“At Home. Projects for Contemporary Housing” exhibition at CCB Lisbon
What kind of houses do we live in? 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. Garagem Sul at Centro Cultural de Belém—the Lisbon gallery dedicated to architecture—presents the exhibition “At […]
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 all along the four edititions of the prize. In the BigMat’15 Architecture Award, the japanese duo SANAA and the […]
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”, who would have turned 90 years old this month of May. On display materials from archives and collections from all over the world. A multifaceted, unprecedented, visionary genius. A lover of books, travels, movies and the theatre. Highly cultivated and moved by […]
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. The BigMat International Architecture Award 2021 edition’s registration period will be open until May 13. Architects based in […]
Student residence and reversible car park by Bruther and Baukunst
Located at the heart of the Ecole Polytechnique district, this student residence by Alexandre Theriot (Bruther, co-founder with Stéphanie Bru) and Adrien Verschuere (Baukunst), both Jury members of the forthcoming BigMat ’21 International Architectural Award, proposes a mixed overlay of programmes within an inhabited structure to allow the versatility and reversibility of uses. On the […]
“Archigraphies. Guido Guidi and Álvaro Siza” at Casa da Arquitectura
“Archigraphies. Guido Guidi and Álvaro Siza ”is the exhibition that marks the reopening of the Casa da Arquitectura to the public, after confinement. The dialogue between Guido Guidi’s photographic work (Cesena, 1941) and Álvaro Siza’s architectural work (Matosinhos, 1933) constitutes a singular encounter of two unique figures in their respective fields of work. The exhibition […]
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. As Wim Goes writes himself: ‘The project envisages architecture and the building process assisting the ill […]
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 to take part in an international competition rewarding the best quality architecture with over 70,000€ in […]
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. Technology is used minimally to provide a place that will last in time, without need for complicated maintenance. The project is a public facility, […]
