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EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE - MIES VAN DER ROHE AWARDS ARCHITECTURE & EMERGING 2024

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Author: Ivan Blasi & Anna Sala Giralt (editors)

Publisher: Fundació Mies van der Rohe 

Size: 17 x 24 x 3,3 cms

Pages: 544

Ilustrations: Color & B&W

Cover: Flexibound

Publication date: September 2024

ISBN: English 9788412772197

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The EUmies Awards 2024 began its 18th cycle in May 2023, with a network of independent experts and the architecture associations from across Europe which submitted 362 projects for the jury’s consideration. These 362 works can be found in 38 European countries, representing 125 regions and 240 locations. These specific local contexts share similar or vastly different climate conditions. 

Each of these works can be geolocated through specific coordinates that place them at unique points in our planet's Northern Hemisphere. This cluster of projects creates an abstract map of Europe: the map of the EUmies Awards 2024. Following the lines of the meridians, this map is divided into fifteen horizontal bands, stretching from North to South and West to East, offering multiple ways to interpret the relationships between the 362 nominated works. Identified by fifteen different colours, from blue to red, including shades of green, yellow, and orange, each project is positioned within these bands, from the icy landscape of Greenland (1) to a subtropical banana grove in the Canary Islands (362).

This cartography serves as a map to chart your way through this book in which the 362 nominated works can be found organised through their coordinates within these coloured climate bands. That is why we have laid out each chapter as a sequence of pages full of photographs, maps and texts that illustrate each project in the form of a collage. Ordered in this fashion, this book highlights the selected works, the finalists and the winners, giving them more space to be explained in greater depth and in detail. 

A series of seven texts accompany the finalists and the winning projects: James Payne reflects on Hage in Playing a City, the architects Bartosz Haduch and Michał Haduch discuss the Plato Contemporary Art Gallery[1], the critic Oliver Wainwright delves into the Reggio School[2] while the author Nina Bouraoui writes about the Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François in her text Vortex, and finally, Pedro Baia reflects on the delicate and invisible intervention of the finalist for the emerging award, the Piodão Square and Tourist Office. As for the two winning works, the director of the DAM, Peter Cachola Schmal, explains the origin of the TU Braunschweig Study Pavilion, while the art historian and communicator Josep Lluís Blàzquez highlights the local context of the Gabriel García Márquez Library as the winner of the emerging award.

As an introduction, we are presenting a series of reflections made by each member of the jury: Frédéric Druot, Martin Braathen, Pippo Ciorra, Tinatin Gurgenidze, Adriana Krnáčová, Sala Makumbundu and Hrvoje Njiric, a diverse group of professionals who have undertaken the task of establishing a framework for reflection on the state of European contemporary architecture based on the 362 works that make up the planetary map of the EUmies Awards 2024.

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