The Barbara Cappochin Foundation and the Order of Architects, Town Planners, Landscape Architects, and Conservationists of Padua province announce the sixth edition of the Barbara Cappochin prize.

Organised every two years since 2005, this award aims to underline architecture's vital role in the evolution of our landscape. It focuses on the urban periphery and the use of bio- architecture, energy efficiency, and sustainable urban planning.

The prize is open to architects or multi-disciplinary teams led by architects from around the world. It will be awarded to a realisation built between 1st July 2012 and 1st July 2015. The deadline for submitting documents is 30 June 2015. 

The Prize was created to remember Barbara and what she left us during her 22 years of life through the understanding of the deep and intimate connection existing between architecture and everyday life. The purpose of the Prize is to bring out the centrality and responsibility of architecture in the process of landscape modification. It focuses its attention on urban outskirts and on the use of bio-architecture, energy efficiency and sustainable urban planning. The prize selects and awards the works dealing with urban regeneration and environmental development, with the highest quality in different fields, including environmental quality, (both sensorial and emotional), attention to the human scale, innovative design and construction, appropriate use of materials and structures, study of constructive details, combination of aesthetic and quality, functionality and sustainability.

The Prize and the International Conferences, which are the most important events of the VII° edition of the Barbara Cappochin Biennial, all meditate on connection that strongly links the quality of life to the quality of architecture.

Art. 4- Characteristics Of Works Submitted

Are eligible for participation to the 2015 Edition of the “International Barbara Cappochin Prize” all completed between July 1st, 2012 and June 30th, 2015.

All work must involve new edification, even extensions or requalification of existing buildings, or landscape architecture planned by single architects, architectural firms and/or engineers of any nationality and enrolled in the professional register or an equivalent association, belonging to the following categories:

1.public and private residential architecture;

2.commercial, managerial and mixed architecture;

3.public architecture (educational, cultural, social-health, religious, sporting, recreational, landscape architecture;

4.sustainable urban regeneration/eco-districts

Competing works executed in the Region of Veneto can also participate in the Regional Section of the Prize.
Every participant can submit one or more works; it is his specific duty and responsibility to obtain the approval of the client and of the owner for the presentation and for the use of the work and its materials, as well as to declare, taking the penal responsibility, that all the material sent is of exclusive conception and design.

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