The award ceremony will take place on 15 November (7:00 pm), the awarded, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, will give a lecture at the main auditorium of the CCB-Centro Cultural de Belém.
Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
The Lifetime Achievement Award distinguishes the individual or studio whose work and ideas have influenced and continue to have a great impact on current architectural practices and discourse. The winner of this fourth edition chosen by a jury of prominent figures in the architectural scene is French Studio Lacaton & Vassal.
Founded in Paris by Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, the studio is internationally recognized for its sustainable reuse of existent resources and structures as well as for the careful rehabilitation projects it has realized. Their most relevant projects include the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the School of Architecture in Nantes and Cité Manifeste in Mulhouse.
The award of the Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Lifetime Achievement Award is an artwork especially commissioned for this purpose. The artist José Pedro Croft was chosen to design the award of this edition, he is also going to represent Portugal at 2017 Venice Biennale. In previous editions of the Lifetime Achievement Award were distinguished: Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti (2007), Portuguese Álvaro Siza Vieira (2010) and English Kenneth Frampton (2013).
Début Award Winner
Already at its second edition, the Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Début Award is intended to recognize the work and promote the career of new generations of architects and studios under 35.
After a thorough evaluation of more than 140 applications from all over the world, the international jury decided to award the prize to the Chilean studio UMWELT.
Founded in 2011, by Ignacio Garcia Partarrieu (1984) and Arturo Scheidegger (1983), UMWELT develops research and design projects at different scales. The studio has exhibited projects at the Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Santiago and Venice Biennales as well as at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York.
Chief curator and jury member, André Tavares commented: "the body of work already done by this promising duo combines built projects with highly relevant research work. There are links to be found between their critical look at the landscape and territory, as well as a very strong connection between their conceptual thinking and the realization of their projects. Thought and rigor of construction drive the renovation of the formal imagery of architecture in their projects."
The winner of the Début Award 2016 will receive a 5000 € prize. Lisbon Architecture Triennale will also organize a conference with the Début winner to take place on the closing week (7 – 11 December 2016). With this prize Trienal wishes to support new voices and forms of practice, in the hope that the prize will contribute to the young professionals’ creative, intellectual and professional growth at a crucial and potentially transformative stage in their career.
