30.04.2011
Location: | Abroad |
Participation: | International |
Announced: | 11.10.2010 |
Submission deadline: | 30.04.2011 23:59 |
Winners announcement date: | 15.10.2011 |
Over the past 30 years, the architect Philippe Rotthier has searched everywhere in Europe for new architecture that is in keeping with the spirit of a site, meets contemporary comfort requirements and respects ecology. Architecture that blends with a town and a landscape rather than destroying them; architecture that wastes neither space nor energy; architecture that maintains a dialogue with the past and with history.
Philippe Rotthier undertook to pursue this quest by awarding an architecture prize. The works are selected by juries that have included such eminent European figures as the writers Adrien Goetz and Françoise Lalande, the journalists Sergio Frau and Katia Pecnik, the designer Matali Crasset, the historians Bruno Foucart, Charles Jencks and David Watkin, the visual artist Jean-Bernard Métais, and the architects Léon Krier, Michael Lykoudis, Dimitri Porphyrios and Oscar Tusquets.
The choices have always tended to be for works that are little known outside of the small circles of the initiated. Institutions or towns have also been rewarded, such as the town halls in Bayonne or Plessis-Robinson in France and in Havana, Cuba. The juries have never hesitated to travel beyond the borders of Europe when they believed that it was merited, awarding prizes for example to the Egyptian Abel Wahed El Wakil, the Tunisian Tarak Ben Miled, and the Société Immobilière de Mayotte.
The 2011 Prize will seek to reward projects that are part of a process of urban renaissance, which highlight the pre-existing patrimony, improve the quality of life in neighbourhoods and favour mixity.
The prize money is 30,000 euros, made available to the jury by the prize founder, the architect Philippe Rotthier. The prize-winning and mentioned projects will be presented in a catalogue and exhibited in October 2011 at the Brussels Architecture Museum, the inauguration of which will be simultaneous with the prize-giving ceremony.
Further information on the 2011 Prize: Fondation Philippe Rotthier pour l'Architecture