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The Swiss Architectural Award honors architects from all over the world whose work has made a significant contribution to contemporary architecture.
The Swiss Architectural Award was founded in 2007, is endowed with 100,000 Swiss francs and is awarded every two years to architects under the age of 50 who have completed at least three important works. Since the seventh edition (2020), the Swiss Architecture Prize has been sponsored by the Teatro dell'architettura Foundation, which inherited the BSI Architecture Foundation. The Chairman of the Teatro dell'architettura Foundation is Mario Botta. The prize is organized, awarded and sponsored by the Università della Svizzera ItalianaMendrisio.
The jury consists of the chairman Mario Botta and other architects and architecture critics from USI Mendrisio, the EPFL Lausanne and the ETH Zurich. The nominees are selected by an international advisory board made up of architects and architecture critics.
Nominees: Alejandro Aravena, Atelier Bow-Wow, Nuno Brandão Costa, Angelo Bucci, Jan de Vylder, Inge Vinck und Jo Taillieu, Marcus Donaghy und William Dimond, Ecosistema Urbano, Liza Fior –MUF Architecture, Antón García-Abril, Anna Heringer, Zhang Ke, Zhang Lei, LTL ARCHITECTS, Gurjit Singh Matharoo, Alberto Mozó, Hiroshi Nakamura, Mauricio Pezo und Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Smiljan Radic, Camilo Rebelo, Enric Ruiz -Geli, José María Saez, Joaõ Pedro Serôdio und Isabel Furtado, Dominic Stevens, Studio Mumbai, Jonathan Woolf, Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Nominees: Iñaqui Carnicero, Ignacio Vila, Alejandro Virseda, Adam Caruso, Peter St. John, Davide Cristofani, Gabriele Lelli, João Pedro Falcão de Campos, Dietmar Feichtinger, Arturo Franco Diaz, Sosuke Fujimoto, José Fernando Gonçalves, Erich Hubmann, Andreas Vaß, Bjarke Ingels, Jun'ya Ishigami, Diebédo Francis Kéré, Christian Kerez, Andrea Liverani, Enrico Molteni, Fabio Mariani, Joao Mendes Ribeiro, MGM - José Morales, Sara de Giles Dubois, Juan G. Mariscal, Hiroshi Nakamura, nARCHITECTS - Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang, Willem Jan Neutelings, Michiel Riedijk, Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Joshua Prinz Ramus, Bernhard Quirot, Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Markus Scherer, José Selgas, Lucia Cano, URBANUS - Liu Xiaodu, Meng Yan, Wang Hui, Xu Tiantian - DnA Design und Architektur
Jury: Mario Botta (chairman), Valentin Bearth, Solano Benitez, Barry Bergdoll, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Nikola Navone
2008
Prizewinner: Solano Benitez
Nominees: Solano Benitez, 3LHD Architekten, David Adjaye, Francisco und Manuel Aires Mateus, Jesus Aparicio, Gion A. Caminada, Alfonso Cendron, Dominique Coulon, Richard Francis Jones, Sean Godsel, Thomas Heidewick, Rick Freude, Albert Kalach, Francisco Mangado, Luis L. Mansilla, Emilio Tuñón Alvarez, Rahul Mehrotra, Miller & Maranta, Marco Navarra – NOWA, Büro dA - Monica Ponce de Leon, Nader Teherani, Valerio Olgiati, João Perloiro, João L. Ferreira, Paulo Perloiro, Paulo M. Barata, Pedro Appleton, Saša Randić, Idis Turato, João Alvaro Rocha, Enric Ruiz Geli - Wolke 9, SM.AO - Juan Carlos Sancho, Sol Madridejos, Beniamino Servino, Shuhei Endo, Das nächste UNTERNEHMEN, Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas, Wang Shu