European Prize for
Urban Public Space 2012
CALL FOR ENTRIES

Barcelona (Spain)
DEADLINE: 19.01.2012
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Frankfurt
Museum of Finnish Architecture (MFA), Helsinki
The Architecture Foundation, London
La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris
Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (NAI), Rotterdam
Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W), Vienna

ABOUT THE PRIZE
The European city is today facing new challenges arising from its exponential growth and increasing social and cultural complexity. Some of society’s main problems are radically expressed in the city’s public spaces, such as segregation, rampant construction, homogenisation and privatisation of urban space.
The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition with the aim to recognize and encourage the recovery projects and defense of public space in our cities. The award, created in 2000, celebrates its seventh edition in 2012.

THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
President:
Josep Llinàs, who will be representing the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona;
Jury members:
Ole Bouman, director of the Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (NAI)
Sarah Ichioka, director of The Architecture Foundation (AF)
Juulia Kauste, director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (MFA)
Francis Rambert, director of La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
Peter Schmal, director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Dietmar Steiner, director of the Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W)

CONDITION OF PARTICIPATION
Works that have created, recovered or improved public space within the geographic limits of the Council of Europe in the years 2010 and 2011 may present for the Prize. These entries must be presented by the authors or the institutions that have sponsored the public space project.

SELECTION CRITERIA
The criteria that will govern selection will not only be related with the quality of the work from a strictly architectural point of view since the jury will also consider other aspects in its evaluation of the effects of the urban transformation that has taken place in the specific setting and its impact on collective life.

ENTRY PROCEDURE
1. On-line registration
2. Presentation of the physical material at the CCCB

IMPORTANT DATES

17 October 2011
Opening of the campaign of calling for entries for the Prize
19 January 2012
End of period for submitting entries
5 March - 11 April 2012
First phase of the Jury’s deliberations (on-line)
19 & 20 April 2012
Jury’s working sessions at the CCCB
29 June 2012
Prize-giving ceremony

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACTS 
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Montalegre, 5
E-08001 Barcelona
Phone: +34.93.306.41.00
European Prize for Urban Spaces Website