Álvaro Siza and Herzog & de Meuron win the inaugural MCHAP
23/10/2014.
[CHICAGO] USA
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Iberê Camargo Foundation by Álvaro Siza and 1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron win the inaugural MCHAP.
Ibere Camargo Foundation by Alvaro Siza (credit: Elvira Tomazoni Fortuna).
Ibere Camargo Foundation by Alvaro Siza (credit: Elvira Tomazoni Fortuna).
Ibere Camargo Foundation by Alvaro Siza (credit: Elvira Tomazoni Fortuna).
Ibere Camargo Foundation by Alvaro Siza (credit: Elvira Tomazoni Fortuna).
Ibere Camargo Foundation by Alvaro Siza (credit: Elvira Tomazoni Fortuna).
Ibere Camargo Foundation by Alvaro Siza (credit: Elvira Tomazoni Fortuna).
Ibere Camargo Foundation by Alvaro Siza (credit: Elvira Tomazoni Fortuna).
Jacques Herzog, Wiel Arets and Alvaro Siza at MCHAP Ceremony.
1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron (credit: Hufton + Crow).
1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron (credit: Hufton + Crow).
1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron (credit: Hufton + Crow).
1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron (credit: Hufton + Crow).
1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron (credit: Hufton + Crow).
1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron (credit: Hufton + Crow).
1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron (credit: Hufton + Crow).
1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron (credit: Hufton + Crow).
Kenneth Frampton, MCHAP (Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize) Jury President, announced the inaugural winners of MCHAP2000-2008 and MCHAP2009-2013 at a benefit award dinner honoring the seven finalists held at S. R. Crown Hall on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago last night. More than 300 people attended the ceremony, including representatives of the finalists’ architects and clients and featuring Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The authors of the two winning projects honoring the best built works in the Americas will each be recognized with the MCHAP Award, the MCHAP Chair at IIT College of Architecture for the fo llowing academic year and funding of $50,000 USD, in support of research and a publication related to the theme of ‘Rethinking Metropolis.’
Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil, by Álvaro Siza was named MCHAP2000-2008 winner.
Representing the project at the award benefit dinner were architects Álvaro Siza of Álvaro Siza Arquitecto and Jose Luiz Canal.
The Iberê Camargo Foundation building was completed in May 2008 and built to house the collection of Iberê Camargo, the Brazilian painter. The open, generous spaces of the Foundation building inspire the study and investigation of contemporary art in an uplifting atmosphere. The building responds to a site that is relatively small in size, narrow and bordered by a busy avenue. The shape of the building is dependent of the shape of the slope against which it is built. The front of the building is undulated in a symmetrical manner to the slope itself.
In their deliberations, the Jury noted the importance of symbolic space in relation to the promenade -- the movement of the people through the structure. The Iberê Camargo Foundation building compels you to move through the space both because of its skillfully sculpted experiences and its masterfully expressed forms. At the edge of the city, the foundation combines the museum with parking, café, bookstore, and workspace, just as it stitches together the site between the water and the hill, bifurcated by the highway.
1111 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Florida, USA by Herzog & de Meuron was named MCHAP2009-2013 winner.
Representing the project at the award benefit dinner were architects Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Christine Binswanger and Jason Frantzen of Herzog & de Meuron as well as clients Robert Wennett and Jeff Weinstein of UIA Management.
1111 Lincoln Road was completed in January 2010. Since then, it has become an iconic building and a gateway to central Miami Beach. The project comprises a former bank building, which is rehabilitated to include retail and a restaurant; a two-story building with the relocated bank on the ground floor and four residences on the upper floor; and a new mixed-use structure for parking, retail and a private residence. 1111 Lincoln Road is as much an urban redevelopment as it is a specific architectural response to the immediate site conditions. Joggers climb its stairs, skate boarders ride its ramps, yoga lessons take advantage of the breezes and tourists take in the expansive view. It is an extension of the public life on the street, a framework for new interventions and change.
In their deliberations, the Jury noted the significance of the parking garage, one of the most utilitarian forms of infrastructure and one of the most visible elements of the city. 1111 Lincoln Road proves that infrastructure can be a form that celebrates the potentials of architecture. The diverse programmatic elements embedded in the structure, combined with its embracing of landscape and the street, demonstrate a building’s potential to contribute to economic regeneration.
