BRUNO ZEVI PRIZE

Annual Prize of the Bruno Zevi Foundation, Rome, for a Historical-Critical Essay on architecture.

COMPETITION RULES for the fifth edition, 2011

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With a view to developing and disseminating the teaching of Bruno Zevi and his method of critical and historical inquiry, the Bruno Zevi Foundation is holding an international competition to award a prize for a historical-critical essay offering an original analysis of an architectural work or theme or an architect of the past or present.
The competition is divided into five sections corresponding to the following themes:
- the key role of space in architecture
- the ancient sources of the modern language
- history as methodology of architectural practice
- the modern language of architecture
- landscape and the zero-degree language of architecture

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The competition is open to holders of research doctorates with experience in the fields listed above.

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Essays already published in Italy are not eligible.

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The languages admitted are Italian, English and French. The essays written in Italian must enclose also the English version.

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The prize consists of publication of the essay in the Quaderni of the Bruno Zevi Foundation and in the invitation to give a lecture on the occasion of the award..

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The prize is awarded annually.

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The Jury is renewed every year. In this edition it’s composed of: Alexander Levi, Zeuler Lima, Massimo Locci, Luciana Miotto, Alessandra Muntoni.

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Those wishing to enter for the competition are required to provide the Bruno Zevi Foundation with the following by no later than June, 30, 2011 (as attested by postmark):

a) completed application form including personal data, details of the section in which the essay is entered, and its title [see enclosure];
b) the complete text of the essay (max. 120,000 keystrokes including notes, etc.) and illustrations on CD with two copies on paper (the digital copy of the essay must show the title but not the author’s name);
c) an abstract (1,500 keystrokes).

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The essays entered for the competition and not awarded the prize will not be returned. Copies will be catalogued and filed in a specific section of the Bruno Zevi Foundation Library at the disposal of its users.

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The winner will receive notification by registered letter of the date of the award, which will also be made public together with the name of the recipient on the site www.fondazionebrunozevi.it.

Rome, February, 23, 2011
Adachiara Zevi
President of the Bruno Zevi Foundation

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Bruno Zevi

Bruno Zevi, was born in Rome in 1918. In Rome, he graduated from classical high school (1918-1933) at the "Tasso" high school and enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture. Following the racial laws, he left Italy in 1938, going first to London and then to the United States. Here he graduated from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, presided by Walter Gropius, and directed the "Italian Notebooks" of the "Justice and Freedom" movement (1933-1944). He discovers Frank Lloyd Wright, whose preaching in favor of organic architecture will remain a lifelong advocate. Back in Europe in 1943, he took part in the anti-fascist struggle in the ranks of the Action Party. In 1944 he promoted the Association for Organic Architecture (APAO) and the following year he founded the magazine "Metron".

Since 1948 he has been Professor of History of Architecture at the IUAV of Venice and since 1964 at the Faculty of Architecture of Rome. From 1954 to 2000 he held a weekly column of architecture on "Cronache" and then on "L'Espresso"; the articles of the first decades are collected in the twenty-five volumes of "Chronicles of Architecture" (1945-54). In 1955 he founded the monthly magazine "L'architettura-cronache e storia" which he ran uninterruptedly until January 2000 (1955-64).

He was awarded an honorary degree by the Universities of Buenos Aires, Michigan, and Technion of Haifa; is an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and of the American Institute of Architects, general secretary of the National Institute of Urban Planning (INU), vice-president of the National Institute of Architecture (In / arch), academician of San Luca and 'lnternational Institute of Architecture, president emeritus of the Comité International des Critiques d'Architecture (CIC) (1965-77), president of the Radical Party and member of Parliament in the tenth legislature (1978-89).

Among the works: "Towards an organic architecture", "Knowing how to see architecture" (translated into fifteen languages), "History of modern architecture", "Architecture in nuce", "The modern language of architecture", " Knowing how to see the city "," Controstoria and history of architecture "(1990-2000).

Published on: June 28, 2011

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