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Ariadna Artigas, Anna Clemente, Eulàlia Daví, Cristina Gamboa, Laura Lluch, and Núria Vila from Lacol have been declared the winners of the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture at the W Awards 2021
We are delighted to announce Ariadna Artigas, Anna Clemente, Eulàlia Daví, Cristina Gamboa, Laura Lluch, and Núria Vila from Lacol as the winners of the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture in the W Awards 2021. This award recognises excellence in design and a bright future for designers under the age of 45, with an emphasis on achievements and completed projects.
Material change: Nordeste Agroganadera offices in Curuguaty, Paraguay by Mínimo Común Arquitectura
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The work of Mínimo Común Arquitectura, co-founded by Verónica Villate, makes new inroads into a socially conscious architecture
Verónica Villate was shortlisted for the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture 2021. Find out more about the W Awards here
‘To be able to do, you have to know; and in order to know you have to do. A material is nothing in itself, only what we decide to do with it – from domestic helpers to bank owners, we all have the same right to make.’ This is how Verónica Villate, co-founder of Paraguayan studio Mínimo Común Arquitectura, sums up her approach to practice and her belief in architecture as a socially conscious act.
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As director of the 2016 Venice Biennale, Alejandro Aravena has sought to shift the very grounds of architecture. Rather than an inward-looking interrogation of the profession s shortcomings, as Rem Koolhaas undertook in 2014, the Chilean Pritzker Prize-winner asks us to gaze in the opposite direction to the vast swathes of the built horizon that traditionally lay beyond the profession s purview: urban slums, denatured megacities, conflict zones, environmentally compromised ports, rural villages far off the grid. We believe that the advancement of architecture is not a goal in itself but a way to improve people’s quality of life, states Aravena in his introduction to event. In other words, his biennale does not ask what architecture