“The selected Finalists works covered a fairly wide range, going from a public library to two art museums and extending the typological spectrum to include a garage, an infill apartment block, a restaurant, and a chapel. It was an uncommon expressive display of structure which gave the jury the opportunity of establishing a shorter list of two works which determined our final deliberations as to the nature and significance of the prize” said Frampton. “In the event we decided to give two equal awards, one covering the period 2000 through 2008, and one covering the shorter period 2009 through 2013.”
"Chicago is the home to great architecture as well as the Pritzker, MCHAP and soon, The Chicago Biennial," said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. "So I am proud be among the first to congratulate the inaugural winners of MCHAP, Alvaro Siza Arquitecto for Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil and Herzog & de Meuron for 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. We hope to see both of them back in Chicago to celebrate the Biennial in 2015."
MCHAP was established under Wiel Arets, Dean of the College of Architecture at IIT, and was launched in February 2014 with Phyllis Lambert at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and Dirk Denison, MCHAP Director and Professor in the College of Architecture at IIT.
“The selection of these two works, after months of debate among the jurors, is just the beginning,” said Arets. “By choosing them as inaugural MCHAP winners, we are starting a debate about the opportunities of the modern metropolis. We are creating a hub at the College of Architecture that unites architects working in the Americas, but at the same time opens the discourse with others involved in the discipline around the world and welcome them to S. R. Crown Hall.”
"Chicago is the home to great architecture as well as the Pritzker, MCHAP and soon, The Chicago Biennial," said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel who served as Honorary Chair for the MCHAP Benefit Award Dinner. "So I am proud be among the first to congratulate the inaugural winners of MCHAP, Alvaro Siza Arquitecto for Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil and Herzog & de Meuron for 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. We hope to see both of them back in Chicago to celebrate the Biennial in 2015."
The finalists, in addition to 1111 Lincoln Road and Iberê Camargo Foundation, include:
• Altamira Residential Building in Rosario, Argentina, by Rafael Iglesia Arquitectura
• Capilla del Retiro in Auco, Los Andes, Chile, by Undurraga Deves Arquitectos
• Mestizo Restaurant in Santiago, Chile, by Smiljan Radic Studio
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. by Steven Holl Architects
• Seattle Central Library, in Seattle, Washington, U.S. by OMA / LMN
Earlier in the day, IIT ‘s College of Architecture hosted a day-long symposium including sessions for students, faculty and the architects and clients of the seven finalists in dialogue about the nominated works and how they contribute to the college’s continuing conversation—Rethinking Metropolis. Later in the afternoon, the general public was invited to a moderated discussion between the architects and jury about the context of contemporary practice.
“MCHAP is building a vibrant network of architects and academics from throughout the Americas,” said Denison, “We are creating an academic home in Chicago for the winningproject’s architects. The Chilean practice Pezo von Ellrichshausen received the MCHAP.emerge—for a work by an emerging practice—and is currently leading a studio at the College of Architecture at IIT as part of their MCHAP Research Fellowship. We look forward to welcoming Herzog & de Meuron and Alvaro Siza Arquitecto to the College in the coming year.”
MCHAP seeks to assess the state of architecture, created in partnership by architects and clients, that unites the Americas into a single continent of cultural diversity and richness. MCHAP also seeks to show students how built works—public or private, cultural or commercial—reinforce the public dimension of urban space and contribute at an infrastructural level.
“The role of the client in the chosen works is worth noting,” said Dominique Perrault, Jury member, Founding Principal, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris and Professor at EPFL. “Two very different clients with very different resources have both produced fine examples of an intense urban quality.”
“Students of architecture need to have ambition – not a selfish ambition centered on themselves, but an ambition for architecture and its possible future, especially in the Americas,” said Sarah Whiting, Jury member, Dean and William Ward Watkin Professor, Rice School of Architecture in Houston. “That means ambition for architecture’s potential for the city, for society, and for the public realm.”
“There are many problems that architects of the Americas should consider and solve through social and environmental responsibility,” said Jury member Professor Jorge Francisco Liernur, Jury member and Professor of Architecture at Torcuato Di Tella University in Argentina. “Architecture in the Americas has the advantage of its diversity, a diversity that can provide a virtuous combination of the best features of the creations and traditions of both its hemispheres.”
