European Prize
of Architecture
Philippe Rotthier

ABOUT THE PRIZE

European Prize of Architecture
Philippe Rotthier

Triennial prize │ 50,000 € │ 1982 - today │ 86 award-winning works │ 33 different countries

Created in 1982, the European Prize of Architecture Philippe Rotthier rewards works of collective and cultural value, rooted in their region, using natural materials in a durable way, drawing on the genius of the European city in dialogue with the past and history.

The prize-winning works are selected by juries composed of leading European figures and have included the writers Adrien Goetz and Françoise Lalande, the journalists Sergio Frau and Katia Pecnik, the designer Matali Crasset, the historians Bruno Foucart, Charles Jencks and David Watkin, the artist Bernard Métais, and the architects Anna Heringer, Christian Biecher, Ben Bolgar, André Jacqmain, Léon Krier, Michael Lycoudis, Dimitri Porphyrios, Paolo Portoghesi, Rudy Ricciotti, Oscar Tusquets and Roland Castro.

Juries, chaired by Maurice Culot, have often chosen to select sometimes little known works and to recognise original approaches, such as those by François Spoerry and his lacustrine architecture, by Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil for his mosques and Eusebio Leal Spengler for the restoration of the city of Havana or by the film-maker Emir Kusturica for his Küstendorf village in Serbia. Towns and institutions have also been awarded the Philippe Rotthier Prize, including Bayonne, Le Plessis-Robinson and Val d'Europe in France, Palermo in Italy, Poundbury in the United Kingdom, Dresden in Allemagne, and the Äkroken campus in Sweden.

PRIZE FOUNDER

Philippe Rotthier

Architect & Prize Founder — Born 1941

After qualifying as an architect in 1964 from the École de la Cambre in Brussels, Philippe Rotthier worked with architect André Jacqmain and in 1967 was a founding member of the Atelier d'Architecture de Genval.

In 1973, he settled on the island of Ibiza where he built and renovated 80 houses in the vernacular style. His work has been the subject of several publications including Ibiza. Le Palais Paysan (1984), Maisons sur l'île d'Ibiza (1990), and Architectures Arquitecturas Ibiza (1997).

In 1982 he founded the European Prize for the Reconstruction of the City and in 1986 the Fondation pour l'Architecture in Brussels. In 2011, he founded the Architecture Museum La Loge in Brussels. Since 2006 he has divided his time between Ibiza, Brussels and Polynesia where he built his own home using exclusively local materials.

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