Registration open for the BigMat International Architecture Award 2025!
From February 14th to April 24th, this year`s edition participants will be able to submit their works eligible for any of the 15 prizes of the BigMat International Architecture Award. This year’s edition places special emphasis on collaboration between BigMat and architects by introducing a new special category: the Proximity Architecture Award. Building on the […]
Jesús Aparicio and Jesús Donaire, President and Secretary of the BigMat Architecture Award 2025
Today we are revealing the last members for the upcoming edition’s jury, Jesús Aparicio and Jesús Donaire, who will join Oana Bogdan, Martin Jančok, Anne Lacaton, Francesca Torzo, José Neves and María Langarita. Jesús Aparicio is Doctor of Architecture and Professor of Architectural Projects at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM). Holding […]
María Langarita, Spanish Jury Member for the upcoming BigMat International Architecture Award 2025
Co-founder of Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos, María Langarita has garnered widespread recognition for her innovative and experimental approach to architecture. Her work balances bold creativity with sensitivity to the social and cultural dimensions of each project, redefining contemporary Spanish architecture. María Langarita (1979), is an architect, architectural researcher and academic. She has a Ph.D. in Architecture from […]
Place Rogier by XDGA Xaveer de Geyter in Brussels
The renowned Belgian architect, two-times winner of the BigMat International Architecture Award (in 2013 and 2021), designed this landmark square canopy in 2006, which was finalized in 2019. Located in the heart of an existing transport hub in Brussels, the project proposes a four-stage intervention to organize and re-qualify the public spaces and circulation both […]
“Restless Architecture” curated by Diller Scofidio + Renfro at MAXXI Rome
Curated by one of the world’s most famous and influential design studios, which is also featured, the exhibition investigates movement as an internal property of architecture: buildings that change their configuration, have mobile elements and swell or turn to welcome visitors. We live in a world in constant motion. Why should architecture stand still? Since […]
„Dogma: Urban Villa“ with the Flanders Architecture Institute at De Singel
The exhibition Dogma: Urban Villa, curated by the Italian firm lead by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, makes the case for more cooperative and collective housing. Dogma and the VAi both hope that it will kick-start a dialogue around better urban densification and the creation of diverse, collective and affordable housing units. How can we live […]
Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos, appointed Spanish National Architecture Award 2023
The architecture office, led by Ángela García de Paredes (member of the BigMat International Architecture Award Jury of 2023) and Ignacio Pedrosa, have been awarded with the highest recognition in Spain for their contributions to the social, technological and sustainable contributions to Spanish architecture. In proposing the award, given by the Spanish Ministry of Housing […]
‘José María García de Paredes: Meeting Spaces’ at ICO Museum
The first major retrospective of the complete works of José María García Paredes, a key figure in modern Spanish architecture during the second half of the 20th century, is available from October 2 to January 12, 2025. ‘José María García de Paredes: Meeting Spaces’ offers an extensive overview of four decades of his professional career […]
“LAN – Spaces without Species” exhibition at Galerie d’Architecture
The Galerie d’Architecture in Paris presents the exhibition “LAN – Spaces without Species,” an inventory of eleven spaces created by LAN, awarded as BigMat Finalist Prize in France’21, whose definition is open. „I would like there to be stable places, immobile, intangible, untouched, and almost untouchable, immutable, rooted; places that would be reference points, starting […]
Abade Pedrosa Museum by Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura
Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura, recipients of the BigMat International Architecture Award National Prize for Portugal 2017, designed the Abade Pedrosa Museum and the International Contemporary Sculpture Museum in Santo Tirso. Architects Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto de Moura worked together on the project for the Abade Pedrosa Museum, located in the […]
