International Piranesi Award


The International Piranesi Award, is an award for architectural projects that were created in Central Europe and the Balkans.
Started in 1989, the Piranesi Award is given out at the Piran Days of Architecture international conference in Piran, Slovenia. It was named after Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Participating countries include Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.

Main award

The projects presented at the Piranesi exhibition, are selected and nominated at the end of October by the national selectors of the participating countries. Each selector can propose five projects. Fifty-five architectural realizations and 42 student projects compete for the award.
The prestigious Piranesi Award, two Piranesi Honorary Mentions, and the one Piranesi Student Honorary Mention are selected by an international jury consisting of annual PDA conferencing lecturers and conferred by the honorary sponsor of the PDA Conference.
In 1989, Bogdan Bogdanović received the first Piranesi award for the Dudik Memorial Park in Vukovar, Croatia.

Recipients

Student award

The Piranesi conference also includes an international student exhibition with awards. Participants includes seventeen architectural faculties in Europe – Graz, Spittal, Vienna, Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Split, Zagreb, Thessaloniki, Budapest, Pescara, Trieste, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Maribor, Belgrade, Novi Sad, and London.
Each faculty nominates two student projects for consideration.