NOMINEES ANNOUNCEMENT
2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards
362 works, 38 countries, 125 regions, 240 places, 7 jury members

The European Commission and the Fundaciö Mies van der Rohe are proud to announce the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards) nominees. A total of 362 significant works realized all over 38 different European countries.

The EUmies Awards began its 18th cycle in May 2023, with a network of expert nominators and the architecture associations from throughout Europe who submitted these 362 projects for the jury’s consideration. The jury will now select 40 outstanding projects and then visit the finalists, an opportunity to have interviews with the architects, their teams, the project clients, and those people on who the works have a repercussion.

This year’s jury is chaired by Frédéric Druot (Paris/Bordeaux), who will be accompanied by Martin Braathen (Oslo), Pippo Ciorra (Rome), Tinatin Gurgenidze (Tbilisi/Berlin), Adriana Krnåöovå (Prague), Sala Makumbundu (Luxembourg), and Hrvoje Njiric (Zagreb).

The 2024 EUmies Awards will recognise the best built works in Europe completed between April 2021 and May 2023. The 2024 cycle will reflect on the current challenges that citizens, architects, clients, developers, policy makers and other professionals are faced with in the context of the European Green Deal. The principal objectives are to achieve a thorough understanding of the transformation of Europe’s built environment; to recognise and commend excellence and innovation in the field of architecture; to accomplish a more sustainable environment, exchanging ideas and experiences on new approaches to sustainability endurance — promoting environmental, social and economic awareness through architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design as well as the collaboration with other cultural fields, the arts, and communication.

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Mr. Georg Häusler, Director of Culture, Creativity and Sport at the European Commission’s Directorate-General Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, highlighted that “this group of works helps understand what architecture professionals need so that once the jury chooses the winners and finalists, these can help us from the policy side to translate them into possible concrete actions.”

Calendar
January 2024: announcement of the 40 shortlisted works.
February 2024: announcement of the finalist works.
April 2024: announcement of the winners.
May 2024: EU Mies Awards Open Day with conferences, debates, exhibition and Awards
Ceremony in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona
May onwards: EUmies Awards Out&About programme to visit the 40 shortlisted works; travelling exhibitions and debates.

All decisions are discussed within the Advisory Committee, formed by Fundaciö Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona; Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna; Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris; CIVA, Brussels; Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen; DESSA Gallery, Ljubljana; German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt; Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, Budapest; Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana; Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw; Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn; Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki; National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; RIBA, London; The Berlage, Delft; and Triennale di Milano, Milan.

Background
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 Awards have been organised by the Fundaciö Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission. 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 recognise 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 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, well executed 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 Young Talent is the most recent addition to the Prize (201 6), which recognizes and awards the best graduation projects of architecture students throughout Europe and beyond.

Fundaciö Mies van der Rohe was created in 1983 with the aim of reconstructing the German Pavilion that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich 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, Lilly Reich and on the Modern Movement.

Creative Europe is the European Commission’s framework programme for support to the cultural and audiovisual sectors. Creative Europe invests in actions that reinforce cultural diversity and respond to the needs and challenges of the cultural and creative sectors. The main objectives of the programme are to safeguard, develop and promote European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage and to increase the competitiveness and economic potential of the cultural and creative sectors, in particular the audiovisual sector.

Prize
The Architecture Winner receives 60,000€ and a sculpture by Xavier Corberö that evokes the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion of Barcelona. The Emerging Winner receives 30,000€ together with the sculpture. The finalists and the clients receive a sculpture by Tomoko Sakamoto, recognising their indispensable contribution to contemporary architecture.

The Prize draws the map of the best European Contemporary Architecture with the Architecture Winner, the Emerging Winner and the Young Talent Winners. The prestige of the Prize and the dissemination of the knowledge and savoir-faire of European architects is further enhanced with the organisation of exhibitions and debates worldwide, bringing architecture nearer to citizens. All these works can be found in the online archive which counts with 4,500 works.

World Architects is the strategic partner of the EUmies Awards which also counts with the partnership with Jung, Jansen and Regent Lighting and the support of USM modular furniture and Alma.