The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies named the LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) to receive the European Prize for Architecture 2016, which is annually given to architects who “opened new paths and directions for a deeply human architecture and committed to the principles of European humanism. ”
“The LAVA successfully uses the imagination and intellect combined with social forces and the latest construction technologies theme and apparatus of their projects, creating a body of work that explores and expresses the architecture as an experience that takes risks, visceral “said Christian Narkiewicz-Laine.
“In the process, we come to experience the new architecture: how it is imagined, as she is drawn to the challenges and dynamics that define the future thinking about the time, place and the surroundings, and as buildings and urban ideas become built and take shape as part of a collective public experience. ”
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Founded by Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck and Tobias Wallisser, LAVA operates as an international think tank with offices in Berlin, Stuttgart and Sydney. The recently completed projects include the Philips headquarters in Eindhoven, the renovation of a terrace house and a trade center to the airport in Sydney, as well as a university master plan in Riyadh, a youth hostel in Bayreuth, mixed-use projects in Berlin and Hangzhou and villas in HCMC currently under construction.
“We are delighted to be recognized as architects who are not only interested in the production of square meters, but interested in the broader development of the profession, constantly trying to push the boundaries and redefine what architecture can achieve today. How can we create the right space and contemporary lifestyles and how we can contribute to an environment that offers quality for all? “, commented Tobias Wallisser, director of LAVA.
The formal ceremony of delivery of the award will be held in Athens, Greece. Last year, the prize was awarded to Santiago Calatrava, with previous awards for the Italian architect Alessandro Mendini in 2014, the Finnish architect Marco Casagrande in 2013 TYIN Tegnestue Architects in 2012, Graft Architekten in 2011 and Bjarke Ingels in 2010.
Source: ArchDaily Brasil
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