Events
The latest edition of the prize celebrate its first ten years with a board lead by the experienced Thomas Herzog and a special member: Glenn Murcutt, part of the evaluation committee with Danish Erik Bystrup with the tough task of selecting the best edition's entries.
In assessing the quality of the projects and coming to a decision, the Jury this year attributed fundamental importance to environmental and climatic aspects.
The prizes have therefore been awarded to architectural projects with high standards of formal quality achieved also through in-depth analysis of environmental variables, defining buildings fully integrated into the surrounding context.
In the "completed projects" category, the Jury has drawn up a final shortlist of 10 projects, including three gold and silver medal winners and seven considered worthy of an honourable mention.
Gold medal went to Rahul Mehrotra (Mumbai, India) and two silver medals to María González and Juanjo López de la Cruz (sol89) and DAP studio (Elena Sacco, Paolo Danelli) with Paola Giaconia.
Among Honourable Mentions were awarded entries from Chile, Austria, Japan, Spain, Australia and United States.
13 March 2013
GLENN MURCUTT
Lectio Magistralis: Architecture for place, culture and technology
Glenn Murcutt (London, 1936) is one of the most significant contemporary architect. He was indicate as "the artisan architect", for having choosen to work autonomously, since the beginning, without any partner, any assistant or secretary. Doing so, he could follow all the project's phases in first person, from the design to the realization. The direct participation allows him to intervene, with improvements and reviews, at every moment of the construction's advancement, thus having the total control of each part of the architectural object. Murcutt studied architecture from 1956 to 1960 at the University of New South Wales. Presently he works in Australia, developing ecological constructions, using "simple"materials (metal, wood, glass, brick) and pursuing the harmony with climate and landscape. In 1969 he founded his own practice: in over 40 years he built about 500 private houses, some museum and cultural centre, all of them in Australia. In 2002 he received the Pritzker Price, becoming the first Australian architect who has ever been appointed with such a much sought-after recognition.
18 June 2013
AWARD CEREMONY
The tenth competition award ceremony
During the last ten years since the first edition, the International Prize for Sustainable Architecture has grown constantly in international popularity and the number of participating works and countries. But the most significant growth has been in the quality of the projects presented and competing for the Prize.
During its first decade, the initiative has been crowned with the hoped-for success, helped by a fundamental criterion which characterises the "model" of this competition: the composition of the Jury, entrusted by the honorary Prize sponsor, Fassa Bortolo (an important Italian company in the building sector) to Ferrara University Department of Architecture. It represents a mix of continuity and renewal functional in every way to a system able to learn and open to change.
19 June 2013
SIMPOSIUM
The international symposium "Responsible Architecture"
To celebrate ten years of the Prize will take place the International Symposium: Responsible Architecture, Sustainability as a challenge for the present, a necessity for the future.
The event scheduled for the afternoon at Palazzo Tassoni Estense in Ferrara will live through the experience brought by numerous speakers' presentations.
International guests who have accepted the invitation to take part in the meeting and present their works are: Thomas Herzog (Germany), Glenn Murcutt (Australia), Michael Hopkins (UK), Rahul Mehrotra (India), Peter Rich (South Africa), Erik Bystrup (Denmark), Hermann Kauffmann (Germany).
An event that shows how the International Prize for Sustainable Architecture is now an international reference point for the spread of an architecture more responsible.
