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.
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."
Recipients Year Recipient Country2010 Bjarke Ingels 2011 Graft architects 2012 TYIN Tegnestue 2013 Marco Casagrande 2014 Alessandro Mendini 2015 Santiago Calatrava 2016 Laboratory for Visionary Architecture 2017 Manuelle Gautrand 2018 Sergei Tchoban 2019 Henning Larsen Architects 2020 Wolfgang Tschapeller 2021MECANOO 2022Christoph Ingenhoven 2023Querkraft architekten
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: Year City Country2010 Madrid 2011 Buenos Aires 2012 Istanbul 2013 Buenos Aires 2014 Milan 2015 New York City 2022Athens
See also Good Design List of architecture prizes
References
External links Official website The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies