Submission: January 23, 2014
Registration: January 23, 2014
Language: Catalan, Spanish or English
Location: European City
Prizes: Publications
Type: Open prizes for architects.
Eighth edition of the International architecture prizes European Prize for Urban Public Space.
With ideas of equality, plurality and progress constituting part of its very foundations, the European city is today facing new challenges arising from its exponential growth and increasing social and cultural complexity. Some of society’s main problems are expressed in its public spaces: segregation, rampant construction and deficiencies in guaranteeing the rights to housing and to the city are some of the phenomena that are putting into jeopardy the ideal of the open and democratic community that has always been so distinctive of the European city.
The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition that aims to recognise and encourage the creation, recovery and improvement of public space in the understanding that the state of public space is a clear indicator of the civic and collective health of our cities.
The sponsoring institutions of the Eighth European Prize for Urban Public Space are the following:
– Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
– Frankfurt: Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)
– Helsinki: Museum of Finnish Architecture (MFA)
– Ljubljana: Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO)
– London: The Architecture Foundation (AF)
– Paris: La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Cité)
– Vienna: Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W)
