The project, completed in January 2023 by the Spanish studio, was awarded with the highest honour in the latest BigMat International Architecture Award, recieving the Grand Prize for Architecture and National Prize for Spain in Architecture category.

This special edition features two Grand Prizes: BigMat Grand Prize for Architecture awarded to Fish Market in Roquetas de Mar, Spain, by Estudio ACTA and Grand Prize for Small-Scale Residential awarded to Casa no Tâmega, Portugal, by Hugo Ferreira and Nuno Melo Sousa.

Architects Without Architecture is a nod to a landmark exhibition: Architecture Without Architects. Curated by Bernard Rudofsky for the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1964, it celebrated the beauty of what is known as vernacular architecture.

“Balkrishna Doshi. Architecture for All,” a project by the Vitra Design Museum and the Wüstenrot Foundation in collaboration with the Vastushilpa Foundation, lands at the Museo ICO to showcase, for the first time in Spain, the work of the only Indian architect honored with the Pritzker Prize.

The 6th edition of the BigMat International Architecture Award’23 seeks to once more acknowledge architectural achievements that have been realized within the past four years in the seven countries where the BigMat brand is present.

Coinciding with the XX Architecture Week, the COAM (Official College of Architects of Madrid) will inaugurate the exhibition “Antonio Palacios: The Whisper of History, the Noise of Time,” curated by José Luis Varela Alén and Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave.