Dezeen promotion: the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association (ASCER) is calling for architecture and interior projects that use Spanish ceramics to enter this year's Tile of Spain Awards.
Entries can be located anywhere in the world as long as they substantially use tiles made in Spain and must have been completed between January 2011 and October 2013.
A €17,000 prize will be awarded to the jury's favourite architecture project and the same amount to an interior, while the best student design will receive €5000.
Previous winners include a former slaughterhouse converted into a school for training chefs and a pearlescent music hall.
Architecture and interior projects should be submitted to premios@ascer.es and students should post their work to: ASCER, Ginjols, 3, 12003 Castellon, Spain.
The closing date for entries is 29 October and application is free. Visit the Tile of Spain Awards website or contact premios@ascer.es for further information.
The organisers sent us the following information:
Open call: 2013 Tile of Spain Awards for architecture and interior design
The Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association (ASCER) has now launched the twelfth edition of the competition that celebrates the innovative and creative use of Spanish ceramics in interior design and architecture around the globe.
The twelfth annual Tile of Spain Awards is now open for entries for the 2013 competition, welcoming project submissions from international architects, interior designers and students. Projects can be located anywhere in the world, but the key criteria for consideration is that a project must make significant use of Spanish ceramics in the formal part of the building – floor, wall or facade - and must have been completed between January 2011 and October 2013.
The 2013 Tile of Spain Awards offers a prize fund of 39,000 Euros divided into three categories: Architecture (17,000 Euros), Interior Design (17,000 Euros) and Student Degree Project (5,000 Euros). The jury may give a further two special mentions in each category.
For this edition, the jury chairman is the prominent German architect Matthias Sauerbruch, founding partner of Sauerbruch Hutton, with offices in Berlin and London. Other jury members include the Italian architect Luca Molinari, curator and producer of cultural events related to contemporary architecture, design and photography; the architect Manuel Gallego, Gold Medal of Architecture 2010 in Spain; the young designer Tomás Alonso, founding partner of OKAY Studio London; the Portuguese architect João LuÃs Carrilho da Graça; Ignacio GarcÃa Pedrosa from Paredes & Pedrosa studio; and Ramón Monfort of the Architects Association of Castellon, Spain.
In previous editions the competition jury comprised distinguished architects such as Juan Navarro Baldeweg, William J.R. Curtis, Terence Riley, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Carlos Ferrater, LuÃs Moreno Mansilla, Benedetta Tagliabue.
About the President of the Jury: Matthias Sauerbruch
Matthias Sauerbruch (1955 Constance, Germany) is a founding partner of Sauerbruch Hutton, an architecture practice with offices in Berlin and London, concerned with the creation of functional, sensual and conscientious architecture with individuality. The practice is noted for its synthesis of colour in the design process, and for the use of fluid curvilinear forms with the Brandhorst Museum (Munich) as prime example. Matthias Sauerbruch is among 7 international architects bestowed with the AIA Honorary Fellowship 2013 of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He is visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, and visiting design critic at Harvard Graduate School of Design (EEUU).
Previous winners
In recent years the competition has awarded a wide range of projects, recognising the versatility of Spanish ceramics. Last year prizes went to a Catering School in a Former Abattoir by Sol 89 and to The Granada Teacher Training College by Ramon Fernandez – Alonso Borrajo. Awarded projects in the past include: MUCA Auditorium and Music House by Studio COR; Casa Collage in Girona by Bosch.Capdeferro; the Benidorm Promenade by OAB; the rehabilitation of the Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona by Miralles-Tagliabue; the Spanish Pavilion in Expo Zaragoza 2008 by Francisco Mangado and in the Aichi Expo in Japan 2005 by Alejandro Zaera and Farshid Moussavi.