MCHAP was created as part of Dean Arets’ strategy for the College of Architecture at IIT emphasizing progressive research and a new curriculum. It was announced in NOWNESS March 2013. Nominees for both MCHAP and MCHAP.emerge were chosen by 71 professionally diverse, international ambassadors from throughout the Americas.
The winners of MCHAP and MCHAP.emerge were chosen by the MCHAP Jury which includes: Jury President Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture at GSAPP, Columbia University, New York; Wiel Arets, Dean of the College of Architecture and Rowe Family College of Architecture Dean Endowed Chair at IIT, Chicago; Jorge Francisco Liernur, Architect, Professor at Torcuato Di Tella University, and Researcher of Argentina’s National Council for Scientific and Technical Investigation, Buenos Aires; Dominique Perrault, Founding Principal, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris and Professor at EPFL, Lausanne; and Sarah Whiting, Dean and William Ward Watkin Professor, Rice School of Architecture, Houston.
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ÁLVARO SIZA VIEIRA
Álvaro Joaquim Melo Siza Vieira was born in Matosinhos (near Porto), in 1933. From 1949-55 he studied at the School of Architecture, University of Porto. His first built project was finished in 1954. From 1955-58 he was collaborator of Arch. Fernando Távora. He taught at the School of Architecture (ESBAP) from 1966-69 and was appointed Professor of "Construction" in 1976. He was a Visiting Professor at the Ècole Polythéchnique of Lausanne, the University of Pennsylvania, Los Andes University of Bogotá and the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University; he taught at the School of Architecture of Porto (jubilate in 2003).
He is the author of many projects such as: the Boa Nova Tea House and Restaurant; 1200 dwellings built in Malagueira, Évora; the Superior School of Education in Setúbal, the new School of Architecture in Porto; the Library of Aveiro University; the Museum of Modern Art in Porto; the Church and Parochial Centre in Marco de Canavezes; the Pavilion of Portugal for EXPO '98 and the Pavilion of Portugal in Hannover 2000 (with Souto de Moura); the dwelling and offices complex of “Terraços de Bragança” in Lisbon; and he has rebuilt the burnt area of Chiado in Lisbon since 1988, including the projects for some buildings like Castro e Melo, Grandella, Chiado Stores, and others.
He has been coordinated the plan of Schilderswijk's recuperation in The Hague, Holland, since 1985, which finished in 89; in 1995 he finished the project for blocs 6-7-8 in Ceramique Terrein, Maastricht.
In Spain he has completed the projects for the Meteorological Centre of Villa Olimpica in Barcelona; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Galicia and the Faculty of Information Sciences in Santiago de Compostela; the Rectorate of the Alicante University; Zaida building – offices, commercial and dwelling complex in Granada; Sportive Complex Cornellà de L’lobregat in Barcelona.
Cultural Centre and auditorium for the Ibere Camargo Foundation in Brazil; Municipal Centre of Rosario in Argentina; lodging-house in the Plan of Recuperation and Transformation of Cidade Velha in Cap Vert; Serpentine Pavillion (2005) with Eduardo Souto Moura; Museum of Modern Art of Naples in Italy; Anyang Pavilion in South Korea (with Carlos Castanheira); Mimesis Museum in South Korea (with Carlos Castanheira); are to be mentioned.
He has participated in several lectures and conferences in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Norway, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, England, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Canada, United States, Romania, Greece, South Korea and Sweden.
Having been invited to participate in international competitions, he won the first place in Schlesisches Tor, Kreuzberg, Berlin (now built), at the recuperation of Campo di Marte in Venice (1985) and at the renewal of Casino and Café Winkler, Salzburg (1986); Cultural Centre for the La Defensa, Madrid (with José Paulo Santos) (1988/89); J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California (with Peter Testa) (1993); Pietà Rondanini Room, Sforzesco Castell, Milan (1999); Special Plan Recoletos-Prado, Madrid (with Juan Miguel Hernandez Leon e Carlos Riaño) (2002); Toledo Hospital (Sánchez-Horneros office) (2003); “Atrio de la Alhambra” in Spain (with Juan Domingo Santos)(2010); “Parco delle Cave”, Lecce in Italy (with Carlos Castanheira) (2010).
