The Félix Candela Award is an international architectural ideas competition conducted in Spanish, held in two phases. It is organized annually by the Spanish Institute of Architecture (IESARQ) and is open to students of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and design, as well as young architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and designers, participating either individually or in teams of two or three.
The seventh edition of the Félix Candela Award proposes, within the context of an ultramaterialistic society dominated by the ego—which creates duality and provokes confrontation—the need to transcend local consciousness and cross the threshold of superconsciousness through meditation on the spiritual place of an architecture that serves to put humanity in contact with the true meaning of Life.
Architecture, whether in its collective form as "the city" or its private form as "the house," as a science of art, as art, or as knowledge of knowledge, is the container or resonator of human life, body, and consciousness. We are energy: stardust that disintegrated materially millions of years ago, and we are part of a whole with the universe, a perfect system designed to function with precision. Architecture must provide us with the possibility to shift frequency and vibrate with this universal condition.
