
2000, 02, 04, 07 Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor, Yale University, New
Haven, Connecticut
Major Works
1993 Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, Germany
1999 Car Park and Terminus Hoenheim North, Strasbourg
2002 Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck, Austria
2003 Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
2005 Ordrupgaard Museum Extension, Copenhagen
School for Management
Pôle universitaire de sciences de gestion
Bordeaux, France
Anne Lacaton, Jean Philippe Vassal
Lacaton & Vassal Architectes
The spatial programme for the School of Management extends over four
floors with the ground floor functioning as an initial level for the individual
faculties. The main entrance leads directly to a large courtyard in the
centre of the buiding from where independent vertical connections lead
to the upper floors. On the first floor there are three lecture rooms
which are glazed on the side facing the yards, as well as an information
facility, a multimedia centre and classrooms for the basic courses. The
floors above are divided into separate sections which house the various
faculties, thus creating open spaces that allow additional natural light
to reach the lower floors. The natural light is generous, controlled by
the position of the louvres (open, closed, semi-closed), and all the rooms
have a large view to the city or to the surrounding hill, or to the courtyards
or patios. Continuous surrounding balconies with large containers of climbing
roses, metal frames and screen railings enhance the facade on all floors.
1987 Office of Lacaton & Vassal Architectes established in Bordeaux
2000 Office moved to Paris
Anne Lacaton
1955 Born in Saint-Pardoux la Rivière, France
1980 Diploma in Architecture, École Nationale Supérieure
d'Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux (ENSAP)
1984 Diploma in Town Planning, Université de Bordeaux
2003, 06 Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne
Jean Philippe Vassal
1954 Born in Casablanca, Morocco
1980 Diploma in Architecture, ENSAP, Bordeaux
1992-99 Professor, ENSAP, Bordeaux
2002-06 Visiting Professor, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture
de Versailles
2005 Visiting Professor, Peter Behrens School of Architecture, Düsseldorf
Major Works
2001 University of Arts and Human Sciences, Grenoble
2002 Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2002 Office Building, Nantes
2005 Social Housing, Mulhouse, France
2006 Hall for Trade Fairs and Exhibition Centre, Paris
National Choreographic Centre,
Centre chorégraphique nationale
Aix-en-Provence, France
Rudy Ricciotti
Rudy Ricciotti architecte
The new National Choreagraphic Centre is located on a sloping and rather
constricted site outside of Aix-en-Provence’s historical centre
in an area undergoing urban regeneration. The 3000 m² building accomodates
the dance company of Angelin Preljocaj and consists of office areas and
four dance studios along with a theatre with capacity for some 400 persons.
Designed in accordance with seismic regulations, the programmatic need
for open floors completely free of columns required the shift of the structural
load to the facade. Known as the ‘Black Pavilion’ for the
predominant use of this colour on both the interior and the exterior,
the facade is characterised by massive structural members in black concrete
that criss cross asymmetrically over the surface allowing natural light
into the glazed volume underneath.
1980 Office of Rudy Ricciotti Architecte established in Bandol, France
http://www.rudyricciotti.com
Rudy Ricciotti
1952 Born in Algiers, Algeria
1975 Diploma in Architecture, École d’Ingeneurs de Genève
1980 Diploma in Architecture, École Superieure d’Architecture,
Marseille
1995 Professor, École des Beaux Arts de Marseille
1997-98 Visiting Professor, École Spéciale d’Architecture
de Paris
Major Works
1994 Concert and Sports Stadium, Vitrolles, France
1996 Secondary School, Saint Quen, France
2000 Nickolaïsal Philharmonic Hall, Potsdam, Germany
2003 Footbridge of Peace, Seoul, South Korea
2006 University Paris VII : Rehabilitation of ‘Les Grands Moulins’ |
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The jury has also
singled out a further 33 works that, by virtue of their exceptional quality,
will be included in the exhibition and catalogue about the 2007 Award.
The jury has selected works from Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France,
Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain,
Turkey and the United Kingdom. A total of 272 projects from thirty two
European countries finished between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2006
were proposed by a sizable group of independent international experts
and the national associations of architects.
