“At Home. Projects for Contemporary Housing” exhibition at CCB Lisbon
How do today’s architects design our homes? How have notions of housing changed over the last generation? This exhibition analyses investigations and answers to these questions through the work of several architects.
Pritzker Laureates participations in the BigMat International Architecture Award
With the recently Pritzker Prize awarded to Lacaton & Vassal, winners of the 2017 BigMat International Architecture Award’s Grand Prize, we would like to remember all the Pritzker Laureates’ projects that have participated in BigMat Award.
Weekend house extension by Pavol Paňák
This small scale extension of a weekend house located in the village of Čachtice by Pavol Paňák, Jury member of the BigMat ’21 International Architectural Award, proposes a small piece of architecture that fits into a mosaic of remarkable buildings, of which the studio has been particularly prominent so far.
“Aldo Rossi. The Architect and the Cities” at MAXXI Rome
A retrospective on the extraordinary theoretical and practical contribution of an “unusual architect”. On display materials from archives and collections from all over the world.
BigMat ’21 International Architecture Award registration deadline extended
The deadline for submissions to participate in the 2021 edition of the BigMat International Architecture Award has been extended two more weeks! Submit your work for free until May 13 and win up to 30,000€ in prizes.
Student residence and reversible car park by Bruther and Baukunst
Located at the heart of the Ecole Polytechnique district, this student residence by Bruther and Baukunst proposes a mixed overlay of programmes within an inhabited structure to allow the versatility and reversibility of uses.
“Archigraphies. Guido Guidi and Álvaro Siza” at Casa da Arquitectura
The exhibition by Italian photographer Guido Guidi on works by the architect Álvaro Siza comprises eight projects located in Lisbon, Porto and Matosinhos, which will be represented through 97 images by Guido Guidi.
Building for the cycle of life, Refuge II by Wim Goes Architectuur
This small scale extension of an existing house, BigMat ’19 Belgium National Prize, involves the development of a temporary space suitable for hosting a terminally ill patient, with the focus changed from sickness and death to hope and future.
One month left to enter the BigMat’21 International Architecture Award
The deadline for submissions to participate in the 2021 edition of the BigMat International Architecture Award approaches! If you’re an architect in any of the seven european countries in which BigMat is present, submit your work now for free now.
Public Condenser in Saclay by MUOTO
Today we re-discover the Public Condenser in Saclay by MUOTO, BigMat ’17 Architecture Category Prize winner, a building conceived as a minimal structure, using rough materials, robust and long lasting techniques.
