The European Prize for Architecture 2019

Each year, The European Prize for Architecture is awarded jointly by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design to architects who have made a commitment to forward the principles of European humanism and the art of architecture.

The European Prize for Architecture is not a “lifetime of achievement award,” but rather serves as an impetus to support new ideas, to encourage and foster more challenge-making and forward-thinking about buildings and the environment, and to prompt the pushing of the envelope to obtain an even greater, more profound result. The Prize also honors the commitment and achievements of the best European architects who have determined a more critical, intellectual, and artistic approach to the design of buildings and cities.

The formal ceremony and gala dinner will be held at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece on September 13, 2019.

An exhibition “Henning Larsen Architects” opens at Contemporary Space (74 Mitropoleos Street) in Athens that same evening and continues through October.