The Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize is an initiative by the company Simon, curated by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe since its inception in 2016 to commemorate Simon's centenary. Since then, architecture firms from over 23 countries—including Mexico, Poland, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, and Spain—have participated in the competition, reaffirming its international relevance. In the previous edition, the prize featured 220 nominated projects.
The objective of this prize is to distinguish architectural projects (including interiors, public spaces, and landscape design) whose excellence reinforces the capacity of spaces to provide comfort to their inhabitants. These are works that improve people's daily quality of life: working, learning, sharing, enjoying... Architecture to be lived!
Video, considered the primary tool for bringing architecture closer to the general public and the most effective medium for conveying the atmosphere of a place, is the format through which proposals must be submitted. In each edition, the quality of the audiovisual storytelling in the submitted videos has reached an extremely professional level.
