The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is a prize given biennially by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona,Mies Arch , retrieved 25 March 2010 'to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe'.
The Prize was created in 1987 through an equal partnership among the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The award is open to all the works completed in Europe within the two-year period before the granting of the prize. Nominations are submitted by independent experts, the national architecture associations and the advisory committee of the Prize, and then evaluated by a jury organized for each cycle. The five finalist works are visited by the jury, which chooses a prize winner and names an Emerging Architect winner. Aalt Stadhaus won the prize in 2014.
As of 2016, a new category, the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA), highlights the final degree projects of recently graduated architects, landscape architects and urban designers. YTAA, as an inherent part of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, is organised by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe with the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. YTAA is organised in partnership with the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) and the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE-CAE); World Architects as a founding partner; the European Cultural Centre as a partner in Venice; sponsored by Jung, Jansen and Regent; and with the support of USM.
List of award winners YearWinning Building Shortlisted Buildings 1988 Banco Borges e Irmão Vila do CondeArchitect(s): Alvaro Siza 1990 New Stansted Airport Terminal LondonArchitect(s): Foster + Partners 1992 Municipal Sports Stadium Badalona, BarcelonaArchitect(s): Esteve Bonell and Francesc Rius 1994 Waterloo International railway station LondonArchitect(s): Nicholas Grimshaw 1996 Bibliothèque Nationale de France ParisArchitect(s): Dominique Perrault 1998 Kunsthaus Bregenz BregenzArchitect(s): Peter Zumthor
Other finalists 2001 Kursaal Centre San SebastiánArchitect(s): Rafael Moneo
Other finalists 2003 Car Park and Terminus Hoenheim North Hoenheim, StrasbourgArchitect(s): Zaha Hadid
Other finalists 2005 Netherlands Embassy Berlin BerlinArchitect(s): Rem Koolhaas
Other finalists 2007 Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León LeónArchitect(s): Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos
Other finalists 2009 Norwegian National Opera and Ballet OsloArchitect(s): Snøhetta
Other finalists 2011 Neues MuseumEuropean Commission, 18 April 2011 BerlinArchitect(s): David Chipperfield
Other finalists 2013 Harpa concert hallEuropean Commission, 30 April 2013 ReykjavíkArchitect(s): Henning Larsen Architects and Studio Olafur Eliasson
Other finalists 2015 Szczecin Philharmonic Hall SzczecinArchitect(s): Barozzi Veiga
Other finalists 2017DeFlat Kleiburg AmsterdamArchitect(s): NL Architects and XVW architectuur
Other finalists 2019Transformation of 530 dwellings — Grand Parc Bordeaux BordeauxArchitect(s): Lacaton & Vassal Other finalists 2022Town House – Kingston University Kingston upon ThamesGrafton Architects Other finalists2024Study Pavilion on the campus of TU Braunschweig Braunschweig Gustav Düsing, Büro Max Hacke
Other finalists2026 Palais des Expositions CharleroiArchitect(s): AgwA & architecten jan de vylder inge vinck
Other finalists
List of Emerging Architect Special Mention Year Architect(s)Building Location 2001 Florian Nagler Kaufmann Holz AG Center of distribution Bobingen 2003 Jürgen Mayer H. Stadthaus Scharnhauser Park Ostfildern 2005 NL Architects BasketBar Utrecht 2007 Bevk Perovic arhitekti Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics Ljubljana 2009 Studio UP Gymnasium 46° 09' N / 16° 50' E Koprivnica 2011 Bosch.Capdeferro Arquitectures Collage House Girona 2013 Langarita-Navarro Architects Red Bull Music Academy Madrid 2015 ARQUITECTURA-G Casa Luz Cilleros 2017 MSA and V+ NAVEZ - 5 social units as Northern entrance of Brussels Brussels
See also List of architecture prizes
References
External links YTAA website Fundació Mies van der Rohe website Creative Europe website