The 11th European Prize of Architecture Philippe Rotthier 2017 in collaboration with CIVA Foundation will award new architecture, urban projects, and developments closely linked to water and its uses. This year's theme for this session is the relationship between Water, architecture and the town.

This year's theme could, for example, be the highlighting of existing or new constructions (mills, reservoirs, dockyards, warehouses, engineering works), the creation of new neighbourhoods or improvements in which water is a notable feature, the reopening of urban canals and improvement of quaysides and banks, or exemplary and original projects for recovering and reusing rainwater and runoff water. A special prize will be awarded to one or several imaginative projects on the theme of water and the landscape, architecture and the town. The scale, subject, programme and location of these projects is for each participant to decide.

Reception of entries

Entry files must be sent to the CIVA Foundation, for the attention of 

Lauréline Tissot, 55 rue de l’Ermitage, B-1050 Brussels (Belgium). 

Closing date: 30 April 2017

Entry file

The file in A3 format, of 20 pages maximum, should include all documents of use in understanding the work (plans, cross-sections, photographs before and after) as well as contact details of the natural person or corporate entity submitting the entry file, the name of the architect and of the contracting authority. Works entered for the prize must have been built within the last five years. Entry files must be in French or English and will not be returned.

Jury

Christian Cardon, mayor of Trouville-sur-mer, France

Roland Castro, architect, Paris, France

Myriam Caudrelier, publisher, Savoie, France

Alejandro Garcia Hermida, lecturer in architecture, Madrid, Spain

Jean-Philippe Hugron, journalist, Paris, France

Léon Krier, architect, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Jonathan Meades, architecture critic, London, Great Britain

Pascale Mussard, artistic director (Hermès), Brussels, Belgium

Koen Olthuis, architect, Rijswijk, the Netherlands

Michel Onfray, philosopher, France

Michel Pena, landscape architect, Paris, France

William Pesson, architect, Paris, France

Mario Pisani, architecture critic, Rome, Italy

Rudy Ricciotti, architect, Bandol, France

Jacques Rougerie, architect-oceanographer, Paris, France

François Schuiten, cartoonist and scenographer, Brussels, Belgium

SOL 89 (Maria Gonzales, Juanjo Lopez de la Cruz), architects, Seville, Spain (2014 prizewinners)

Axel Vervoordt, antiquarian and designer, Wijnegem, Belgium

Paola Viganò, architect, Milan, Italy

Veerle Wenes, gallerist (valerie_traan), Antwerp, Belgium

The international jury, consisting of a dozen prominent European figures from a range of professional backgrounds, will meet on 23 and 24 June 2017 under the presidency of Maurice Culot. The final list of jury members will be posted on the website. The results will be announced in the press and candidates will be notified by email.

Prize

An amount of 30,000 euros, possibly split between several entries and a special prize of 5,000 euros, are being made available to the jury by the prize founder, Philippe Rotthier.

Prizewinners, Exhibition and Publication 

The prize-giving ceremony will take place at the CIVA Foundation on Saturday 14 October 2017 in the presence of the prizewinners and prominent European personalities. It will be followed by the inau- guration of the exhibition of the prizewinning and mentioned works. These will also be included in a catalogue. A touring version of the exhibition is available on request.

Established in 1982 by the architect Philippe Rotthier, this triennial prize rewards works of collective and cultural value with regional roots and using natural and sustainable materials that draw on the geni- us of the European town and a dialogue with the past and with history.

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