Dedalo Minosse International Prize for Commissioning a Building 2005 2006

On its sixth edition, the Dedalo Minosse Prize, promoted by the Associazione Liberi Architetti ALA - Assoarchitetti and the international architectural review l'ARCA, together with the sponsor Caoduro Lucernari, has already become one of the most important architectural awards in the world, with the strength of its peculiarity of being targeted at the client rather than the architect.
Free registrations are open to both private and public clients from all Countries. The commissioned works must have been designed by a professional architect or building engineer and been effectively completed in the last five years. The prize has been included in the Regione of Veneto's programme for contemporary architecture enhancement.

There are 4 main awards and other special awards given by the review l'ARCA, Caoduro Lucernari and by other Patron Bodies and Sponsors. A special section is devoted to Italian architects and another one to young architects or rather to Clients who commissioned works to under 40 professional architects.

The Jury, still in progress, is made up as follows:
Stanislao Nievo, writer and environmentalist, as Chairman; Paolo Caoduro, main sponsor of the Prize; Cesare Maria Casati, Chief-editor of the international architectural review " l'ARCA"; Bruno Gabbiani, president of ALA - Assoarchitetti; Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese professional architect of the winning Client in 2003/2004 edition; Richard Haslam, English historian of Architecture; Pier Paolo Maggiora, Italian architect; Adriano Rasi Caldogno, planning general secretary of Regione Veneto; Frederick Samitaur Smith, American urban developer; Roberto Tretti, director of the Centro Studi per le Libere professioni; Claude Vasconi, French architect.

In judging candidates the Jury could take into account particular features adding special value to the projects such as biocompatibility, careful use of energetic and environmental resources, Design for All, research and innovation incentives, thus considering the different peculiarities in function, tipology and dimensions of the works (public buildings, private houses, open areas, infrastructures).
The winning works will be on show and published on a catalogue edited by l'ARCA Edizioni in limited number of copies. A selection of the works will be distributed at an international level, linked to an issue of the magazine "l'ARCA", in more than 45.000 copies. Details of prize-winners and other selected entrants and their works will be shown on internet www.assoarchitetti.it to give further prominence to the relations developed between clients and architects.

In the Previous Editions more than 800 candidates, from 30 different Countries entered the competition. Both public and private clients such as Palermo, Siracusa and Cosenza's Administration, Madrid and Vienna's Government, the Kuala Lumpur KLIAB, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Vicariage of Rome; renowned firms as Vodafone, ESO European Southern Observatory, Benetton, Porsche, Medusa Cinema, Products Roche, and private clients commissioning avantguard projects; furthermore The Dr. Ludwig Marxer Family Foundation, Fondazione IDIS - Città della Scienza, the National University of Cordoba. Among the architects Kisho Kurokawa, Richard Meier, Hans Hollein, Piero Sartogo, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Eric Owen Moss, Francisco Serrano, Miguel Ángel Roca, Gae Aulenti, Studio 65, Hideto Horiike, Dante O. Benini, Volker Giencke, gmp-architekten Von Gerkan, Asymptote Architecture N.Y, Hideki Yoshimatsu, Gae Aulenti, and the young talented Gary Chang, Micha de Haas and Vincenzo Latina.

To prove the prestige of an Italian Award that is well known both in Italy and abroad, the fact that, thanks to the Italian Ministery of Foreign Affair and the Italian Cultural Institutes' cooperation, the winning works will be exhibited throughout the world:

- Courmayeur, Ange Exhibition Gallery, January 7 - 22, 2006;
- Tirana, National Arts Gallery, November 21 - 30, 2005;
- Rome, National Archive, April 20 - May 7, 2005;
- Barcelona, Construmat, Barcelona Fair, in association with Italian Cultural Institute, April 11 - 16, 2005;
- London, Italian Cultural Institute, February 21 - March 4, 2005;
- San Francisco, American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Gallery, February 3 - 25, 2005;
- Washington, Embassy of Italy, January 25 - February 11, 2005;
- Monopoli (BA), Carlo V Castle, November 13 - 28, 2004;
- Napoli, Maschio Angioino, November 5 - 9, 2004.

Registrations: September 1, 2005 - January 27, 2006
Awarding Ceremony: May 19, 2006 - Olympic Theatre by Andrea Palladio, Vicenza (Italy)
Exhibition : June 9 - July 20, 2006 - Palladian Basilica, Vicenza

The exhibition will be on show also in Moscow, Sydney, Beijing and Prague: the dates are being defined with the Ministery of Foreign Affair and will all be between January and May 2006.
In Italy there will be exhibitions in Turin, Florence, Bolonia and Milan.

For more information, please visit http://www.assoarchitetti.it

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