As members of the Ad­vi­sory CommitteeEU MIES AWARD 2019 we would like to an­nounce that The Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe an­nounce today (13/02/2019) the list of 5 fi­nal­ists of the Mies van der Rohe Com­pe­ti­tion of the Eu­ro­pean Union in the field of con­tem­po­rary ar­chi­tec­ture 2019.

The 5 Fi­nal­ists works are:

PC CARITAS in Melle by ar­chi­tecten de vylder vinck taillieu

Plasen­cia Au­di­to­rium and Con­gress Centre by selgascano

Skan­der­beg Square in Tirana by 51N4E, Anri Sala, Plant en Hout­goed and iRI

Ter­race­house Berlin by Bran­dl­hu­ber+ Emde, Burlon and Muck Petzet Architekten

Trans­for­ma­tion of 530 dwellings - Grand Parc Bordeaux by Lacaton & Vassal ar­chi­tects, Frédéric Druot Ar­chi­tec­ture and Christophe Hutin Architecture

In April, the Jury will visit the 5 works in order to select the Prize Winner and the Emerg­ing Ar­chi­tect Winner that will be an­nounced at the end of April. The Award Cer­e­mony will take place on the 7th of May 2019 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavil­ion in Barcelona. Save the date for the lec­tures, debates, ex­hi­bi­tion opening and cel­e­bra­tion with the Jury members, Winners, Fi­nal­ists, Clients and other guests and representatives.

Ini­ti­ated in 1987 after an agree­ment between the Eu­ro­pean Par­lia­ment and the Barcelona City Council, the Eu­ro­pean Union Prize for Con­tem­po­rary Ar­chi­tec­ture –Mies van der Rohe Award has been coor­gan­ised by theFundació Mies van der Rohe and the** Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion** since 2001.

The Prize is awarded bi­en­ni­ally to works com­pleted within the pre­vi­ous two years. The prin­ci­pal ob­jec­tives are to achieve a thor­ough un­der­stand­ing of the trans­for­ma­tion of Europe’s built en­vi­ron­ment; to rec­og­nize and commend ex­cel­lence and in­no­va­tion in the field of ar­chi­tec­ture; and to draw at­ten­tion to the im­por­tant con­tri­bu­tion of Eu­ro­pean pro­fes­sion­als in the de­vel­op­ment of new ideas with the un­de­ni­able support of clients and the in­volve­ment of those who will become the users of these places. The Emerg­ing Ar­chi­tect Winner is dis­tin­guished by a com­bi­na­tion of qual­i­ties such as ex­cel­lence and au­then­tic­ity of design; a genuine and in­no­v­a­tive char­ac­ter of its work; and high-stan­dard, wellex­e­cuted and sus­tain­able con­struc­tion. The jury selects the winner among those ap­pli­cants who have not yet at­tained recog­ni­tion by having a body of crit­i­cally recog­nised work at major and es­tab­lished in­sti­tu­tions or publishers.

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe was created in 1983 with the aim of re­con­struct­ing the German Pavil­ion that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built for the 1929 In­ter­na­tional Ex­hi­bi­tion in Barcelona. The foun­da­tion fosters debate on and aware­ness of themes related to con­tem­po­rary ar­chi­tec­ture and urban plan­ning, as well as en­cour­ag­ing studies on the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and on the Modern Move­ment. Cre­ative Europe is the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion’s frame­work pro­gramme for support to the cul­tural and au­dio­vi­sual sectors. The pro­gramme aims at pro­mot­ing Europe’s cul­tural di­ver­sity and rich her­itage while en­abling the cul­tural and cre­ative sectors to reach their eco­nomic po­ten­tial, con­tribut­ing to sus­tain­able growth, jobs and social cohesion.

The Prize draws the map of the best Eu­ro­pean Con­tem­po­rary Ar­chi­tec­ture with the Prize Winner, the Emerg­ing Ar­chi­tect Winner and the Young Talent Ar­chi­tec­ture Award Winners. The latter is the most recent ad­di­tion to the Prize, which rec­og­nizes and rewards the best grad­u­a­tion pro­jects of ar­chi­tec­ture stu­dents through­out Europe and beyond.

Con­tacts: Fundació Mies van der Rohe – Press Office Miriam Gior­dano / Labóh e-mail: press@​miesbcn.​com Tel.: +34 933 192 664 / +34 606 602 230

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