European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture

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Barcelona Pavilion (Photo: 2006)

The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award , until 1998 Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture , is an architecture prize that was launched in 1987 by the European Commission , the European Parliament and the Mies van der Rohe - Barcelona Foundation was called. It is named after the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and is awarded every two years. The prize is endowed with 60,000 euros and is considered the most prestigious European architecture prize.

Mies van der Rohe Foundation

The foundation that awards the award is based in Barcelona and also manages one of Mies van der Rohe's most famous buildings: the so-called Barcelona Pavilion , which served as the German pavilion at the 1929 World Exhibition in Barcelona and was then canceled in accordance with the contract. The foundation was established in 1983 to rebuild the pavilion and make it accessible to the public from 1986.

Award winners

Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
Emerging Architect Special Mention
  • 2001: Florian Nagler for the distribution center of Kaufmann Holz AG in Bobingen (near Augsburg), Germany
  • 2003: Jürgen Mayer H. for the Stadt Haus Scharnhauser Park in Ostfildern (near Stuttgart), Germany
  • 2005: NL Architects (Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaasse, Mark Linnemann) for the BasketBar in Utrecht , Netherlands
  • 2007: Bevk Perovic arhitekti (Matija Bevk, Vasa J. Perovic) for the Faculty Building for Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana , Slovenia
  • 2009: Studio UP (Lea Pelivan, Toma Plejic) for the sports hall in Koprivnica , Croatia
  • 2011: bosch.capdeferro arquitectures (Bet Capdeferro, Ramon Bosch) for the Casa Collage in Girona , Spain
  • 2013: Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos (María Langarita, Víctor Navarro) for the Nave de Música in the Matadero in Madrid , Spain
  • 2015: ARQUITECTURA-G for Casa Luz in Cilleros , Spain
  • 2017: MSA / V + for NAVEZ, 5 social housing units as northern access from Brussels, Belgium

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Press release EU Commission: New Museum wins European Prize for Architecture
  2. Fundació Mies van der Rohe: Neues Museum Berlin Wins 2011 Prize ( Memento from November 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. Focus Online: EU Architecture Prize for the New Museum . Retrieved April 12, 2011.
  4. Press release EU Commission: Harpa wins European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2013 ( Memento from June 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. EUMiesAward. Retrieved October 19, 2018 .
  6. U-turn for an old giant: de Flat Kleiburg . In: Detail.de . ( detail.de [accessed October 19, 2018]).
  7. EUMiesAward. Retrieved October 19, 2018 .