Temat nr 8 European Prize For Contemporary Architecture

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European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
Mies van der Rohe Award
is granted every two years by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe.
In this way, the Award draws attention to the major contribution by European professionals to the development of new ideas and technologies. At the same time, it offers both individuals and public institutions an opportunity to reach a clearer understanding of the cultural role of architecture in the construction of our cities. Furthermore, the Award sets out to foster architecture in two significant ways: by stimulating greater circulation of professional architects throughout the entire European Union in response to transnational commissions and by supporting young architects as they set off on their careers.

Candidates for the Award are put forward by a broad group of independent experts from all over Europe, as well as from the architects' associations that form part of the European Council of Architects and other European national architects' associations. At each two-yearly edition, the jury selects two works: one that receives the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture in recognition of its conceptual, technical and constructional qualities, and the other that receives the Emerging Architect Special Mention. The jury also selects a set of finalist works to be included in both the Award catalogue and exhibition.
The Award consists of a cash prize of 50,000€ and a sculpture evoking Mies van der Rohe's German Pavilion. The Special Mention is endowed with 10,000€ and a sculpture evoking the Pavilion, the genuine symbol of the Award. Regarded as one of the best architectural works of the twentieth century, the Pavilion embodies the main objectives that led to the institution of the Award: excellence and innovation in conceptual and constructional terms.

• 1988 Alvaro Siza
• 1990 Sir Norman Foster
• 1992 Esteve Bonell and Francesc Rius
• 1994 Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners
• 1996 Dominique Perrault
• 1998 Peter Zumthor
• 2001 Rafael Moneo
• 2003 Zaha Hadid
• 2005 Rem Koolhaas