The Prize

       
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"....This architectural Award aims to ensure that the discipline will have a niche of quality and makes it a possible to showcase outstanding works, in which the discipline finds a fertile ground to ensure that  the values appropriate to building will find a favourable application and expression....."
(from the speek of Mario Botta - published in the catalogue of the Prize)

".....No fewer than 430 architects from 50 countries have submitted projectsto the various sections, which therefore cover every corner of the planet ....Celebrated architects, soon to be famous architects, young architects but extremaly detrminated to "do well": this is the professional and artistic context in which the Prize works....."
(from the speek of Giancarlo Galan - President of the  Regione Veneto - published in the catalogue of the Prize)

"....It is very interesting to see in the fourth edition of this International  Prize, an increasing understanding of how architects through their skills and use of materials can show the world that it is possible to delicatly design buildings that are of their time, relate sensitively with their environment without an unlimited budget...."
(from the speek of Louise Cox - President of Unione International Union of Architect U.I.A.  - published in the catalogue of the Prize)

"..... Sustenability, as a scale of aesthetic, ethical and poltical judgement, creates an architecture that is not just about a building or buildings, but about creating an environment for survival and well-being, shared expression and solidarity....."
( from the speek of  Gaetan Siew - President of the  Jury and U.I.A Past President)

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• l'Alto Patronato del Presidente della Repubblica Italiana
• Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
• Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
• Parlamento Europeo
• British Embassy
• Regione Veneto
• Comune di Padova
• Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori
• Università di Padova
• Federazioine degli Ordini degli Architetti del Veneto - F.O.A.V.