Prix Claude Dad or mum launches as an award selling architectural experimentation

The newly launched Prix Claude Dad or mum is an structure prize aiming to make a distinction. Created by The Nationwide College of Structure of Montpellier and Claude Dad or mum Archives, the award, which has simply introduced its inaugural cycle, was conceived to advertise creativeness, innovation and experimentation in structure – honouring the reminiscence of the unconventional French architect Claude Dad or mum, who died in 2016 on the age of 93. 

Prix Claude Dad or mum: an award to problem architectural concepts

Questioning what structure does, and the way (simply as Dad or mum supplied his personal distinctive tackle modernist structure within the twentieth century), is seen as the center of the initiative by its founders. The competition is open to professionals (each groups and people) but additionally, importantly, college students, who’re all invited to enter, and problem concepts round our constructed surroundings. 

The 2024 worldwide award’s jury consists of architect Julie Cattant; historian, writer and architect Joseph Giovannini; artist Loris Gréaud; architect Anupama Kundoo; architect Jean Nouvel; and architect Carme Pigem. They may deliberate to pick out the general winner, who will likely be introduced in a devoted ceremony and accompanying convention on 30 April 2024. 

‘Some have religion and the longer term in them. However occasions are powerful. Globalisation and the attraction of huge buildings will make troublesome, if not unimaginable, the splendid initiative of some singular people who don’t settle for to fall underneath the yoke of standardisation. These are those I really like, as a result of they may endure and maybe perish. I’ve confidence in those that are the salt of structure, who carry resolutely the response to the irremediable,’ Dad or mum wrote in 2005, in Portraits impressionistes et véridiques d’architectes, printed by Éditions Norma.