Works selected for exhibition and catalogue
Woermann Tower
Torre Woermann
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Iñaki Ábalos, Juan Herreros
Ábalos&Herreros arquitectos
Sea Organ
Morske orgulje
Zadar, Croatia
Nikola Bašic
Marinaprojekt
Poustinia
Clonmel, Co.Tipperary, Ireland
Kevin Bates, Tom Maher
Architects Bates Maher
Housing in Trondheim
Trondheim, Norway
Geir Brendeland, Olav Kristoffersen
Brendeland & Kristoffersen Arkitekter
Brick House
London, United Kingdom
Adam Caruso, Peter St John
Caruso St John Architects
GlaxoSmithKline Day Nursery
Asilo per il Campus GlaxoSmithKline
Verona, Italy
Antonio Citterio, Patricia Viel
Antonio Citterio and Partners
Illa de la Llum Housing at Diagonal Mar
Habitatges Illa de la Llum a Diagonal Mar
Barcelona, Spain
Lluís Clotet, Ignacio Paricio
Clotet, Paricio i Associats
Economics Building, University of Ghent
Faculteit Economie, Universiteit Gent
Ghent, Belgium
Xaveer De Geyter/Xaveer De Geyter Architects
Stéphane Beel /Stéphane Beel Architecten
The Bridge
De Brug
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Chris de Jonge
JHK Architecten
Pedestrian Bridge Simone de Beauvoir
Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir
Paris, France
Dietmar Feichtinger
Feichtinger Architectes
Free University of Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Norman Foster
Foster + Partners
New Trade Fair Milan
Nuova Fiera Milano
Milan, Italy
Massimiliano Fuksas
Lakeside Bath
Lido di Caldaro
Caldaro-Kaltern, Italy
Marie-Therese Harnoncourt, Ernst J. Fuchs
the next ENTERprise
Ecker Abu Zahra House
Ecker Abu Zahra Haus
Luftenberg, Austria
Gernot Hertl
Hertl.Architekten
VM Housing Complex
VM Husene
Ørestad, Denmark
Bjarke Ingels, Julien De Smedt
PLOT = BIG + JDS
New Monastery for Cistercian Order on Tautra
Tautra Mariakloster
Tautra, Norway
Jan Olav Jensen, Børre Skodvin
Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor
Intervention on Nasrid Wall and Surrounding Area
Intervención en la muralla nazarí y su entorno
Granada, Spain
Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas
Hotel Sotelia
Podcetrtek, Slovenia
Dean Lah, Milan Tomac
Enota
West School Complex
Groupe scolaire ouest
Obernai, France
Duncan Lewis
scape architecture
Jaume Fuster Library
Biblioteca Jaume Fuster
Barcelona, Spain
Josep Llinàs
Santa Caterina Market
Mercat de Santa Caterina
Barcelona, Spain
Enric Miralles, Benedetta Tagliabue
EMBT Arquitectes Associats
Shipping and Transport College
Scheepvaart en Transport College
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Willem-Jan Neutelings, Michiel Riedijk
Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Agbar Tower
Torre Agbar
Barcelona, Spain
Jean Nouvel / Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Fermín Vázquez / b720 Arquitectos
Kastrup Sea Bath
Kastrup Søbad
Kastrup, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fredrik Pettersson
hs white arkitekter a/s
Fran Krsto Frankopan Elementary School
Osnovna Skola Fran Krsto Frankopan
Krk, Croatia
Saša Randic, Idis Turato
randic-turato architects
New Area Terminal Madrid-Barajas (NAT)
Nueva area terminal del aeropuerto de Madrid-Barajas (NAT)
Madrid, Spain
Richard Rogers / Richard Rogers Partnership
Carlos Lamela / Estudio Lamela
Federal Environmental Agency
Umweltbundesamt
Dessau, Germany
Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton
sauerbruch hutton architekten
Fluc 2, Music and Art Club, Transformation of a Pedestrian Underpass
Fluc 2. Musik und Kunstklub – Transformation einer Fußgängerunderpass
Vienna, Austria
Klaus Stattmann
Büro für Architektur und Forschung
SM House
Canakkale, Turkey
Han Tumertekin, Eylem Erdinc
Mimarlar Tasarim
Ecoboulevard of Vallecas
Ecobulevar de Vallecas
Madrid, Spain
José Luis Vallejo, Diego García-Setien, Belinda Tato
Ecosistema Urbano Arquitectos
Garden Pavilion for the Boxy Catering Company
Deurle, Belgium
Maarten Van Severen
Documentation Centre Hinzert
Dokumentationshaus Hinzert
Hinzert, Germany
Andrea Wandel, Wolfgang Lorch, Nikolaus Hirsch
Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch architekten
Background information 9 jury members
RICHARD BURDETT (United Kingdom) President of the jury
Architect. Centennial Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at the London
School of Economics (LSE) and founding director of the LSE Cities Programme,
a centre that explores links between architecture, urban design and urban
society. Since 2007, Burdett is Principal Design Adviser to the Olympic
Delivery Authority for the London 2012 Olympics, as well architectural
adviser to the Mayor of London, member of the Greater London Authority's
Architecture + Urbanism Unit and sits on the City of Barcelona's Quality
Committee. He was the Director of the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale
and has been a member of the Urban Task Force which has shaped current
national policy on cities in Britain. He is architectural adviser to Tate
Modern Gallery, the sole architectural adviser to the BBC and is a contributor
to architectural publications writing regularly for the magazines Domus
and Topos.
