All these works will be joined in September with a new group of nominees finished between November 2020 and April 2021. As a result of the international concern about the spread of the coronavirus, the EU Mies Award has adapted this edition’s calendar in order to include all the works and to ensure the safety, rigor and excellence of the evaluation of all the projects.
From the list of 449 projects:| Country | Nº of works | Most prominent program |
| in country + in other countries | ||
| Spain | 31 + 3 | collective housing |
| France | 29 + 5 | collective housing |
| Germany | 25 + 1 | culture |
| Belgium | 21 | education |
| Portugal | 19 + 2 | single houses |
| Italy | 18 + 3 | collective and single housing, culture and education |
| United Kingdom | 18 + 3 | single houses |
| The Netherlands | 13 + 8 | collective housing |
| Poland | 20 | collective housing, culture and urban projects |
| Denmark | 13 + 5 | infrastructures |
| Austria | 17 | education |
| Ireland | 13 + 3 | culture and education |
| Lithuania | 13 | single houses |
| Slovenia | 13 | education and single houses |
| Ukraine | 13 | education and urban projects |
| Greece | 12 | single houses |
| Hungary | 12 | sport & leisure |
| Norway | 12 | single houses |
| Czech Republic | 11 | commerce |
| Croatia | 10 | education, food & accommodation and urban projects |
| Georgia | 8 | collective housing and urban projects |
| Latvia | 8 | collective housing |
| Bulgaria | 8 | collective housing and office |
| Finland | 8 | education and single houses |
| Montenegro | 8 | single houses |
| Romania | 8 | collective housing |
| Estonia | 7 | culture |
| North Macedonia | 7 | single houses |
| Sweden | 7 | collective housing |
| Cyprus | 6 | single houses |
| Serbia | 6 | mixed use buildings and single houses |
| Slovakia | 6 | single houses, funerary and urban projects |
| Luxembourg | 5 | collective housing, commerce, food and sport |
| Kosovo | 4 | collective housing |
| Malta | 4 | single houses |
| Albania | 3 | single houses |
| Armenia | 4 | education |
| Bosnia - Herzegovina | 3 | government & civic, landscape and single house |
| Iceland | 3 | culture, single house and sport & leisure |
| Tunisia | 3 | office buildings |
| Moldova | 1 | culture |
The new cycle of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award will reflect on the current challenges that architects, clients, policy makers and other professionals are faced with. Some of these works have been finished during the Covid-19 pandemic and some are the result of commissions from the 2007-2012 financial crisis or shortly afterwards. They will be evaluated during the post-pandemic time in a clear attempt to continue visiting architecture and its users, neighbours, clients and designers face to face.
Climate change, pollution, digitalization and demographic explosion are also, maybe more than ever, a global threat that endangers the planet, its limited natural resources and in consequence our wellbeing. Buildings and infrastructures are responsible for at least 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions so the EU Mies Award must support the rethinking and replanning of Europe in such a way that it prioritises the environment through a cultural project in which design and sustainability are indissociable.
Climate change, pollution, digitalization and demographic explosion are also, maybe more than ever, a global threat that endangers the planet, its limited natural resources and in consequence our wellbeing. Buildings and infrastructures are responsible for at least 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions so the EU Mies Award must support the rethinking and replanning of Europe in such a way that it prioritises the environment through a cultural project in which design and sustainability are indissociable.
“The EU Mies Award as the resulting work of a strong network of Europeans, shows that quality can be understood in many different ways but that it must always be connected to the present challenges with the environment and make cities and infrastructure more sustainable and resilient”
Anna Ramos
Director Fundació Mies van der Rohe
“By creating a bridge between the world of science and technology and the world of art and culture, the New European Bauhaus is an opportunity to make the Green Deal tangible and closer to citizens. The EU Mies Award has been and will continue to be a crucial European instrument to make this cultural change happen”
Hughes Becquart
Culture Policy Officer, European Commission
“I am aware that I have committed myself to something that is strategically naïve, where we have found little political aspiration, but how can you gain a perspective on housing and city
issues, if you do not immerse yourself in the vast legacy we have to build on? I remain an enlightened pessimist, even though”
Frédéric Druot
EU Mies Award 2019 Winner with Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal and
Christophe Hutin: Grand Parc Bordeaux
Anna Ramos
Director Fundació Mies van der Rohe
“By creating a bridge between the world of science and technology and the world of art and culture, the New European Bauhaus is an opportunity to make the Green Deal tangible and closer to citizens. The EU Mies Award has been and will continue to be a crucial European instrument to make this cultural change happen”
Hughes Becquart
Culture Policy Officer, European Commission
“I am aware that I have committed myself to something that is strategically naïve, where we have found little political aspiration, but how can you gain a perspective on housing and city
issues, if you do not immerse yourself in the vast legacy we have to build on? I remain an enlightened pessimist, even though”
Frédéric Druot
EU Mies Award 2019 Winner with Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal and
Christophe Hutin: Grand Parc Bordeaux
Calendar
February 2021: announcement of the works nominated in the first phase of the
EU Mies Award 2022
September 2021: announcement of the works nominated in the second phase of the EU Mies Award 2022
January 2022: announcement of the Shortlisted works
February 2022: announcement of the 5 finalist works
April 2022: announcement of the Winners
May 2022: EU Mies Award Day with conferences, debates and the Awards ceremony in the Barcelona Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, opening of the travelling exhibition, presentation of the publication and Open days for the selected works around Europe.
EU Mies Award 2022
September 2021: announcement of the works nominated in the second phase of the EU Mies Award 2022
January 2022: announcement of the Shortlisted works
February 2022: announcement of the 5 finalist works
April 2022: announcement of the Winners
May 2022: EU Mies Award Day with conferences, debates and the Awards ceremony in the Barcelona Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, opening of the travelling exhibition, presentation of the publication and Open days for the selected works around Europe.
