Xu Tiantian, fondatrice dello studio DnA Design and Architecture (Cina), vince l’ottava edizione dello Swiss Architectural Award con 26 candidati provenienti da 14 paesi di tutto il mondo. L’ottava edizione dello Swiss Architectural Award, promossa dalla Fondazione Teatro dell’architettura con il sostegno organizzativo e operativo dell’Università della Svizzera italiana – Accademia di architettura, conferma la collaborazione fra le tre Scuole di architettura svizzere (Università della Svizzera italiana – Accademia di architettura; Politecnico Federale di Losanna – ENAC, Section d’Architecture; Politecnico Federale di Zurigo – Departement Architektur), rappresentate nella giuria del premio dai loro decani / direttori. Lo Swiss Architectural Award si conferma uno dei premi di architettura contemporanea più prestigiosi al mondo, forte di un comitato di advisor composto da architetti e critici dell’architettura di rinomanza internazionale. Il premio di 100.000 franchi sarà consegnato il 4 maggio 2023 presso l’Auditorio del Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio dell’Università della Svizzera italiana. In occasione della cerimonia verrà inaugurata l’esposizione dei progetti presentati dai candidati.
Immagine: Xu Tiantian – Photo by Xu Meng
Xu Tiantian, founder of DnA Design and Architecture studio (China), is the winner of the eighth Swiss Architectural Award, a biennial international architecture prize promoted since 2018 by the Fondazione Teatro dell’architettura.
The eighth edition of the Swiss Architectural Award, confirms the collaboration between the three Swiss Schools of Architecture USI – Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio; EPFL – ENAC, Section d’Architecture, Lausanne; ETHZ – Departement Architektur, Zurich, represented in the jury, chaired by architect Mario Botta, by their deans/directors, Walter Angonese, Dieter Dietz and Tom Emerson. The Award benefits from the organizational and operative support of the Università della Svizzera italiana – Academy of Architecture.
With this cooperation, which reaffirms the Award’s national importance, the Swiss Architectural Award confirms it is one of the best endowed and most prestigious architectural awards, by virtue of an advisory committee consisting of internationally renowned architects and architecture critics.
The Swiss Architectural Award aims to promote a kind of architecture that is sensitive to contemporary ethical, aesthetic and ecological issues and can facilitate public and disciplinary debate. The prize is awarded, on a biennial basis, to architects not older than 50 years (in the year in which the Award is launched), without distinction of nationality, who have completed at least three significant works.
The prize, which amounts to CHF 100,000, will be presented to the winner on 4th May 2023 at the Auditorium of the Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio of the Università della Svizzera italiana. The ceremony will launch the exhibition of the works submitted by the candidates.
Xu Tiantian – DnA Design and Architecture was chosen from 26 candidates from 14 countries, selected by the committee of advisors, who fully met the expectations of the award promoters and jury.
The jury unanimously conferred the Swiss Architectural Award 2022 to Xu Tiantian for the reuse of the Shimen Bridge over the Songyin River (2016-2017), the tofu factory in Caizhai Village (2017-2018), and the reuse of the Jinyun quarries (2021-2022), with the following reasons:
The three works presented by Xu Tiantian, located in both Songyang and Jinyun county (a rural area in Zhejang province characterised by a landscape whose traditional structure has been preserved on the one hand, and on the other threatened by the depopulation process induced by the migration of younger people to the region’s urban centres) convinced the jury for the successful combination between the civic instances animating them (as they aim to serve local communities) and the quality of the proposed architecture, characterised by a marked attention to the context, by a precise and poetic attitude at the same time, and by the blending of different scales and themes, between architecture and infrastructure, between permanent and ephemeral, between reuse and ex-novo intervention.
The jury considered the Xu Tiantian work perfectly suited to the objectives of Swiss Architectural Award, i.e. to recognise and raise the public profile of architects from all over the world who, through their work, have made a significant contribution to contemporary architecture, in particular by demonstrating environmental awareness and thus helping to improve the quality of life of humankind.
The jury of the eighth edition was chaired by Mario Botta and composed of Walter Angonese (Director of the Accademia di architettura, USI), Stéphanie Bru (winner, with the Paris-based studio Bruther, of the seventh SAA edition), Dieter Dietz (Director of the Section d’Architecture, EPFL-ENAC) and Tom Emerson (Dean of the Departement Architektur, ETHZ).
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Immagine: Xu Tiantian – DnA Design and Architecture, Reuse if the Jinyun quarries, 2016-2017. Foto di Wang Ziling
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