Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture

was created in 1987 by the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe-Barcelona, which was the institution entrusted with the organisation of the Award, from wich six editions have been held.

The year 2001 gives way to the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award, by winning the competition for its organization.

The awarded project, as well as those short listed for each edition, are chosen by a Jury composed of architects, critics and architectural historians, from proposals submitted by Experts in the field of architecture.

The prize consists of the sum of 50.000 Ecus and a sculpture designed by Xavier Corberó which evokes the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion of Barcelona .

Since its inception the results of the Jury's decisions have been published in a book which documents the award winning project and the finalists for each biennial prize edition.

Prize List
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award

Netherlands Embassy Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Office for Metropolitan Architecture / Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon

Kursaal Centre
San Sebastián, Spain.
Rafael Moneo

Kaufmann Holz AG Distribution Centre
Bobingen, Germany
Florian Nagler

With the support of the Culture 2000
programme of the European Union

I edition - 1988

Banco Borges e Irmão
Vila do Conde, Portugal
de Álvaro Siza


III edition - 1992

Municipal Sports Stadium
Badalona (Barcelona), Spain
Esteve Bonell and Francesc Rius


V edition - 1996

Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, France
Dominique Perrault

II edition - 1990

New Stansted Airport Terminal
London, United Kingdom
Sir Norman Foster & Partners


IV edition - 1994

Waterloo Station
London, United Kingdom
Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners


VI edition - 1998

Bregenz Art Museum
Austria
Peter Zumthor