The Félix Candela Award is a two-stage international architecture ideas competition conducted in Spanish. It is organized annually by the Instituto Español de Arquitectura (IESARQ) and is open to students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and design, as well as young architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and designers, either as individuals or in teams of two to three members.
The seventh edition of the Félix Candela Award addresses the need to transcend local consciousness and cross the threshold into supra-consciousness within the context of an ultra-materialistic society dominated by the ego—which creates duality and provokes conflict—through meditation in the spiritual space of an architecture that serves as a meeting point for humanity to encounter 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 the 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 of shifting our frequency and making us vibrate in harmony with this universal condition.