He has participated in the competitions for Expo 92 in Sevilla, Spain (with Eduardo Souto de Moura and Adalberto Dias) (1986); for "Un Progetto per Siena", Italy (with José Paulo Santos) (1988); the Cultural Centre La Defensa in Madrid, Spain (1988/89); the Bibliothèque of France in Paris (1989/90), the Helsinki Museum (with Souto de Moura) (1992-93); Flamenco City of Xerez de la Frontera, Spain (with Juan Miguel Hernandez Leon) (2003).
From 1982 to 2010 has won many different awards and have been assigned with Medals of Cultural Merit from many country around the world. Doctor "Honoris Causa" in various European and International universities.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science; "Honorary Fellow" of the Royal Institute of British Architects; AIA/American Institute of Architects; Académie d'Architecture de France and European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts; IAA/International Academy of Architecture; American Academy of Arts and Letters.
HERZOG & DE MEURON
Herzog & de Meuron Architekten is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog (born 1950), and Pierre de Meuron (born 1950), closely paralleled one another, with both attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. They are perhaps best known for their conversion of the giant Bankside Power Station in London to the new home of the Tate Museum of Modern Art (2000). Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been visiting professors at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 1994 (and in 1989) and professors at ETH Zürich since 1999. They are co-founders of the ETH Studio Basel – Contemporary City Institute, which started a research programme on processes of transformation in the urban domain.
Herzog & de Meuron is a partnership led by five Senior Partners â Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Christine Binswanger, Ascan Mergenthaler and Stefan Marbach. An international team of 38 Associates and about 362 collaborators.
Herzog & de Meuron received international attention very early in their career with the Blue House in Oberwil, Switzerland (1980); the Stone House in Tavole, Italy (1988); and the Apartment Building along a Party Wall in Basel (1988). The firm’s breakthrough project was the Ricola Storage Building in Laufen, Switzerland (1987). Renown in the United States came with Dominus Winery in Yountville, California (1998). The Goetz Collection, a Gallery for a Private Collection of Modern Art in Munich (1992), stands at the beginning of a series of internationally acclaimed museum buildings such as the Küppersmühle Museum for the Grothe Collection in Duisburg, Germany (1999). Their most recognized buildings include Prada Aoyama in Tokyo, Japan (2003); Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany (2005); the new Cottbus Library for the BTU Cottbus, Germany (2005); the National Stadium Beijing, the Main Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China; VitraHaus, a building to present Vitra’s “Home Collection“, Weil am Rhein, Germany (2010); and 1111 Lincoln Road, a multi-storey mixed-use structure for parking, retail, a restaurant and a private residence in Miami Beach, Florida, USA (2010), the Actelion Business Center in Allschwil/Basel, Switzerland (2010). In recent years, Herzog & de Meuron have also completed projects such as the New Hall for Messe Basel Switzerland (2013), the Ricola Kräuterzentrum in Laufen (2014), which is the seventh building in a series of collaborations with Ricola, with whom Herzog & de Meuron began to work in the 1980s; and the Naturbad Riehen (2014), a public natural swimming pool. In April 2014, the practice completed its first project in Brazil: the Arena do Morro in the neighbourhood of Mãe Luiza, Natal, is the pioneering project within the wider urban proposal “A Vision for Mãe Luiza”.
Herzog & de Meuron have completed 6 projects since the beginning of 2015: a new mountain station including a restaurant on top of the Chäserrugg (2262 metres above sea level) in Toggenburg, Switzerland; Helsinki Dreispitz, a residential development and archive in Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland; Asklepios 8 – an office building on the Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland; the Slow Food Pavilion for Expo 2015 in Milan, Italy; the new Bordeaux stadium, a 42’000 seat multifunctional stadium for Bordeaux, France; Miu Miu Aoyama, a 720 m² boutique for the Prada-owned brand located on Miyuki Street, across the road from Prada Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan.
In many projects the architects have worked together with artists, an eminent example of that practice being the collaboration with Rémy Zaugg, Thomas Ruff and with Michael Craig-Martin.
Professionally, the Herzog & de Meuron partnership has grown to become an office with over 120 people worldwide. In addition to their headquarters in Basel, they have offices in London, Munich and San Francisco. Herzog has explained, “We work in teams, but the teams are not permanent. We rearrange them as new projects begin. All of the work results from discussions between Pierre and me, as well as our other partners, Harry Gugger and Christine Binswanger. The work by various teams may involve many different talents to achieve the best results which is a final product called architecture by Herzog & de Meuron.”
