Delivery by May 24, 2024
The Frate Sole Foundation has launched the new one edition of the international competition that photographs the state of the art of Christian religious architecture internationally.
The participation is free and is open to designers of new Christian religious buildings built all over the world in the last decade (dal 2014).
The works must communicate expressive qualities of mystical values, harmony and beauty of forms, originality and creative strength in the architectural conception, giving the building a high atmosphere of spirituality, an expression of courageous and passionate innovative research, outside of any conventionalism of manner.
The International Sacred Architecture Award over the years
Considered the Oscar of Sacred Architecture, and awarded every four years, it has already seen architects of the caliber of Tadao Andowinner of the debut competition in 1996 for the Church of Light in Ibaraki (Japan)Of Alvaro Sizain 2000, for the Church of Santa Maria in Marco de Canaveses (Portugal); Of Richard Meierin 2004, for the Church of God the Merciful Father in Romethe Church of the Jubilee of 2000. 2008 saw the protagonist John Pawsonfor having designed and built the Novy Dvur Monastery Church (Czech Republic), a construction of great rigor, silent and eloquent, deeply linked to the monastic traditions of the oldest prayer communities of the Old Continent. In 2012, the recognition was awarded to Cristian Undurragafor the Retiro Chapel, in the Andes Valley (Cile). In 2016, Rafael Moneowon with the church of Iesu in San Sebastian (Spain) and in 2020 the prize went to the studio Meck Architectsrepresented by Axel Frühauf, with the church of Blessed Father Rupert Mayer in Poing, Munich (Germany), a building built with light.
Seven architects who distinguished themselves with works they knew combine the Christian tradition of places of worship with elements of innovation, capable of transmitting the universality of the spiritual message that goes beyond individual belief.
International Sacred Architecture Award 2024
“Building a church that does not separate, but unites all of creation in its structures, the light, the trees, the living images, the sounds of nature”wrote Costantino Ruggeri, a Franciscan friar who passed away in 2007 and is universally known as one of the main architects of the renewal of contemporary sacred architecture.
Today, seventeen years after his death, his idea of a built church continues to materialize in the Frate Sole Foundation (which he established in 1993) and above all in the International Prize for Sacred Architecture, which reaches its eighth edition in 2024. .
How to participate
The documentation must be forwarded to the Frate Sole Foundation by Friday 24 May 2024, using the specific form to be filled out which can be accessed from the Foundation website within the set deadline.
The material sent will not be returned, but kept in the archive of the Foundation, which reserves the right to exhibit the works, as well as to use the illustrative and graphic material for publications, without owing anything to the designers.
Jury
The projects received will be evaluated by a Commission made up of members of the Scientific Committee of the Frate Sole Foundation and architects Cristian Undurraga e Axel Frühauf.
Award
The winner receives the “Golden Sky”, a sculpture designed by Fr. Costantino Ruggeri, and a prize of 30,000 euros.
The awards ceremony will be held at the University of Pavia on Saturday 5 October 2024
The projects will be part of the Frate Sole Foundation archive, and will allow the creation of a catalog and an exhibition of the VIII edition of the Award.
The International Sacred Architecture Award is organized by the Frate Sole Foundation, and sponsored by: National Office for ecclesiastical cultural heritage and religious buildings, National Council of Architects, Province of Lombardy of the Friars Minor, Order of Landscape Architects and Planners of the Province of Pavia, Order of Engineers of the Province of Pavia, Diocese of Pavia, Province of Pavia, Municipality of Pavia, University of Pavia. Collaborating with the Frate Sole Foundation: ANCE Pavia and the Crocevia Foundation. Media Sponsor: Chiesa Oggi, Avvenire, Luoghi dell’Infinito.
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+ info: internationalprize.fondazionefratesole.org
Winner 2012 Cristian Undurraga – Capilla del Retiro – Valle de Los Andes Chile | Courtesy Frate Sole Foundation
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published on: 04/05/2024