PETER CACHOLA SCHMAL (Germany)
Architect. Director of Deutsches Architektur Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt.
His most important exhibitions have been UNStudio: Evolution of Space
(2006); Frankfurt Airport: Terminal 3 Competition Proposals; Kisho Kurokawa:
Metabolism & Symbiosis; European Central Bank: Competition Proposals.
Architectural critic and editor since 1994, he has produced 12 books,
and written numerous articles in magazines and other publications. He
has been Adjunct Professor for Design II at Fachhochschule Frankfurt-am-Main
and Assistant Professor of building construction at Technische Universität
Darmstadt.
LUIS FERNÁNDEZ GALIANO (Spain)
Architect. Professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
de Madrid. Editor of the journals AV/Arquitectura Viva, he has written
on architecture for Spain’s leading newspaper, El País. A
member of the Royal Academy of Doctors, he has been Cullinan Professor
at Rice University; a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Center of Los Angeles;
and Visiting Critic at Princeton, Harvard, and the Berlage Institute.
He has taught courses at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez
Pelayo and Universidad Complutense de Madrid. President of the jury for
the 9th Venice Architecture Biennial and for the XV Chile Architecture
Biennial, he has curated the exhibitions El espacio privado in Madrid
and Extreme Eurasia in Tokyo, and has been on the jury of several international
competitions. Among his books are La Quimera moderna, El Fuego y la memoria
and Spain Builds, the latter in collaboration with New York’s Museum
of Modern Art.
BETH GALÍ (Spain)
Architect. Architect. President of FAD (Association for the Promotion
of the Decorative Arts). Since 1994, she has lectured in City Planning
at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona.
She is also Visiting Lecturer at several European universities, such as
Delft, Lausanne and Zurich. During the 2000-2001 academic year she was
a guest lecturer at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
She has been awarded first prize in the following competitions: the development
of public areas in Hafencity (Hamburg, Germany, 2006); for the remodelling
of Cornmarket Street, Cork (Ireland, 2006); and for the urban development
project of the Vía Augusta between Diagonal and Plaça Molina
(Barcelona, 2006). She has 25 years experience in building, city planning
and urban design projects, as well as in directing both building projects
and civil works. She has curated several exhibitions and often collaborates
with books and other publications.
BETTINA GÖTZ (Austria)
Architect. Since 2006, she is Professor for Design and Building Construction
at the Universität der Künste Berlin. She is partner with Richard
Manahl in the architectural firm ARTEC established in Vienna in 1988.
Principal works by ARTEC are the Pharmacy in Aspern, Vienna and the Zehdengasse
School, Vienna. Their rban projects include Terraced Building Typology,
Vienna and Apartment Buildings on Laxenburgerstrasse, Vienna. ARTEC has
been awarded the City of Vienna Architecture Prize and the Aluminium Architecture
Prize for Raum Zita Kern. The EFAFLEX office and industrial building in
Baden, Austria was among the exemplary works chosen by the jury of the
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe
Award 2005.
ELLEN VAN LOON (The Netherlands)
Architect. Joined the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 1998
and became partner in OMA in 2002. She was Project Manager of the Casa
da Musica in Porto, as well as the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, for which
OMA and partner Rem Koolhaas was given the European Union Prize for Contemporary
Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award Award 2005. She was Project Architect
for the development of the Universal Headquarters Building in Los Angeles,
as well as for the MAB towers in Rotterdam. Prior to working with OMA,
she spent several years working with Foster and Partners on the design
of the Reichstag in Berlin.
