public space: European Prize for Urban Public Space

2012 CALL FOR ENTRIES NOW CLOSED

We have received more than 400 works. Thanks for participation!

The International Jury, with the architect Josep Llinàs as its president, will meet behind closed doors at the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona on 19 and 20 April to make its final decisions. The Prize will be awarded on 29 June.

Awarded projects and Finalists 2000-2010

SPECIAL MENTION 2000

Parc del Ter Central

Girona (Spain), 1999

JOINT WINNER 2002

Recuperación del Cauce y Riberas del Río Gállego

Zuera (Spain), 2001

Call for projects

Open the official notification of the City to City Barcelona FAD Award 2012.

If you want to submit candidatures, please click here to access the form.

Citystories and Global Cities

Casa Asia, Barcelona, until 30 April

This exhibition concerning the big cities of emerging regions from Central Asia through to the Pacific brings together works conceived by artists, writers, film-makers and journalists.

PROGRAMME

URBACT, conecting cities

Is a European Exchange and learning programme promoting sustainable urban development.

Publication

"La ciudad es de todos"

Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, 2011

The new title of the Cimbra Collection of the "Caja de Arquitectos" Foundation offers an anthology of writings by and interviews with the Brazilian Pritzker prizewinner.

Lecture

"Social Cities of Tomorrow"

Amsterdam, 14-17 February 2012

Our everyday lives are increasingly shaped by digital media technologie. How can we use digital media technologies to make our cities more social, rather than just more hi-tech?

Prize 2012

What is the Committee of Experts of the Prize?

This is a group of recognised professionals in the domains of architecture, urban planning, journalism and other disciplines related with public space throughout Europe who draw our attention to particularly successful interventions in public space. The list of experts thus far confirmed is as follows.

NEWS

City and Commons
1 February, 5 p.m MedialabPrado, Madrid
Open work group about public space and citizen participation.
Pedro Gadanho Is Now Head of the Department of Art and Design at MOMA
Pedro Gadanho, nominated though interntational selection, is member of the Committee of Experts of the 2012 Prize
Architecture books 2011
Some of the most interesting architecture books published last year
20 Grants for Students of Architecture and Young Architects
Call for applications for 2012 by the Fundació Caja de Arquitectos (Architecture Savings Bank Foundation).