Registration for the 8th Instituto Tomie Ohtake AkzoNobel Architecture Prize has been extended until September 9. Submissions can be made online and free of charge on the award website.
The initiative—aimed at Brazilian or foreign architects who have lived in Brazil for at least two years and present projects built over the last ten years—continues to map contemporary architectural production, highlighting significant projects in the current Brazilian landscape. Commitment to the site and sustainability, as well as design and constructive inventiveness, are key aspects of the evaluation process.
The jury, consisting of architects Ariadne Moraes, Carlos Alberto Maciel, Cintia Lins, Diego Mauro, and Tainá de Paula, will announce the ten selected works that will participate in the exhibition at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake headquarters, scheduled for the first half of 2022. At the opening of the event, the three winners will be announced, receiving an international trip for one member of the architecture team responsible for the projects.
Since its first edition in 2014, the Instituto Tomie Ohtake AkzoNobel Architecture Prize has received 1,401 project submissions from 21 Brazilian states and the Federal District. In the previous edition, in 2020, the three winners were Cintia Lins and George Lins (Lins Arquitetos Associados) with the Academia Escola Unileão project (Juazeiro do Norte, CE); Emerson Vidigal, Eron Costin, Fabio Henrique Faria, João Gabriel Rosa, and Dario Corrêa Durce (Estúdio 41) with the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station project (King George Island, Antarctica); and Adriano Mascarenhas (Sotero Arquitetos) with the Requalification of Colina do Senhor do Bonfim project (Salvador, BA).
In the last edition, architects Carina Guedes and Mariana Borel (São Paulo, SP / Belo Horizonte, MG) received an honorable mention for the Arquitetura na Periferia installation, exhibited as part of the XII São Paulo International Architecture Biennale. The Sustainability Honorable Mention went to the Quiosque e Abrigo de Canoas (Mangaratiba, RJ) by Estudio Flume, while the Color Honorable Mention was awarded to the Museu da Cachaça (Salinas, MG), designed by architect Jô Vasconcellos.
For more information, visit the official award website.
This article was written by Romullo Baratto. The translation is powered by AI.
