INTBAU congratulates the Awardees of the European Prize of Architecture Philippe Rotthier, and joins the Fondation pour l’Architecture and the Philippe Rotthier Prize in celebrating time-tested construction techniques that respect and honour local culture, climate, and context.
The awards celebrate the efforts made to preserve local building traditions and knowledge that, despite their unique approaches to sustainability and resilience, had been neglected and forgotten for decades.
Members of the jury included Harriet Wennberg, Executive Director at INTBAU, along with Chairs and members from INTBAU Chapters in the Netherlands, Spain, the Levant, and the UK. Special recognition goes to La Table Ronde de l’Architecture, host of INTBAU Belgium, for their impeccable organisation of this year’s Prize.
Read on to find out about the awarded projects, the Award Ceremony and exhibition to take place in October.
On Saturday 29 June 2024, after examining the 189 international projects submitted on the basis of their links with vernacular architecture, the jury, chaired by Maurice CULOT and composed of Mieke BOSSE, Julia TREESE, Georgia CRISTEA, Harriet WENNBERG, François GOFFINET, Alejandro GARCIA HERMIDA, Léon KRIER, Anselm JAPPE, William PESSON, Mohamad HAMOUIE and Samir YOUNES, under the watchful eye of Philippe ROTTHIER, decided to award the following prizes:
2024 Award Winners
PHILIPPE ROTTHIER GRAND PRIZE
« Școala de la Bunești » by Ana Maria Goilav and Petre Guran – ROMANIA
PHILIPPE ROTTHIER PRIZE FOR CRAFTSMANSHIP
« De Wilde De Schepper » by Dirk Mortier – BELGIUM
2024 Mentions
URBAN PROJECT PRIZE
« Tornagrain » by Ben Pentreath – UNITED KINGDOM
PRIZE FOR RURAL RESTORATION
« Kambones 1615 » by Sophia Emmanuel – GREECE
CITIZEN ARCHITECTURE PRIZE
« Extension of the Town Hall of Koerich » by Colum Mulhern Architecture Traditionnelle – Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
PRIZE FOR NEW VERNACULAR CONSTRUCTION
« Naturdorf Bärnau » by Schönberger Architektur, Alfred Wolf & Andreas Mann – GERMANY
PRIZE FOR INTEGRATION INTO THE LANDSCAPE
« Kalderimi X2 » by Boulouki – GREECE
PRIZE FOR THE REVIVAL OF VERNACULAR TECHNIQUES
« Citadel Kasbah Agadir Oufella » by Salima Naji – MOROCCO
Additionally, the jury decided to award the following twenty nominations that caught their attention:
- Hosh El Etem in the Historic Center of Birzeit by RIWAQ
- Super Caillou by Encore Heureux Architectes
- Woodstock by BC Architect
- Park View Woodstock by Adam Architecture
- Budesti Monastery by Dorel Cordos
- Charleston Single House by Liberatos Architects
- Dar Al-A’Mir by Hosam Jiroudy
- Post Disaster Rural Regeneration by Dr Yasmeen Lari
- GHESC The Village Laboratory by Fundazione Canova
- Aldourie Castle and Estate by Ptolemy Dean Architects
- Project 1 Nimman by ONG-ARD Architects
- Transformation et Agrandissement d’une Maison d’Habitation pour un Artiste by Colum Mulhern
- Can Ferrereta by Bastidas Architecture
- House in Wikno by Piotr Olszak
- Atelier pour un Vannier by Brunelle Dalbavie
- Sigena by Paco Luis Marcos
- Icomb Place Solar Ceiling by Philip Gaches
- Architect and Artist’s Studio by Artem Nikoforov
- Distillerie des Ambres by Atelier Saint-Benoît
- Rehabilitation of the Monastery of São João de Cabanas by Fernando Manuel Cerqueira Barros
Awards Ceremony & Exhibition
The awards ceremony will take place in Brussels on 26 October 2024 at 11:00 am in the CIVA Auditorium in the presence of the winners and eminent personalities. The projects of the winners and nominees will be exhibited at La Loge in Brussels and at the Béguinage in Bruges.
Exhibition at La Loge – rue de l’Ermitage 86, Brussels – 26 October to 10 November 2024 Thursday to Sunday, 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm
Exhibition at the Béguinage – Begijnhof 30, 8000 Brugge – 7 September to 4 November 2024 Saturday and Sunday from 14:00 to 17:00
The 2024 Prize catalogue will be available online in PDF format from October 2024 on the Prize website: www.rotthierprize.com.
PHILIPPE ROTTHIER EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE PRIZE 2024, on the theme of ‘Vernacular architecture.’
By ‘vernacular architecture’, the prize means architecture that is the product of a long historical sedimentation and which, in the natural landscape, seems to be the very fruit of geology, architecture that acclimatises, that becomes accustomed, that does not interrupt the course of the wind or the rain, that is not afraid of bad weather and that, like the reed, bends but does not break.
As a reminder, the prize of 40,000 EUR, divided between several entries, has been made available to the jury by the founder of the prize, Philippe Rotthier.
This year, the jury, chaired by Maurice Culot, paid particular attention to the projects that:
- Are locally based and not interchangeable,
- Aim to integrate architecture into a rural or urban context and avoid disruption and provocation,
- As far as possible, use natural materials and traditional, environmentally-friendly techniques,
- Take account of local practices and customs,
- Create public spaces that are recognizable to all (streets, alleys, avenues, squares, etc.),
- Encourage a mix of activities and limit mechanical traffic,
- Reject social segregation in favor of mixed-use buildings where social housing cannot be singled out,
- Save land and spare the countryside.
The 11 members of the 2024 jury:
Anselm Jappe (professor of philosophy and aesthetics and essayist specializing in the thought of Guy Debord)
Léon Krier (town planner and builder)
Mieke Bosse (Architect and director of Scala Architecten)
François Goffinet (Garden architect, Belgium)
Alejandro Garcia Hermida (Professor of architectural history and Executive Director of the Fundación Culturas Constructivas Tradicionales)
Harriet Wennberg (Art historian and Executive Director of the INTBAU network)
Mohamad Hamouie (Architect, Lebanon)
Samir Younes (Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean of the University of Notre-Dame)
William Pesson (Architect and director of Arcas Paris)
Julia Treese (Architect and partner at Sebastian Treese Architekten, winner of the Driehaus Prize 2021)
Georgia Cristea (Conservation Architect, United Kingdom)