MOHSEN MOSTAFAVI (UK)
Architect. Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell
University and the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor of Architecture.
Formerly Chairman of the Architectural Association in London, he has served
on the design committee of the London Development Agency with Richard
Rogers and Norman Foster among others and is currently involved as a consultant
on a number of architectural and urban projects of international significance.
He has been member of the RIBA Gold Medal Selection Committee and the
Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. His architectural
projects and research have been published in many journals including Architectural
Review, AA Files, Arquitectura, Bauwelt, Casabella, Centre and Daidalos.
Co-author of Architecture and Continuity (1983), Delayed Space (with Homa
Farjadi, 1994) and On Weathering (with David Leatherbarrow, 1993), which
received the American Institute of Architects’ commendation prize
for architectural theory.
FRANCIS RAMBERT (France)
Journalist and critic. Director of Institut français d’architecture
(Ifa), department of the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
in Paris. From 1990 to 2004, he wrote for the culture section of Le Figaro.
Co-founder and editor-in-chief of d’Architectures magazine. He has
published numerous articles on architecture and design in the specialised
media including: Beaux Arts, Le Journal des Arts, and above all in Connaissance
des Arts, where he is a regular contributor. Author of various books such
as a monograph about Massimiliano Fuksas for Editions du Regard (1997),
he has also curated exhibitions such as Bouge l’Architecture, Cities
on the Move (Paris, 2002), and the architectural biennials in Buenos Aires
(1998 and 2001) and in Rotterdam (2003).
DIETMAR STEINER (Austria)
Architect. Director of the Architekturzentrum, in Vienna (AZW). Professor
in Architecture History and Theory at the Universität für angewandte
Kunst in Vienna up to 1989. From 1995-99 he was editor-in-chief for architecture
for Domus magazine and is author of numerous books and articles. Curator
of the Austria Pavilion at the 2002 Architecture Biennal in Venice, he
is currently President of the International Confederation of Architectural
Museums (ICAM) and serves as a member of numerous juries and as a consultant
on a variety of projects related with architecture and urban development.
LLUÍS HORTET (Barcelona), Secretary of the jury.
Director of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe
DIANE GRAY (Barcelona), Coordinator of the Award
Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Background Information
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
– Mies van der Rohe Award
In 1987, the European Commission, together with the European Parliament
and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, created the Mies van der Rohe
Award for European Architecture. In 2001, as part of the Culture 2000
programme, this Award led to the creation of the European Union Prize
for Contemporary Architecture awarded every two years. The Award is awarded
to recent works, less than two years old, produced in countries covered
by the Culture 2000 programme1.
The purpose of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
– Mies van der Rohe Award is to acknowledge excellence and conceptual,
technical and constructional innovation. The European Commission created
the Award with the aim of fostering greater understanding, on the part
of the public in general as well as institutions and the private sector,
of architecture’s cultural role in the construction of European
cities. Additional aims are to create professional opportunities for architects
throughout the Union, as well as to provide support for young architects
who have just embarked on their careers. To further this latter objective,
the Award includes an Emerging Architect Special Mention.
The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van
der Rohe Award consists of a cash prize of €50,000, while the Emerging
Architect Special Mention is endowed with €10,000. Along with the
cash prizes, the winners will also be awarded with a sculpture by the
Catalan artist Xavier Corberó inspired by the Mies van der Rohe
Pavilion, one of the 20th century’s major architectural works.
The works awarded the Award and the special mention along with all the
works selected by the jury for their outstanding qualities are presented
in an exhibition and published in the Award catalogue.
1 Member states of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal,
Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom;
in addition the EEA/EFTA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway; the
acceding countries: Romania, Bulgaria,Turkey; and the candidate countries:
Croatia and the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
Previous Winners
Winner of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture –
Mies van der Rohe Award
2005 Netherlands Embassy Berlin, Germany
Office for Metropolitan Architecture / Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon
2003 Car Park and Terminus Hoenheim North, Strasbourg, France
Zaha Hadid
2001 Kursaal Centre, San Sebastián, Spain
Rafael Moneo
Emerging Architect Special Mention
2005 BasketBar, Utrecht, The Netherlands
NL Architects / Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaasse, Mark
Linnemann
2003 Scharnhauser Park Town Hall, Ostfildern, Germany
Jürgen Mayer H.
