“Composite Presence” Belgian Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale
Featuring 50 reference projects by 45 contemporary Belgian practices, curator Dirk Somers (Bovenbouw Architectuur) will show the contemporary city in Flanders and Brussels in all its complexity.
Jury Meeting in Madrid: BigMat ’21 Finalists to be revealed soon
The BigMat ’21 Jury Meeting took place last friday at the Technical University of Madrid – School of Architecture. The international Jury reviewed the selected projects from the over 1000 entries submitted in this year’s edition of the prize.
“Natural History of Architecture” exhibition by Philippe Rahm at Pavillon de l’Arsenal
The Natural History of Architecture highlights the natural, physical, biological and climatic causes that have influenced the course of architectural history and caused its figures to emerge, from prehistory until today.
Law Court offices in Venice by C+S Architects, an “archetypical monolith”
Today we rediscover the BigMat ’17 National Prize for Italy, an example of seamless integration within a complex urban setting, as it successfully fuses the traditional old warehouse styling with the stereometric volume of the multi-storey car park.
Bruther “Swiss Architectural Award 2020” exhibition at Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio
The work of the Paris-based office founded by Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot –upcoming member of the jury panel of the ‘21 BigMat Architecture Award- will be the main focus of the “Swiss Architectural Award 2020 exhibition”.
More than 1000 entries to the BigMat ’21 International Architecture Award
Who will follow the Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, winner in 2019, as the new Grand Prize? More than one thousand projects have been submitted to this year’s edition of the BigMat Architectural Award.
“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.
