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Triennale Milano museum and MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts have announced the winners of the fourth Premio Italiano di Architettura (Italian Architecture Award). The best building prize was shared by Carlo Atzeni, Maurizio Manias, Silvia Mocci, and Franceschino Serra for their design of the Church of Santa Chiara complex in the Italian town of Sini, Sardinia, and ELASTICOFarm for the new National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) S-LAB complex in Turin.
An honorable mention was given to Labics for its project for the completion of the museum areas of Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara.
Studio Ossidiana won the under 35s award with its Art Pavilion M. project in Almere, Netherlands, receiving 10,000 euros to be used for projects and/or training. Also in the under 35s-category, another mention was given to the projects Paraphernalia, the work of (ab)Normal, and More with Less, by orizzontale.
Finally, Aimaro Oreglia d’Isola received the lifetime achievement award.
The Italian Architecture Award grew out of the Triennale Milano’s Gold Medal for Italian Architecture and MAXXI’s YAP – Young Architects Program. The result of collaboration between the two, the award sets out to promote architecture created by architects who are Italian or active in Italy and committed to innovation, project quality, and the social role of architecture.
The winning and finalist projects of the 2023 award will be on display at the Triennale until September 24.
“It is with great pleasure that we further strengthen our working relationship with MAXXI, hosting this fourth edition of the Italian Architecture Prize at Triennale. All the projects selected stand out for their exceptional quality and noteworthy capacity for experimentation. The Prize brings to the fore the most distinctive proposals on the contemporary architectural scene, featuring innovative, highly functional solutions to the complex themes of the present. We are also delighted to present the lifetime achievement award to Aimaro Oreglia d’Isola, who has left his mark, both individually and through his work alongside Roberto Gabetti, on an entire era, thanks to his innovative, intriguing creations, ranging from the residential units in Ivrea to his projects in Milan for the Bicocca area and the offices in San Donato”.
Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano
“The Italian Architecture Prize is the outcome of a virtuous working relationship established four years ago by Triennale Milano and MAXXI. During this period, the two teams have done an excellent job of working side by side, each contributing to the recognition of major architectural designers and to the promotion of young talents, all of whom have seen their professional and cultural standing grow after receiving their prizes. The working agreement expires in September of this year, and I am naturally hoping for, and working towards, its renewal, seeing that the initiative benefits not only the two institutions but Italian architecture as a whole”.
Alessandro Giuli, President of the MAXXI Foundation
The projects entered in the fourth Italian Architecture Award were judged by an international jury composed of Stefano Boeri, president of Triennale Milano; Nina Bassoli, Triennale curator for architecture, urban regeneration, and city; Lorenza Baroncelli, director of MAXXI Architettura; Pippo Ciorra, MAXXI Architettura senior curator; Matteo Scagnol of MoDusArchitects, winner of the 2002 Best Building prize; Valentina Merz and Lara Monacelli Bani of Atelier Remoto, winner of the 2022 NXT_MAXXI L’Aquila; Iñaqui Carnicero, founding architect of Rica Studio; and Giancarlo Mazzanti, architect and founder of El Equipo Mazzanti.
THE BEST BUILDING CONSTRUCTED IN THE LAST THREE YEARS
The Parish Complex of Santa Chiara, designed by Carlo Atzeni, Maurizio Manias, Silvia Mocci and Franceschino Serra, “sits in the centre of the small town of Sini, in the inland portion of Sardinia, where its formal rigour and contextual awareness serve to restore the spatial, expressive and relational unity of the town’s central fabric. By interpreting the traditional elements of local spontaneous construction, in combination with the discretion of Mediterranean koiné architecture, the project revives the sense of ties to the community, all within a challenging context”.
THE BEST BUILDING CONSTRUCTED IN THE LAST THREE YEARS
S-LAB project, by ELASTICOFarm, is "one of the most distinguished examples of the firm’s innovative linguistic-technological work. By endowing a theoretically ‘generic’ type of structure with a distinctive character, the project provided an occasion for advanced exploration. In fact, the building transformed the traditional technology for production structures, meaning heavy prefabrication in reinforced concrete, into an opportunity for experimentation with every aspect of relations with the surrounding context, as well as manifestations in terms of the environment and the atmosphere, plus considerations of perception and the countryside”.
HORORABLE MENTION
Labics completion of the museum areas of the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara "is a virtuous example of an architectural project designed to analyse anew, and update, the functional and historical features of an historic building of immense value. The project deserves recognition both for its intrinsic quality and its success in overcoming preconceived notions and opposition masquerading as concerns of preservation”.
UNDER 35 PRIZE
Art Pavillion M. project by Studio Ossidiana “summarises, in one succinct effort, the key features of the firm’s work, which, only a few years following its founding, already displays admirable clarity in terms of formal exploration and an awareness of environmental topics, including inter-species relations between architecture and the countryside”.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
“Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, the career of Aimaro Oreglia d’Isola stimulated architectural debate on topics such as modernity versus tradition, the natural versus the artificial, relations between the territory and the landscape, maintaining the relevance of such issues right up to the present, when they appear more important than ever. The originality of his studies was apparent from his very first efforts, rapidly leading to intense discussion of the significance of modern architecture with respect to history and local cultures. Through his intensive academic activity, as well as the parallel explorations of his invaluable design work, the thought and professional practice of Aimaro Oreglia d’Isola have made, and continue to make, a critical contribution to architecture within the frameworks of both culture and the
landscape”.
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