FUNDACIÓ MIES VAN DER ROHE AND CREATIVE EUROPE PRESENT THE YOUNG TALENTS ARCHITECTURE AWARD WINNERS OF 2020
The Award has selected 4 recipients which will be shown in an exhibition as a Collateral Event of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, opening on May 22nd.
The exhibition will take place in Palazzo Mora (European Cultural Centre) and will show all the projects participating in the award with models and publications of the winning projects as well as photos, drawings, videos and images of all the shortlisted, finalist and winner works.
“We were all very much impressed by the level and scope of the submissions and not least by how the students were not afraid to tackle the big issues of climate change migration, not only through long-term projects such as nuclear waste sites but also through sensitive briefs for burial sites and religious worship. Other more straightforward proposals were also decently tackled and robustly researched, beautifully illustrated, showcasing considered solutions” said Martine de Maeseneer, MDMA, YTAA 2020 chairwoman.
The 4 Winners of YTAA 2020 are:
OASI: The renaturalization of a strongly transformed area caused by the patrimonial past, which allows the approach to the river through the strategy of topographic forms that concern floods and the plantation of autochthonous species. A real landscape transformation with natural logics that enables fluvial resilience of the territory along time. By Álvaro Alcázar Del Águila, Eduard Llargués, Roser Garcia, Sergio Sangalli from the Vallès School of Architecture of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech in Sant Cugat del Vallés, Barcelona (ES).
Off the Grid: The project rethinks the relation between water management, urbanisation and the role of self-steering local communities in times of climate change compromising the water supply for the city of Ayacucho, Peru. It detects leftover spaces in the urban fabric and activates them as water recycling infrastructures generating generous public space. By Willem Hubrechts from the Faculty of Engineering Science of the University of Leuven (BE).
Stage for the City: The project is an approach for the regeneration of Stoke, an epitome of Britain’s post-insustrial towns. Challenging its architectural language of monumentality and democratising the image of public institutions, a venue for celebration and protest is proposed, allowing integration and acceptance between institutions and society. By Monika Marinova from The Sir John Cass School of Art Architecture & Design of the London Metropolitan University in London (UK).
Three places to inhabit the mountain range in the Maule region: Three small-scale projects that work as site-specific interventions, linked with the cultural and natural landscape of the Chilean-Argentine Andes. By Pía Montero, Maria Jesús Molina, Antonia Ossa from the School of Architecture of the University of Talca in Talca (Chile).
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OASI. Renaturalization of Llobregat river in its passage through Sallent
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Off the Grid. Re/ defining the urban Andes through Ayacucho's water urbanism
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Stage for the City. Defining a Language of Contemporary Civic Use
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Three Places to Inhabit the Mountain Range in the Maule Region. Site-specific interventions linked with the cultural and natural landscape.
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Three Places to Inhabit the Mountain Range in the Maule Region. Site-specific interventions linked with the cultural and natural landscape.
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Three Places to Inhabit the Mountain Range in the Maule Region. Site-specific interventions linked with the cultural and natural landscape.
The jury of the YTAA 2020 is composed of renowned specialists representing diverse schools and trends in the fields of architecture and architectural critique: chairwoman Martine de Maeseneer (Brussels); Oleg Drozdov (Kharkiv); Rosario Talevi (Berlin); Juliet Leach (London); and Bet Capdeferro (Girona).
The YTAA (Young Talents Architecture Award) aims to support the talent of recently graduated Architects, Urban Planners and Landscape Architects, who will be responsible for transforming the environment in the future. To support their professional development, Europe’s youngest architecture talents receive: a diploma, 5.000€ for each project, a profile in World-Architects.com, visibility through the YTAA 2020 exhibition in Venice and universities worldwide, participation in events such as the Awards ceremony and the Future Architecture Platform and USM furniture to design their workspace.
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