2001 Kaufmann Holz Distribution Centre, Bobingen, Germany
Florian Nagler
Winners of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Award
for European Architecture:
1999 Bregenz Art Museum, Bregenz, Austria
Peter Zumthor
1997 Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Dominique Perrault
1994 Waterloo Station, London, United Kingdom
Nicholas Grimshaw / Nicholas Grimshaw & Associates
1992 Municipal Sports Stadium, Badalona, Spain
Esteve Bonell, Francesc Rius
1990 Stansted Airport Terminal, London, United Kingdom
Norman Foster / Norman Foster & Associates
1988 Banco Borges e Irmão, Vila do Conde, Portugal
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Exhibition and Catalogue
The Foundation is organising a traveling exhibition that will be presented
in diverse museums and institutions. The contents of this exhibition include
texts that explain the Award and its objectives; drawings and photographs
of each work presented (the works awarded the Award and the Special Mention
as well as the selection of the jury); and models. The approach of this
exhibition is that it be highly didactic and provide ample information
for both architectural professionals and students as well as the general
public. A catalogue will also be published that includes extensive documentation
about all the works selected by the jury along with articles by the members
of the jury and institutional presentations. This catalogue as well as
the traveling exhibition represents an important and unique panorama of
the development of contemporary European architecture by serving as an
anthology of some of the best work produced during 2005 and 2006.
Construmat
Construmat (the International Construction Exhibition organised by the
Fira (Trade Fair) of Barcelona) is the largest of its kind in Spain and
one of the top three in Europe. The 2007 edition, which takes place May
14 – 19, is the largest ever, featuring 4.500 exhibitors from some
50 countries. In addition to being a showcase for the presentation of
new construction products and techniques, the other major objective is
to become an international forum for reflection and analysis on the future
of building.
The Mies van der Rohe Pavilion and Fundació Mies van der
Rohe
The Pavilion was built for the 1929 Barcelona World Exposition
and disassembled the following year. Half a century later, and in view
of the importance of the pavilion in terms of contemporary architectural
history, the Barcelona City Council, with architect Oriol Bohigas at the
head of its Urban Planning Department, decided to faithfully reconstruct
the building. The project was carried out after extensive research by
Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Cristian Cirici and Fernando Ramos between
1983 and 1986 on the Pavilion’s original Montjuïc site.
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe was set up in 1983 with the aim
of working towards the reconstruction of the pavilion. Since the completion
of the project, the Fundació, member of the International Confederation
of Architectural Museums (ICAM), has been entrusted with the task of preserving
and managing the pavilion building.
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe serves also to foster debate on
contemporary architecture and urbanism, to build up a documentary archive
on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and on modern and contemporary architecture,
and to organise correlated awards, courses, lectures, exhibitions, publications
and studies.
In accordance with the rules for the Award itself, an Advisory Committee
collaborates with the Fundació Mies van der Rohe regarding all
aspects of the organisational process. This committee comprises 16 of
the most prestigious architectural institution throughout Europe: Architektur
Zentrum Wien, Vienna; Architecture Foundation, London; arc en rêve
centre d’architecture, Bordeaux; Berlage Institute, Rotterdam; Biennale
di Venezia, Venice; Gammel Dok, Copenhagen; DESSA, Ljubljana; Deutsches
Architektur Museum, Frankfurt; EUROPAN, Paris; Fundació Mies van
der Rohe, Barcelona; Institut français d’architecture, Paris;
Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki; Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Architektur
og Design, Oslo; Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Rotterdam; Triennale
di Milano, Milan and RIBA Foundation, London.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 – 1969)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born in Aachen, Germany in 1886.
As a result of time spent working under the influence of Peter Behrens,
Mies developed a design approach based on advanced structural techniques
and Prussian Classicism. Famous for the phrase “less is more,”
he fostered a style of architecture based on material honesty and structural
integrity. Over the last twenty years of his life, Mies achieved his vision
of a monumental ‘skin and bone’ architecture, his later works
embodying the idea of universal, simplified architecture.
His major works include amongst others: Werkbund Exposition and Apartments:
Weissenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart, Germany, 1927; H.Langer House, Krefeld,
Germany, 1928; German Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain, built 1928-1929, demolished
1930; Tugendhat House, Brno, Czech Republic, 1930; Farnsworth House, Plano,
Illinois, 1946-1950; Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago, Illinois, 1948-1951;
Crown Hall (IIT), Chicago, Illinois, 1950-1956; Seagram Building, New
York, 1954-1958; New National Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 1962-1968. |
